20 May 2024
Dear families,
Kindergarten 2025
Our school is currently accepting enrolments for 2025. If you have a child staring Kindergarten in 2025, please fill in the online form through our website or contact our front office for assistance.
Please save the following dates for transition to school events in your calendars.
Picnic and school tour for parents/carers and children
· Thursday 29 August 2024 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Transition to school sessions for parents/carers and children
· Friday 18 October 2024 9:15am – 10:30am
· Friday 25 October 2024 9:15am – 10:30am
· Friday 1 November 2024 9:15am – 10:30am
· Friday 8 November 2024 9:15am – 10:30am
Further details about these sessions will be shared soon.
Life Education
Over the last few weeks, Healthy Harold visited our school in the Life Education van. Our children loved learning about safe and healthy living.
The Life Education program was fully funded by our P&C, meaning all students attended at no cost to families. Thank you P&C!
Year 6 overnight excursion
Congratulations to our fabulous students in Years 5 and 6 who displayed exemplary behaviour on our recent overnight stay in Canberra. Our children thoroughly enjoyed learning about democracy, science and art at our old and new Parliament House, the National Gallery and Questacon. Our children are to be commended for the outstanding behaviour that they demonstrated as they represented our school in our nations’ capital.
District cross country carnival
After two postponements due to rain, we are thrilled that our district cross country carnival will be going ahead this Wednesday. I wish all our students the best of luck as they represent our school with pride and great sportsmanship.
Mother’s Day stall
I hope all of our mums and other family members enjoyed the beautiful gifts that were sold at our Mother’s Day stall. I extend a huge thank you to our kind and generous P&C for organising the stall for our children to do their shopping.
Athletics carnival
Next Monday 27 May, our school will beholding our annual athletics carnival on our school grounds. All families are welcome to join us on this fun day.
Student led conferences
Student led conferences for Semester 1 2024 will be held on Monday 3 June 2024. Classrooms will be open between 3:15pm - 4:30pm on this afternoon. Parents/carers are welcome to attend at any time during this timeframe.
At the conference, your child will facilitate a conversation with you where he/she will share class and individual learning goals, progress towards achieving them and what his/her next learning goals will be. You will have the opportunity to see what learning expectations are in place for your child, and to see how your child is progressing to meet those expectations. You will also have the opportunity to see your child’s classroom, look through their workbooks and see their work displayed. Other conferences for children will be occurring at the same time as your child’s conference. Teachers will be available to join this conversation that will be led by your child.
If you would also prefer to book in for an individual appointment with your child’s class teacher instead of attending the student-led conferences, please do so by contacting your child’s class teacher through our Seesaw app. Of course, as always, parents are encouraged to request an individual meeting with your child’s teacher at any time of the year to discuss your child’s achievement and growth.
It is the hope of our school that all children and a parent/carer attend the student led conferences or an individual appointment.
Safety on Phillips Avenue
In order to ensure the safety of all children and wider community members of our school, it is essential that the following rules and guidelines are followed during school drop off and pick up times.
· The speed limit of 40km/h is to be adhered to.
· Check that no pedestrians are using the children's crossing before driving through it.
· Follow the parking restrictions. At the front of the school, it is a 2 minute parking zone. This zone is simply to drop children off or pick children up. No car is to be parked in this zone. Drivers must remain in vehicles in this zone.
· U-turns on Phillips Ave are to be made at the turning bay past the school.
· No parents/carers are to be using our driveway. The driveway is for staff and contractor use only.
· Parents/carers are asked not to park across neighbour’s driveways on Phillips Avenue.
It is essential that drivers behave respectfully and responsibly to ensure our children safely enter and exit school grounds each day.
I thank all community members for your assistance in keeping all pedestrians around our school safe.
Public Holiday
There is an upcoming public holiday to mark the King’s birthday. This is occurring on Monday 10 June. Our school will not be open on this day. Children are not to come to school on this date.
Kind regards,
Michelle Barnes