Celebrating 50 Years : 1965 - 2015 FAMILY NEWSLETTER - Issue 17 - June 11th 2015 2015 CALENDAR DATES JUNE Mon 15th Wed 17th Fri 19th Wed 24th Thur 25th Fri 26th School Council Division Girls Soccer Gr 1 Zoo incursion Special Food Day - help appreciated Half year student reports home Student Prog Reports - work samples Second hand uniform sale 2.30-3.30pm Parent teacher Interviews from 8.30am — pupil free Chocolate drive box home Last day Term 2 Lunch 1.00-2.00pm Dismissal 2.30pm INVEST IN YOUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY AND GET A TAX DEDUCTION! With the end of the financial year approaching the opportunity to invest in our school community through donations to our Building Fund is closing soon for 2014-15. To those families who have already donated with the student booklist at the start of the year, thank you. Donations to the Building Fund make a big difference with initiatives helping our buildings that directly benefits students and teachers. Interested in donating? All donations are tax deductable - and the school community directly benefits. Contact Mrs Smart for details. PARENT OCCUPATION CODES School budgets are calculated by a range of formulas. One formula is based on Parent Occupation. We need to update our Parent Occupation Groups to ensure our school receives the budget it is entitled to. One school recently went through this process and as a result received an extra $34,000 in funding! JULY Mon 13th Fri 24th First day Term 3 National Tree Day AUGUST SEPTEMBER Thurs 10th PA Disco 4.00 - 6.00pm Gr P-2 ELC 6.00 - 7.30pm Gr 3-6 ELC Wed 16-18th Gr 3/4 Camp Cave Hill Creek NOTES HOME THIS WEEK  Receipts  Bank Books  Parent Occupation Group Codes  Chocolate Drive form  Fun 4 Kids Festival flyer  Life Works Academy flyer Address : 37 Cook Street Email : [email protected] Newtown VIC 3220 Website : www.fyansparkps.vic.edu.au Therefore, it is imperative that we have accurate Parent Occupation information; it may result in your school and therefore your child having access to greater resources for their education. If we have a substantial number of parents in the ‘A’ category for example, this reduces our funding dramatically. So we want to ensure our records are true and that they reflect the correct occupations of our school’s families. Forms have been distributed today and are available on the Skoolbag App and Web. Please complete and return to the school before 18th June. HALF YEAR REPORTS AND INTERVIEWS Half year reports go home next Friday with parent/teacher interviews on Wednesday 24th June. The online bookings is live next Wed so please select your time. If you have concerns please contact Mr Nelson at school. Some parents are also using the opportunity to have their interview prior to the day as they may be away so please contact your class teacher if you need to arrange a different time. Thankyou OSHC - CAMP AUSTRALIA Telephone : 0452 247 130 Hours : 6.45 am - 8.45 am 3.30 pm - 6.00 pm SCHOOL NEWS 2015 PREP MUMS CATCH UP DINNER Venue: Lord of the Isles Hotel Date: Tuesday 23rd June Time: 7pm RSVP: Page 2 SECONDHAND UNIFORM SALE 19th June 2.30pm - 3.30pm th by Friday 12 June Email Jules Broad [email protected] or text 0402 353 953. Drinks can be purchased at the bar individually. Please bring cash/small change to cover your meal as split bills are not accepted Multi-Purpose Room Donations of clean items, in good condition with the school logo intact, are welcomed. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY MATTERS MAINTAIN YOUR VEHICLE Not only are you extending the life of your vehicle, you are also creating less pollution and saving petrol. A properly maintained vehicle, clean air filters, and inflated tyres can greatly improve your vehicle's performance. And it might not hurt to clean out the boot - all that extra weight could be costing you at the pump. These are some of the actions implemented by Linfox transport to meet a 50 per cent reduction target in greenhouse gas emissions. Energy efficiency gains have reduced Linfox’s emissions intensity since 2007 by 43% as of 2013/14. Click here for the latest edition of Fyans Park’s ‘The 3pm Project’ http://3pmproject.global2.vic.edu.au SCHOOL & COMMUNITY NEWS Page 3 Having such a strong community based school we know that many of you would like to help a family in need. One of our families have a long and tough road ahead of them. We would like to encourage you all to attend the fundraising event advertised below as a great way to help raise funds and have a bit of fun at the same time. We would appreciate, if discussing this with your children, that you note the sensitivity for the families involved. A live and silent Auction will be held at the event. If anyone is interested in donating items or would like further information please contact Carley Chamberlain 0408 584 376 or Narelle Fellows 0403 936 257, or via the school. To advertise in our school newsletter, please contact the Office on 5221 3772 or [email protected]  Ads will run for a term’s duration and will be business card sized only  Cost will be $150 per term, decreasing in cost for subsequent terms  No inappropriate businesses will be considered, ie. promotion of gambling, alcohol, etc OSHC NEWS Page 5 Term 2 Week 9, 11th of June 2015 Come and Have Fun with us! Hi Families, Over the past week the children have tried a variety of new things. We made puff paint, that turned out amazing, a few children have been busy making friendship bracelets and Hama bead creations, we took advantage of having nice enough weather to be outside and enjoyed playing on the oval. Holiday Club bookings are now open!! The theme for this term's holiday program is Out of This World! We are going to see Inside Out and the new Minion movie! Go on an Adventure to Cuboid with Spok!, join the gang for the Ultimate Galaxy Quest! And journey with us to Imagination Land! Get your rock socks on and rock out with us! These are just some of the fun filled adventures waiting for you all at Holiday Club, so why not join us on a fun filled adventure that's sure to be out of this world! Next term as it is our fund raiser for The Smith Family, I am wanting to make up a recipe book that will be made available for families and friends to purchase. If you have a favourite recipe that your family enjoys we would love to include it in our book. You can email me the recipes at [email protected]. We will also be having a disco again so stay tuned for the details on that one!! We endeavour to ensure that all your child's medical and contact details are kept up to date as possible, to help us with this task we ask you to come and see us if there is any changes in your or your child's details. We want to make sure we can contact you if there is an emergency and ensuring that your details are correct is the best way to do this. We encourage you all to enrol your child/ren with us in case of emergencies that are beyond your control and to ensure that we have access to your child’s details if needed. To enrol your child/ren go to www.campaustralia.com.au. We have vacancies every morning and afternoon in O.S.H.C. don’t hesitate child/ren in today! Cheers & Keep Smiling Jodie, Reena & Dawn to book EEK THE W F O STAR BANJO your