National Volunteer’s Week
This week is National Volunteer’s Week. It is a wonderful opportunity for us to thank our parent volunteers who consistently give up their time to support our school. We regularly have parents who volunteer their time. They support our students and school by helping in the classroom, selling zooper-doopers, organising and manning stalls, attending P&Cs, taking on exec roles for the P&C, cooking barbecues, putting together raffle prizes, baking cakes, sitting on committees and panels, organising fundraisers and taking on a range of other behind-the-scenes jobs. We value our strong partnerships with parents and thank everyone who is able to give their time.
Excursions
Organising an excursion or event comes with many responsibilities for both our teaching staff and administrative staff. It is important that before any excursion or event takes place, we conduct a thorough risk assessment and put in place supports so that students can safely participate. Part of this risk assessment includes knowing which students will be attending/participating and which students will not. This allows us to plan for the number of supervising teachers needed to attend for the correct student/teacher ratio and allows us to make provisions for the students who are not attending. We also need to consider medication and plans which need to be taken to support our students. As such, we are asking that parents provide permission and payment at least three days before the event. This will ensure the proper planning can be in place. We will not be accepting permission and payment the day before or the morning of an event / excursion. For some more complex excursions, such as overnight or swimming excursions, permission and payment will need to be made before the cut-off date so we can finalise numbers with venues. If you require financial assistance, please make an appointment to see me so we can discuss how we can support you. We appreciate you for helping us ensure that excursions and events can run safely for all of our students.
Please also be advised that we will refund any money which the school can recoup from venues, etc if a child is sick or cannot attend. When the Botany Bay Zone convenor cancels PSSA with enough time to cancel the buses, we will be able to provide a refund for PSSA. This will be calculated at the end of each PSSA season and a credit will be applied to your School Bytes account.
Parent/Teacher Interviews
Thank you for your participation in parent /teacher interviews this term. We have really enjoyed having our students involved and are really proud of the way they can articulate their goals and the learning they need to do to achieve these goals. Once these interviews have finished over the next couple of weeks, we will send out a survey to get your feedback, as well as surveying the students.
A request from the office...
If you are needing to pick your child up early from school, can you please be aware of our lunch and recess times. It is difficult for us to find students if they are in the playground and parents are often left waiting while we try and locate them.
