Birmingham Primary School

🌈🎉 COLOURFUL FREE DRESS & CRAZY HAIR DAY 🎉🌈

Our Junior School Council students have chosen to hold a Colourful Free Dress and Crazy Hair Day on Tuesday 23 June in support of Felix House.

Felix House is a community drop-in centre in Lilydale that supports people of all ages experiencing homelessness or hardship, providing essential services and practical assistance to those in need.

Students are invited to come dressed in their brightest colours and wear their craziest hairstyles for the day. Instead of a gold coin donation, we are asking families to donate much-needed toiletry items or non-perishable food to support the work of Felix House.

Suggested donations include:
🧴 Shampoo and conditioner
🧼 Soap
🪒 Shaving cream
🌸 Deodorant
🩹 Sanitary items
🧦 Adult socks
👕 Adult underwear
🥫 Non-perishable food

Thank you for helping our students make a positive difference in the community through this important Junior School Council initiative.

🏃‍♂️🌦️ CROSS COUNTRY UPDATE 🌦️🏃‍♀️

After multiple weather interruptions, we’re hoping for third time lucky as we prepare to run a modified Cross Country event at school this Thursday, 14 May.

👟 The event will primarily involve interested students in Years 4–6 (with some Year 3 students also welcome to participate), and will provide an opportunity for students to qualify for the District Cross Country team.

📝 Due to the late rescheduling of the event, we have not been able to establish a formal opt-in process. Instead, staff will simply be asking students whether or not they would like to participate, while also making it clear that students wishing to pursue the Cross Country pathway beyond school level will need to compete in this event to be eligible for selection.

👏 Families are warmly invited to attend and support during the afternoon. 📢 Full details in the Compass NewsFeed 📢

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️ We are also still seeking a small number of parent helpers — particularly to assist in supervising sections of the course near the staff carpark and along the front of the school.

🔗 For full event information — including participation details, qualification information and the Parent Helper Expression of Interest form — please refer to the full Compass post.

Thank you again for your flexibility and support! 💙

🌌 A small disturbance in the Force this morning…

Apologies for the slightly sinister (and somewhat foreboding!) soundtrack that kicked off our day today 😅

In honour of May the Fourth, we set a Star Wars playlist to run across the school—but as it turns out, when you let the Force decide, there’s no telling whether you’ll get something from the light side… or the dark side when the speakers burst into life 🎶

The good news:
✔️ No confirmed sightings of stormtroopers
✔️ No imperial takeovers
✔️ Plenty of Jedi energy from our students and staff

May the Fourth be with you ✨

💐 A very important day on the calendar is approaching… 💐

Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and our Community Building Team has been busy preparing something special for our students and families!

📅 Mother’s Day Stall - Thursday 7th May
With a wide range of gifts priced between $1–$10, there’s something for everyone. Students will also receive a paper bag to decorate and carry their special purchases home 💝

🎟️ Mother’s Day Raffle
We also have some incredible hampers and vouchers up for grabs, generously donated by local businesses—thank you for your support!
Tickets are available via QKR or at the stall, with winners drawn on Thursday 7th May.

This is always a lovely opportunity for students to choose something meaningful for the special people in their lives ❤️

We appreciate your support in helping make this a special event for our school community!

💛 Wellbeing at Birmingham – Parent Workshop

Have you booked your spot yet?

We’re really pleased to be welcoming Toolbox Education back to Birmingham to present a parent session on “Dealing with Conflict”—a practical and relevant topic for all families.

📅 Tuesday 5th May
🕖 7:00–8:00pm
📍 In person at school

Building on last year’s fantastic session on Emotional Regulation, this workshop will provide helpful strategies to support children to:
✔️ manage big emotions
✔️ communicate effectively
✔️ develop empathy
✔️ resolve conflict in positive ways

These are skills that benefit all children—and support calmer, more connected homes and classrooms.

📲 Check Compass for registration details

We’d love to see as many families there as possible!

🏉 Auskick is Coming to Birmingham!

Dear Parents and Families,

We’re excited to be offering our students and community a 4-week Auskick Program, delivered by the AFL!

📍 Where: School oval
🕒 Time: 3:45pm – 4:45pm
📅 When: Thursdays, 14 May – 4 June
💲 Cost: $55

As part of this partnership, AFL staff will also be running in-school clinics during PE sessions for each grade in the week beginning May 4.

If your child is keen to get involved, please scan the QR code on the attached flyer to register. Early sign-up helps us confirm numbers and support AFL staffing.

For any questions, please contact David Round.

We’d love to see plenty of our students and local community members involved—should be a great program! 🙌

🌺 ANZAC Day – Saturday 25 April 🌺

Today is ANZAC Day, a time for us to remember and say thank you to the brave Australians and New Zealanders who have served in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping missions.

ANZAC Day began after the landing at Gallipoli in 1915, and today it helps us reflect on important values like courage, mateship, kindness and looking out for others.

For students, it can be as simple as taking a quiet moment to think about the people who have helped keep our country safe, or talking with family about what ANZAC Day means. Many communities also hold dawn services and local ceremonies that families may wish to attend together.

Lest we forget. 🌹

✨ Welcome back to Term 2! ✨

It’s been a calm, positive and energetic start to the term—so great to see our students back, settled and ready to learn. We’re looking forward to another fantastic term ahead at Birmingham Primary School.

📣 A reminder that Prep 2027 enrolments are now open!
If you or someone you know has a child starting school in 2027, we’d love to connect.

📅 School tours are available—come and see our learning in action.

🔗 Visit our website for more information: www.birminghamps.vic.edu.au

📞 Or contact the office on (03) 9736 3260

As we approach the end of term, it’s a chance to pause and reflect on what has been a busy and rewarding few months at Birmingham Primary School.

Time and again, we’ve been reminded of the strength of our community — from everyday support in classrooms, to assistance at events and camps, to the incredible efforts of our Community Building Team across fundraising and relationship-building initiatives, and to families rallying around others doing it a bit tough.

This time of year brings a focus on kindness, generosity and connection, and it’s been wonderful to see those values in action across our school.

Thank you to our staff, students and families for all that you contribute. We wish everyone a safe, restful and happy Easter break, and look forward to another great term ahead.

Our amazing Easter hampers don’t make themselves! 🐣💛

Huge thanks to our incredible Community Building Team who jumped in to help this week — and apologies to those we didn’t manage to catch in action (and to those we did who would’ve preferred to stay anonymous!).

This amazing and ever-growing group consistently pulls together to achieve fantastic results for our school, and we’re so grateful to Elle and her team for their ongoing efforts.

If you’ve grabbed a raffle ticket (or a few!) — thank you, and good luck! 🎟️✨