DIARY DATES FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

EYE ON SEAFORD

Email: seaford.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Website: www.seafordps.vic.edu.au

21st August, 2014

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The Spirit of Seaford it would seem is alive and well! Here are some examples just in the last week-

We had a very successful fundraising sausage sizzle at Bunnings Frankston on Sunday with a huge

number of volunteers assis'ng on the day and in the days leading up to the event. We made

a net profit of $2110.10 – thanks go to Sheila Savage who co-ordinated the event and to the

following people who came and assisted on the day – Lisa and Rob Hoysted, Taryn Mudge,

Michelle Cozis, Chris Tancheff, April Poole, Peter Cox, Nancey Blair, Jodie Sanford, Lol

Milojkovic, Narelle Hood, Steve Stones, Sheila Savage, Sarah-Jane Balharry, Erica Cooper and

Kirsten O’Callaghan. A special thank you must go to Pauline Jones, who unable to a;end at

Bunnings, sliced up 20 kg of onions all by herself- a mammoth task.

At assembly last Friday two of our students, Isabella and Paige announced that they were going

to be fundraising for the Royal Children’s Hospital, by making and selling Loom Bands. This

decision had come about from the informa'on that they had listened to at the previous

week’s assembly where six of our senior students had delivered a report on their visit to the

Hospital and the Murdoch Research Ins'tute. One of our parents, Leonie Aust, who

a;ended the assembly was so thrilled at Isabella and Paige’s resolve, that she has donated a

large quan'ty of made up loom bands and items of loom band jewellery along with materials

for the girls to make their own. Mrs Thompson has also donated to the girls a loom band kit

to provide materials for the girls to make the bands- they are certainly going to be busy, but

it is a great cause that they will be suppor'ng.

On Sunday, one of our parents, who wishes to remain anonymous, spent the day at school in

preparing the garden beds along the north wall of the new year 3 – 6 building and plan'ng a

large quan'ty of plants which he has also donated. The area looks absolutely fantas'c, and I

thank him on behalf of the school.

Last week we received delivery of three new external doors to replace doors in our older building

that have seen be;er days. These have been donated to the school by The Door Store in

Moorabbin, through the efforts of Will Chadwick whose four children a;ended Seaford

during the 1980’s and 90’s. We are in need of somebody in our community who has some

exper'se in hanging doors to help us with this task and anybody who likes to paint, to paint

them up aCerwards. Please let me know if you can help with either of these tasks. We also

have need of a plasterer. If anyone has any contacts I would love to hear from them.

Earlier this year the KID reps had a fundraiser to purchase a large “Friendship Tree” near the

entrance to the new building. It was decided that a Crepe Myrtle would be ideal and so we

made approaches to Lynne at Bunnings to source a tree that we could purchase. Lyn and

Bunnings insisted that they would donate the tree to the school, so this, along with two

Ornamental Pears also donated by Bunnings, have now been planted and we look forward to

spring when they bloom. We thank Bunnings for its con'nued support which now means

that the KID Group have the pleasant task to decide what to spend the $169 that was raised

can now be spent on.

School Banking

every Tuesday

throughout the

School Term

22nd August

Interschool Sport

25th August

P D Day— No

children a/end

school on this day.

25th— 29th

August

Literacy and

Numeracy Week

26th August

Games Day with

Cathy Hope

28th August

Prep—year 4

incursion

4th September

Fathers Day Stall

5th September

District Athle8cs

10th September

Interschool Chess

Tournament Kingsley

Park P S

19th September

School Concert—

Seaford Hall

Last day Term 3.

Early pick up at

2.30p.m.

6th October

1st Day of Term 4

6th—10th October

Years 5/6 Canberra

Camp.

CELEBRATING OUR CHILDREN’S

ACHIEVEMENTS

Beau, Ethan, Rebekah, Samantha, Noel, Hayley

and Holly received their sports awards for Inter-

school Sport at assembly last Friday.

Angus received a gold

dollarmites cer'ficate

from the

Commonwealth Bank

for deposi'ng over 30

'mes into his account.

Skye, Meija, Aiden, Isis and Victor received their

Fitness Club awards at assembly last Friday.

