SSP Annual Music Concert

23 May 2018

The St Simon Peter Catholic Primary School Annual Music Concert will be held on Wednesday 6 June 2018 at Prendiville Catholic College's Redmond Theatre from 6.15pm to 8.15pm.

Doors will open at 6.00pm.  Students performing will need to arrive at 5.45pm to warm up.

Refreshments will be available to purchase before the concert and during interval.  Give 10 hours for those parents available to help - please contact natalie.templeton@cewa.edu.au

This concert is a showcase of our talented instrumental students here at SSP.  We encourage you to sell tickets to your family and friends as the theatre seats 300 people and the children enjoy performing to a capacity crowd.

The School Band, School Choir, Rock Band and selected Instrumental students will be performing. 

Tickets are now available and can be purchased through Trybooking via the link:  https://www.trybooking.com/UZOD

*Please note - if you have already purchased your tickets, you will need to reprint the tickets to reflect the revised date of 6 June.

Kind regards SSP

SSP School Photos for 2018

21 May 2018

School photos will take place on Tuesday 12 June and Wednesday 13 June (please see the timetable below).

All students from Years 1 to 6 are to wear correct Winter uniform.  This includes hair appropriately done, no jewellery, hair ties that are small in size and black, white or maroon in colour.

Order forms for class photos will be sent home this week.  These must be returned on or before photos day.  All envelopes need to be returned even if photos will not be purchased.

The family photo order forms will be available from the front office and nurse’s station upon request.

Tuesday 12 June

PP Maroon , PP White, Kindy White, Kindy Blue, Year 2’s, Year 3’s and Year 5’s.

House Leaders, Library Monitors and Music Captains in Winter uniform.

Sport Captains in House colours (sport uniform).

Family photos.

Wednesday 13 June

Year 1’s, Kindy Maroon, PP Blue, 4 Blue, 4 Maroon, 4 White and Year 6’s.

Complete family photos.

Kind regards SSP

SSP House Cross Country Carnival

17 May 2018

Timetable and information sheet

House Cross Country Carnival - Friday 8 June 2018

Distances (these distances are approximate as the school considers a safe course to be more important than an exact race distance). 

Timetable

 Year 6 involved before recess and for presentations at 2.15pm

Year 5 and Year 4 involved between recess and lunch and for presentations at 2.15pm

Lunch break 12.45pm – 1.25pm

Year 3 involved from after lunch until 2.30pm

If there is bad weather on the day, the carnival will still go ahead.  The students will be supervised in the undercover area until they are required for their race.  If students are rained on during their race they will be able to change into dry clothes for the remainder of the day.  As students will not be allowed to run in tracksuits they will only require their school tracksuit, a towel, a spare shirt and some spare underwear if they do get wet during their event.

A house shield and individual champion medallions will be awarded at the end of the day and selections for the interschool cross country carnival will be made from the race results.  The emphasis for this carnival is on participation and to encourage this, all competitors who complete the course gain points for their house (sprinting is not required, crawling is not recommended, somewhere in between will be just fine!).  So the house with the most participants who finish the distance will have a huge advantage whether they finish first or not!

A reminder for parents and other spectators that you are all very welcome at this and all school sporting events however running alongside competitors is not acceptable behaviour during races.

Some parent helpers will be required on the day to act as course officials.  If you can help please email Mr Thompson at lee.thompson@cewa.edu.au.

Good luck everybody.

Kind regards SSP

Winter Sport Training

14 May 2018

Our Year 6 students will compete in an interschool Winter sport carnival this term.

In preparation for this, they will have three training sessions, the first of which started this morning, and will continue for the next two Monday mornings (21/5 and 28/5) at school from 9.00am to 10.00am.  They will play games of football, soccer and netball against our Year 5 students. 

We are looking for some parent helpers who would be willing to come along and umpire some games, especially in boys’ AFL and girls’ AFL, but also in the other sports mentioned above.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. 

If you are able to help, please email Mr Thompson at lee.thompson@cewa.edu.au as a matter of urgency.  This is a great opportunity to participate in the school’s Give Ten program.

