Hammondville Public School Newsletter

National SASS Recognition Week

Our SAS staff play an important role in the school community. They are often the first people you see when you enter the school and are essential to maintaining positive relationships with students, parents and the community. SAS staff work in school offices, in classrooms and libraries and some maintain and care for school grounds and buildings. They are often the ones to tend to students when they are unwell and they ensure the efficient management of school financial and administration functions.

At Hammondville Public School we are very blessed to have passionate and professional SAS staff that consistently provide quality support to all members of our school community. I would like to thank all our SAS staff for your continuous commitment to Hammondville Public School. Thank you to Mr Royce, Mrs Talevski, Mrs Hudson-O’Farrell, Mrs Johnson, Mrs McCulloch, Mrs Ford, Mrs Hogan, Mrs Royal, Mrs Potts, Mrs Cadden, Mrs Longford, Mrs Tyler, Mrs Lo-Castro, Mr Hine and Mr Meogrossi-Sarno.

K-2 Athletics Carnival

Our infants students had a great time last week competing in the K-2 Athletics Carnival. It was a lovely sunny day and fun was had by all involved. Thank you to all staff for your planning and organisation on the day and your additional time spent ensuring this event was COVID safe.

Pyjama Day and PBL Reward Day

This Friday 28 August the P&C will be holding a Pyjama Mufti Day. All students and teachers are encouraged to wear their winter pyjamas and bring in a gold coin donation to support the P&C fundraising efforts. In addition to this mufti day we will also be holding our PBL Reward Day. As a school we have been working hard to earn Hero Tokens and have reached the reward line in our Token Tower. This means that on Friday we will be having a movie watching session with popcorn (COVID safe in individualised packaging), supplied for all students. Congratulations Hammondville students for following our PBL expectations of Be Safe, Be Respectful and Be a Learner.

Science Drawing Competition Winners

Congratulations to all students who participated in our Science week drawing competition. There were many creative and inspiring drawings produced by students across K-6. It was great to see so many entries. Well done to our winners: Kindergarten: Alana and Claire, Stage 1: Andrew and Amelia, Stage 2: Aydin and Jewelz, Stage 3: Chantel and Kweli.

Sickness

It is important that in our current situation we do not become complacent and send children to school with respiratory symptoms. If you child is sneezing, coughing, has a runny nose, fever, sore throat they are to remain home and get tested for COVID-19 before returning to school. It is important that you notify the school office that your child is being tested and also follow up with confirmation of the test results. If your child comes to school and exhibits these symptoms then you will be called to pick them up. Together we can remain vigilant and maintain the highest levels of safety at school.

Parent Teacher Interviews

We have been holding parent teacher interviews this term to support the reporting and feedback process to parents. Thank you to those K-2 parents who engaged in interviews last week via ZOOM. The majority of interviews were conducted with minimal technical difficulties and I hope that this is the case for this week with the 3-6 interviews.  We appreciate this is a new way to run interviews and are supporting staff and parents to actively engage in the process.

Kindergarten Enrolments

It is that time of the year when we begin planning for Kindergarten orientation. Due to COVID-19 our orientation programs will be slightly different this year. Information on how this may look will come home to those families involved once plans have been finalised. If you have a child or have friends who have a child who is ready to come to school in 2021, I encourage you to enrol as soon as possible. This will allow you to be well-informed about upcoming Kindergarten 2021 information as well as assisting us as a school, in our planning for 2021.

Teacher Sickness and Casual Teacher Shortage

In light of the current situation, we require any teacher who exhibits respiratory like symptoms to remain absent from school and undertake a COVID test and receive results, before their return. I would like to reassure you that we do our best to cover classes when out teachers are sick. Unfortunately, there is a shortage of casual teachers at the moment and it is affecting all schools across NSW. We will continue to minimise disruptions as best we can and we thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Positive Stars Week 5 Term 3

I had the lovely opportunity to see many students across the school in the last week, for producing excellent work, demonstrating outstanding work habits and being exceptional learners. Well done to the following students on being Positive Stars in Week 5.

1/2 Titanium – Tane and Connor                   
1/2 Gold – Oliver
3/4 Titanium – Isaac, Lucas, Zaine, Tilly-Jean, Amy, Jett, Declan, Callum, Saoirse, Kinley, Mikaela and Samir
3/4 Silver – Hemi, Tilli, Abdul, Oisin and Zack

Have a wonderful week of learning!

Mrs Rebekah Murray
Rel. Principal

Thursday 3 September - Father's Day Stall, online only.

Monday 7 September - Kindy Farm Incursion.

Friday 11 September - 3-6 Cross Country, no parents or carers to attend due to COVID 19. 

Friday 25 September - Jump Off Day - Jump Rope for Heart

Our school office hours are 8:30am to 3:15pm.

EFTPOS Payments can be made between 8:45am - 9:00am and 2:30pm - 3:00pm.

Student Absences

The Education Act requires that a reason is provided to the school within 5 days of the occurrence of a student absence. 

If your child is absent from school please notify us via Skoolbag or drop a note/medical certificate in our secure letterbox on the outside of the office wall. Do not send absent notifications to the class teacher via Class Dojo.