A reminder that next Monday, August 25th

is our pupil free day where all staff will be involved in a number of ac'vi'es-

Stephen Fraser from the Accountability Sec'on of the DEECD will be presen'ng to the staff in the first session in rela'on to

the new school level reports which are provided to the school each year and the way in which schools can best use this

informa'on in planning for the future. We will then be reviewing our school values and mission statements before moving

into groups to start the crea'on of our new School Strategic Plan which will be in place from the end of this year un'l 2017.

When children return to school on the 26th

they will be involved in a Global Games Day as outlined in the newsle;er from

last week. Our presenter, Cathy Hope will introduce children to the playground games that children would have played in

our school ground over the years, but have now almost disappeared from their play – games like jacks, string games,

elas'cs, hoops, marbles and skipping will once again come to life and hopefully will rekindle children’s interests in

con'nuing to play these games beyond Cathy’s visit. Each classroom will have a game box which is being put together by

Michael W which will have all of the equipment the children need to play these games. We are planning to demonstrate

these games to our visitors on our Back to Seaford Day and hope that some might even join in.

One of our major fundraisers each year is our annual monster raffle which coincides with the Annual Concert on the last day

of term – this year being the 19th

September. We ask for your support in two ways- firstly asking for dona'ons to fill the

hampers and secondly in purchasing raffle 'ckets. Each hamper is based on a theme and each grade sets out to collect

things to go in one of the hampers along the chosen theme. A;ached to this newsle;er is a sheet outlining the themes and

the grades which have been allocated to each. If you could donate one item to your child’s grade hamper, that would be

greatly appreciated.

Regards

Michael

FATHER’S DAY STALL

The Fathers’ Day stall will be held

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in the mul'purpose room.

GiCs will range from $1 $1 $1 $1 ---- $5.$5.$5.$5.

Children will visit the stall in class groups, choose a giC, which will then be

wrapped.

Please discuss with your child what they want to spend and send the

money along with them in a named plas'c bag in case it gets lost .

BY THE WAY – if anyone has an hour or two to spare on this Thursday

morning,

we are seeking helpers for the stall seeking helpers for the stall seeking helpers for the stall seeking helpers for the stall (must have working with

childrens) . . . .

One or two of our regulars have to be at work, so even if you only have an hour – that

would be fantas'c & greatly appreciated!

Thankyou

Fundraising Commi;ee

COMMUNITY NEWS

Displayed on the No�ceboard in the front foyer

of the Office.

• Miss Karla’s School of Dance

• Fun Fit 4 Kids—classes Wednesday

4-5pm $8

• Violin Lessons

• Jamica Photography

• Bruce Hyland Karate

• Brace Educa'on and Training for

parents of school aged children

• Become a Scout with 1st Seaford Scout

Group.

• Enrolments being taken at Seaford

Kindergarten for 2015

• Rotary Club Farmers Market 3rd Sunday

of each month 8.00 a.m. —1.00 p.m.

Frominformationthathasbeenretrievedfromarchivesitappearsthatthe�irstrealapproachforaschooltobe

builtinSeafordcameonthe26thMay1913.ItcamefromtheownerofSunnyDownFarminCarrumDownswho

wrote……….

“WhatconditionsneedtobecompliedwithfortheEducationDepartmenttogranttheerectionofanewStateSchoolor

temporaryschool?”

Insupportofhisrequest,mentionwasmadeofthenewrailwaystationtobebuiltbetweenCarrumandFrankston,the

twolargesandpitsthathadrecentlybeenopenedinthevicinityandthatchildrenwererequiredtoattendeither

FrankstonorCarrumSchoolsabout3milesdistantandtotraverseverylonelyroadsforyoungchildren’.

