Term One

Important information

Updates and information

Dojo is the primary source of all information for parents. Families new to the School will be

informed of their login and password details for Dojo once school commences. For returning families those details will remain unchanged from 2019. Parents are encouraged to check Dojo as teachers regularly submit feedback on learning tasks, learning habits and events. The school website is also an excellent source of information and is updated on a weekly basis. All key dates and located there. The school newsletter is mailed electronically via Dojo every fortnight starting this week.

Prep Learning Space

Students and parents should proceed to the Prep Learning Space/Classroom, with school bag, hat and lunch box, by 8.30am. The area outside the Prep spaces has seating and is an ideal spot to sit and chat to other parents while you wait for the students to be dismissed. Or alternatively the Community Hub is located on the other side of the Prep pace where you can make a cuppa and chat with other parents.

All students are required to have a clearly named school hat which must be worn outside at all times throughout the year when the UV rating deems necessary.

Key School personnel for 2021

If you have any queries regarding your son/daughter your first point of contact is always their Classroom teacher. By way of introduction each teacher will make contact with the parents of the students in their care within the first two weeks.

Other key contacts for the year are:

Erin Nagel: Principal

James Gow: Deputy Principal and Student Wellbeing Leader

Glennis Kerr: Learning and Teaching Leader/Coach and Mentor

Steph Webb: Leader of Religious Education and Inquiry Based Learning

Morgan Scorer: Prep Strategic Pedagogical Educational Leader

Alison Gracie: Year One/Two Strategic Pedagogical Educational Leader

Kirsty Platon: Year Three/Four Strategic Pedagogical Educational Leader

Deana Portia: Year Five/Six Strategic Pedagogical Educational Leader

Susan Kubiak: Diversity and supported students Leader

Ellis Warrener: Leader of Digital and Design Technologies

Christelle Lim: Leader of Community, Family and Student Engagement

Getting to know you conversations/evenings

School will finish at 2:00pm on Tuesday 9th February as we have getting to know you evenings (information sharing) allow parents the opportunity to make a 10 minute appointment with their child’s teacher early in Term One. Parents are encouraged to make a booking to meet with their child’s teacher/s and to discuss their child's/ children's learning passions, any specific learning needs that their son or daughter may have and to tell your child’s new teacher all about your child’s hopes and dreams for their learning. Please see the link shared via Dojo to secure your appointment via interviews online. Notes with booking instructions were sent home on Tuesday.

The dates for these evenings are:

Tuesday 9th February (2.30pm – 7.00pm learning spaces)

Wednesday 10th February (3.50pm-5.00pm learning spaces)

School finishes at 2:00pm on Tuesday.

Community Hub

St Anthony’s is a Community Hub school. We have two Hub leaders who you can contact at any time if you require assistance or connections with any services that could benefit your family.

You can access playgroup through the Hub, Adult education, driving classes and much more. The parent room in 2021 is located in the Hub which is the portable buildings attached to the playground. More information about Hub hours will be shared via our next newsletter.

Our Community Hub Leaders: Mrs Debbie Vivian and Mrs Lisa Occhietti

CSEF 2021

If you are a healthcare/pension card holder please fill out a Camps, Schools and Excursion Fund (CSEF) form and return to the office as soon as possible. Please bring your concession card to the office to have it photocopied as well. You can collect a form from the office or print one off by clicking here.

Canteen in 2021

Please be advised that the canteen will operate on Wednesday and Fridays only in 2021. This means lunch sales and lunch orders. Please provide your child with a packed nude food lunch on all other days. We encourage nude food only and water only. No plastic packets or plastic wrapped foods please.

Prep and Year 6 Buddies Welcome buddy BBQ

On Monday 22nd February from 5.00pm-6.00pm the Prep and Year 5/6 team will be hosting a Welcome BBQ in the school grounds. Invitations will be sent out very soon.

2021 Year 5/6 Camp

All of our Year 5/6 students and staff are enthusiastically preparing for Camp Rumbug

which will be held from Monday 15th February – Wednesday 15th February.

There will be a breakfast and activity morning organised later in the year for P-2 students which will enable them to gain independence and prepare for camp away from school in the middle and senior years. Please note that camps are a compulsory part of our curriculum. Should your child be unable to attend, you will need to make an appointment to meet with Ms Erin Nagel (Principal).

Reporting absences

Student absences should be directed to the Absentee link via the website. This provides one point of contact for parents to use to notify the School of student absences for all children for both School and sport. Parents can also ring 95460044 at any time and leave a message or email admin@sanoblepark.catholic.edu.au

Please provide your child’s name and year level. All students are to be signed in at the office if they arrive late to school with a note from a parent explaining the reason they are late. If a student needs to depart early, they must be signed out by a parent/guardian at the office.

We encourage parents not to take their son/daughter out of school during term time.

However if this is unavoidable, a written notification of leave greater than three days must be addressed to the Principal and Class teacher. Should the absence be any longer than ten days this needs to be approved by the Principal.

Uniform expectations

It is expected that all students will present themselves in full and correct school uniform at all times. All uniform pieces can be purchased from the uniform ship which is open every Monday and Friday from 8.30am-9.00am.

We ask parents to be attentive to the following matters relating to student appearance:

● Girls' summer dress must be worn with white socks and black shoes only not tights or

leggings.

● On non-sport days black school shoes should be worn, on sport days runners may be worn.

● All hair longer than shoulder length should be tied back neatly.

● Any hair ribbons or scrunchies should be the school blue or maroon. No coloured clips, or hairbands other than those of school colours.

● Jewellery should be limited to a watch and for girls, and one pair of simple gold/silver

Learning Space Update

'Each child benefits from an environment where ‘every person is known’.

First Week of Prep!