www.seaford-northps.vic.edu.au Phone: 9786-5674

School Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide all Seaford North Primary School students with a high quality, challenging, global education which develops compassion and respect.

We provide engaging learning opportunities that includes essential knowledge, concepts, skills and attitudes, enabling students to transfer these to new situations necessary in a rapidly changing world.

We are committed to differentiation so that students work at their level and are able to make decisions about their learning in line with the curriculum.

We encourage students to take responsibility with their learning so that they can be purposeful and make a difference to themselves and their world.

CURRICULUM DAY MONDAY 5TH NOVEMBER

Issue 14 1st November, 2018

Dear Parents, Students and Friends of Seaford North,

Saturday 27th October 2018 Op Shop Trivia Night What an amazing effort by Scott, Matt, Tammi, Stuart, Donna, Leonie, Natasha our compere Peter and all the rest of the helpers. Everyone enjoyed a great night with around $10,000 made for the school.

Well done, a very memorable night.

Curriculum Day Just a reminder, we have a Curriculum Day (Student Free Day) on November 5. The

teachers will be working on reading strategies, inquiry maths and our Student Performance

Analyser (SPA) where we keep and analyse all our student data from the tests they do at our school to improve student learning outcomes.

Parent Opinion Survey Results This week we received the data from DET’s Parent Opinion Survey which was carried out last

term. Thanks to those who were invited to take part and did so. The results were very positive with a General Satisfaction rating of 96% and many other variables providing very affirming feedback. As always, we look at all the results very closely, including the comments

written by parents.

PARC swimming program grades 2/3/4 5 days November 19-23

Nude Food A big thank you to all those families that support us with ‘nude food’ lunches and snacks! Our sustainable actions are a very important part of our philosophy at Seaford North Primary

School – particularly in relation to our waste management. You are setting a great example for our society!

Staffing Update

We are pleased to welcome Sarah Jackson who will be taking visual arts for the remainder of the year.

Stars of the Week

Book Parade

Lee Murnane – Principal

CURRICULUM DAY Monday 5th November will be a

student free day.

Staff will be on site attending

curriculum based professional

development sessions.

COMING EVENTS

NOVEMBER

Mon 5th CURRICULUM DAY

Thurs 8th Grand Parent and Special Friends Day

Fri 9th Cricket Blast School Cup

Fri 16th Nelson Mandela Exhibition Grade 5/6

Sat 17th & Sun 18th Working Bee

Mon 19th to Grades 2, 3 & 4 Swimming Program

Fri 23rd

Fri 23rd Foundation Moonlit Sanctuary

Mon 26th JSC – Crazy Hair Day

Tue 27th 2019 Foundation transition Program

DECEMBER

Tues 4th 2019 Foundation transition Program

Tues 11th 2019 Foundation transition Program Thurs 13th Christmas Concert 6.00 – 7.30pm

Wed 19th Grade 6 Graduation

Fri 21st End Term 4. 1.30pm dismissal.

JANUARY 2019 Wed 30th Grades 1 to 6 commence school

Thur 31st Foundation students start 9.00am

MARCH 2019

Tues 12th School Photos

PERMISSION SLIP RETURNS

Cricket Blast School Cup permission note to be

returned by Wednesday 7th November

Permission slips to be returned by Friday 9th

November

Grade 2 to 4 Swimming Program

Moonlit Sanctuary foundation

Nelson Mandela Exhibition grade 5/6

SCHOOL NOTICES Parents please note: all notices are on the school

website www.seaford-northps.vic.edu.au in the

EVENTS section. Notices can also be found on

Compass.

School Uniforms - PSW SHOP PSW are relocating to 22/13 Gateway Drive,

Carrum Downs. Last day for Frankston store is

Saturday 27th October 2018. Grand Opening of

new store is Wednesday 7th November 2018.

At Chess Club this term the Chess Captains and leaders had lots of fun helping kids, so come down and play! Enjoy and have a good time! Olivia and Hayley 56W and 34G. Come down and play! - Isaac 2K

Have a good time - Levi 34G

We have spare boards and different games to play, why don’t you come down and play some games - Tilley 2K

Drama club is on every Monday in the GP room first half of lunch for 3-6 students (second half for F-2 on alternate Mondays). Everyone has heaps of fun as we play lots of games. Each week we see students building their confidence and are able to be many different characters. Drama Club is also about improvisation and creativity allowing the children’s imaginations to run wild.

