Plattsburg Public School Newsletter

Latest COVID-19 Information from the Department of Education and NSW Health for parents can be found at:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/advice-for-families

https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19

Thank you to parents and carers on their vigilance in keeping children home when sick. While we continue to promote positive school attendance, we must continue to keep students home when sick. Our parents and community have been doing this and we appreciate it in keeping our school community safe from illness.

The advice from NSW Health is that for any symptoms people, including children, should be COVID tested. If your child has any symptoms please have them tested. Once tested please do not return to school until the results are negative and symptoms have finished.

Tuesday, 8th September 2020

School Photos

Tuesday 27th October 2020  

Kindergarten 2021 Information Session 4 p.m - 5 p.m

Wednesday, 4th November 2020 

Kindergarten Orientation 2 p.m - 3 p.m

Monday, 9th November to Friday 20th November 2020

School Swimming Scheme for Year 2 Students

Tuesday, 17th November 2020  

Kindergarten Orientation 9:30 a.m - 10:45 a.m

Wednesday, 18th November 2020  

Kindergarten Orientation 9:30 a.m - 10:45 a.m

Tuesday, 8th September 2020  

School Photos

Students in Years 3 and 5 will participate in a new reading and numeracy check-in assessment in Term 3, 2020. The Check-in assessment is a NSW Department of Education online reading and numeracy assessment available to support schools to assess and monitor Year 3 and 5 student learning following the period of learning from home. The Check-in assessments can supplement existing school practices to identify how students are performing in literacy and numeracy and to help teachers tailor their teaching more specifically to student needs. The assessment will be scheduled for our Year 5 students from 17 August to 4 September 2020.The assessment will be scheduled for our Year 3 students from 21 September to 23 October 2020.Students with disability will receive the same level of support during the assessment that they would normally receive in the classroom. 

School photos will be taken on: Tuesday 8th September 2020.

All students will be given an envelope with their name, package options and payment details closer to the date. Students must bring their photo envelope ON PHOTO DAY. Please do not send it to school before photo day. Students will need to be in FULL school uniform. Uniforms can be ordered at www.quickcliq.com.au.

SIBLING ENVELOPES will be available shortly. They each have a unique shoot key for online ordering. Ordering can be completed online (www.msp.com. au) or by payment on the day. Please ensure your child’s details are correct on the envelope (i.e. spelling). On completion of an online order, the website will display an order reference code which should be written on the back of the envelope, in the box provided. Each child is still required to bring their envelope on photo day. Orders can be placed online up to one week after photo day. 

We have had a number of cases of head lice within the school and are asking that you please do your part to support our school community in preventing the spread of this infestation. Please check your child’s hair this weekend for nits/lice and if you find any nits or lice commence treatment immediately.

To see nits (eggs) and lice in your child’s hair:

• Use a strong light so you can see the nits on the hairs or lice on the scalp

• Use a comb to separate small amounts of hair

• Check the whole head paying particular attention to the area behind the ears and back of the head

• It is essential to REMOVE ALL EGGS by pinching them with your fingernail and pulling them completely off the hair shaft

• Using a hair straightener will also help to kill the eggs.

Treating head lice does not need to be expensive. Treatment with a medicated shampoo is recommended for the first two treatments but the most effective treatment recommended by James Cook University and Westmead Hospital is the “conditioner and comb” treatment, which involves combing conditioner through an infestation and dunking all lice and eggs in hot water to kill them. Store-bought head lice shampoos or white conditioner must be applied to all parts of the hair, ideally with the same precision with which a hairdresser applies colour to hair, doing it in sections and applying it close to the scalp. No head lice product or insecticide currently kills all eggs, but is likely to kill the live lice. The problem is that eggs hatch at various stages of the life cycle and re-infestatlon occurs If retreatment is not performed. Manual removal of all eggs Is the only effective treatment. A complete regime to remove head-lice consists of two to four treatments a week. The first treatment kills the climbers, and the second kills the juvenile lice hatched from the eggs over the intervening week. In all head-lice cases, a second treatment is needed as no head lice treatment kills 100% of the eggs. You must retreat on day 7 with the same head-lice treatment product used previously. Thank you for your cooperation. 

Planning is well underway for next year’s Kindergarten! Please remind family and friends to contact the School regarding any students who will be enrolling in Kindergarten next year. Enquiries should be directed to the School Office where enrolment forms are available. 

Stage 3 this week were tasked with making an obstacle course for the Sphero robot. It had to be challenging but not impossible as they had to show Miss Rebecca their track could be completed. They did a wonderful job, got very creative and had a lot of fun doing it. 

Thank you to everyone who dressed up and paraded their wonderful costumes to celebrate book week.  We were blown away by the number of submissions for our annual Junk Sculpture and enjoyed seeing all the different curious creatures our students created. A full gallery of photos taken of the parade can be found on our school's website. https://plattsburg-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/ 

Below is the list of the Junk Sculpture Winners. Congratulations!

Sophie Taylor, Imogen Sankey, Riley Stainsfield , April Bauer, Zoe Guthrie, Frank Gowdy, Astrid Wallace, Ava Williams, Kody Ritchie, Adam Dawson, Mackay Pritchard, Roary Bentley, Rosette Simba, Carter Smith, Harrison Kiley and Tom Page.