Tomerong Public School

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Week 5 Term 2 - Issue 16

Principal's Report

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

This week saw our students return to school in a full time capacity and we are impressed with how quickly they have settled back into routine. We must be mindful that there are still precautions that we need to continue to follow to ensure the safety of our students, staff and community. These include:

 -Limiting adult presence on site and avoiding forming social clusters with others.

-Ensuring your child remains home from school if they are unwell.

-Making sure students have a full drink bottle as bubblers remain closed.

-Increased cleaning allocation to clean high touch areas throughout the day.

-Regular hand washing in class. Hand sanitiser readily available in all classrooms.

-Restrictions to the number of adults in school office/foyer area.

-Restricting school activities, avoiding whole school gatherings, assemblies and excursions.


Term 2 Staffing

On Monday, parents of Year 4 students received a note outlining some staffing changes for Term 2 and beyond. With news that Mrs Flannery and Miss Cox have made the decision to reduce their days to one day per week to spend time with their famiies, it has been necessary to make changes to the staffing structure of Year 4. We have been fortunate that Mrs Andrea Coleman has agreed to take the class each Tuesday - Friday for the rest of this term while Mrs Flannery remains on the class each Monday. Miss Cox will be engaged in other roles within the school each Thursday.

 Mrs Coleman has developed an excellent relationship with our students as our first call casual this year and she was a mainstay on our staff during the COVID-19 period where she taught Stage 2 essential workers each day.  I am always particularly mindful of the need to maintain consistency for our students and to this end we have increased support to the class. This includes team teaching opportunities between Mrs Coleman and Mrs Flannery, increased SLSO (Teacher Aide) time in the room for the remainder of the term and increased support from our Learning and Support Teacher (Mrs Baxter) for the Year 4 class.

A decision on how the class will be staffed for Terms 3 and 4 will be announced once finalised towards the end of this term.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like to discuss the changes.

 

Kindergarten Enrolments 2021

If you intend to enrol your child with us for Kindergarten 2021, please make contact with the school so we can include you in our numbers.


Rod White

Principal

Please keep up to date with the advice form the NSW Department of Education about COVID-19.

KINDERGARTEN CORNER

               

"Hi, My name is Sam.

I have one little brother, he is two and a half and his name is Luke.

At home, I like playing in my tree house with Luke and Rory. Rory is in my class and he lives next door to my house.

At school, I love writing and reading groups. When I was learning at home I enjoyed Silly sentences.

When I grow up I would like to be a fireman."

 

P&C NEWS

           

Uniform Pool

Just a reminder that the Uniform Pool will be making the move to the online ordering system ‘School Locker’ in Week 7. This means that the Uniform Pool will be closed next week. This is the last week that uniform orders can be processed through the school. If you would like to place an order this week, go to the school's website at  https://tomerong-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/parents-citizens-assoc-p-c/uniform-pool.html

Click on the Parents and Citizens heading on the maroon ribbon, select Uniform Pool, then at the bottom of the page you will see the uniform price list PDF.  Once you have determined what you would like to order, please send an email to the school at tomerong-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au and remember to include your contact phone number. Payment can be made directly to the P&C via a direct deposit using the bank details on the Price List/Order Form. Once processed, you will be contacted and your order can be collected from the school office. 

Information about the new online ordering (commencing in Week 7) will be coming very soon.

P&C Meeting

It is with great excitement that we announce we are able to hold our P&C meetings once again. However, only remotely at this stage.

Our next P&C meeting will be held on Tuesday 23 June (Week 9) and will be accessed through Zoom. If you do not have Zoom already downloaded onto your phone or desktop, you will need to do this beforehand. The information to join the meeting is below.

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/3586221347?pwd=TTVibHNSZkZmTUE0MVJ3TVdET1hPZz09

Meeting ID: 358 622 1347

Password: 7GfDzd

Thanks 

Tomerong P&C

 

 

CANTEEN WINTER MENU 2020

Welcome back students!

The new Winter menu is now out and can be downloaded here. There are a few changes, so please check the menu before ordering.

The canteen will be open on Tuesdays and Fridays for lunch only. Please note that the canteen will be closed for recess.

Please include all ice cream orders on lunch bags as there will be no over the counter sales.

The canteen will remain ‘cash only’. Rest assured, all possible duty of care will be taken. All monies will be sanitized, so if your child requires change it will return to them clean.

Hope you have all enjoyed your first week back and I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday.

Emma - Canteen Co-Ordinator

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