From The Principal
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Welcome back to Term 3. I hope it was an enjoyable break. Holidays I think will be a little different for the foreseeable future. This hit home as I walked past the travel agency in the mall and saw advertisement for holiday specials all within NSW. Strange times.
I hope that Term 3 would see some further loosening of COVID19 restrictions but currently my thoughts are conservative about what we do at school. I thank parents for continuing to adhere to requirements.
We will be still following many social distancing requirements at school. This will include parents only coming into the school via the office. Students need water bottles as our bubblers remain switched off. Parent/Teacher interviews will be by phone next week. Please make sure you have made an appointment. These instructions for booking an appointment were given out with the semester reports. Other communication to the teacher needs to be by phone or email. One to one meetings will be held on a needs basis.
Different classes will be running our fortnightly Friday assembly this term. These will be filmed and up loaded to Google Classrooms or Seesaw for families to view at home.
Unfortunately we will have to postpone the Year 6 camp due to COVID19 restrictions. We are working on a plan for a camp in Term 4.
The P & F Fundraising committee will meet on 6th August and they will discuss plans for the Trivia night rescheduled for October
We welcome the Life Education van here this week. Students love to catch up on what Happy Healthy Harold has been up to.
STAFFING
I am pleased to say we will have some new staff joining us in Term 3. Mrs Caitlan Martin will be replacing Mrs Kara Schilt as Learning Support Assistant and working in the Office particularly on the newsletter. Mr Gavin Halder will be here 2 days a week doing some extra learning support assistant work. Mrs Tory Simmons will be coming on board as a Student Welfare Officer working on Thursday and Friday. This is an exciting new role that will evolve overtime. Tory has had previous experience in similar roles in schools and is looking forward to meeting and getting to know our families. Nicki Bensley will be working three days a fortnight giving Early Career Teacher release to Mrs Yeo, Mr Collinge and Miss Atkinson. Also we welcome, Mr Michael Washington, looking after 1/2BM while Mrs Bush is taking some long service leave for a few weeks.
ENROLMENTS
Welcome to 5 new students who are starting at our school this semester. We have had over 40 enrolments for Kindergarten in 2021 and will be asking for some extra staffing to support two classes of Kindergarten in 2021.
READY SET GO
At this stage we will need to postpone our Kindergarten Readiness programme indefinitely. Our advice is that these programmes cannot go ahead at present. We hope for better news going forward.
STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY
At the beginning of Term 4 students will not return until Wednesday 14th October. Staff are involved in special professional development learning in a Zoom meeting from England as part of our "Challenging Learning' initiative.
SEMESTER 1 ABSENT DAYS ON REPORTS
Some parents have concerns about the amount of absences in their child's report. This is probably linked to some confusion around remote learning tiime. We are happy to look at this over the next few weeks and reprint reports if required.