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- Principal Message
- Mothers Day Prayer
- SSP Summer & Winter Uniforms Feedback
- SSP Photo Day Monday 27th & Tuesday 28th May 2024
- Senior Merit Award Winners
- Lend a Hand
- Parent TV-When Is It Okay To Introduce Social Media To Kids
- Term 2 School Tour
- 2024 Australian Early Development Census
- CSPWA Awards Of Excellence
We continue to find ways that assist families financially who choose to send their children to our school to receive a Catholic education.
Over the past twelve months, the school has introduced several different opportunities to school families that support the financial cost of attending SSP.
The Tuition Raffle, held at the beginning of each year, supplemented the cost of the tuition payment for one student and was held in conjunction with the Friends of SSP.
The acknowledgment of volunteers through the Lend a Hand initiative, also through the FSSP, provides a 25% reduction in tuition fees each term for one family who has volunteered in some role in the school during the previous school term. All that is required for this is to record your name under 'volunteer' in the administration when you attend school in that capacity.
The school recommendation payment provides a $200 reduction off the school fee account for those who recommend a new family to the school and complete a successful enrolment process. So far in 2024, we have had several families have this $200 amount applied to the fee account.
In 2024, we, together with Prendiville CC, introduced the family sibling discount between the two schools, where families whose children attend both schools receive the sibling discount regardless of the location of the students between the two schools. We have had 46 families who applied for and received the discount on their SSP school fees so far this year which is a great opportunity for those families to be supported by the two schools.
To our mothers and grandmothers, we wish you a wonderful Mother's Day this weekend. We hope the kids spoil you and that you have a wonderful day.
Warm regards
Peter Cutrona
Your input is important to us! We are currently assessing our SSP summer and winter uniforms and would appreciate your feedback. Please click the link below to complete the online form . Your suggestions will help us improve our school's dress code. Thank you for participating!
https://forms.office.com/r/HbzKu5XHMQ
Warm regards,
Nicole Crosthwaite
Class Photos/Portraits:
- Every Student will have their photo taken, whether they are purchasing photos or not.
- The school has chosen to use the online ordering system. Your child will be given an online ordering instruction slip and a unique student shootkey.
- Log onto www.msp.com.au and follow the prompts to place your order.
- If you lose your shootkey the school reception will have a copy to quote back to you.
- The expiry date for online ordering is Tuesday 4th of June 2024.
Any orders received after this date will incur a S30.00 archive fee. - Spare order envelopes (green) will be available at the school reception if you prefer to pay with cash.
Specialty Group Photos: - After photo day, a link will be sent to the school for distribution to parents whose child/children is/are in the specialty group photos.
Family Photos:
- Envelopes can be obtained from Administration.
- Family photos are taken each morning before school.
- Please ensure that your family envelope and payment are handed to the Photographers on photo day.
- If you do not have the correct money, we will provide any change needed when photos are delivered to school.
- Family photos cannot be ordered online.
- Once school has received photos, family photos will remain at reception for parents to collect.
Please Note:
Late orders can be placed via our website www.mspreorders.com.au.
Individual and Family Photos are not available to view online for Students' Security. If for any reason you need to contact MSP regarding your child's photos you will be asked to provide your child's Shootkey.
Parents who “Lend a Hand” will go into a draw once a term to get a free terms worth of school fees for one child.
Ways that you can earn entries to go into the draw to win a terms worth of tuition.
Any time a parent helps out:
- In class assistance or excursions
- Tasks outside of school hours such as covering books
- Helping out for longer periods at FSSP run events
- When attending FSSP meetings
- All HOPE reps will receive 5 entries each term
For anyone interested in volunteer opportunities we have a Facebook Group that we share to when we require volunteers for events.
These entries will be recorded when signing in at the office, (to correctly do so you must sign in as a volunteer) all further entries will be recorded on a spreadsheet maintained by FSSP committee for volunteer tasks that you may not sign in at the office for. All entries will then be compiled and drawn by the school.
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This isn’t even considering the children who have set up their own social media accounts, without their parents knowing. And we know that there are a lot of these in existence. (In fact, some articles have suggested that as many as three-quarters of children aged 10-12 years have social media accounts, despite being below the legal age limit.)
https://parenttv.com/blog/when-is-it-okay-to-introduce-social-media-to-kids
Below are the instructions about how to sign up:
It is very important that you go to the www.parenttv.com/membership page to sign up with the code: stsimon
The Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) is a national data collection of early childhood development at the time children commence their first year of full-time school. Please click on the link to read more about the AEDC.
Is there a deserving St Simon Peter community member/s you would like recognised?
CSPWA awards of Excellence in building Positive Catholic School Communities are now open.
The final nominations are due 10th of May.
Anyone can nominate and it's a great way to acknowledge the amazing work of community members.
5 Award Categories:
Parent Nomination
Parent Group nomination
Principal Nomination
Parish nomination
Agnes Weymouth Nomination
(not limited to Teachers, Maintenance staff, Admin, EAs etc)