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LINKLETTER

Issue 3 4th March 2019

Children, Teachers, Parents: A partnership for the future

LEANNE’ S COMMUNICATIONLEANNE’ S COMMUNICATIONLEANNE’ S COMMUNICATIONLEANNE’ S COMMUNICATION

School Council Meeting Update

Last week we held our last meeting with the 2018 School Council before the upcoming AGM. The School Council election process is currently underway and it will be at the AGM on Wednesday 20th March that the new School Council will be confirmed. Our final meeting was an opportunity to rearticulate our newly developed Strategic Goal Plans that have emerged from the school review process at the end of 2018. Clare Read, our network School Improvement Education Leader and Region Representative, spent some time with School Council sharing her experience of the review and further clarifying key improvement strategies we will be targeting over the next four years. A succinct summary of the Strategic Plan Goals and Annual Improvement Plan will be shared with you once this complete document has been endorsed at the next School Council meeting. Our Annual Improvement Plan has also been developed, breaking the four year goals into small achievable steps that we will work together on this year.

A reminder that if you are interested in joining School Council for the next year to two years, nomination forms can be accessed at the front office.

STUDENT FOCUS—Swearing and Momo Challenge - Parents please be aware

Two student related issues were raised last week that I would like to draw to your attention. The first is in relation to the amount of swearing that is taking place in the school yard, particularly with our middle to senior students. This was raised as an issue at School Council and in talking to several students they confirm reports that some of our students are using foul, inappropriate language when not in earshot of teachers. Swearing will not be tolerated in our school and if a child is found to be swearing consequences will follow as well as notification home to you. I ask you to please discuss this with your children, reminding them about how swearing may make others feel around them and to also encourage them to be brave and report anyone swearing to a staff member confidentially if needed.

Many parents will already be aware of the “Momo Challenge” which has caused much concern to many families and children last week. This is a social media hoax that unfortunately has spread on Facebook, Youtube and other social media platforms. There is a scary image that appears mid viewing, enticing children and adolescents to perform a series of dangerous tasks. Some of our children have seen or heard of this, causing understandable worry and concern to them and their parents. We are alerting you to this rather than talk to the children as many will be hopefully unaware.

We encourage you to investigate what this is yourself so you are fully aware of what it is so you are fully informed should your child discuss this with you or be presenting any unusual behaviours. We will be vigilantly watching out for any discussion in the yard and addressing this immediately with the children concerned should it come to our attention.

Please find further in Shannon’s Welfare focus a timely reminder about cyber safety that appeared on social media platforms just recently. It is a succinct overview of how to SET UP DEVICES SAFELY FOR KIDS, giving adults instructions on how to do this easily. We will continue to educate our students about Cyber Safety but this needs to remain a partnership between home and school. Thank you to those parents who alerted us to the Momo challenge. If you have any further concerns that present at any time, please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s teacher .

WORKING BEES this year

It has been a while since we have had a working bee and to ensure we hit them hard this year we have set our four dates already. Further in the Linkletter you will find our four working bee dates that will target different areas of the school. These are great community events and I encourage you to lock at least one into you calendar if you can this year.

LEANNE’ S COMMUNICATION CONTINUEDLEANNE’ S COMMUNICATION CONTINUEDLEANNE’ S COMMUNICATION CONTINUEDLEANNE’ S COMMUNICATION CONTINUED

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CPR Update

On Thursday our staff spent an extra afternoon formally updating their CPR qualifications. Staff undertake this annually as well as Anaphylaxis and Defibrillation training. We have a defibrillation machine in the school, located near the First Aid Room, and these three training opportunities form an important part of our safety and welfare approach in the school.

