Toolamba Primary School

Principal's Report

Dear Families,

Hopefully, you and your family are keeping well. We continue to have cases of COVID and the Flu impacting on our school community. Replacement of staff is becoming extremely difficult, and Craig has been doing a great job trying to find replacements.

 

CURRICULUM DAY

Monday 1st August is a Curriculum Day. There will be no school for students and the buses will not be running.

 

FUN FRIDAY

Foundation students were having great fun last Friday constructing a road system in the Central Learning Street

 

BREAKFAST CLUB

Breakfast Club is continuing to be very popular. Thanks to our chooks laying several eggs over the a past two weeks, poached eggs were on the menu on Wednesday. Many thanks to Monica Kinnane, Filippa and Amee who helped. We needed all hands-on deck to cater with the orders. For the first time students had to complete and order form for their breakfast and then hand it in. Grade 4 students used these forms to graph the orders for the day. 

 

UNIFORM POLICY

Thank you to those families who have supported us with our Uniform Policy. I have included it again this week in case you missed reading it last week. 

 

At Toolamba we take pride in our uniform. Uniforms have for centuries represented belonging, values, traditions and expected codes of conduct. A uniform is a symbol of something beyond the material, stitch work and colours from which it is assembled. 

Recently we have had to remind students about the wearing of our correct school uniform. I have included as section of our Uniform Policy for people to refer to. 

 

 Toolamba Primary School Uniform

•             Red windcheaters, red windcheater jacket, blue rain jacket and polo shirts are to have the school logo

 

Summer Uniform            

  • Girls: Red and white check dress (white collar and cuffs) or red polo shirt and navy shorts/skirt/skorts
  • Boys: Navy blue shorts and red polo shirt

N.B. Grade 6 students can choose to wear the nominated Grade 6 polo shirt.

 

Winter Uniform               

  • Girls: Red windcheater, navy blue skirt or navy-blue track pants (no stripes) 
  • Boys: Red windcheater, navy blue track pants (no stripes) 

N.B. If a long-sleeved shirt is worn under a polo shirt it must be the colour of their T shirt

 

Hats

  • Wide brimmed navy-blue hats, in line with school policy, are to be worn outside during Terms 1 & 4.   Hats are not compulsory for Terms 2 & 3.
  • A Navy-Blue Beanie with a school logo may be worn in the cooler months.

Coats, scarves, gloves and jackets are for outside use only.

 

Footwear

  • Appropriate footwear allows for the safe participation in active playground pursuits and Physical Education/Sport lessons. Shoes worn to school are to be predominantly white or black; if they have shoelaces they must be of a matching colour.
  • Thongs, slip-on shoes, sandals, open-toed shoes, work boots and ‘skate’ shoes are considered inappropriate for children at school. All children are expected to securely fasten their shoes. 
  • All children are expected to remove their outside shoes prior to entering the building. 
  • The School Council believes the removal of outside shoes before entering the school 
  • provides the most effective physical barrier for maintaining a hygienic and clean 
  • classroom environment for all students.  The wearing of socks (plain white or blue) 
  • indoors is compulsory, with the wearing of hard soled slippers strongly recommended.
  • Bare feet in the classroom will not be accepted.

Jewellery

  • Jewellery should be limited to sleepers or studs and only necklaces to be worn within   

                     the collar for safety reasons.

Hair

  • Shoulder length hair or longer is to be tied back at all times for health reasons.

Headbands, hair ties etc. are to be red, blue or white.

 

Makeup

  • Makeup and nail polish are not part of the school uniform. 

JSC DISCO DAY      

 

JSC plan to hold a disco day on Tuesday 9th August, the theme is the 80’s. Throughout the day students will take turns to participate in the disco. Students are encouraged to dress up. A gold coin donation will go towards some soccer balls and netball equipment.  

 

SCHOOL COUNCIL

At School Council on Monday night, we reviewed five policies. 

  • Attendance
  • Enrolment
  • Camps & Excursions 
  • Local Excursions
  • CCTV Policy

Any amendments required have been made and they have been uploaded to our website 

https://www.toolambaps.vic.edu.au/ 

 

P & F RAFFLE

For those who did not hear who the lucky winner of the Weber Q was, it was me. It made a fantastic present for my son in-law’s birthday. The profits of $1,420.46  will go towards outdoor furniture. 

 

Have a great weekend,

Regards Heather