Important Notices
Parent Survey
As we start another week of remote and flexible learning, we are as keen as ever to gather feedback from parents and carers about your experience of our program.
Even though we are looking ahead to a return to face to face teaching in the coming weeks, we are still as committed as ever to doing our best, listening to your views and making improvements where we can.
For this reason we would really appreciate you taking 5 minutes to access the survey and completing the questions about the program during the last week.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/66YY3QR
School Assemblies
It has been great to see how our short Friday morning video assemblies have been turned into such a celebration of our students' creativity, humour and resilience throughout this time.
I have loved sharing the musical performnaces, videos and learning of so many of our students and would love this to continue.
If any children or parents have a short video or photo they would like to share then please email this to me on neil.scott@education.vic.gov.au
Maths Talent Quest
We are encouraging all students to get involved in the annual Mathematical Association of Victoria (MAV) 2020 Maths Talent Quest
The Maths Talent Quest is a great way to support student’s numeracy development as they engage in mathematical investigations whilst learning online. In the current situation, we would strongly encourage our students to get involved in the quest as it provides a rich, open-ended investigative project around an area of individual interest. This could work as a perfect extension to the Maths activities provided by your child’s teacher and get them away from their screen.
The MAV Maths Talent Quest involves investigating a mathematical situation or problem and reporting on your findings. The topic for investigation is entirely up to you and there is choice around how you can present your work.
The competition requires a strong commitment from the students entering and their parents. It involves working on the project for at least 20 hours over the remainder of Term 2 and beginning of Term 3 at home.
Information about the talent Quest can be found here
Work on the project can continue throughout this term and must be brought into school by Friday 31st July.
Please watch out for a notice from Lil on Compass this week with further information about how to enter and closing dates.
2021 Enrolments
Believe it or not but we are already starting to think about 2021. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions we have cancelled our first couple of parent tours, but will be going ahead with the following tour dates (either in person or remotely)
Michelle and I will welcome visitors to our School and give an overview of our curriculum, values and ethos. We will also be available to answer specific questions about transition from Kindergarten to Foundation, and what’s on offer in terms of our programs and facilities.
A walking tour of Foundation facilities and other learning areas, including our specialist subjects (The Arts – Visual and Performing, Italian and Library) will follow. Please contact Kat on 8598 6444 or on st.kilda.park.ps@education.vic.gov.au if you wish to book for any future dates.
For any families already familiar with the school and a child starting school in 2021, we encourage you to complete and submit your enrolment forms as soon as possible to allow us to start understanding likely Foundation numbers next year.
This form can be downloaded from;
http://www.skipps.vic.edu.au/assets/uploads/2019/05/Student_Enrolment_Form.pdf and emailed or dropped off to the school office.
Year 7 Transition paperwork
This is a reminder to our Year 6 parents that the 'Application for Year 7 placement' form must be completed and returned to the school by the 29th May.
These can be emailed to st.kilda.park.ps@education.vic.gov.au