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Sherbourne Primary

Outlook Crescent,

Briar Hill Victoria 3088

www.sherbps.vic.edu.au

Telephone: 9434 7142 Principal Mrs Maree Seymour

The next whole school Assembly will be December 11 at 3pm . Please feel welcome!

Tues Dec 12—FREE DRESS DAY

Tues Dec 12 Instrumental Music students concert

Thursday Dec 14 Carols on the Oval

Friday Dec 15 STUDENT FREE DAY

Tues Dec 19 Year 6 Graduation

Wed Dec 20 Year 6 Celebration Day

Thursday Dec 21 Billy Cart Grand Prix & Class Parties

Friday Dec 22 End Term 4

1.30pm dismissal

NEXT ASSEMBLY

UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday December 7, 2017

2018 Student Leadership Team

Instrumental Music Concert

Twilight Working Bee

At next Monday’s Assembly the successful candidates for Leadership po-sitions in our school will be presented to the school. This includes School Captains, Sports Captains. Environment Captains and ICT captains. They will receive their badges at the first assembly in 2018.

Assembly will take place in the Hall at 3.00pm all welcome!

A concert to celebrate all those students who are learning a musical instrument or voice through private tuition will be held in the Hall next Tuesday December 12 at 2.45pm. This performance opportunity while daunting is a great acknowledgement of the work and developing skills of these students in their musical endeavours. Family and friends most welcome. If your child learns and may not have put their name forward please drop me an email if they would like to perform on this afternoon alongside those students who learn at school with Primary Music Insti-tute.

Many thanks to those families who made themselves available to partici-pate: Melanie and Brayden Dimmack, Ciarra and Kaleb Camilleri, Amelia and Danielle Kibell, Tracey, Ben and Josh Connolly, Aidan Phillips, Aman-da and Caleb Evans, Amber and Glen Coleman, Jo, Jade, Yasmin and Renee Geach, Lynda, Teaghan and Piper Pedron, Stacy and Isabella Aus-tin, Deanne, Jude and Gabe Mitchell. A huge thank you to Jane, Don and Lauren for their work in organising and running the twilight working bee on Friday November 24.

Well done – a great team effort. Our school is really showing the results of your time and care!

2018 BOOK PACK PICK UP FRIDAY DECEMBER 8-TOMORROW!

2018 Book packs will be available from the office TO-MORROW. They can be collected upon receipt of pay-

ment. Those families who have a left handed child will need to swap their red handled scissors from the packs

for green handled scissors at the front office.

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2018 Grade Placements

Last Friday Students across the school participated in a transition session in their 2018 classroom with their 2018 classmates and teacher (where possible).

Class Structure TEACHER Room number

Prep L Mrs Anna Lloyd Room 9

1/2D Ms Holly Denholm Room 14

1/2M Miss Laura Maguire Room 13

3/4K Mrs Elissa Kilfoyle Room 3

3/4E Ms Amy Eades Room 1

3/4H Mrs Marcelle Herrick Room 2

5/6 S Ms Ashleigh Stoner Room 5

5/6 P Mrs Karen Paul Room 8

Specialist Programs (2 days each) P-6

Art- Monday, Tuesday - Ms Megan Browne

Japanese – Monday Tuesday– Mrs Andrea Walter

PE – Wed/Fri or Thurs/Fri Ms Rebecca Howitt

P-2 Swimming – Vicki – will change to Thursdays in 2018

STAFF CHANGES

It is with sadness but much appreciation that we say farewell to Mrs Glenice Brant (July 1994 – Jan 2018 – 23 years 6 months at SPS over this time she has worked at Sherbourne in the varying roles of Classroom teacher/Japanese/Literacy intervention/Literacy leader.

Congratulations to Miss Lauren Wong who successfully applied for a position at Newbury PS and will take the role as a Year 2 teacher there. Lauren has been at Sherbourne now for 5 years in the 1/2 and 3/4 areas – most students have been taught by Lauren at some stage – she too will be sadly missed.

Returning from Family Leave: We warmly welcome back Ms Megan Browne who has been on Family leave for 2 years following the birth of her daughter Mackenzie. Megan will return for 2 days per week and will take on the Art room role.

