Hi all,
Welcome and Welcome Back!!
We welcome all the families who are joining us for the first time - see the page below - we welcome Steve Cornish, who joins us as Deputy, and Ben Parkinson who has a 3/4 class, and we welcome back all existing staff, students and families.
Start of the year
We have had a great start to the 2024 school year. Once again we began with a focus on values. Prior to the students arriving we discussed our own values and understanding of the various values we come across. We then worked with our students on a number of activities to unpack values - what they mean, how important they are to us and how living into our values helps us in our relationships and behaviours. One of the activities that some classes did was watch a clip from Britain's Got Talent and discussed all the values that we could see on show. It's a great clip. I encourage you to have a look and have a chat with your child about it! Here is the link:
https://youtu.be/g3Rf5qDuq7M?si=39mYbBkcPhPQ7OLa
We also remind our students of the 3 School expectations which we live by. They are:
Expectation 1: Come to class prepared to learn.
Expectation 2: Everyone has a right to learn.
Expectation 3: Everyone has the right to feel and be safe.
Focusing on values and expectations sets the scene for the year and supports us in our aim of providing a safe and welcoming environment for our students to learn in.
Dress Code
According to Department Policy schools are encouraged to have a dress code as they play an important role in:
· promoting a positive image of the school
· creating a sense of identity among students and the community
· supporting student safety through ease of identification
· making sure students are dressed appropriately for all school activities.
With this in mind Nuriootpa PS dress code currently states as follows:
The school has a variety of options that can be purchased through the school.
Tops are Royal Blue with a yellow school logo. The Year 7 [ to be changed to 6] students will have the opportunity to purchase a Seniors T-shirt and windcheater.
Bottoms are plain navy/black – can be shorts, 3/4 or long pants but without large logos or stripes. These can be purchased through the school or in commercial outlets.
Denim is not to be worn.
Long sleeved blue or black tops may be worn under short/long sleeved tops or pinafores
Girls may wear a dress (summer), a pinafore (winter), shorts, skorts, pants or blue/black tights.
School hats are to be worn when outside during Terms 1 and 4. These need to be broad brimmed (no less than 7cm wide), bucket hat (school stock) or legionnaire.
Students will be asked to wear safe shoes to school which lace up or sandals which have closed in toes and a strap that supports the ankle. Where possible, shoes should be in colours that blend with the uniform i.e. white, black, grey, blue or brown (thin bands of florescent colour is acceptable). Failing this, shoes in soft muted colours are acceptable.
Accessories such as scarves may be worn if they are royal blue, black or navy; cardigans - royal blue; hair accessories can be worn but need to be safe and within school colours guidelines.
Only sleepers or stud earrings are to be worn.
PLAIN navy/black beanies can be worn in terms 2 and 3.
Students will be asked to remove items that are
• Deemed to be a safety risk eg rubber chokers; long, pointy or large earrings, unbreakable chains, bangles
• Cause distraction eg nail polish, makeup
• Have offensive or prominent logo
No graffiti is to be written on clothing or hats. Students will be asked to clean or replace items.