By: Teagan 5/6A, Performing Arts Captain.

Production Reflection On the 27th of August we held our school production. The Performing Arts and Visual Arts captains worked very hard backstage changing props, making sure everyone is on stage, changing the backdrops and getting ourselves

ready when it was time to perform. Overall it was a really fun experience. Written by: Isabella 5/6P Performing Arts Captain.

What is National Recycling Week? (12th - 16th November 2018)

National Recycling Week is a well established and highly regarded annual education and behaviour change campaign. The aim of the campaign is to increase the environmental benefits, including greater tonnage and less contamination, of kerbside, industrial and community recycling programs. National Recycling Week provides us all with an opportunity to move towards avoiding waste through building on our daily habits to avoid, reduce, reuse and recycle at home, at work, and in the community. National Recycling Week focuses on five streams: 1. Engaging students in learning about the environmental benefits of recycling, through the Schools Recycle Right Challenge. 2. Increasing the number of businesses and workplaces involved in recycling, principally through the promotion of the Friday File Fling.

3. Promoting reuse and recycling initiatives, particularly through promotion of council, school and community events.

4. Improving the understanding of kerbside recycling, principally through an educative Recycle Right Quiz hosted on the National Recycling Week website. 5. Increasing access to accurate recycling information through the RecyclingNearYou website and hotline, as well as the National Recycling Week website. Start recycling today!

START RECYCLING SOFT PLASTICS

Start recycling soft plastics! Did you know you can recycle soft plastics (plastics that you can scrunch in your hand) at your local Woolworths in Seaford? Drop them off there when your bag is full. Set aside a rubbish bag just for soft plastics and empty it into the Red Cycle soft plastics bin at Woolworths, the bin is located across from the front information desk (near the DVD hire stand and the steam cleaning hire).

3198 Seaford BeachPatrol The Seaford beach is a long stretch of beautiful beach and 3198BeachPatrol wants to keep it that way. We meet once a month on a Sunday morning to spend an hour cleaning litter off our beach. Bags, gloves and tongs are provided, however you might like to bring your own gardening gloves. Sign up to get on our email list for cleaning notifications, use the following link to sign up. https://www.beachpatrol.com.au/Contact The next beach clean is on Sunday the 25th of November at Keast Park from 10am-11am. Make sure you sign up so we can add you to our email list where you’ll only receive two emails a month, one is a reminder of our next clean, sent a week beforehand and another thanking you for your efforts including information about the amount of rubbish picked up.

ADVERTISING - Please Note:

The Department of Education and Training

does not endorse the products or services

of any private advertisers. No

responsibility is accepted by DET for

accuracy of information.

Carrum Downs Operation Safe Plate

Saturday 17th of November, 2018

BUNNINGS WAREHOUSE

600 Frankston-Dandenong Rd, Carrum

Downs

10am - 2pm.

To reduce the incidence of theft of

number plates, Carrum Downs

Police with support of Bunnings

Carrum Downs, Carrum Downs

CFA and Frankston SES are

conducting

“Operation Safe Plate”.

Bring your vehicle to the Carrum

Downs Bunnings, Frankston Dandenong

Rd, Carrum Downs on Saturday the 17th

of November, 2018, between 10am and

2pm and have your number plate screws

changed over to theft resistant screws,

free of charge.

Working together for a safer

community.

Parents and Friends of SNPS

What an amazingly fun Trivia Night and awesome fundraiser for the school! On Saturday 27 October SNPS hosted its major fundraiser for the year – The Op Shop Trivia

Night raising over $9,800 for the school. With the support of the Parents & Friends Club the small organising

committee of Tammi Munro, Scott Boreham, Mathew Willis, Stuart Thompson spent many hours

putting the evening together and pounded the pavement collecting over 100 donations from 70

wonderful local businesses and families.

Every single donation helped raise money as prizes for the All Night Raffles or through the Silent

or Live Auctions.

A huge thank you to everyone who came along had fun, bought raffle tickets and spent money on

the auctions.

An even bigger thank you to all our donors!

