Information for Parents
Breakfast Club
It is very exciting to share with our community that we are offering breakfast club on a Monday and Wednesday morning from 8.40am. Students are welcome to enjoy breakfast with us at school. Toast, cereals and fruit provided for hungry tummies. Please sign in at the Staff room and enjoy a relaxed breakfast before school starts. Many thanks to Dayna Lightowler and Kelly Hogben who will be coordinating Breakfast Club.
Mothers Day
We have a number of events to celebrate Mothers Day.
The BER building will be hosting a special Mothers' Day pampering session and all mums and special friends are invited to join us for an afternoon of relaxation.
Mothers Day raffle will be drawn on Friday at assembly. Tickets have been sent home with students. Please support our P&F by selling some tickets.
We are also calling for donations for our Mothers Day raffle prizes.
The Island Camp Year 3/4
Wednesday 22nd May - Friday 24th May
Details for the Year 3/4 camp are open on COMPASS. Please log in and complete payment and consent for your child to attend.
Attendance
Please ensure that you notify the office or complete the absence / attendance details on COMPASS when your child is not at school. Notices advising parents of their child's non attendance at school were sent home last week. Parents have a legal obligation to notify the school of the reason why their child did not attend. You are able to complete the paper form and return to the school office or log on to COMPASS to provide your child's absence details. All families are asked to have their attendance information up to date by the end of May.
School Uniforms
Our school uniforms are now in stock at the Burra Sports & Cycles store in Korumburra. We thank everyone for their patience as we changed supplier. We hope that this new arrangement with Burra Sports & Cycles will be convenient and efficient for families.
Families are able to try on for sizing and purchase directly from the store.
59 Commercial St
Korumburra, Victoria
Call (03) 5655 1724
Before & After
School Activities
There are a number of after school activities on offer this term. These have been arranged to provide further experiences for our children and to assist parents with child care. Parents are to book into these activities on a termly basis or on a casual basis.
- Term bookings are to be confirmed and paid for via COMPASS
- Casual bookings must be made at least the day before to ensure staff can be prepared
- Children who are not booked in will not be able to participate.
Monday:
Netball (Years 2 - 6) with Miss Shaw
Tuesday:
Cake Decorating with Kerry
Wednesday:
TBC
Thursday:
Awesome Art with Wendi
Friday:
Lego Club with Ms King
All activities are $8.00 per session.
Before School activities can be provided on a needs basis. Please book in at least the day before for this program.
Earn & Learn is back
Time to start collecting earn and Learn stickers from Woolies. Bring in your sticker sheets to the office. IN 2018 we collected over 3000 stickers! Let's see if we can beat our collection this year.
Little Loch Lyrebirds
Play Group
Due to demand from our families we have started a playgroup at school. This is currently being held on a Thursday morning (day may change dependent on family needs) from 9.15am until 10.45am in the Kookaburra Room. There is no cost for this playgroup however all participating families will need to arrange from membership with Playgroup Victoria.
Working With Children Checks
Working With Children Check
On August 1st 2017 amendments were made to the Working with Children Act. The Act now states that even if a person’s contact with children as part of child-related work is supervised by another person, they will still need a Working with Children check.
Loch Primary School’s Working with Children Check policy states that we require any person undertaking volunteer work at our school to have a valid Working with Children check. This includes helping out in the classroom, participating in working bees, attending camps, accompanying classes on excursions, helping at disco’s etc.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO
*If you are volunteering at Loch Primary School and already have a Working With Children Check can you please present it to the School Office where they will take a photocopy and your name will be added to the School register.
*If you don’t have a valid Working with Children check you can fill the form in online and lodge it at Australia Post. The link to the website is provided below for your convenience.
http://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/home/applications/apply+for+a+check/apply+in+victoria
Working With Children Checks are free for volunteers.
People who are exempt from holding a working with Children Check are:
- Student volunteers (e.g. work experience students)
- Registered Teachers who have a permission to teach from the Victorian Institute of Teaching
- Police Officers
- Visitors to the School (e.g. grandparents who visit the school for Grandparents Morning Teas, visitors who come to watch Assembly) The decision on which events require a Working with Children Check is made by the authority of the Principal.
Illness
Families are reminded that students should not attend school if they are unwell. Students who are coughing and sneezing and full of phlegm are asked to stay home until well. In particular students who have been unwell with gastroenteritis are not to return to school until there has not been a loose bowel movement for 24hours. Please see the link to the school exclusion table.
Please be mindful of other students, staff and families and be aware that sending your unwell child to school often results in a cycle of many students and staff becoming ill. It is also highlighted to families that the Vanderland family is particularly susceptible to llnesses being brought home with life threatening consequences for Elliot.
It is also timely to remind your children about good hygiene practices such as hand washing and covering mouths and noses when coughing or sneezing.
Attendance at school is important however if students are unwell they are unlikely to be able to concentrate and learn and highly likely to share their illness with other students and staff which then affects the attendance of many. Please do contact the office and let us know if your child is unwell.
TERM DATES
2019
Term 1 29th Jan to 5th April
Term 2 23rd April to 28th June
Term 3 15th July to 20th September
Term 4 7th October to 20th December