Ms Ashton Newton currently teaching in 56N and Ms Amanda Oakley who has worked one day per week with 5/6P in 2016-17 will both take Leave for the 2018 school year. We look forward to their return in January 2019.

NEW STAFF

We warmly welcome to Sherbourne new staff members Holly Denholm, Ashleigh Stoner, Andrea Walter (Japanese Teacher) and Amy Eades.

Students have met Ms Denholm and Ms Stoner who have both spent some time at Sherbourne throughout this year. Mrs Walter is also the Japanese teacher at Lower Plenty PS. Ms Eades is currently teaching at Mary McKillop Primary School Narre Warren. But will join Sherbourne staff at the commencement of the 2018 school year.

Rebecca Howitt who has been the Art teacher at Sherbourne for Terms 2-4 in 2017 will now take the reins in PE and Sport for the whole school. Primary school teachers are SO flexible!!

A BIG thank you and best wishes to Peter Buszard and Helen Anderson who will conclude their time at Sher-bourne at the end of this school year.

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Term 4 School Fees Instalments are now overdue and paya-ble

METHODS OF PAYMENT Preferred method: Direct Deposit

Account Name:-Sherbourne Primary School BSB: 063 185 ACCOUNT NO: 00909627

On Monday morning the Year 3-6 choir entertained shoppers at Greensborough plaza with a jolly rendition of Christmas carols and songs. They did a great job learning all the lyrics for so many songs and bringing cheer to a cloudy damp morning. Well done choir members – it is a very special experience. A huge thanks to family and friends who could join us and a big thank you and well done to Choir director Amanda Oakley ably assisted by Miss Lau-ren Wong. We were very proud of you all!

On Tuesday morning staff prepared a thank you morning tea to acknowledge the work of so many parents and friends who help across the school throughout the year. We were pleased some of you could make it but acknowledge many of you couldn’t. Our heartfelt thanks for the part you have played – sorry you missed our culi-nary tributes. You will really regret missing Anna Lloyd’s sweet delights!

Many thanks to Don, Jane and Peter who prepared the yard, gutters and school for the predicted very heavy rains last weekend. I am pleased to announce the school did not suffer badly throughout the heavy rain. We really ap-preciate the effort and time you each gave to preparing the school to minimise damage. THANK YOU!

HELPERS MORNING TEA

CAROLS ON THE OVAL

Next Thursday December 14 at 7.00pm is our whole school Carols on the Oval event. This is a much loved annual event at Sherbourne.

Families are invited to bring along some chairs, a picnic rug and your tea and enjoy the carols the students have been working on this term.

The evening will start promptly at 7.00pm with a keyring presentation to our Year 6 students and any other fami-lies who are leaving Sherbourne at the end of the year. Following this all classes will perform the Christmas carols they have been practising including a Japanese song they have learned with Mrs Brant. Both Junior and Senior choirs will perform.

This year families will be required to bring their own tea to carols . There will not be a bbq prior to the event this year.

SPS Choir at Greensborough Plaza

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HEADLICE

There have been several reports of headlice in different areas of the school currently. Headlice are a real nuisance and can be very hard to eliminate. Families will need to be vigilant checking, treating and removing headlice then repeating the treatment and through comb through 7 days later.

To discourage easy transfer of lice and nits those students with longer hair are requested to please tie back their hair at school each day.

It is of small solace that lice actually like clean hair. We thank families for reporting incidents- it is only with every-one’s co-operation we can break this very annoying and time consuming cycle. Thank you!

CLASS PARTIES

Traditionally on the second last day of Term 4 we hold the annual Sherbourne Billy Cart Derby. This year it will fall on Thursday December 21.

Entry forms are available from the office.

Following the Billy Cart Derby we hold “class parties”. A former parent of the school will provide the food for each class party at a cost to each participant that is included in your Term Planner. If you will not be partaking in the Class Parties, for example, your family will not be at school on those final two days, please put this in writing by Wednesday December 13 so we can cater accurately please.

Our first egg!! Students were delighted on Tuesday to discover our new hens have started laying! It is terrific to know they are feeling happy and healthy in their Sherbourne home. We are still looking for helpers over the Christmas break to let out and feed our chickens. Please let the office or Jane Young know if you can help ASAP. Thank you!