HARMONY DAY and the FOOTSTEPS DANCE COMPANY

As shared at the end of last year, we will be endeavouring to provide a variety of performing arts opportunities throughout the year, including performance, dance, percussion and singing. Performing Arts has been launched in Term one within our Connect Program with many class-rooms using role play and performance to demonstrate our EMOTIONS and SOCIAL learning. More formally, the FOOTSTEPS DANCE COMPANY have burst into the school, taking every student through an engaging session of movement and dance. Last Tuesday our Preps to Senior School were put through high energy dance routines that each focused on a different culture around the world. Our Preps learnt moves from around the world, with other year levels moving to Brazil, Africa, Samoa (fused with Hip Hop) and much more. The children will be dancing tomorrow and again next Tuesday with the

dance company. This will all culminate with the children performing their dances in front of the whole school on THURSDAY 21st MARCH from 9am—HARMONY DAY. We invite you to come and watch these dances on this morning if you are available to attend. Harmony Day is our annual celebration of diversity and culture and we are really excited to launch the day with these dances by our talented kids. If you have orange clothing, rib-

bons, hair ties etc these will be encouraged to be worn on this day to help celebrate.

QLD FLOOD DONATIONS through the RED CROSS

Thank you for your kind donations to the QLD Floods. We are still looking to add to our collection so if you have a few loose gold coins and are able to donate we would be very grateful. Just send this along to your child’s teacher and the Junior School Council will count up the amount and present the total at this week’s assembly before sending it off.

OUR 2019 JUNIOR SCHOOL COUNCIL LEADERS

This week our Year 3 to Year 6 classes elected our new JSC Leaders. Congratulations to :

Ollie B 3J Lily W 3W Asha J 34A jasper P 34H Lachie J 4P

Chloe H 4 Lachie H 5G Summar M 5D James H 5K Agastya S 56O

Matisse M 6V Tom P 6G Jemima D 6T Toby O 6T Sophia L 6T

Our four School Captains also join our JSC and the team meet with me every fortnight.

The JSC leaders will be presented at our Friday assembly this week.

WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY DATES and YEAR LEVEL ASSEMBLIES

As mentioned previously we are going to be having a Whole School Assembly in the same week that the Linkletter comes home. This Friday will be a Whole School Assembly at 2.10pm in the courtyard. Year Level Assemblies will take place at different times in between these. Please find below the dates for these assemblies which parents and community are very welcome to attend.

NOTE: This week our PREP CHILDREN WILL JOIN US AT ASSEMBLY for the first time. We can’t wait!

Whole School Assembly for Term 1:

Friday at 2.10pm in the courtyard: 8th March, 22nd March, 5th April

Cohort assemblies will be happening on different dates and times—Team Leaders will communicate this to par-ents via SeeSaw.

Have a wonderful week Leanne TingwellLeanne TingwellLeanne TingwellLeanne Tingwell

Building Independence

A key task of parenting is raising independent, self-motivated children who are able to appropriately use the sup-

port of parents and friends as they grow. You can help your child develop a healthy sense of independence.

Independence is an important aspect of your child’s development. From the age of two, children strive for more

independence. From this age, you should encourage your child to make simple choices in their day to day lives.

The degree of independence you can expect from your child must be appropriate to their age and abilities and varies with each different situation. Children may be more independent in some situations than others.

There are many reasons why children can struggle with becoming more independent. One is their developmen-tal stage: as this required quite sophisticated thinking skills, or because they live very much in the moment.

It can be a common pitfall for busy parents to do things for children that children are capable of doing them-selves. Though it may actually take more time initially for parents to support children to do age-appropriate tasks for themselves, your child's self-confidence and independence will grow as a result.

Ways to encourage appropriate independence

• Allow your child to make simple choices from a range of options you are prepared to accept. For example, allow your children to have a say in what they want in their lunch (brain food/snacks) or which clothes they will be wearing each day. Let children make mistakes and support them to learn from them.

• Let children participate in household chores, such as dishes, taking the rubbish out and making beds. De-velop a responsibility chart so your children can keep track of the household chores they have completed.

• Let children know you are interested in their thoughts and ideas. Ask their opinions on things that are to do with them.

• Respect your child's decisions wherever possible.

• Help children to understand the impact of their choices.

• Teach children problem solving skills – encourage them to think about what they could do to fix the prob-lem rather than telling them what to do.

• Provide positive support for your child in situations that may be challenging.

• Encourage and praise children’s attempts to do things for themselves no matter what the outcome.

• Provide age-appropriate toys so that children can learn to play by themselves for short periods of time (excluding technology – iPads….)

