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Sherbourne Primary

Outlook Crescent,

Briar Hill Victoria 3088

www.sherbps.vic.edu.au

Telephone: 9434 7142 Principal Mrs Maree Seymour

Our next assembly will be held on

Monday August 5 at 3.00pm in the

hall. All welcome!

NEXT ASSEMBLY

UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday August 1, 2019

TERM 3 EVENTS

Mon Aug 12 Middle School Scienceworks

Excursion

Mon Aug 19 Student Led Progress Meetings

Sun Aug 11 Working Bee

Tues Aug 13 SPS 2020 Prep Transition 1

Wed Aug 14 SPS Athletics Carnival

A pinch and a punch for the start of the month- it is August already!

AUGUST PROMISES many events at Sherbourne including;

Welcoming our 2020 Preps through our Experience Sher-bourne Transition program

The annual Sherbourne Literacy Festival (including a Dress up parade)

The Year 3-6 Athletics Carnival

The student led progress meetings, a formal meeting to discuss your child’s learning progress.

The expected completion of our oval project.

EARN and LEARN PROGRAM

A huge thanks to our families for their enormous effort in col-lecting Earn and Learn stickers up to the end of last term. Our aim was to achieve 18,000 points, in fact we achieve 23,850 points. This equates to shopping for class resources points, including liter-acy and numeracy supports, games and equipment which will ar-rive on our classrooms in Term 4 – thank you all!

Last Monday was a Student Free Day at Sherbourne. We spent the day learning about some new Literacy re-sources which we have purchased and sharing the learning from Professional Learning sessions teachers have participated in. Next week all of our teachers will participate in Network professional development.

STUDENT FREE DAY

PARENT OPINION SURVEY 2019

Many families received an invitation to participate in this year’s Department of Education Parent Opinion Sur-vey. A note of invitation listing your access code was distributed last week. This annual survey was sent out to 80 randomly selected families and is completed totally online. We encourage those invited to make the most of this opportunity to give feedback towards improvements for our school.

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FIRST 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL

1 / 2 SWIMMING

Congratulations to our Prep students who on Tuesday this week completed their first 100 days of primary school as a class. Their task was to design , wear and share a t shirt that celebrates 100 – and how clever were our efforts!!!

It was a really fun day focussing on the number 100 – the highlight being the fashion show where the stu-dents walked the catwalk and shared their designs. Well done Preps!!

UNIFORM

We have collected a truly concerning amount of Lost Property, particularly uniform items, windcheaters and bomber jackets which are not named or incorrectly named (eg previous owner.)

This is having impact upon the number of students who are coming to school in non-uniform items.

School uniform is compulsory at Sherbourne PS and whilst we have the understanding that sometimes items get lost, go missing or are “in the wash and not yet dry”, we do not accept the regular wearing of non-uniform items.

A reminder we have a maroon top and black pants, but these should not have other markings other than the Sherbourne official logo.

Please help us by making sure all items of your child or children’sclothing are clearly and correctly named. Similarly coats, hats and gloves worn to school should be named to ensure they can be returned to their rightful owner.

Thank you.

UNIFORM WORKING PARTY

The school council are responsible for the school’s uniform policy and this year it is coming under review. The last review we had was in 2015. Uniform policy review requires consultation with our community to ensure the policy meets the needs of our community, meets the Department of Education and Training guidelines and is accessible and available to all.

This does not mean we are changing our school uniform, rather one aspect is looking at the current elements and assessing their function (for further ordering). Other aspects include the manner the uniform is worn, items that are unacceptable and any ideas for modification.

We are calling for Expressions of interest to be in this working party to review the current policy and make recommendations about our updated uniform policy.

When the policy is drafted it will be shared for further input. Please express your interest in this working party by contacting the school office by Monday August 5.

Last week the Year 1/2 students commenced their swimming lessons in the Sherbourne Pool. Thanks to those parents/grandparents who are assisting the kids at these sessions! The Year 1/2s will have 6 swim sessions this term and the Preps 6 swim sessions in Term 4.

Thursday is swimming day. Please remember to pack your bathers, towel, and goggles. It is particularly useful for swimmers to wear swim caps to reduce the number of hairs which get caught up in our filter as well as helps keep the student’s heads dry.

1/2 Swim classes will NOT take place next Thursday August 8. Lessons will resume on Thursday August 15. We have 4 sessions remaining.

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Maree Seymour

PRINCIPAL

1 / 2 CHOIR

We are excited the junior choir will perform at our next assembly on Monday August 5. We welcome families and friends to attend, 3.00pm in the Hall.

TOURNAMENT OF MINDS

UPCOMING WORKING BEE

COMPASS ATTENDANCE A reminder to parents all absences and or appointments should be entered on Compass via the parent portal prior to the commencement of the school day. Families will receive an SMS message on the morning of an unexplained absence. Likewise if you are planning a family holiday please advise school in writing and enter the dates onto Compass prior to departure. If you are experiencing issues or have forgotten your Compass login and/or password please contact the school office for assistance.

We congratulate the following Year 5 and 6 students who make up our Tournament of Mind Team for 2019.

Ella Hicks, Thomas Webb, Damjan Paskoski, Ciarra Camilleri, Billie Harris, Zoe Hamilton and Keyti Annal-Stubbs.

The team are currently working on the 5-week long-term problem in the Arts category. The students will also have to respond to a spontaneous problem on the day of their presentation. This is a terrific collaborative and creative problem solving task which involves a lot of persistence, co-operation, communication and teamwork. We wish them the best with this challenge.

Our next Working Bee will be on Sunday August 11 from 10am to 1.00pm. We have lots of jobs including mowing, pruning, weeding, sweeping etc. The more hands on board we have the more we will get done. With the end of the oval project looming it is important we have our school looking at its peak!

Please return the slip in today’s newsletter if you can participate. If you would like to help and cannot help on that day please let the office know as we can assign jobs or organise to share a job on days other than the working bee.

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FUNKY FRUIT FRIDAY ROSTER

FRIDAY AUGUST 2

FRUIT PICK-UP:- Cath Butterworth

FRUIT CUTTING:- Louisa Davidson, Donna Paskoski & Nannette Peel

FRIDAY AUGUST 9

FRUIT PICK-UP:- Cath Butterworth

FRUIT CUTTING:- Rebecca Jackson, Samantha Rizk & Amanda Hirst-Whyte

SHERBOURNE CHICKEN CARE WEEKEND ROSTER

SATURDAY AUGUST 3: JADE CRUSE am & SASHA STIRTON pm

SUNDAY AUGUST 4: ELIZABETH MCMAHONE am & SAM PRATT pm

SATURDAY AUGUST 10: JANE YOUNG am & SASHA STIRTON pm

SUNDAY AUGUST 11: ELIZABETH MCMAHONE am & SAM PRATT pm

A FRIENDLY REMINDER

School Fees can be paid by instalments by the following:-

METHODS OF PAYMENT

Preferred method: Direct Deposit

Account Name:-Sherbourne Primary School BSB Number: 063185 Account Number: 00909627 REFERENCE: Student Name

Cash/cheque/credit card/EFTPOS also available

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COMMUNITY NOTICE BOARD

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