NEWSLETTER

Welcome to (cold) Term 3! The weather last weekend was delightful and gave a little taste of what is to come – let’s hope we don’t have to wait too long!

This time last year, we had a late start to Term 3, due to a COVID lockdown. It feels like such a long time ago now! I’m very grateful that we don’t have to worry about working around a lockdown this year. However, with us now being able to ‘live with COVID’, we can have a tendency to become a little complacent. Basic protective measures have also kept us safe from both COVID and other communicable diseases over the last two years.

Across the school, we are experiencing quite a few nasty contagious bugs, including influenza, gastro and chicken pox. In addition, health experts are warning us of another wave of COVID. Therefore, it is really important to keep children home if they are unwell. At school we will be refocussing on students wearing masks while inside and washing their hands before eating. These basic measures will help prevent students and staff from getting sick, and will help stop the spread to families at home.

If someone in your household does test positive for COVID they need to isolate, but your child is still able to attend school. This is as long as they have NO SYMPTOMS and have a NEGATIVE test result themselves. All close contacts should wear a mask outside the house and should be undertaking 5 RAT tests over 7 days, to keep a check on possible infections. If you, or someone in your household, tests positive for COVID, please let us know, so that we can monitor your child for symptoms.

This term looks like it will be a busy one, with the Book Week parade and swimming lessons being major events to look forward to. The Governing Council sub-committee, Grounds and Environment, has organised a Working Bee on Saturday 6th August: all families are welcome to come along and help out for a couple of hours. 

Gail Holland

Principal

Parents/Caregivers please make sure you have provided the school with an updated healthcare plan and current medication if your child needs support at school for a medical condition and in readiness for the excursion and swimming lessons this term.

Asthma Care, Allergic Reaction plans and Medication Agreement forms are available on the Skoolbag App for parents to access and take to your doctor or you can ask at the Front Office.   

Please note that standard first aid only will be administered if medication and plans are out of date.

July 28 2022

Hi everyone,

Welcome to term three! What a glorious day! I am truly appreciating this beautiful sunshine that we have today and as I have tomorrow off, I’m hoping that we have more of the same so that I can get stuck into the weeds. I’m sure that if we could harvest the stinging nettles and the marshmallow weeds, we’d all be rich. My daughter in law wants to collect some of the nettles to make tea – ummmm, not for me but good luck to her. Evidently stinging nettle tea is very good for you. I did try it once and believe me, once was definitely enough. But hey, at least I tried it.

So many times, we refuse to try something saying we won’t like it but how do we really know? Especially when it comes to food. I never thought I’d eat frog legs or snails. ‘Yuk!’ I thought. Disgusting, but when we were in France, it was offered, I tried it, fearing the worst and I enjoyed them. It doesn’t mean I’ll always eat them but I am now educated in their taste and texture.

However,  when Ella and hubby did the bungee jumping in New Zealand, I was not going to participate in that. It looked way too scary. I chose to paraglide instead. I felt I needed to step outside my comfort zone and have a go! I was terrified. Jumping off a mountainside sitting on a stranger's lap and gliding over Queenstown was horrific. But I did, I can cross it off the bucket list and I promise, I am never going to do anything like that again. Again, I tried it, I had a go.

We spend a lot of time encouraging our kids, friends etc to ‘have a go’ and I truly believe that’s great but we need to remember to ‘have a go’ too.

... unless it's procrastination, that can wait until tomorrow.’

So, until our next natter. Have a go at something new!

Cheers

Nettie    

Scholastic Book Club Issue 5 - Orders due via the LOOP online platform 15 August 2022Orders will be delivered to the school and distributed to classrooms.

GROW YOUR HOME LIBRARY (& INDEPENDENT READERS) WITH THE FREE BOOK OFFER! Every child deserves access to quality and affordable books, and Scholastic Book Club offers great prices with Value Books as low as $3 on every issue of Book Club. Best of all, if you order on Issue 5 you can select FREE BOOKS! Place your Issue 5 order on LOOP to select up to 3 FREE BOOKS. To qualify all you have to do is spend over $30 and you can select 1 FREE book, or spend over $50 and you can select 2 FREE books or over $70 and you can select 3 FREE titles from a special online list. The list will display after you create your order and head to the checkout.See www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP for more information.Did you know that 20% of your Book Club order goes back to our school in Scholastic Rewards? These Rewards are redeemed on Books and Educational Resources which helps stretch our budget further.