Kind regards SSP

New School Board Member Co-Opted

11 May 2018

The SSP School Board would like to update you on this appointment.

We received four expressions of interest from our school community which we are extremely grateful for.  The person co-opted for 2018 is Sabrina Zhu who has a child in Kindy Maroon at SSP.  The Board’s decision was based on succession planning taking into account the years ahead with regards to enrolment at SSP.

Sabrina has a Master of Applied Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Melbourne and works in the healthcare industry.

We have asked the other nominations to consider nominating for a position on the Board in the future, especially considering we have two retirements from the Board at the end of this year with both members completing their six year maximum term on the Board (3 x 2 year term).

We look forward to welcoming Sabrina to the May Board meeting.

Uniform Shop Opening Times for Friday 11 May 2018

10 May 2018

Please note, for this week only, the Uniform Shop will be open between 9.00am and 11.00am tomorrow, instead of 8.00am to 10.00am.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

Kind regards SSP

New Enrolments for 2019

09 May 2018

Dear Parents

To adequately plan for 2019, we would like to ensure that all of our existing families have had the opportunity to submit their applications for enrolment for any siblings wishing to join us in 2019.  This includes any future Kindy placements for 2019 and beyond.

Our current families will have until Friday 18 May 2018 to ensure that any siblings requiring positions at SSP in 2019 have made the necessary applications by submitting an Expression of Interest Form to our Enrolment Officer to enable them to go on our waitlist for 2019.  

Please complete the attached Expression of Interest Form to begin the enrolment application process.  A $50.00 non-refundable application fee applies for each application submitted.

Please do not hesitate to contact our Enrolment Officer, Helen Florschutz, via email at admin@ssp.wa.edu.au should you have any queries or require any further information.  

Kind regards SSP

Scholastic Book Club Orders

07 May 2018

Book Club orders are due by Monday 21 May 2018.

Did you know that our school earns 20% in Scholastic Rewards on all Book Club orders?  These rewards help us to obtain free books and additional learning resources for our library and classrooms.

Please order online - STRICTLY NO CASH or CHEQUE ORDERS ACCEPTED.

If you haven’t received your Issue 3 catalogue you can look at it online via the link:

http://www.scholastic.com.au/schools/bookclub/assets/pdfs/bc318.pdf

Kind regards SSP

2018 / 2019 Entertainment Books at SSP

03 May 2018

How exciting! The NEW 2018 / 2019 Entertainment Memberships are almost here.

With Mother’s Day just around the corner it is a great opportunity to pre-order your 2018 / 2019 Entertainment Book and support St Simon Peter Catholic Primary School!

Give Mum an Entertainment Membership this Mother’s Day and she can enjoy more than 12 months of valuable dining, shopping and travel offers! Buy from us today and you’ll also be supporting our School. Hurry! It's your last chance to get the bonus Early Bird Offers before they're gone…

Kind regards SSP

After School Pick-Up Arrangements

02 May 2018

After School Arrangements

With the changes to Prendiville Catholic College’s bus bay area after school, please note the following for our students:

• No SSP students are allowed over at Prendiville Catholic College unsupervised.
• Senior car bay gates will be locked at 3.15pm.  Any students still waiting to be collected will be taken to the quadrangle area.  Parents/older siblings from Prendiville Catholic College will need to come to the front admin office to be buzzed through the gate to collect their child from the quadrangle.

These changes may impact our car bay areas, so it is timely to remind everyone of car bay etiquette:

• All cars are to move as far forward as possible in the car bay (in all weather conditions).
• Parents/carers must remain in their cars at all times.
• If a staff member asks you to move forward or stay in your car, please do so.

I would also like to remind all parents/carers that only staff and ACROD permit holders are allowed to drive down the driveway near the ELC.  We have a number of people not adhering to this, which puts other people’s children at risk.  Under NO circumstances can people use this driveway to drop off children at the ELC.

Thank you for your co-operation in helping to keep your children safe.

Kind regards SSP