Dear Parents and Carers

The official report for the school review was received last week. Here is a snippet:

A learning culture of inquiry that values curiosity is pervasive throughout the school.

There is a collective belief that every student is capable of achieving and making real world connections when challenged to take risks in their learning. All students are valued and praised for the active contribution they make to class learning.

The complete executive summary can be located on the school website. It is very pleasing that the positivity and culture was evident and captured in the report. Watching the classes work in teams while painting their wooden people for the fence, was just one example to collaboration.

Thank you to volunteers that support the learning in the school. Your work and contribution is priceless. Please can I ask that you come via the office and complete the COVID questions.

Punctuality and Attendance

Being organised and being a self-manager are features of the school’s learner assets. These assets are taught and referred to regularly. Being punctual is an aspect of being organised. Students go into class at 8.50AM so that they are ready to begin learning at 9.00AM. Sadly, several students are arriving late. Not only do they miss out on class learning but also find themselves in a ‘catch-up’ mode. To get the best from every day, please be on time.

Attendance is also a very important issue. EVERY DAY COUNTS. An accumulation of missed school days disadvantages the student’s learning significantly. Acceptable reasons for a student being away from school is if they are sick, particularly during these COVID times. Please support your child to be the best learner that they can be.

Spark their Future

To support parents and carers of young people, the department has released the evidence-based Spark their Future website. This website provides engaging, non-confronting information and support to help parents keep their child engaged with learning and education pathways.

Articles have been developed through extensive research and in collaboration with subject matter experts, including guidance officers and behaviour experts, and other agencies, such as the Queensland Family and Child Commission and the non-state schooling sectors, to develop joint articles featuring education and youth policy leaders.

Articles are targeted at parents of teenagers, when disengagement is most prominent, and upper primary students, when signs of disengagement begin to emerge.

COVID-19 update

In the interest of clarity, the following reminders and actions that all of us should prioritise, have been circulated to all families:

• Students who are unwell must remain at home. If at school, parents will be asked to collect the sick child.
• Adults and children who are unwell must not come into the school grounds.
• Parents are respectfully asked to assist the school in maintaining ‘social distancing’ measures by dropping off and picking up students outside of the school classroom buildings and dropping off outside the school grounds. The following locations have been set aside as morning drop off points (at 8.45am) and afternoon pick up points. Parents are asked to drop off/collect students and then leave the school grounds immediately.

Prep- outside Prep classrooms (Parents are asked to stay at the bottom of the Prep classroom steps and not come up on to the verandas or into the classrooms. Prep Teachers will stand at the door of their classroom and provide access to students at 8.45am. Students only will be asked to step up on to the veranda with their bags. No sign in processes by parents will be required. Parents are asked to wait away from the Prep stairs at the end of the school day and children will be sent down when a parent is sighted.

Yr 1- on artificial grass beside the Year One building (Parents are asked to not come up the stairs into the Year One building or into the classrooms. Year One Teachers will stand at the bottom of the Year One building at 8.45am. Students only will be asked to move inside with their bags.

Yr 2 - outside of buildings/ bottom of stairs- own classrooms

Yr 3- bottom of stairs- own classrooms

Yr 4- bottom of stairs- own classrooms

Yr 5- outside of buildings/ bottom of stairs- own classrooms

Yr 6- bottom of stairs- own classrooms

• No parents or carers should be on verandas or in buildings.
• At 3.15pm parents will be asked to leave the premises.
• No children should be on the playground equipment before and after school.
• All parent volunteers and visitors must come and sign in at the office and complete a COVID safe survey.
• Parents and carers who have children at before or after school activities must also drop/pick up-and-go. At all times social distancing must be observed.
• The school will continue with cleaning protocols.
• We will continue to monitor guidelines around music, sport, library and sharing spaces.
• Make sure that your child can log into OneNote from home.
  
  

Michelle D’Netto