• Help children take responsibility for packing up their toys.

• Teach older children to use a watch and incorporate time in some directions you give. For example "You can go next door to play, but I want you to be home by 4:30."

• Help children to set achievable goals and work toward achieving those goals.

• Children to pack their school bag – knowing what is in there.

• Children to carry their own bag to school and walk into the classroom and complete their morning routine.

As your child progresses through primary school, they’ll be expected tbe-come increasingly independent and take charge of their own learning

and organisation.

Great article for parents:

https://www.theschoolrun.com/building-childrens-independence

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What is Executive Functioning?

Executive Functioning is a set of mental skills that help you get things done. These skills are controlled by an

area of the brain called the frontal lobe.

Executive Function helps you: manage time, pay attention, switch focus, plan and organise, remember details,

avoid saying things or doing the wrong things and multi task.

It’s important that children experience time when they are involved in less structured activities - working to-

wards goals, making decisions, and regulating their behaviour.

Children may learn more when they have the responsibility to decide for themselves what they're going to do

with their time. Self-directed executive function develops mostly during childhood, it includes any mental pro-

cesses that help us work toward achieving goals—like planning, decision making, manipulating information,

switching between tasks, and inhibiting unwanted thoughts and feelings.

Structured activities is anything organized and supervised by adults—like music lessons, sporting activities or

community service. For an activity to be less-structured, the child must be in charge of deciding what to do and

figuring out how to do it. All forms of free play counted as less-structured activities. A balance of structured and

unstructured activities is important for all children. Structured activities such as team based activities allow a

child to develop appropriate social and problem solving skills.

When children are in control of how they spend their time, they are able to get more practice working toward

goals and figuring out what to do next. For instance, a child with a free afternoon ahead of them might decide

to read a book. Once they’ve finished, they might decide to draw a picture about the book, and then they’ll de-

cide to show the drawing to their family. This child will learn more than another child who completes the same

activities, but is given explicit instructions throughout the process.

More information on Executive Functioning:

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/key-concepts/executive-function/

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Many kids are lucky enough these days to be transitioning into the world of owning their own device – iPad,

iPhone, tablet, laptop….. There are plenty of things we can be doing all the time to ensure our kids are incorpo-

rating the technology safely and responsibly and finding a balance with the many other elements of their lives.

But there are also a few things we can do before we even hand over the device…..this potential window to the

world.

Set up any inherent privacy settings on devices and search engines. For these settings the device will ask for a

passcode which obviously should not be revealed to others. This ensures the restrictions cannot be changed.

Some of the restrictions and settings include:

Safari: Go to Settings/General/Restrictions and then set up the restrictions you think are necessary. This may

be restricting certain content, sites, apps, podcasts, music, apps for only 8 year olds etc

Youtube: go to settings/tap on safe search filtering/tap on strict (For younger kids the YouTube Kids app is now

available. Be aware that this uses up a lot of data when not on wifi)

Always remember that setting up your settings certainly help to protect some of the content making its way to

innocent eyes….but no safety setting or filter is ever a guarantee that inappropriate content won’t get through.

Turn off in app purchases: settings/general/restrictions/tap on in-app purchases to off (not green)

Disallow the uploading or deleting of apps: settings/general/restrictions/installing apps or deleting apps

Guided access can be used for little kids or anytime you want them to stay within an app and not leave and go to other

apps or sites. Go to settings/ general/accessibility, scroll to learning, click Guided Access and toggle it on.

Disable safari browser: (settings/general/restrictions/allowed content) if you don’t want them to be able to search any-

thing.

Make itunes safe: anything that has been downloaded on your itunes account on other devices can be accessed

on new devices so if you want to keep this separate, then go to itunes on your computer, go to edit, preferences and click

parental. You can decide which shows and ratings are appropriate for this device.

Now obviously not all of these restrictions will be necessary for every child. The age, maturity level and critical thinking

skills your child has developed will all help determine how much they have access to and what they can and cannot man-

age on their own.

And some final things to remember: Always ensure the rules are set up early from the start. Have some ‘no brainer’

rules that your children understand are part and parcel of the privilege of owning a device.

