ENewsletter

QUICK CHECK!

DATE	EVENT	WHO
Monday 1 May - Friday 5 May	Parent Teacher Interviews	Prebooked appointments
Tuesday 9 May	Safe on Social	Years 4/5/6 and ALL Parents
Wednesday 10 May	Mullumbimby High School Transition	Year 6
Friday 12 May	Book Club Due online	All
Tuesday 16 May	Mr Stink @ HOTA	All Students
Wednesday 17 May	School Photos	All Students
Thursday 18 May	Mikirir Experience - incursion	Years 2/3/4/5/6
Thursday 25 May	Years 5/6 Leadership Day	Year 5/6
Tuesday 30 May	TPPS Athletics Carnival	All students and families
Sunday 18 June	Winter Festival	EVERYONE
Wednesday 28 June	VoSS Athletics Carnival	All students
Thursday 29 June	PBL Celebration	All students

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Assembly

Dawn Service

A massive thank you to all those families that attended the Dawn Service in Brunswick Heads. Our children did an amazing job singing Lest we Forget under the guidance of Janet.

A special mention to Arabella, one of our school captains, for reading out all the ANZAC poems in front of a huge crowd.

Staff Development Day - Aboriginal Education

Our staff had an excellent Development Day on Monday last week. The whole day was centered around Aboriginal Education.

We were lucky enough to watch Luku Ngara and then do a tour of the parklands in Mullumbimby with Delta Kay.

Both events were an incredible experience for us all, confirming the fact that the First Nations people of Australia have a rich history and culture that should be celebrated and acknowledged within our education system and more broadly across all of Australia.

Change to Bell Times

We are running a three week trial of a change to our bell times. The SRC requested that we make our break more even in time so we are giving it a shot! The trial bell times are:

9:00 - 11:15 - Morning Session

11:15 - 11:50 - Lunch

11:50 - 1:25 - Middle Session

1:25 - 2:00 - Recess

2:00 - 3:00 - Last Session

Parent Teacher Interviews

Our teachers are holding parent teacher interviews all week. We can't wait to talk with you about how your children are going.

Kindy Enrolments - 2024

We are now accepting Kindergarten enrolments for 2024. We know it seems a long way off but to help us better prepare we open our enrolments at the start of term 2.

If your child starts Kindergarten in 2024, please use the online enrolment form below.

If you know of any other families please pass this information on.

Our kindy transition dates will come out later in the term.

If you have any questions please see Will.

Online Enrolment

https://ehub.enrol.education.nsw.gov.au/

Use this link to complete an online enrolment form.

Safe on Social

A huge thanks to Alex Warland for organising for our children and parents to engage with Safe on Social.

Many other local schools use this organisation to teach families how to stay safe when using anything and everything related to the internet.

A note will be coming home today with all the details. You can also visit their website by clicking the link below.

Safe on Social

https://www.safeonsocial.com/

Click this link to go to Safe on Social.

Fortnightly Rotations

We will continue our fortnightly Wednesday rotations where our children learn across a variety of teachers. Our first session is this Wednesday.

Brazil Kidz and Mrs Jones - Soccer

Janet - Music

Mr Q - Gardening and chickens

Mrs Cox - Drama

Mrs Rowland - Visual Arts

Kindergarten do a smaller rotation while they settle into school.

Our amazing soccer coach, Alex, will finish up his sessions in week 4. After that we will have Mullum Circus Arts working with our classes for four sessions per class.

While our classes are in these rotations, our class teachers will be reflecting on their goals in Mathematics and Reading. They will also have reflection and coaching sessions with Will and Nikki.

School Assets

The assets team have been working hard to improve our school infrastructure. Over the holidays they lined and insulated our COLA to make it more comfortable for our kids. Our water tanks were cleaned late last term and our Orica water filters were changed just last week.

We have also had our tree work completed over the holidays ensuring that the glorious trees around our school remain healthy and to keep our kids safe.

Wellbeing Coffee Morning

Our Wellbeing Coffee Morning is on again this Thursday from 8:45am. Be sure to drop by and grab a cuppa!

Snow Excursion

Parents of our year 5 and 6 students should have all received information and a payment plan for the snow excursion in August this year!!

In Term 1 the Excursion Consent Note and Medical Forms were sent home. The organising school needs these ASAP, could you please return them to the Office this week.

The next payment of $200 is also due this week.

Any questions, please see the office.

Sibling School Photo

If you would like a sibling school photo (only siblings who attend the school are eligible) please see the office for a seperate envelope.

Administration

Unpaid Fees will be coming home today. Please check with the office to see if you have any hardship funds left. Note the hardship money cannot be used for the school voluntary contribution ($25).
Student attendance letters are also coming home today. Please complete your child's absence details and sign before returning to the office.
Please make sure we have your most current address and phone number on file. If you need to update your details please see the office.