Maree Seymour

Principal

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FINAL FUNKY FRUIT FRIDAY FOR 2017

ROSTER FOR DECEMBER 8

FRUIT PICK-UP: TRACEY WILLIAMS

FRUIT CUTTING: NICOLE PERICHON, NATASHA STEVENS &

BECK SHOLAKIS

The Library is now closed for all borrowing. Could all books please be returned as soon as possible. Parents are welcome to place library books in the blue return tub in the entrance area of the library.

Any books that remain outstanding will be treated as lost and an invoice will be sent home with students for re-placement costs. There is a prize for the first grade to return all of their outstanding books.

Thank you

Debbie Trezise

FROM THE LIBRARY

FIRST AID

As the 2017 school year comes to a close preparations are underway for our students with medical conditions in readiness for 2018. If your child/ren suffer from a medical condition it is vital that school is adequately informed to assist if ever there was a medical emergency. In particular students that suffer from the following:- Anaphylaxis, Allergy, Asth-ma or Seizures. Please notify the office immediately if your child suffers from any of the abovementioned medi-cal conditions. All medial conditions should be notified to school & Special Medical forms can be obtained from the office. Parents who have notified school of the abovementioned conditions will be receiving forms to update infor-mation, some action plans requiring completion & or a signature from a medical professional. It would be greatly appreciated if medical forms could be returned to school before the end of year. If your child no longer has this medical condition and wish the condition to be removed from their medical notes please note this on the medi-cal form along with a signature & date. Thank you for your assistance. Janis Newman First Aid Officer

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HOOPTIME

Congratulations to the Hooptime Basketball team that competed on Friday in the State Cham-pionships. The top 32 teams from across the state competed with teams travelling from as far as Wodonga, Glenrowan and Warrnambool. We played in a round robin in the morning finish-ing 3

rd in our section, after some very close games. We then entered the elimination rounds

where we were defeated by a very strong team from Brunswick.

We had a parade of all the teams and we got to meet some players from Melbourne United and were presented with our State t-shirts.

A big thank you to Christian Webber who coached the team and the parents who drove and supported us throughout the tournament. Congratulations to : Lilly Barello, Kaya McFarlane, Sienna Groves, Matteo Webber, Tyler Mur-phy, Lachlan Spirovski, Kaleb Camilleri and Aidan Phillips.

Overall we finished 20th in the State.

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Hello Sherbourne Families, Christmas is just around the corner and every year we like to help o the less fortunate families in the local area. If you would like to donate non-perishable food items to Eltham Food Share please bring them along and place them in the boxes located at the school office. We are seeking non-perishable/long life products like: · Bags of rice and pasta · Canned goods (soup, lentils, fruits, vegetables) · Packets of biscuits or snacks · Christmas cakes, puddings and shortbread · Christmas decorations · Christmas wrapping paper · Cereal · Sauces and jams · Napkins · Baby food, · Tea, coffee, milo · Shampoo, toothpaste · even dog food! Please check that items are all within date. No expired items please.

Donations will be collected on 8th December, 2017. Thank you for your ongoing support, JSC

FREE DRESS DAY – TUESDAY DECEMBER 12

On Tuesday we will be having a free dress day to raise funds for one of our fami-lies who is in need at the moment.

All of the money will go to the family whose house has been badly damaged by fire, hopefully this will be able to help them through a very difficult time. Please bring a gold coin donation to let them know that the Sherbourne community cares.

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PARENTS & FRIENDS

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COMMUNITY NOTICES

Diamond Creek Outdoor Pool—SPECIAL OFFER TO THE

SHERBOURNE PS COMMUNITY

This year, as a community engagement initiative, the Diamond Creek Outdoor pool is in-viting a number of schools to give their students the opportunity to come and enjoy the facility with their families free of charge. Sherbourne has accepted this very generous offer on behalf of our families.

The opportunity to attend from 3:00pm each day from Monday 27th November – Friday 1st of December.

The pool is located at 1 Elizabeth St, Diamond Creek… next to the Skate Park.

T 03 9438 1883 E aquatics.dcop@ymca.org.au

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