Modanville Public School

4 Dec	Grandparents Day Healthy Habits Expo 12pm
5 Dec	P&C meeting, 5:15pm (this has been changed from the usual date)
5 Dec	Safe on Social student workshops in school time, followed by parent presentation at 4pm.
5 Dec & 12 Dec	Yr 5&6 Adoles-sense Sex Education lessons
9-13 Dec	Intensive Swim School - 5 days ( 2 lessons a day) 12:30 - 2:30
9 Dec	K - 6 Ten Pin Bowling End of Year Activity - in the morning before swimming
10 Dec	Year 6 Farewell Dinner
10 Dec	Mobile Library van visiting
12 Dec	Reports home
16 Dec	Christmas Tree Night
17 Dec	Peer Support Fun Day
18 Dec	Last day for students

We have a busy week ahead with many opportunities for students and parents to engage with the school. All parents and grandparents are invited to our Healthy Habits Expo on Wednesday 4th December at 12pm. Students will be showcasing their learning about health and wellbeing. Our 2/3 class will also be serving you a delicious snack and Dewi will be sharing the new canteen menu.

On Thursday 5th December at 4pm, parents are invited to a special presentation on cyber safety presented by 'Safe on Social'. This presentation has been kindly funded by our P&C. Social media is one of the biggest influences on our children's world and wellbeing. Please save the date and come along to be informed about the most up to date information on keeping safe online. All parents are welcome to bring a friend as well. https://www.safeonsocial.com/

Please be aware that the Teachers Federation has called a stop work meeting for Thursday 5 December. The 5/6 class will not be impacted as supervision has been organised for the scheduled Adoles-sense program. K-4 will have minimal supervision. Normal classes will resume at 11.00am.

I would like to thank our dedicated teachers for providing some wonderful extra curricular opportunities and enriching the learning for our students. Our students should also be congratulated for their outstanding behaviour on these excursions.

There is still a lot happening between now and the end of the year, so please keep an eye for Skoolbag reminders. Another busy two and a half weeks to go!

Regards,

Larissa Polak

R/Principal

 

We are trialling a text message option that is created from our Student Attendance program. If you have not informed us of your child being absent by 10:30am, you will receive a text message letting you know we have an unexplained absence for your child. Follow the prompts to reply and let us know the reason for the absence.

We encourage you to use Skoolbag App or phone to explain absences (before 10:30am on the day of absence) as this is the  most efficient way for the school to manage recording absences. However, if you forget and receive a text message, please reply and we can then enter the reason in our system.

Thank you for your patience with this.

Message from bus proprietors:

At the beginning of the year Transport NSW allows free travel to all students for the first 4 weeks (previously 8 weeks) giving parents time to get online and register. As we don't collect any fares, this isn't an issue for your bus users, however we just want to make sure that every child getting on our bus has registered and details are up to date. In particular we have noticed that many online forms don't have telephone numbers.  From a safety point of view we would strongly encourage parents to update their details in the event we need to contact them.

New students (including Kindergarten) please go online and complete the SSTS documentation prior to catching the bus so we know where to stop, however we are always going to pick them up if they are waiting.

All places have been filled and we will commence the program next week.