Monitor the device especially if your child is young. More importantly monitor your child, their habits and their behaviours.

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Our PREP KIDS have entered GK Our PREP KIDS have entered GK Our PREP KIDS have entered GK Our PREP KIDS have entered GK

Last week our Prep Children started to venture out of the supervised,

safe ‘get to know you’ areas of the school to other areas. They were

supported by their very excited and responsible Senior School Buddies.

The Preps were walked around to different areas of the school and

supported in playing a variety of games together with our awesome

leaders.

Wednesday was our

Annual Prep Family BBQ.

A casual opportunity for

the kids to play with new

friends and families to get

to know each other.

Thanks to our four School

Captains (Toby, Jemima,

Sophia and Tom) for doing a

sterling job serving our

parent community on the

night!

Friday 29th March – 3.15pm – 6.00pm (finish with BBQ/drink)

Focus: Front entrance garden along paths – planting/trimming.

Sunday 26th May – 9.00am – 12.00pm (finish with BBQ/drink)

Focus: Rejuvenate Prep Playground

Sunday 11th August – 9.00am – 12.00pm (finish with BBQ/drink)

Focus: GK Community Garden and Gully Areas, specifically pruning fruit trees ready for summer

Friday 15th November – 3.15pm – 6.00pm (finish with BBQ/drink)

Focus: TBC

You are invited to join us at all or any of the GK Working Bees for 2019. Working Bees provide a great oppor-tunity to make a contribution to improving the school grounds and a chance to meet new families. As there are only three to four working bees a year it’s great to get as many people as possible to come along and work on projects that enhance our students’ grounds.

The Working Bees will be focusing on a broad range of areas as show below. The first will be a grounds tidy-up with planting, weeding, trimming and mulching.

IF possible please bring alongside yourself:

Wheelbarrows Secateurs and pruners Rakes and shovels Hedge trimmers Brooms and/or Petrol Blower

Children are welcome as Mrs Webb will be looking for lots of helpers for mulching, pruning, watering and weeding the surrounding garden beds.

There will be a free BBQ and drinks after the working bee.

Families who attend will be in the draw for the special Movie ticket prize.

FRIDAY 29th MARCH at 3.15pm—6.00pm

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REMINDER OF STUDENT FREE DAYS/PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR 2019

Students do not come to school on these days

The Student Free days are used by teachers for professional learning or admin-istration tasks and have been approved by School Council.

TERM 1 - MONDAY 11th MARCH (Labour Day Public Holiday)

Term 1 finishes Friday 5th April@2.30pm

TERM 2 - MONDAY 22nd APRIL (Easter Monday Public Holiday)

THURSDAY 25th APRIL (ANZAC Day Public Holiday)

FRIDAY 26th APRIL (Student Free Day)

MONDAY 10th JUNE (Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday)

Term 2 finishes Friday 28th June@2.30pm

TERM 3 - MONDAY 15th JULY (Student Free Day)

THURSDAY 1st AUGUST (3-Way Conferences - students attend for their conference only)

Term 3 finishes Friday 20th September@2.30pm

TERM 4 - MONDAY 7th OCTOBER (Student Free Day)

MONDAY 4th NOVEMBER (Student Free Day)

TUESDAY 5th NOVEMBER (Cup Day Public Holiday)

