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Seeds and Sprouts

Seeds and Sprouts will be returning in 2021 with an extended 20-week program for Sprouts and 12-week program for Seeds.

Seeds will be open to ALL children beginning prep in 2023 from City of Port Phillip.

Sprouts will be open to children beginning prep at GALILEE in 2022.

To register your interest please email Ms Carnovale at seedsandsprouts@gsm.vic.edu.au

Further information, including days, dates and times, will be sent in early 2021. Keep an eye out in the school newsletter next year!

Many thanks,

Ms Carnovale and Miss Evans

Port Phillip Library My Bookmark Competition

Congratulations to Nikolas in 2E for being one of ten winners for the Port Phillip Library My Bookmark Competition. There were 91 entries submitted! Each winner will receive a $50 Eckersley's voucher and their design will be turned into limited edition library bookmarks for all the community to enjoy! To see the winning 10 designs, including Nikolas' click: https://www.facebook.com/20380347616/posts/10157483129557617/

Halloween during COVID restrictions.

Are you thinking about going trick or treating this year? Here is some information from the DHHS website regarding Halloween during COVID.

This Halloween there are some actions you can take to keep your friends, family and community safe, while still enjoying yourself.

If you have any symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) get tested and stay at home. By staying at home this Halloween, you help to keep your friends, family and community safe.
Wear a face mask with your costume, but remember that a costume mask that is part of your Halloween costume is not a substitute for a face mask. Consider making your own mask and decorating it.
Keep at least 1.5 metres between yourself and people you don’t live with. This means no hugging or kissing when greeting people. Don’t share food or drinks.

Trick or Treating

While we can’t celebrate in the normal ways we would, there are alternative options

Have a Halloween party outside in a public place. You can catch up with a group of up to ten people (including yourself). Babies under 12 months age aren’t included in the ten-person limit. An outdoor public place means an area accessible to everyone, including local parks and beaches.
Do a Halloween scavenger hunt by giving children a list of Halloween-themed things to look for as they walk outdoors from house to house admiring Halloween decorations at a distance. Just like eye-spy! The limit of ten people (including yourself) applies to scavenger hunts.
Carve or decorate pumpkins with members of your household.
Decorate your house.
Have a virtual costume party or party with friends and family on video chat.
Have a Halloween movie night with your household.
Create an around the house trick or treat or scavenger hunt for your household

Handing out lollies or candy

Coronavirus is still with us and celebrating at home is the safest way to mark Halloween this year. If you do trick or treat, you need to stay safe. It is safer not to hand out lollies or candy to trick-or-treaters this Halloween. This is because the virus can spread on surfaces, including food or packaging.

Under current restrictions traditional trick or treating where you knock on someone’s door is not permitted. If you can’t resist handing out lollies this year you can do so by having candy available outside of your home.

Don’t use communal bowls for lollies or candy. Putting lollies in a shared bowl will mean everyone is touching the same food and surfaces which isn’t safe.
Instead, put individually wrapped lollies or candy in bags for non-contact collection.
Place bags on your fence, at your front gate or outside your home for collection.
Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before preparing the bags or individually wrapped lollies or candy.

TheirCare

At Galilee in After School Care, the children wore their spectacular book week dress ups and wow, they were very impressive! Enjoying the afternoon sunshine, the children were loving ball games such as fruit salad, playground adventures, footy, dodgeball, soccer and most of all Salsa dancing outside with Sofia! The children designed, drew pictures, and worked hard on their brand new YouTube channel poster displays for the theme of the week which was Gosh Tubers (YouTube), as well as drawing their favourite Youtuber.

Oliver, Lily, Maya and many other children engaged in the planned arts and craft activity where they personalised a DIY mini notebook filled with information, news and events from school and writing some comments about themselves and decorating the front covers. As the children were sharing ideas about the designs on their notebook, they always found time to help each other finish the activity. The highlight of the week was the children taking part in our group discussion, reminding each other about the expectations and behaviour of the service. Here are some of the input, comments and rules that the children put in place:

Harriet: Being respectful of the person who is talking.
Oliver: Be kind and not laughing when someone is talking
Charles: Listen carefully to others.

The children showed off their dance moves while listening to pop music with an awesome inclusive dance party,

Gemma and the team can't wait for many more adventures and themes to come in Term 4