20 February 2017

Newsletter Articles

PBL Focus for February

Principal’s Message

SIPPS P&C - Effective Partnership

Our Parents and Citizen’s association provides positive advocacy for our school and its students. We are lucky that our parent body works hard to assist the school in the delivery of an enriched quality curriculum by volunteering their time and skills towards fundraising and social events.

Thank you to the P&C who met last week and donated over $40, 000 to fund the following resources in 2017:

New furniture and fittings for the multipurpose classroom
New reading resources for all stage groups K-6
Two terms of implementing the successful Seed, Harvest, Spoon
Additional day of learning and support teaching

Communication

The school’s newsletter (The Patter) is the main form of communication to parents. Please read it regularly. It will be emailed to each family every alternate Monday. You will also be able to access it on the school website below:

Please also download the schoolzine mobile app. Click the link for instructions:

Tomorrow’s Parent Information Evening

Please don’t miss the opportunity to meet your child/ren’s new class teacher and learn about important school/class routines, opportunities and expectations.

Date: Tuesday 21 February

Times & Locations:

5:30 – 6:30pm K-2 classrooms
6:30 – 7:00pm Whole school information in hall
7:00 – 8:00pm 3- 6 classrooms

Please be advised that teachers will not be available to answer questions about the progress of individual students during these sessions.

Every minute counts!

Arriving late to school can impede a student’s learning and be disruptive to other learners. Students demonstrate that they are responsible by being on time for school. Ideally students at SIPPS should arrive at school between 8:40 and 9:00am. School starts promptly at 9:10am and it is expected that all students are present at our morning assembly. The office staff will process all late arrivals and early leavers. Parents need to come with their child to the office if they are late to school. Thank you for your assistance.

Stairs repaired

External stairs have now been repaired providing safe access to our school office. Thanks to everyone for their patience whilst we were waiting for the job to be completed.

Best Wishes Mrs Shanahan

We send out our best wishes to Mrs Shanahan as she starts her maternity leave and embarks on a new and wonderful chapter in her life journey. We welcome Miss Diana Eim who will be teaching 3S while Mrs Shanahan is on leave.

Inspiring & Nurturing Successful Lifelong

Internet Safety Day

Tuesday the 7th of February was ‘Internet Safety Day’ with the theme for 2017 ‘Be the change: Unite for a better internet’.

3/4S got involved and united by discussing the issue of cyber bullying and safe practises when online. Students then created internet safety awareness posters. They also designed and created their own Emoji’s to represent themselves.

Sport

Sporting programs have commenced for this year. This term all students are enjoying a gymnastics program delivered by SportsPro teachers. This program meets all requirements of the Kindergarten to Year 6 PD/H/PE curriculum incorporating several of the content strands whilst also contributing specifically to the development of students muscular endurance, strength, power, flexibility, coordination, agility and balance. Students practise the 6 dominant movement patterns fundamental to all areas of gymnastics:

1. Landings
2. Static positions
3. Swing
4. Rotations
5. Spring
6. Height and/or flight

Notes from Office

Late Arrivals: Early Departures.

Students arriving late to school or leaving school early must be signed in/out by a parent at the office. Students arriving late cannot be taken direct to their classrooms or left at the school gates to make their way in to class. The office will issue a print-out voucher which needs to be handed to the class teacher to confirm the student has been signed in/out. This information is now incorporated into each student’s individual attendance records at school. As with any new system we have experienced a few teething problems but we are working our way through the issues. We would ask for your patience.

Stewart House School Clothing Appeal Date of 1st Collection is 7th March

Plastic bags went home Monday 6th Feb and if you have any donations please drop them into the school office foyer.

Term 1 Student Invoices

We are in the process of preparing Term 1 Student Invoices and these will be sent home soon. Once again, we are working with a new computer program and more work needs to be completed to finalise the invoices before we can send home the first print-out of invoices.

Parents and Citizens Association

Tennis Courts

Uniform Shop

The uniform shop will be open fortnightly – the next date being Wednesday 1st March.

Canteen

The canteen is closed until further notice. Different options for running the canteen are being explored by the P&C and will be notified once any decisions are made.

Community Notices

St Ives High School is holding an Open Day on Tuesday 28 February from 3.30pm to 6.30pm. Please see flyer below.

Handprints ELC

OPEN DAY at HANDPRINTS KILLARA (1 Ridgeland Ave, Killara) on SATURDAY 25TH FEBRUARY from 9am til 12pm. All Welcome!

Handprints Early Learning Centres are a family owned business focused on providing the highest quality early education to children from birth to five years. Our experienced teachers, quality learning environments and philosophy based on a child’s ability to wonder and ask questions, set children up ready for the transition to school.

Handprints St Ives has been running for 2 years, and our Killara centre, owned by the Department of Education, selected us out of many applicants in 2016 to take over the running, and has therefore been running for 1 year.

Handprints St Ives and Handprints Killara have limited vacancies for 2017!

Call one of our fabulous directors today to secure a spot!

St Ives: 91882068 moniquim@handprintselc.com.au
Killara: 98992560 debp@handprintselc.com.au

St Ives Football Club (soccer) 2017 registrations are open. If you want to play, please register now at the link below. It is always best toregister early but is particularly important for Under 6 and Under 7 aged players as we don’t want you to miss out and be unable to play with your school friends. Teams form quickly. Development options are available for U8s – U11’s. Questions? Please contact Nigel Lazarus Registrar 0425 315 209.