Term 4 finishes Thursday 19th December@3.00pm

TBC as per 2018 end of term process

GK DATES TO REMEMBER FOR 2019

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Prep PREP J

Ben N

PREP J

Charli S

PREP L

Rafael M

PREP L

Ruby H

PREP R

Ezra G

PREP R

Leila D

PREP F

Charli E

PREP F

Eden C

Grade 1

and

Grade 2

1/2C

Henry D

1/2C

Mia L

1/2S

Cooper A

1/2S

Imogen B

1N

Anoushka S

1N

Kade F

1B

Arun B

1B

Harry S

1M

Tahlia W

1M

Ryan C

2R

Jed P

2R

Indi H

Grade 3

and

Grade 4

2D

Pat F

2D

Zara W

3/4A

Ben D

3/4A

Caden A S

3/4

Ben G

3/4H

Isabella B

3/4H

Mia M

3/4H

Jasper P

3/4H

Joy Z

3J

Trinity W

4P

Amy T

4P

Stefan V

4L

Issy A

4L

Kingston D

Grade 5

and

Grade 6

5/60

Agastya S

5/60

Brielle H

5K

Ava P

5K

Imogen C

5D

Summar M

5D

Maksim N

5G

Heidi D

5G

Tait D

6V

Jemma P

6V

Jessica F

6G

Zac C

6G

Jade S

6G

Jess D

6T

Lachlan E

6T

Ava D

SPECIALISTS SCIENCE 6G

Abagail K

SCIENCE 6G

Leila L

VISUAL ART

Alayna M

VISUAL ART

Jacob W

PHYS ED 6T

Vanessa S

PHYS ED 6G

Bailey E

PHYS ED 6G

Lisiani I

PHYS ED 6T

Paige L

BOOST BOOST

3W

Ben S

3W

Abbey A

3W

Jackson K

3W

Ryan B

3J

Jake M

3J

Charli L

3J

Amelia H

Student of the MonthStudent of the MonthStudent of the MonthStudent of the Month

For FEB 2019For FEB 2019For FEB 2019For FEB 2019

Student of The Month Certificates will be presented at

assembly this Friday 8th March

DISTRICT SWIMMING

Well done to the GK Swim team that represented the school at the District swimming carnival on Monday 18

th

February. There were many pleasing performances and the students are to be commended on their behaviour and application on the day.

The highlights were Paige L winning the 12/13 GIRLS BUTTERFLY, Will J finishing 2

nd in 11yr boys backstroke

and the 12/13 boys RELAY team consisting of Callum P, Vincent D, Nash D and Dylan M finishing a close second in their event. These students have qualified for the Divi-sion Swimming Carnival to be held on Monday 4

th March

at Northcote Pool. Thank you to Mary Green for assis-tance with the swimming training.

SUMMER SPORTS

Summer sports has commenced with our grade 5 and 6 students participating in cricket, basketball, volleyball, rounders and a new sport Hot shots tennis

Students are to be reminded to wear their hats, bring drink bottles and wear their GK sports top each Friday. The students will be training for their sports during Thursday lunch times

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If your child needs medication for a short time, due to an illness, a Medica-tion Authority form needs to be complet-ed and signed. This form is to accom-pany the medication and dropped into the office. Please do not send your child to school with medication in their bag.

HEAD LICE ALERT

We have had a number of students within the junior and senior grades that have re-cently been treated for head lice. Can you please take a moment to check your child's hair and commence appropriate treatment where necessary. All grades will be checked throughout this term and notices sent home where required. To avoid the spread of head lice it is highly recommend-ed that children with long hair come to school with it neatly tied up.

Lia Aiello

First Aid Officer

URGENT HELP REQUIRED

We urgently need volunteers to help out in our uniform shop on a Friday morning 8.30-9.00am. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

LOST PROPERTY ITEMS

No Names

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TEACHING & LEARNING FEE:

This is now due & payable—please make payment as soon as possible to avoid receiving reminder

Statements.

BULK BILLING 2019:

Bulk Billing has now been distributed for 2019. Please log onto Sentral to view Bulk Billing for all grade levels and give permission for your child to participate in this year’s activities.

Payment options for Bulk Billing are:

1. Payment in full is required by 22nd March 2019

2. Payment can be made in instalments as per the following dates:

- 1st payment due by 22nd Mach, 2019

- 2nd payment due by 3rd May, 2019

- 3rd payment due by 7th June, 2019

3. Contact Jodee Jackson our Business Manager to enter into an agreed payment plan.

CSEF—Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund:

CSEF applications are now open—any families who received CSEF in 2018 and are still eligible DO NOT need to apply again. You only need to complete an application if you child has started at Glen Katherine in 2019 or your family circumstances have changed. To be eligible, your health care card need to be valid as of January 29, 2019. Application forms are available from the office. Applications for 2019 close 21 June, 2019.

Please see the next page for information regarding CSEF in 2019.

