Chilwell Primary School

PRINCIPAL UPDATE 

Dear Families

 

Concert:

We are all excited at school regarding the upcoming concert. The night is a highlight, not only for our students, but also for the staff and our community. It is a chance to get together and enjoy being together as a community. Oh and there will be quite a bit of excitement generated throughout the evening!!!

Tickets will be on sale via the Arena. Details will be distributed via email very soon so get ready to reserve a seat before the event sells out.

The night is not a fundraiser and barely breaks even financially. The costs involved are covered by the ticket / DVD sales. Just like the Art show the event is an opportunity to undertake a Performing / Visual arts program and have some fun.

Looking forward to joining Parents, Grandparents, relatives and friends at the Arena.

 

Book Week Parade:

Thanks to all our parents who worked on costumes and face paint to present a great display of characters yesterday. The enjoyment of all was obvious to see. (It was a bit more difficult to concentrate on the Maths and English when we returned to the grade but I guess that is understandable.)

Big thank you to Amanda Galluccio for organising the day.

Underlying the day was the importance of books and literature in our lives. The enjoyment, knowledge and delight contained in books was on display yesterday.

 

Thank You:

This week I wish to highlight and thank the teacher aides that we have in our school supporting our students. Amanda, Sarah, Kath and Paula do a terrific job in supporting the grades that they are attached to. All work extremely well with staff and naturally the benefit is to our children.

 

2023 Preps:

Surprisingly we are fielding enquires regarding a Prep student for next year this late. To help us with our staffing and planning for a smooth start to next year could I request:

  • If a neighbour has a Prep to start next year please ask them contact us asap.
  • If you are intending to move out of our school again please contact us so we can arrange a smooth change over and again plan for our grades.

 

Canteen:

The lunch provider are very keen to improve the service. If you have any feedback please forward it to them directly. Below is a piece we popped in the newsletter a few weeks ago but is worth noting again. 

 

Dear Parents,

We hope you enjoyed the term break and we would like to welcome you all back to our Term 3 Canteen Service.

We are so excited to be offering our service to Chilwell Primary and look forward to a wonderful term ahead.

We have added a few new items to our menu including some vegan options.

Just a reminder to parents when placing lunch orders for their children to use the following guide when ordering. 

1) Ensure your child is allocated to their correct class not Test class or None. 

2) Ensure you receive an email confirmation after you have placed your order.  If a confirmation is not received, there has been an error when placing the order.

3) Ensure you place the order before the cut off time and for the correct date of the lunch order day.

4) If paying by credit card, please ensure the cvc number is correct.  The payment will bounce back if incorrect and the order will not be placed.

Our team does its utmost to ensure all orders are correct, however sometimes items can be missed.  Can you please let your children know that should they be missing something from their order, they are to go back to the canteen staff who can assist your children with a replacement item.

These few checks will ensure the system and placement of the order is placed correctly and your child received the correct lunch order.

We appreciate your assistance with this and look forward to working you this term. Should have any further question, please do not hesitate to contact Christine on 0424654109 .

 

If you have placed a lunch order for your child and they are unwell on the day of the order, please contact School 24 on 02 72516939 before 9:30am and the order will be allocated to the following week.  Unfortunately, if School 24 is not contacted by this time, it is too late to remove the order from the list.

We appreciate your understanding and please do not hesitate to contact us should you wish to discuss further. 

At Fresh Meal Fairy our staff do their very best to ensure all the lunch orders placed by parents, go out to the students correctly however sometimes errors do occur.

Staff carry additional stock for those "just in case" moments and we ask parents to let their children know, if they are missing anything from their lunch order, to go back to the canteen staff who will do their best to rectify the error.

If you have a grievance that you would like to bring to our attention, please email us at schoollunchfairy@gmail.com so we can work with you to work through process to rectify the matter as timely as possible. 

Please ensure to include in your email:

  • The schools name
  • The students name and class
  • The issue at hand.

    We appreciate your understanding and assisting us to continue to improve our systems and processes that ensures the best service is being provided to our customers.

Kind Regards Christine 

 

 

Out of School Care:

Two reminders regarding the care program:

  • Cancellations and bookings: These must be done asap. Currently the cut off to book students in or cancel is 2 pm on the day (for after school and the same time for before school care.) Unfortunately to provide the legally required staffing ratio we need to know as early as possible of either a booking or cancellation. If we are “caught” with ratio issues the program will not be available.
  • Payment of fees: This is a perennial issue. School Council has set the guideline that all accounts must be in the positive. This allows Cheryl and the assistants to concentrate on the program and our children, not chasing accounts. 

 

 

Gavan Welsh

Principal Chilwell Primary School.