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NEWSLETTER Issue 3 May 2020 IMPORTANT DATES: Friday 15th May Assembly Room 8 Friday 15th May Walk Safely to School Day Week 4 National Families Week Wednesday 27th May National Simultaneous Story Time Friday 29th May Assembly Room 9 Monday 1 June Public Holiday Please Note: Assemblies may be cancelled or in a different format due to COVID-19. Principal : Di Miller - Deputy Principals: Sue Ashworth - Michael Ostaszewskyj Phone: 99234 200 Email: [email protected] - www.wandinaprimaryschool.wa.edu.au 2021 Kindergarten Enrolments Enrolments for Kindergarten 2021 are open. Children born between 1 July 2016 and 30 June 2017 are eligible for enrolment. Places are limited, with priority given to applicaons received before the 26th July to children that reside in our local intake area. Enrolment packages are available from the front office, or from our website: wandinaprimaryschool.wa.edu.au/ Further informaon on our local intake area boundaries can be found at Schools Online: hps://www.det.wa.edu.au/schoolsonline/local_intake Informaon regarding the enrolment and acceptance process can be found at: hps://wwweducaon.wa.edu.au/enrolment-quesons-answered Welcome back to Term 2 It has been an interesng start to Term 2 for everyone. It has been fantasc to see 85% of our students returning to school this week. Thanks to our families for your support with pick up and drop off changes to reduce traffic issues as well as large adult gatherings around the school. To support families choosing to have their children learning from home, staff have developed learning packs for students that complement the online learning on Seesaw. These are available for pick up from the office if you haven’t picked them up already. If your child is not aending school face to face, your child needs to be compleng the online learning through Seesaw or the work in the packs provided. Please return work packs for each week when they are finished, to the front office for marking. Please contact the school if you are having problems with accessing the work. Classroom teachers will be touching base with families every day or so to check in via email, phone call or webex. If your child is not compleng work provided by the school, your child will be marked as an unexplained absence. Please contact the school to discuss this further. As you are aware, the government is planning to relax some of the condions around COVID-19 restricons. We will keep parents informed as to how this affects schools. Many thanks for your ongoing support. COVID-19 Information Week 2 The government has provided the school with addional funding for an addional cleaner. This role is supporng staff and students by cleaning: High touch and high traffic areas in classrooms and toilets. These include door handles, desk tops in classrooms and benches where needed. Playgrounds, before school, aſter school and aſter recess and lunch. There are now no requirements in regards to social distancing or physical distancing in the classroom or the playground for students. This is no longer in the AHPPC guidelines. Staff are sll required to physically distance 1.5m. Please go to the link below for more informaon.hps://www.health.gov.au/news/australian-health-protecon -principal-commiee-ahppc-advice-on-reducing-the-potenal-risk-of-covid-19-transmission-in-schools-24-april-2020 Message for all adults: the greatest risk of transmission in the school environment is between adults. It is of utmost importance that teachers and parents alike maintain physical distancing between themselves and each other at school. Schools are already engaging in creave and innovave ways to engage their students online and in-person, while pracsing physical distancing and minimising risk. These include, cancelling school excursions, assemblies, sporng acvies and other large gatherings unl further noce. Do It for Dolly Day Today our school parcipated in “Do it for Dolly Day”. Students were able to wear blue accessories to complement our blue uniform and a gold coin donaon. Friday 8th May is a day of Kindness. “We believe that through kindness we can create a sense of togetherness and community and – together- we can combat bullying.” and support Dolly’s dream. Further informaon on the cause can be found by vising the following website: hps://dollysdream.org.au/do-it-for-dolly-day