Grade 5&6 Sporting Charge:

Grade 5 and 6 are required to pay the 2019 Sports Program Charge. The amount for 2019 is $190.00. Please make sure payment is made as follows so your child can participate in sport each Friday:

Option 1:

Payment can be made in full by Friday 15th March, 2019

Option 2:

Payment will be made in instalments as per the following dates:

1st payment of $60 due by 22nd February, 2019

2nd Payment of $65 due by 15th March, 2019

Final Payment of $65 due by 26th April, 2019

Option 3: Contact Jodee Jackson our Business Manager to enter into an agreed payment plan

Reminders from the Office…….

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Sentral Parent Portal – Handy Information Thank you to the parents who have made contact with us and have now been able to set up their Parent Portal on the Sentral website.

We also sent a reminder notice home re registering for the Portal—we are trying to get all families using the Por-tal by March. Not only are all information & notices going up on Sentral but you can manage your child’s attend-ance and the upcoming Parent Teacher Conferences will also happen on Sentral..

Last week we added our 2019 Bulk Billing information to the Sentral Parent Portal. Please log onto the website to see the activities for 2019 for all Grade levels. The 2019 Bulk Billing Permission Slip has also been published to the Portal so please action it and give permission where applicable.

Current issues to be aware of:

• App is still currently not working. Sentral are working on an update to resolve the issues. We will let you all know when this is back up & running.

• If you hit the reset password button you WILL NOT receive an email. If you need to reset your password please contact the office instead.

• The current notices that need to be Actioned/Approved have been re published to the Portal so please go into the Portal and approve those Permission Notices that need to be actioned. Please use the Portal for student absence management – any absences can be notified on the Portal.

• When you log in your login name or username is the email address you registered with

• Some parents have had issue logging in & they have been getting an error saying “you are not registered” or “this email address is already registered”. In most cases this is because they have been trying to log into the incorrect website address. Please make sure you go to the correct email address to register & log-in at https://sentral.glenkps.vic.edu.au/portal2/#!/login

Please follow the instructions below to register to Register for the Parent Portal:

Step 1 - Go to the school's Sentral Portal web address:

https://sentral.glenkps.vic.edu.au/portal2/#!/login

Follow the prompts and fill out your details.

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Second Hand Uniform Shop Announcement

The Glen Katherine Parents & Friends Association would like to advise of some changes to the

way the Second Hand Uniform Shop will be run in 2019.

From Monday, 4 March 2019 the Second Hand Uniform Shop will no longer be accept-

ing items to sell on Commission on behalf of families. The Second Hand Uniform Shop is

run by a group of volunteers within the Parents & Friends Association and relies on the efforts of

many different people to each pitch in a little and keep the shop running. The procedure around

processing a Commission sale is extremely time consuming and one which the PFA is regretfully

no longer able to sustain.

Commission items already in the shop as at Monday, 4 March 2019 will continue to be available

for sale during 2019 and Commissions paid out as usual. At the end of this year families with un-

sold Commission items will be contacted and given the option of taking them back, or leave them

in the shop as a donation.

Families wanting to sell their second hand uniforms can do so through a newly created

Facebook group ‘GK Primary Second Hand Uniform Sales’ and parents can advertise

their items and sell directly to other parents.

Donations of Second Hand Uniforms will still be gratefully accepted and the shop will

continue to be open on Friday mornings from 8.30am – 9.00am. We remain cash only, but

are happy to hold items in the shop or have them available for collection from the front office at a

later date.

We are delighted to highlight that prices in the Second Hand Uniform Shop have remained un-

changed since 2015 and will remain unchanged for the rest of 2019.

Families wishing to donate items can drop them into the Second Hand Uniform Shop on Friday

mornings between 8.30am – 9.00am or into the front office at other times. Please note that we

can only accept items that are part of the current official uniform (ie. no department store track-

suit pants, or plain t-shirts with no school logo), and which are freshly laundered and in good con-

dition (no holes or rips, or major stains).

The Second Hand Uniform Shop is a wonderful fundraiser for the school and provides

families with an affordable and practical alternative to the cost of a brand new uni-

form. We hope that this new way forward will streamline the process for our valuable volunteers

and enable us to continue to provide this important option for GK families for many years to

come.

