From the AP

Student Illness

Following Department Guidelines, I would like to reiterate to all our families the importance of not sending your child/ren to school when they are showing symptoms of any illness. While we have always been acutely aware how quickly an outbreak of flu or gastro can go through a family or indeed a grade, student and staff absences are currently being impacted across the school. To minimise infections being spread, please continue to test your child if they are showing any related symptoms for Covid, as well as maintain good hygiene practices for any illness. 

Also attached is the Medication Authority Form which needs to be completed and returned to the office if your child ever has to have medication at school.

Student Reporting

This term has certainly been flying by but our teachers have again packed a lot of learning, and fun, into these nine weeks. All the while, busily assessing students on their individual progress and writing reports.

In the next two weeks, Semester 1 Student Reports will be sent home via Compass. As part of our reporting practices, samples of individual learning is intermittently shared with parents across the semester in real time, as well as providing the opportunity to discuss your child’s progress with class teachers as part of our Mid-Year Parent/Teacher Interviews. 

Reports for Year 2 students only will be released next Friday 17th June, with Parent/Teacher Interviews held in the last week of Term 2 from Monday, 20th to Thursday, 23rd June. Interviews will be face-to-face onsite and bookings will be open for Year 2 families from next week. Please look out for the Compass message. 

Reports will be released for Foundation, Year 1, Year 3, Year 4, and Years 5/6 students in the last week of this term on Thursday, 23rd June. Parent/Teacher Interviews will be held in the second week of Term 3 from Monday, 18th to Friday, 22nd July.  Bookings will be open for these families in the first week back next term. 

New Parking Signage 

I know Michele has sent out several Compass messages around the new parking bay in Logie Street. To ease traffic congestion at pick up and drop off and to ensure students’ safety, six parking spaces have been removed and new lines painted to create a 2 minute Kiss and Go, Stay with Your Car Zone. Parents are required to drive into the drop off zone, parallel to the curb. Motorists should then drive out in a forward direction, without u-turning. 

Short term parking zones have also been changed in the Warrawee Carpark so that students do not have to walk through the car park where there are blindspots when cars are reversing. Please model this behaviour when walking with your child/ren. 

Bron Orr

bronwyn.orr@education.vic.gov.au