Issue 5 Harriet Street TOORA, 3962 Ph: (03) 5686 2283 / Mob: 0475 605 437 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tooraps.vic.edu.au 13th March 2020 PRINICPAL NEWS Pear Party Congratulations to the students who participated in the music performance at the Pear Party last Sunday. It was fantastic to see you all up on stage showing off the wonderful music skills we have been learning in Musical Futures workshops and weekly music sessions with Mr Whittle. Fingers crossed Gardening Australia include some of their footage of the performance soon. Thank you to Mr Whittle for his work putting this performance together. 3-6 Cluster Athletics Congratulations to all of our Grade 3-6 students who attended our Cluster Athletics at Foster Secondary College this week. It was great to see all kids giving the events the best effort and competing in the right spirit. Congratulations to the following students who have qualified for the District Athletics on Wednesday 25th March: 9/10 girls - Jade - shot put 11 girls - Sarita - high jump, shot put, discus 12/13 girls - Myunah - triple jump, 800m, shot put, high jump, long jump, discus, hurdles, 200m, 100m Olivia - triple jump, long jump, discus 9/10 boys - Tom - shot put, Levi - shot put, high jump Camp Survey Last week I posted the following News Feed item on Compass: When we first ran our Mt Baw Baw camp 2 years ago, I made the commitment to run a snow camp every second year to provide students the opportunity to consolidate and further their ski skills. This year is meant to be a snow camp year, however I've had a couple students comment that they're not that interested in it. Can you please have a chat to your child/ren and complete this short (1question!) Survey Monkey so I can gauge the overall interest. Thanks! Today is the last day to have input. If you want to have input and haven't done so already, please log in to COMPASS and follow the link to the Survey Monkey. School Council Annual General Meeting Thank you to all of our School Council members for their tremendous effort working on behalf of our school community, maintaining a watchful eye on the finances, policy development and educational programs at the school. School Council nominations have been received and we look forward to welcoming the new Councillors to our AGM on Monday . School Council Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday 16th March at the School at 5:00pm Haven’t got a COMPASS Account? Pop into the school Admin Mon, Tues or Thursday and Di will assist with set-up, log-ins or how to use the Compass App. The Compass app can be installed on any Smart phone Android/Iphone and on tablets/ipads. Compass is the primary means of communicating important information to our families, reporting to families on student data and an easy means of recording your child's absence. Parent Payment Policy Toora Primary School Council has passed the School policy in line with the Department of Education’s guidelines. The policy includes a number of payment options to support parents to access the materials and services associated with their child's education. The school-level parent payment policy is available on the school website. If you have any queries or wish to discuss your circumstances and payment options available to you, please contact the school to make an appointment. The 2020 Parent payment has been set at $150 per student and is payable now. The District Athletics will be held at Foster Secondary College on Wednesday 25th March. Further information will be distributed when I receive it.