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Volunteer Training
Volunteer Training is required for parents and carers who would like to be involved in specific school activities like camps, excursions, learning assistance, coaching sporting teams, and any other similar activity requiring independent supervision of students.
Please note than canteen volunteers are not required to undertake the training unless volunteering in other classroom-based roles.
Steps to becoming a registered volunteer:
- Organise a Working With Children Check (WWCC). Complete the attached form and bring to the school office with your 100pt identification.
- Complete Valuing Safe Communities online training which takes about 30 minutes. The certificate issued at the end of the training is to be shown to school office staff for verification.
Read the following policies before attending the in house workshop:
Attend a Volunteer in-house training session which will be held:
- Wednesday 24 February at 1.45pm
- Wednesday 24 February at 6.30pm
- Thursday 11 March at 8.45am.
To register your attendance at one of the sessions, or for any other queries, please contact the school office.
Volunteers Needed
Do you have one hour a week free to make a difference in our school community?
At Good Shepherd there are many ways that you can volunteer your time to support our student’s needs.
One of our Learning Support programs is called MultiLit and has seen many Stage 3 and Stage 4 students find great success with their Reading and Writing.
MultiLit stands for ‘Making Up Lost Time in Literacy’ and is a reading program designed to increase children's progress in reading accuracy, fluency, comprehension and spelling. We really value and need the support of volunteer tutors to help continue the success of this program.
We will supply full training and all we need of you is that you have your WWC check, are registered for our Volunteer training in Week 5, can commit to one regular day a week to volunteer and have a love of working alongside children to help them reach their full potential.
If this sounds like you, or you are interested and would like to find out more, we would love to hear from you before Friday 5 February.
Please contact one of our Learning Support Teachers below at your next convenience.
- Email Stage 3 Learning Support teacher Anne Carter here
- Email Stage 4 Learning Support Teacher Trish Stewart here
School Fees
Invoices for Term 1 will be issued via email at the end of this week. Please check your junk mail folder if you do not receive it in your inbox.
For all enquiries regarding the payment of fees, please contact the office or email here.
School Card Applications
All parents wishing to apply for the school card discount scheme in 2021 must apply by visiting the above site. Applications can be made either via online form or by downloading & completing the relevant pdf document. However, in order to speed up the assessment process, we recommend families use the online form. Please email if you require further assistance.
OSHC
Parents interested in using our Out of School Hours Care facility (Imagination) are encouraged to view our school website to find out costs and booking links.
LLL School Banking
Teaching your children to save is a life long lesson which can begin in their early years.
Lutheran Laypeople's League offer school banking to students, who can watch their balance grow in their personal passbook.
For information regarding LLL banking, please contact the school office or download here.
Banking resumes next week, and is available each Thursday during school terms.
Music Tuition
Music lessons resume for students in Week 3. Parents will be contacted by their music teacher regarding the day and lesson time.
QKR! App for Online Orders
Online ordering is available to all Good Shepherd families and is our preferred method of payment.
This app is free and easy to use and accepts all debit/credit cards.
Installation steps are as follows:
Uniform Shop
Online QKR! uniform orders are welcome.
The uniform shop is open for business:
- Tuesday: 8.00am - 10.30am
- Tuesday: 1.00pm - 3.35pm
- Thursday: 1.00pm - 3.35pm
Please contact Dani, our Uniform Coordinator, via email for all your uniform enquiries.
Canteen
The canteen will be open on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Freshly made treats will be available for purchase (using cash only) over the counter at recess.
Lunch orders, including iceblocks, may be ordered using online QKR! orders.
These must be placed by 8.45am (or even the night before), with separate orders for each child.
A canteen price list is available below (and on QKR!)
Volunteer Roster:
Wednesday 3 February
S Houchen
Thursday 4 February
J Harris / A Panozzo / J Nicholls
Friday 5 February
L Aridi / D Heyne / S Anthony
Baptism
Having your Child Baptised is a short course to help parents and families prepare for their first baptism at Good Shepherd.
The next course commences Tuesday 9 February at 7:30pm at Good Shepherd, continuing the next two Tuesday evenings (Feb 16, 23).
For more info and how to register click here.
Little Lambs Playgroup
Are you free on a Friday morning? Do you have pre-school aged children between 0 and 5 years?
If so, we would love for you to join us, in the Church Hall from 9am. We will let you know next week when we will be starting for the year.
With some team leaders/ helpers moving on, we are always keen to hear of people who would be interested in serving in this valuable area. If this is something that interests you, please come by for a chat or email
Growing Faith at Home
Welcome to 2021! It is wonderful to be together once again.
There is much to look forward to this year. As students settle in to the newness of the year, be it new classes, teachers, routines, friends, there is lots to share and talk about!
This year I would like to continue to share a great resource with you from ‘Growing Faith at Home’. It’s full of ideas and activities to chat about and do with your family. This week’s theme is ‘Jesus the Teacher’. Jesus taught so many helpful things that positively impact our lives and relationships. Can you think of one message that is especially meaningful to you?
God bless our year together with love, hope and peace!
Georgie Schuster