Glendale East Public School Newsletter

Brrrrr, with winter truly upon us, our students have braved the cold to continue quality learning and playing amongst the beautiful fallen autumn leaves. Glendale East Public School is always full of adventure and laughter, a great place to be.

National Reconciliation Week

Last week our Aboriginal leaders led a Reconciliation week assembly. These students spoke with confidence and passion and are to be congratulated for their inspiring leadership. The whole school listened intently about the importance of Reconciliation week. This week across classrooms, our students are engaging in Reconciliation week activities centred on this year’s Reconciliation theme ‘Be Brave, Make Change’.

Note day – Thursdays

Thursday will be GEPS’s designated note day.

Starting next week (Monday 13th June), we will be implementing a note day, where parents can expect to receive all notes regarding whole school events and information. These notes will come out as printed hard copies as well as via SeeSaw. A single post each Thursday via Seesaw will contain all the notes for that week, please just swipe through to ensure all information is received. We will also be uploading all notes to our school website to ensure multiple avenues of receiving relevant information. Having a designated note day will hopefully make receiving information from our school a little easier for families.

We understand that at times multiple notes are required to be sent home, therefore, to make things a little easier, from next week, all notes that require permission via a signature or money to be sent in will be printed on blue paper. This means if you are rummaging through your child’s bag and there are multiple notes, you’ll know the blue ones are required to be sent back to school.

Of course, there may be times where information such as urgent notifications are necessary to be sent out on other days, however, for the majority, Thursday will be the day.

School Website

We have recently revamped our school webpage to ensure it is up to date and relevant for all families. This is an ongoing project, but please jump on and have a look, we have added photos from past 2022 events. https://glendalee-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/

Online payments

A reminder that as society continues to become cashless, online payments are our preferred method of payment for all school related expenses, both big and small. Please visit our school website and click the ‘Make a Payment’ tab in the top right-hand corner of the page. If you experience any issues, our office team are always happy to help.

Volunteering at school

We love having volunteers help out at our school, and we are exceptionally lucky to have many who have supported our school over many years.

Families who have children at Glendale East Public School are exempt from requiring a paid Working With Children Check number, however, there are still documents that require signing and proof of identity that we require. Before volunteering in our classrooms or canteen, please ensure you have had a chat with our office team first. It is a very easy process that our office team are happy to help with. This is all about keeping our students at GEPS safe, therefore, it is very important that this is done correctly.

Kindergarten 2023

We have confirmed our dates for 2023 Kindergarten transition and information will be going out to all families very soon. If you know anyone who is intending on sending their children to our great school, please encourage them to contact our office to ensure they don’t miss out on any sessions or information.

Clarence Avenue afternoon pick up

We are lucky to be supported by neighbours on all 4 sides of our school site. This is fantastic as they keep an eye on our school at night and during school holidays. Recently though, we have had a few frustrated neighbours reporting people parking over driveways, particularly on Clarence Avenue. Please be vigilant to follow all rules when parking of an afternoon, especially that of not parking across driveways. Clarence Avenue is also very narrow, so it is vital that all road rules are followed to ensure the safety of our students. We have had reports of people being late to work as they are unable to leave at school pick up time due to this problem.

Tim Lewis

Office hours: Monday – Friday - 8:30am – 3:30pm. 

Email – glendalee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au 

Website –  www.glendalee-p.schools.nsw.gov.au 

• School Volunteers – If you wish to volunteer in your child/s class or in the canteen. Please sign in at the school office with the QR code and please complete all the relevant paperwork if needed.

• Voluntary School Fee – Our voluntary school fee remains at $50.00 per student for the entire year. Payment can be made online via our website.  

• Student belongings - Please ensure all your child’s belonging are properly and clearly labelled. Lost property is in a box out the front of the kindergarten rooms.  

• School Hats - We cannot provide spare hats to children if they are lost or left at home. If a child does not have their hat they are to play in the designated undercover area, so please remember to bring your school hat each day. School hats can be purchased at the office for $13.00 cash only. 

• Emergency contacts – It is important that the school office has up to date contact details for parents, carers, and emergency contacts. If you need to update your details, please email the school at glendalee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au so we can amend these changes in our system.  

• Student and Family information 2022 – Please remember to hand back your 2022 consent forms that were handed to students at the beginning of the year. Marking your preferences re walking excursions, PG rated movies, computer lessons, scripture, and permission to publish. 

• Early/Late - If you are dropping off your child or picking them up early, please make sure you come into our office and speak to our staff to sign in/check out.  

• Contacting Teachers or Staff - If you need to you contact your child’s teacher or a staff member, the most effective method is via our school email address. glendalee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au - Please attention the email to the teacher or staff member and include your child’s name and your best contact number. 

• Payments - Making a payment online (preferred method is online payments)  

It is possible to make your parent online payment via a secure payment page, where possible parents are encouraged to pay for excursions on the parent online portal.  

 Steps as follows:  

· Go to Glendale East Public School webpage at – 

 glendalee-p.schools.nsw.gov.au  

· Select Make a Payment (found on the top of the front page of the webpage)  

· Enter all areas marked with a * Asterix only 

· Write this reference number once payment is made on the permission note.   

• Medication – If medication is required during school hours, then it must be approved by the school principal.  

Parent/ Carer must complete a medication form if a child requires specific medication or ongoing health management. A letter from the prescribing doctor is required and all medication must be properly labelled by pharmacist.  

• Notifying of absences – If your child is going to be away, you are welcome to call our office to let us know/message teacher on their class platform, alternatively a text message is sent out at 10:00 am each day that you can reply to, and we can amend their absence in our system.   

We have three entry points into our school.

A reminder that if you are picking up or dropping off your child  between school hours or need to come into the school grounds during this time to please enter via Margot Avenue gate.

POP is our schools preferred option of payment. 

It is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit details are captured in a secure manner.  These details are not passed back to the school and are not stored by Westpac.

Parents and Carers can make online payments  via our school website.  Payments can be made using a Visa or Mastercard and will be processed via a secure payment page hosted by Westpac.  Debit cards are also accepted. 

Please note: the website will not tell you how much you owe so please have your term account handy when paying.

The advantages of POP are:

• Secure payments 
• Parents can print their own receipt or have it emailed to them for record keeping – no more searching in the school bag!

When you make an online payment you must enter the child's name and date of birth, plus the child's class.  This allows us to identify your child – ie in case we have some students with exactly the same name. No reference numbers are required - they are not mandatory fields.  These details are entered each time you make a payment as student information is NOT held within the payment system.  No student's details are given to Westpac.

PLEASE NOTE - Uniform purchases aren't to be done via POP payments. 

Term 2 Calendar 

10th June - SRC Fundraiser for the Cerebral Palsy Alliance

23rd June - School Athletics Carnival 

27th June - Naidoc Week - Naidoc assembly

1st July - Last day of term 2