28 November 2022

Newsletter Articles

November PBL Focus

Use safe and caring hands. Finish your food before playing. Take turns and let others have a go. Wear your hat or play under the COLA. Be in the right place at the right time. Put rubbish in the bin. Choose safe games. Look after equipment and belongings.

Catch Card Winners

This fortnight’s catch card winners are:

Principal’s Message

Gate 1

It will be wonderful to have the new security camera and intercom installed before Christmas. In order to complete the installation, there may be some days we will all need to use Gate 2 during the construction and excavation phase. While I cannot confirm dates as yet, alerts will be sent through SchoolZine App to inform families when we are advised. I know you will all be pleased to hear this update and happy to work with the school while these changes are facilitated in readiness for 2023.

2023 SIPPS P&C

Thank you to the 2022 SIPPS P&C Team led by Mr Stewart Duncan. I look forward to working with our SIPPS P&C Team for 2023. There are many returning parents as office bearers and some lovely new parents joining the team.

Fond Farewell…

Thank you to our outgoing P&C members Mrs Emmy Druce, Mrs Nicole Melidonis and Mrs Tracy-Lee Reaper. These wonderful ladies have contributed to the P&C for many years and worked tirelessly in formal positions and behind the scenes. These ladies have been P&C stars and we sadly wish them a fond farewell as their children start their high school journeys.

Amazing SIPPS P&C

It may be edging towards the end of the school year, however our SIPPS P&C President has continued to apply for many community grants. HyeCorp have awarded a grant to the P&C towards the community access to the tennis courts. Please see the P&C communication in this newsletter for further details.

Kind regards,
Caroline English

Term 4

29th November SRC fundraiser – Sports Mufti Day
7th December Presentation Day 9:30 am
7th December Semester 2 Reports go home
13th December Student Picnic / Party Day
12th December Year 6 Farewell
15th December Student Talent Quest / SIPPS Factor
16th December final day for all students for 2022.

Assistant Principals

Kindergarten 2023

If you have not yet booked your Best Start interview time for next year, the link can be found here:

Our Best Start interview dates are Tuesday 31st January - Thursday 2nd February 2023. The first day for Kindergarten students will be Friday 3rd February. Our Kindergarten 2023 students will shortly be receiving their buddy cards.

Thank you Scripture teachers

Last Wednesday we had a special morning tea to thank all our wonderful Scripture teachers.

SRC News

Library

Scholastic Book Club Issue 8

This is the last issue of book club for the 2022 school year. All orders need to be placed online by Wednesday 30/11/22 so that students receive their books before the school holidays. here is the link to the brochure and the LOOP ordering:

Library Books

Borrowing of library books from our SIPPS library has now ceased for the 2022 school year. It is time for all books to be returned. Reminder notices will be issued over the next two weeks to assist families in locating overdue books. As always if there is ever a concern or query about a notice sent home, please let me know.

Virginia Allman
Teacher Librarian

Band

Tuesday 29th November - Band/ Tutorials
Tuesday 6th December - Band only commencing at 7: 40am
Wednesday 7th December - Senior and Junior band performing at Presentation day.
Senior Band - Pomp and Circumstance / Bunyip Blues
Junior Band - Mickey Mouse March
Joint Piece - We wish you a Merry Christmas

2023 - Junior Band

Trying out instruments commences this Tuesday, 29th November at 8.40am in the hall.

If you have not filled out the form and your child would still like to join, you are most welcome to come along and see your child try an instrument.

Please see attached form.

Kate Habkouk
Band Conveynor
Action Music
Mobile 0419 630 511

Notes from the school office

Lost property

Due to the warmer weather, the lost property bins are overflowing with jackets and lunch boxes/bottles. You are most welcome to come in with your child of a morning to check it.

This may be a good time to also check that your child has their own jacket and hat, please return any items that do not belong to you to the office.

We also have a prescription pair of Rayban sunglasses as well as various watches and tidbits that have been lost over the year that have not been claimed.

Anything not claimed by the end of the year will be disposed of.

Term 4 School Travel

P & C

SIPPS P&C AGM

Thank you to all those who joined us for our P&C AGM, and congratulations to new and continuing office bearers. Also, a huge thank you and fond farewell to outgoing members whose children will be off to High School next year. Emmy and Nicole are both ex-Presidents who have also held various other roles over the years and Tracy-Lee has supported us across many roles and events right across her 3 children’s schooling. Thank you for all your support ladies!

2023 Committee Members:

We are still looking for a Deputy Canteen and Uniform Shop Coordinator to support Claire and Tanya, plus a Band Parent to help liaise between the Band and parents and provide support for performances. We’d also appreciate support with Grant applications which have been a vital source of additional income for our school. Please reach out if you can support one of these roles or would like to find out more at stivesparkpc@gmail.com

Christmas Fundraising Raffle

Purchase your raffle tickets before 6 December on Qkr! to be in the draw to win one of these gorgeous Christmas hampers, kindly donated to the P&C by generous parents in our school. All proceeds go to the P&C. The draw will take place at the Presentation Day on 7 December.

Gingerbread House Fundraiser

Help support the P&C fundraising by purchasing a delicious Gingerbread house kit. $15 gets donated to the P&C for every kit purchased. Order online HERE before 30 Nov for delivery to your home.

Uniform Shop

Get organised now if you need fresh uniforms to start the new year. There is just one more opening for the uniform shop this year: Fri 9 Dec for both secondhand sales and online fulfillment.

Tennis Court Grant Won

The P&C have been working for some time to enable community use of the school tennis courts out of hours once again. The plan to install additional gates to allow access outside of the school fenced area has been priced at $5,000. We recently were very lucky to be awarded a grant of $2,000 from HyeCorp in Chatswood which is a significant amount to start the project. The P&C will be working on other ways to fundraise the remaining funding required.

Solar Project

We are working with Solar My School and Ku-ring-gai council on a longer term plan to install solar across as much of the usable roof space as possible. We hope that with some good fundraising and support from external agencies that SIPPS will be powered by the sun! If this is a project that any parents are keen to get involved in or have experience with Solar, please get in touch.

2023 New Kindy Families Playdate
Sat 28 Jan, 4pm

An annual tradition. Come along for this casual catch up at Athena Reserve Playground to meet other Kindy families before the first big day of school.

First Day of Kindy – New Parent Connections Morning Tea
Fri 3 Feb, 9:15am

After your little one heads inside for their first day of Kindy, join us in the staff room to meet other Kindy parents and some of the P&C members.