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• All Prep parents are asked to wait with their children only under C Block before school. Students should be sitting with their parents at this time. Other students without parents must be seated under D Block.
• All other parents are asked to wait with their children only under A Block before school, or drop their children off to under D Block supervision area.
• Prep and Year One students under their parent supervision are to remain seated and not play in these areas.
• We kindly ask that parents do not wait under E Block as this is the thoroughfare to the boys’ toilets and a handball area, and easier to monitor with no parents and students waiting in this area.
• When the bell rings at 8:45am, Prep students will remain under C Block and line up for Mrs Egerton, Miss Enoch and Mrs Rossiter/Mrs Boone. Parents are to say goodbye to their children downstairs and help them to line up to walk up to class. 
• Parents are asked not to go upstairs with the students as it causes congestion on the stairs and on the veranda which is unsafe.
• When the bell rings at 8:45am, Year 1s are to line up under A Block (near the Uniform Shop) to line up for Mrs Nelson/Mrs Prill, Mrs Boone and Miss Hunt.  Parents are asked to move away from the line up area at this time.
• Students under D Block are not to deliver bags to their line up areas when they arrive at school, but to keep them with them until line up time.
• All students without parent supervision are to sit and wait under D Block.
• From 8:30 these students are permitted to play handball or skip on the AstroTurf if they choose, except on Tuesday when there is breakfast club.
• Students in Year 3 – 6 wishing to participate in Kilometre Club will be walked to the grandstand by a TA on duty at 8:30am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
• When the bell rings at 8:45am, all students are asked to put equipment away and return to under D Block. The staff on duty will then walk each year level to their line up areas.
• Year 3s are to walk via the library to their line up area, not through the new building breezeway.

Front Gate

In trying to be helpful, some students or parents are using a rock from the front garden to hold back the front gate on South Pine Road leaving it wide open!  This is very unsafe for our new preppies who may wander off and see the open gate that leads to a very busy road!  Please ensure that you keep our front gate closed at all times.  Thank you for your help with this.

Hats and Water Bottles

During these hot summer months, please remember to ensure your child is coming to school with their hat and a water bottle every day!  It is easy for students to become overheated and dehydrated if they are not drinking water throughout the day.  As always, please ensure your child’s property is clearly labelled.  Only school hats are permitted, caps are not allowed at school or at after school care.

Facebook

Our school has a very active Facebook page with daily posts to keep our school community informed of what is happening in our school.  Our events are posted throughout the term to allow parents time to be prepared for the term ahead. Click on the more tab and then the events tab in the dropdown menu to go to our events. 

If you have a Facebook page, we encourage all of our parents to follow our page so you can enjoy the wonderful experiences our school has to offer. The more you interact with the page by liking and commenting on posts, the more our page will appear in your newsfeed. A reminder that Facebook is not the best platform to ask questions that you need immediate or urgent replies to, as we don’t always see questions in the comment sections of a post. This is best done by emailing the teacher/admin or calling the office. Facebook is also not a site for posting complaints or negative comments about staff or school processes. If you have some constructive feedback for the school or an issue that you would like to raise, we would respectfully ask that you make an appointment to speak with the Principal to discuss your concerns.  Any inappropriate comments will be removed from the platform. Please remember to never make comments on the page referencing a child’s name for privacy reasons.

Stop, Drop and Go

A friendly reminder to parents that to ensure the Stop, Drop and Go Zone at South Pine Road (in the car park) is successful, it is essential that drivers proceed all the way to the first gate closest to the library. Parents are unable to leave their vehicles in this area to walk their students into under the buildings as it causes congestion to the flow of traffic and becomes a safety issue. Please do not drop your students at the first gate either as this causes cars to have to go around your vehicle and again causes issues with the traffic flow. This gate is locked in the mornings for safety.

The expectation is the same for Laurel St Stop, Drop and Go.  Please do not park in this zone and leave your vehicle as it doesn’t allow for the traffic to flow. It is important to continually move your car to the front of the zone to allow cars to move in behind you. Our staff are working hard to ensure the safety of our students as they leave the school grounds and we appreciate your support with this by following our pick-up and drop-off processes.

 School Dress Code

At the beginning of the school year, it is a good time for parents to reacquaint themselves with our School Dress Code.  This Dress Code was developed collaboratively with the school community and supports the wearing of a school uniform to promote a sense of belonging and school pride.   It also promotes a supportive environment fostering mutual respect among individuals at school by minimising visible evidence of economic, class or social difference.   A reminder that students are required to wear ALL black shoes to school as part our Dress Code.  Socks should be white only and should not be pulled up to the knees.  Please click on the link to view our Dress Code on the website.  Please ensure that all items of clothing are labelled – including socks and shoes!  This includes items brought on swimming days.

Pillar Practice

Our three school pillars including Safety (Be Safe); Relationships (Be Respectful); and Learning (Be a Responsible Learner).  Each fortnight at Assembly, a Pillar Practice is shared with staff and students that becomes our focus behaviour improvement. This fortnight, our Pillar Practice is around our line up and eating area expectations. All class teachers are provided with a poster for their classroom and will explicitly teach our school expectations around the relevant pillar and behaviour.  

Students are reminded daily about our focus behaviour with the goal of improving this behaviour across the school. The Student Engagement and Behaviour committee reviews behaviour data across the school at their meetings to discuss future focus areas for identified behaviours of concern. This process is documented in our Student Code of Conduct and is part of our explicit teaching of behaviour in our school.  You can support us by being aware of the current Pillar Practice and discussing the expectations with your children at home.

Congratulations to Oscar, Lucy, Eliza and Sahaana who were selected to be our Assembly/Tech Support Crew for 2025.  

Congratulations to Victoria and Poppy who were selected to be our Environmental Leaders for 2025.

Congratulations to Grace and Natalie who were selected to be the Pink Vest Volunteer Leaders for 2025.

Year 6 students who were interested in these positions, wrote an application outlining their skills and personal qualities for the position. There were a lot of applications received!

The Tech Crew is responsible for setting up for assembly including the sound desk, microphones, PowerPoint, photography and stage management. They are also called upon to help with the set up for other events through the school year.  

The Environmental Leaders work with Mrs Kent on gardening, Containers for Change, the worm farm and general school sustainability projects. 

The Pink Vest Volunteers assist Mrs Burrows to manage the Pink Vest Volunteer processes.  These leadership opportunities allow for even more of our Year 6 students to step up to demonstrate their leadership and teamwork skills.

The Student Leaders’ Investiture Ceremony was held last Monday.  Captains and Student Council Class Representatives were presented with their badges and certificates and took their leadership oath in front of the student body.  We are looking forward to watching the captains develop their leadership skills throughout the year ahead.

The first Student Council Meeting was held last week, and the class representatives brought lots of ideas, feedback and improvements to discuss at the meetings on behalf of their classes.

The Student Council also finalised the 2024 Legacy Item which will include a second outdoor Ping Pong Table, new basketball backboards, a cooler unit for a set of bubblers and sunscreen for all classrooms!  These items were all possible thanks to the fundraising efforts of the Student Council and the school community last year with the majority of money being raised through the support of the Spell-a-thon which will be run again in Term 3 this year!

The first wellbeing initiative for the Student Council occurred today with love hearts being sold for students to write messages of kindness and gratitude to their friends, family or teachers. This was in line with this week’s Learning Curve focus of ‘Giving to be Kind’.

Thanks to everyone who supported this activity.  We look forward to the next Student Council event coming soon!

Ms Tina Burrows