TheDepartmentrespondedbysendingaformtobecompleted.Thecompletedformincludedthenamesandagesof20

prospectivestudentsandincludednotesthatsaid,“MrsLatimer,thelocalshopkeeper,hasaroom18’x11’whichI

thinkmightbesuitable.Ibelievethatitcouldbeleasedatareasonablefee.Thereisalsoasplendidshadyti-treewhich

thechildrencouldbetaughtunderin0ineweather.”Asecondoptionbecameavailableshortlyafterwardswhenthe

ChurchofEnglandinCarrumDownsannouncedthatithadpurchasedablockoflandonthemainroad(laterNepean

Hwy)torelocatethere,andthatitwouldbepleasedtoleaseitsbuildingforthepurposeofrunningaschool.Andsothe

DepartmentannouncedinDecember1913,thatthenewschool3835wouldopenafterthevacation.Awoodenbuilding,

33’x18’linedandsealedwith6windowsopeningatthetop,fairlylightedand0itforschoolpurposesbecamethe

temporaryhomeforSeafordSchoolon3rdFebruary2014withMissLPedlarinchargeofsome13children.”Their

parentsfollowedsuchoccupationsasfarmers,labourer,enginedriver,sandloaderandstorekeeper.Theschool

commencedjusttwomonthsaftertheopeningofthenewrailwaystationatSeafordon1stDecember1913-progress

wascertainlycomingtoSeaford!

2014 CONCERT RAFFLE HAMPERS 2014 CONCERT RAFFLE HAMPERS 2014 CONCERT RAFFLE HAMPERS 2014 CONCERT RAFFLE HAMPERS

THE PAMPER HAMPER THE PAMPER HAMPER THE PAMPER HAMPER THE PAMPER HAMPER ---- PREP PREP PREP PREP

This may include items such as: nail polish, Tim Tams, coffee syrups, tea infusions, lo�ons

& po�ons, chocolates, gi� vouchers, face packs, relaxa�on CDs, Body bu!er, candles,

devils’ food cake mix, massage oil, skin creams, sleep masks, bed socks.

THE PARTY’S AT MY PLACE!THE PARTY’S AT MY PLACE!THE PARTY’S AT MY PLACE!THE PARTY’S AT MY PLACE! ---- 3/4T3/4T3/4T3/4T

Anything to do with Par'es &/or entertaining: Paper plates/cups, party favours, servie!es,

chips, dips, sweets, cocktail gear, bo!le openers, plas�c “glasses”, pla!ers, party cds,

mini speakers.

SUMMER IS COMING! SUMMER IS COMING! SUMMER IS COMING! SUMMER IS COMING! ---- 1/2A1/2A1/2A1/2A

Anything to do with the back garden, the BBQ and the Beach!!: Seed/seedlings, picnic

gear, trowel, BBQ tongs, table-cloth weights, plant �es, gardening books /mags,

ornaments, tape measures, pots, pop-up garden bins, beach hats, sunscreen, beach toys,

towels.

SWEET TOOTH SWEET TOOTH SWEET TOOTH SWEET TOOTH ---- 1/2D1/2D1/2D1/2D

Anything sweet & delicious: Lollies, chocolates, spreads, chocolate biscuits, lolly jars,

cake/muffin mix, hot chocolate mix, chocolate or dessert cook books, choc or yoghurt-

coated nuts/ sultanas

BOREDOM BUSTER BOREDOM BUSTER BOREDOM BUSTER BOREDOM BUSTER ---- 3/4H3/4H3/4H3/4H

Anything to keep your household amused: Board games, G-rated DVDs, books, cheap

video console games, puzzle mags, toys, colouring books, sports/car/fashion magazines,

comics, arty-cra�y stuff, create-it kits, wool & kni1ng needles, ribbons and bows.

THE MYSTERY HAMPER THE MYSTERY HAMPER THE MYSTERY HAMPER THE MYSTERY HAMPER ---- 5/6L5/6L5/6L5/6L

Some'mes these hampers are the hardest of all to buy for, but look on it as an

opportunity! Include whatever YOU would like to get, and it’s bound to be a success!! Let

your imagina'on go wildgo wildgo wildgo wild!!

FUN AND FITNESS FUN AND FITNESS FUN AND FITNESS FUN AND FITNESS ---- 5/6S5/6S5/6S5/6S

This may include items such as: skipping ropes, water bo!les, pedometers, twister type

games, side-walk chalk, fitness gear/clothing, Frisbees, balls, squash/tennis racquet

sets, fitness balls, yoga mats, massage oil, healthy ea�ng books, healthy cooking dvds,

relaxa�on/exercise cds, beach volleyball.