School Review Parent Meeting

As part of our School Review, Graham and the school improvement team, would love to hear from interested parents. To help support this we are running a parent focus group meeting on Thursday 30th May from 10:00-11:00. Please come along, to help as we look for opportunities for our school over the next four years, sessions like this are essential to gather as many ideas as possible.
Let Andrea know if you are able to attend.

School Wide Positive Behaviours

This week we undertook an audit of our school wide positive behaviour program. We were visited by both the area coach for SWPB and the Victorian head of the program. Together they assessed how our school was using the SWPB framework with our values and behaviour approach of: At Simpson Primary School we C.A.R.E.
Our use of the values of Consideration, Acceptance, Respect and Engagement was evaluated across the school. 
Our students showed how we display the schools values in our behaviours and actions every day beautifully.
We are now accredited with our 'Blue Level' certification.

Tall Tales Toastie Tuesday

Education Week Writing Celebration.
Our tall tales were terrific and the toasties and milkshakes amazing.
Thanks to our Parents club especially, Nicole, Nancy, Linda & Bec for all their efforts in making the day such a great one for our kids.
To the many parents who made it in to be the audience for the tall tales, thank-you for taking the time to celebrate your child's learning with them. It was wonderful for the children to have an authentic audience for their writing.
Photos from the day can be viewed here:
Photo gallery

Instrumental Music

Each Monday we are joined by Eileen McKenzie who works with our Glee singers and teaches keyboard, vocal and guitar.
At our assemblies, we get are often entertained by her students as they share their developing talents.
If you would like to have your child be part of the lessons next semester, you can contact Eileen via the school office.

Somer's Camp

We have four very excited students who are currently attending Somer's Camp as part of the Network schools event. Billy, Ollie, Leah and Hope set off on Tuesday. Over the next ten days they will take part in a multitude of activities to help them build resilience, leadership and teamwork skills. We look forward to hearing how they are going in the coming days.

Book Fair 2019

Our annual book fair is on this week.
All students will visit the fair during their library sessions. The Book Fair will be open to the public at the following times:
Monday 20th May, 9am-10am
Tuesday 21st May, 10am-12pm
Friday 24th May, 9am-11am
Please feel free to pop in and purchase from the wonderful selection of books, posters and novelty items.
Our target is $1000 in sales which will get the school $300 in books for the library.

This weeks C.A.R.E. Awards

Our C.A.R.E. awards this week were for students who displayed any of the behaviours of Consideration while moving around our school, in rooms, hallways and the yard.

Well done Josh, Archer, Anna and Jack.

Election Day Raffle

Congratulations so Paul & Cheryl and Dot who were the lucky winners of our Parent Club raffle on Election Day.