Dear Parents, Carers and Community Members
Welcome to Term 2. As I said in yesterday’s correspondence, I trust that all of our families have had a wonderful break and are now ready for another engaging school term. It was terrific to have a large proportion of children back at school today and regain some level of normality to our school and work lives.
I would also like to welcome all new families to our school community and wish them the very best for their stay with us.
TERM 2 ARRANGEMENTS
I would like to remind families to ensure the ongoing safety of our students and staff, we will continue to implement a range of strategies that support the advice of the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC).
These include:
· Social distancing practices being enforced outside of our classrooms.
· The hand cleaning regime utilised last term will continue.
· A split timetable for breaks is being reintroduced.
· Main doors to buildings will remain open all day.
· Two new cleaners have been appointed to provide cleaning to our high use surfaces throughout the day. These include our playgrounds.
· The Year 1 / 2 playground will be closed for Week 1.
· Play grounds will not be used for daily fitness.
· Drink fountains will be open but we strongly encourage the continued use of water bottles.
· The process for student drop off and pickups will remain the same as last term where K and PP children are dropped at the class door and our Year 1-6 children are dropped at our gates.
· Our front office will be open but we ask that you only attend if it is absolutely necessary.
The gate at the Eastern side of the Administration building will now be closed between 9am and 2pm. Students are being encouraged to use the red door at the rear of Administration to access the front office.
We thank you for supporting us in maintaining these standards for everyone on our school campus.
LEARNING @ HOME
Children that do not come to school at the moment will have their Learning @ Home packs to support them. Our teachers will be in touch with these families utilising a variety of approaches, including emails, telephone calls and contact via our online platforms. All enquiries about Learning @ Home should be directed to our learning area teachers in the first instance please.
NEW CHAPLAIN
I am pleased to announce that we have a new chaplain commencing this week. Alison Purcell joins our Student Services Team, I am sure she will be an asset to our school community.
TERM 2 SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DAY
Please note that our next school development day is on Friday, 29 May. This is the Friday before the WA Day public holiday which will give our school community a four-day mid-term break. Your cooperation with enabling this day is genuinely appreciated.
2019 ANNUAL SCHOOL REPORT
The link below will take you to our 2019 Annual School Report. This report is a summary of the 2019 school year and contains a number of highlights from last year as well our progress towards targets set within our current Business Plan.
https://www.det.wa.edu.au/schoolsonline/annual_report.do?schoolID=5799&pageID=AD08
I encourage all families to take the time to have a read of this summary of the 2019 school year.
Have a wonderful first two weeks of Term 2.
Kind regards
Craig Ashby
PRINCIPAL