School Messages
Tell Them From Me Student Survey
This Term, our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement. Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements.
The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will close Friday 4 November 2022 . Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, we greatly appreciate your responses and value the data that this survey provides.
More information about the survey is available at http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au
The survey is available in 23 languages.
Allergies: Student Lunch Boxes and Birthday Celebrations
We encourage families to keep food allergies in mind when packing their child/ren's school lunches. Students may have varied food-based allergies, including allergies to peanuts, dairy, gluten and egg. Some of these allergic reactions can lead to severe reactions such as anaphylaxis.
With COVID Smart Measures and child allergies in mind, families wanting to provide a birthday treat for their child are asked to either make a purchase through Mel’s Lunchbox (eg. iceblocks/individual cupcakes) or provide store bought/packaged cupcakes and ensure packaging detailing the ingredients is also provided to the class room teacher. If planning a birthday treat for your child please contact your child's classroom teacher to discuss if there are children in the class who may have a food allergy, to ensure no child is excluded.
School Travel Application - Transport for NSW
2023 school travel applications are now open, please refer to the attached information to complete an application for your child/ren. Parents and carers are reminded to apply now to be ready for the start of the new school year.
2023 Kindergarten Enrolments
We are finalising 2023 Kindergarten enrolments now!
Children can start Kindergarten at the beginning of the school year if they turn 5, on or before 31 July that year. All children must be in compulsory schooling by their 6th birthday.
We ask families with children who will start Kindergarten in 2023 to complete an online enrolment as soon as possible, to support us in finalising students numbers required by the department.
Years 3-4 Check-in Assessment
During Week 8 and 9, Term 3 students in Year 6 will participate in the Check-in assessment.
The Check-in assessment is a NSW Department of Education online literacy and numeracy assessment available to support schools to assess and monitor student learning.
The assessment can supplement existing school practices to identify how students are performing in literacy and numeracy and to help teachers tailor their teaching more specifically to student needs. Students with a disability may receive the same level of support during the assessment they would normally receive in the classroom.
- The assessment will be scheduled for our Year 6 students during Weeks 8 and 9.
- All students Year 6 students will complete a reading assessment, a numeracy assessment will also complete a writing task