General News
Let's be Peaceful & Physical Kids
Late Arrivals
We cannot stress enough the importance of getting your children to school on time every day. There has been an alarming increase of students arriving at school after the bell time of 8.45am. Students arriving at school late has an impact on the students themselves, the class and the teacher, not to mention the valuable learning time the students are missing if this is a regular occurrence. Please support us in ensuring your children arrive at school before 8.45am.
Lost Property Items
A reminder to please label all items of clothing for students. We have many items again in our lost property boxes with no name. Please rewrite names regularly as they do fade with washing and it makes it very hard for staff to decipher. All unlabelled items will be donated to the clothing pool. Also please label lunch boxes, water bottles and all other containers.
INFANTS Pick Up and Drop Off
It has been brought to the school’s attention that some Infants parents have been noted during the busy morning drop off/afternoon collection waiting for their preferred parking spot, and not taking the first available, and therefore traffic is banking up and around the corner in David Street. We also acknowledge parent’s frustration when all parking spaces are full. An option in the afternoon is to come later at 3.10pm when the bulk of traffic congestion is gone or alternatively park in the surrounding streets and walk to the rear of the school to collect your child. Please be considerate of others and drop your children off quickly and leave our school grounds ASAP to alleviate this congestion.
Also, when leaving the pick-up area, you are requested to turn left only and proceed around Thompson Crescent, NOT TURN RIGHT. Some parents have been witnessed turning right against the flow of traffic and causing further frustration!! Please for the safety of our school community, adhere to the correct procedures and avoid a hefty fine from Council's Parking Rangers.
Sports Uniform
To accommodate our students (for physical activities) and parents (for washing!) all students are now permitted to wear their sports uniform to school on Wednesdays and Fridays until the end of this term.
School Jumpers have now arrived
More stocks of our St Ed's size 10 and size 12 jumpers have finally been received and are now available for purchase at $35 each via our school's Qkr! app.
Chromebooks
If you borrowed a Chromebook from school for online learning at home, could you please return this as soon as possible to either school office, thank you.
Students Who Become Unwell at School
In the current climate, if your child presents at sick bay complaining of feeling sick, we are required to call parents/carers to collect them. Likewise, if your child has a cough, sore throat, runny nose or other illness, please keep them at home and do not send them to school. Thank you for your co-operation.
School Canteen
The School Canteen is open for cashless LUNCH order sales (for Primary and Infants students) and is now also offering RECESS ORDERS for PRIMARY STUDENTS ONLY via the QKR! App. RECESS orders must be in by 9.00am using the "Recess Menu Only" shown on the App.
LUNCH orders via the QKR! App must be submitted before the 9.30am cut-off time.
PLEASE NOTE the addition of a NEW product to the Canteen Menu.....Snaps Gluten Free Chips - Light & Tangy Salsa and Smokehouse BBQ flavours at $1.00 each.
Reminders......
As the bubblers are still locked, students are reminded to bring their own water bottles to drink from throughout the day.
ENROL NOW FOR KINDERGARTEN 2021....
Centacare - Resilient Kids Program