Any questions please feel free to contact glenkpfa@gmail.com

The PFA thanks you for your continued support.

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Glen Katherine Primary School

Parents & Friends Association

Update

Meeting update: Second Hand Uniform Shop update

Next meeting will be Tues, 12 Mar 2019 @

7pm in the staff room.

From Monday, 4 March 2019 the Second Hand

Uniform Shop will no longer be accepting items

to sell on behalf of families. A new Facebook

group has been created to sell second hand items for

families that wish to do so. Please see the post on the

‘GK Primary’ Facebook page (and following here) for

more information.

Volunteering opportunities…

We are currently looking for:

Helpers in the Second Hand Uniform Shop

on Friday mornings 8.30am – 9.00am.

Please see the post on the GK Primary

Facebook page for info and to signup by

the online roster.

‘GK Stands Together’ Family Fun Night

GK Stands Together!

Thursday, 21 March

2019

From 5.00pm

The GK PFA invites our school community to a FAMILY FUN NIGHT to follow on and support the

powerful messages our children are learning from the National Day of Action against Bullying and

Violence and Harmony Day.

Let’s get together on Thursday, 21 March 2019 and enjoy some time with family and friends we

know and friends we are yet to discover. From 5pm we invite you to bring picnic food, beverages,

blankets and seats to enjoy in our school grounds.

There will be a sausage sizzle, water and Zooper Doopers for sale on the night.

From 6pm we will be running fun family events for everyone to enjoy and we are going old school!

Alongside those, a great opportunity for our kids to showcase their creative side in our GK STANDS

TOGETHER. BULLYING NO WAY! Poster/ banner competition which we will ask the community

to vote for and we will present a prize in assembly the next day as well as use this poster for future

fun days!

We will conclude the evening with a photo of our amazing school community standing together with a

banner our kids will contribute to, to show at GK - BULLYING NO WAY!

Egg and spoon races

Sack races

3 legged races

More detail posted on the ‘GK Primary’ Facebook page or email glenkpfa@gmail.com

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CANTEEN

DAY & DATE NAMES

Tues 5th Mar L Emery; M Soutter

Wed 6th Mar K Agius; N Peerman (Swap)

Thurs 7th Mar K Gersh; K Bate

Fri 8th Mar S Armstrong; L Egan; L Allan;

M Dixon

Tues 12th Mar R Diffey; K Ansell

Wed 13th Mar N Brabender (Swap)

Thurs 14th Mar N Campbell-Kerr; C Strachan

Fri 15th Mar S Grant; S Garnham; B Lowe (Swap)

** Please Note** If you are having an issue with QKR, the Canteen can’t fix it unfortunately. Between 7.30-8.30am is their peak time, so it

might be easier to order outside of this time (seems more noticeable on Fridays), as explained last week orders can be cancelled if done before our

cut-off time if you no longer need it due to illness etc. If you need to contact us because you have been unable to order lunch, please ring after 9AM

when there are more hands on deck to help out (especially on Frantic Fridays).

Also, it’s best not to use my private mobile number, especially after 8am, as I don’t always hear it and things may not get sorted. It’s best to ring 9431-1599 &

ask for the canteen – AFTER 9am.

I am putting together a Special Lunch for Thursday 4th April & information will come home in the next couple of weeks. Please note, these are optional and it is

by no means compulsory to have these lunches. Ordering by QKR is preferred & and please make sure orders are in by the cut off. We could be doing over

400 lunches on the day & need time to get in the supplies etc so can’t accept late orders. If you miss this one, don’t despair there will be others throughout the

year.

The Roster is looking so good but I still would like some help on the 3rd & 4th Tuesday and 2nd Wednesday. If you are interested in giving canteen duty a

go please contact me via the canteen Tues to Thurs 9am to 1.30pm or Fri 11.30am to 1.30pm in person or on 94311599, via cunning-

ham.suzanne.s@edumail.vic.gov.au or by dropping a note in the class lunch tub.

Cheers, Suzi Cunningham

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