Major Donors

Primary Music Institute

Four Points by Sheraton, Docklands

Core24

Chris Crewther

Bunnings, Carrum Downs

Patterson River Golf Club

Andrew Incoll & eView Real Estate

Seaford North IGA

Frankston Concrete Products

Steve Cohen Fix-a-dent

LT Plumbing

Mathew Willis Jim’s Building Inspections

Other donors

Carly Dillon Photography

PSW

Brad Drummond & Brigette King

Sk8House Carrum Downs

Andrea Vincent, Not A Gym

The Munro family

Kate Page

Wanderlust Glamping

Strike Bowling Frankston

Elysium Medispa and Beauty

Hellbound Tattoos

Rumah Living

Guy & Amanda Riley, Packed Lunch Guy

Jerry Hastings Karate

Dan Murphys

Lord and Master

BeachBox Physiotherapy

Gravity Zone

Big4 Holiday Parks

Grilled and Fried Fish and Burger Bar

Puffing Billy Railway

Melbourne Museum

Black & Co Interiors

Locked In Escape Rooms

Yo-Ko Original

Marley Spoon

Lunar Drive In

Phillip Island Nature Parks

Maz O’Connor

Peninsula Cakes

Ace Airport Parking

MSP Photography

True South

Searoad Ferries

Seaford Charcoal and Grill

Arthur’s Seat Eagle

Shilo Walker

The Big Goose

Little Earth

New Harvest

Flow Hair Design

Little Gym Shop

Seaford Pharmacy

Axel & Diesel Curry

Johanna Korsch

Scott Boreham

Love Iluka

Supercheap Auto Frankston

Bec Boreham

Garden World

Cazzq

Marie-Ange Kewin

Big Sheep Little Lamb

Living Chiropractic

Kelter

Hardie Hose

Paula Walker

Chesterfield Farm

Thank-you! It was a few weeks ago now but Term 3’s Footy Day hot lunch was a

huge success with the kids loving their lunches at the same time as

raising $1,241.80 for the school. A big thank you Patties for donating

the pies and to local businesses Packed Lunch Guy and Peninsula

Larder, for ensuring the pies were delivered hot in time for lunch.

Thank you also to our wonderful band of parent volunteers who gave

up their time to pack and deliver over 287 lunches.

World Teachers Day – October 5 World Teacher's day was recently celebrated around the world. To show our appreciation

Parents Club gave each teacher a card and some goodies to say thanks on behalf of the

community.

Christmas Concert - Parents and Friends Singing Group Do you love to sing? This year there will be special parents and friends singing group who will be performing a song at the Christmas

Concert on Thursday 13th December!

This will be open to all in the Seaford North PS Community - No previous

experience necessary!

The group will be run by professional singers and SNPS mums, Jacqui Porter

and Mel Laverick.

There will be three rehearsals leading up to the concert, to be held on Monday

evenings from the 26th November. The venue will be decided when we know

the size of the group.

All welcome (even if you think you sound more like a howling cat than Mariah

Carey)! Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks!

Warmer days mean Zooper Doopers are back! Zooper Doopers will be sold every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at lunch under the Rotunda. There will also be a small supply of the Quelch Fruit Juice Icy Tubes variety. $1 each with all profits going towards the Animal Palace.

Dates for the calendar and upcoming volunteer opportunities

17-18 November - School Working Bee

24 November - Election day BBQ – details to follow

7 December – Christmas stall with lots of lovely Christmas presents, including the fabulous handmade items from SNiPs. A wonderful shopping opportunity for all students and parents

Save the date – Working Bee 17th-18th November, 9am-3pm both days This is the school’s annual major Working Bee and 20-30 helpers are needed across the 2 days. We have a long list of

jobs to get through. Some are small – mow the lawns, remove graffiti, tidy up garden beds. Others not so small, such

as removing and replacing the treated pine decking around the sandpit. All volunteers

welcome – come for an hour, come for day. Lunch & refreshments provided.

SNiPS update: SNiPS are meeting every Friday at 8.00pm to make gifts for the Christmas Stall. We

will be meeting every Friday until end of November. Come along to one, two or more

sessions and enjoy the company, a cuppa or glass of bubbles and a nice chat... no craft

skills needed... message Johanna Korsch on Facebook or email to

madebysnps@gmail.com for location or more info.

Jolly soles fundraiser We still have a couple of boxes of socks to sell. Think about all the Christmas presents and Kris Kringle gifts that you

need- perhaps a pair of socks!! Thank you to everyone who took a box of socks home to sell. Please return all

money and any unsold socks to the School Office for onselling.

Please leave your name at the office or contact Parents Club parentsclubsnsp@gmail.com if you want to buy some

socks. You can contact Parents & Friends of SNPS anytime via the SNPS Facebook Community page, our email

parentsclubsnsp@gmail.com, or drop into our monthly meetings – 7pm second Tuesday of every month.