Late Arrival/ Early Departure

All students who are late to school must come via the office to receive a late pass, which is then to be handed to their teacher.

If you are picking up your child early from school you must visit the office first to receive an early departure pass, which you then give to your child’s teacher.

Toileting Accidents

If your child is prone to toileting accidents please ensure that spare underwear and school clothes are kept in their bags.

If your child does borrow clothes from our school please ensure the clothes are washed and promptly returned to the office.

Nut Free Recommendation

Due to severe allergies of some students at Hammondville Public School, we do recommend that parents not send their children to school with nut products, eg muesli bars, peanut butter, nutella etc.

P&C Payments

P&C payments can be made in CASH or via the MY SCHOOL CONNECT App. Canteen and uniform orders, as well as all P&C fundraising and events can now be paid via the app. Download the app via Google Play or the Apple Store, or find it online at www.myschoolconnect.com.au

We are currently enrolling for Kindy 2021.

If you're child has a younger sibling that is due to start school in 2021 please enrol them now so that we can ensure that you are provided with all the important dates & necessary information in relation to commencing Kindergarten.

Alternatively if you live in our catchment zone & have a neighbour whose child is due to commence school in 2021 please encourage them to complete the online enrolment application or contact our school.

To complete an online application you just need to go to our school's website  & click on the enrolment tab at he top of the page or use the link that is attached to this notice.

The Online Enrolment System is designed to provide flexibility for parents to submit an Application to Enrol in a NSW Government School online at the time that best suits you. The application can be accessed on all browsers and mobile devices including iOS and Android.

The online application process is currently restricted to:

Enrolments into local schools only.

Children who are Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.

Children who live in NSW.

We offer our support and encourage you to complete your application to enrol online.

If however, you do not feel comfortable completing an application online, a paper copy will be available for collection from the front office or can be downloaded from the Education Department’s going to a public school site.

This week’s PBL focus is stage based and looking at school Expectations that are relevant to their context with the aim of re-teaching and reminding students of the expectations and consequences regarding their school rule focus for the week. It is expected that all students will remind themselves of the three Expectations we have across the school of Being Safe, Being Respectful and Being Learners.

We ask that parents discuss these whole-wide school Expectations with their children and remind them of their importance. Teachers will also be reminding students about our school PBL Expectations on a daily basis and when situations arise where it can be focused on.

Mrs Peroni did our K-2 PBL draw over the speakers on Friday. Their prize was a $1 voucher to spend at the Canteen. Our K-2 PBL winners are K Blue – Kody, K Yellow – Skylaah-Jayde, K Green – Elizabeth, K Red – Claire, 1/2 Silver – Jonathon, 1/2 Gold – Jarryd, 1/2 Platinum – Fono, 1/2 Titanium – Bailey, 1/2 Bronze – Noah, 1/2 Copper – Penny.

The PBL Team

Last week, Mrs Fuller and Mrs Peroni had the pleasure of visiting the K-2 classrooms to present students with green awards. It is so wonderful to see how settled the students are and to be able to witness every student engaging with their learning.

We are extremely proud of all of our students at Hammondville and recognise the following students in particular, for their hard work and consistent effort. These students have received a green award for being a safe, respectful learner and we congratulate them on their achievements.

K Blue – Kody L and Ayla D.
1/2 Copper – Maxsley N, Amirah Y, Josiah Y, Jeremy M, Zack L, Isaac F, Zoe A, Chapman C, Sofia M and Sienna A. 

These awards were presented in Week 3
1/2 Copper - Myrtle K, Isabelle R, Lilly-Anne G and Zechariah P.

Congratulations again, to all of these hard working students.

Mrs Fuller, Mrs Peroni and Miss Jenkins
Assistant Principals

Congratulations to the following students who won our drawing competition of their favourite sea creature with a twist to celebrate National Science Week for 2020. This year’s Theme was the Deep Blue. They received their science awards on Friday. We had an overwhelming amount of students enter the competition which was great to see.

Well Done to our winners:

Kindy – Claire Wight and Alana Muc

Year 1 – Andrew Isted

Year 2 – Amelia Dabbagh

Year 3 – Aydin Chiem-Drumm

Year 4 – Jewelz Peroumal-Swift

Year 5 – Chantel Sutch 

Year 6 – Kweli Peroumal-Swift

The Science Committee

Until further notice the Canteen will continue to operate as it did in Term 2. Lunch orders via My School Connect or at the canteen with cash. Students will need to bring orders to school if using cash as parents are still not permitted on site.

Counter sales will still be split with

K-2 at Recess and 3-6 at Lunch. Please remind your child of this.

If you haven’t already done so the app can be downloaded at

https://myschoolconnect.com.au/mobile-app

Lunch orders must be in by 9.00 am on the day required. If you order the night before and your child doesn’t come to school the next day, please go back to the app and cancel your order before 9am or contact the canteen and we will hold the order over until the next day.

If you process your order correctly you will receive a confirmation email.

There will be no Tuesday Treats in Term 3.

Hash Browns are still available to order in Term 3.

Uniform sales will still continue through My School Connect, with orders sent home with children. NO parents are to pick up orders.

Again, all of the above is until further notice.

Your co-operation and support are greatly appreciated.

Tracey O’Hanlon
Canteen Manager