NEWSLETTER What’s On? TERM 2 Social Distancing for adults will still continue in schools. June: 8 th – Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday 29 th – Reports go home today July: 3 rd – Last day of Term 2 Winter Holiday Break TERM 3 July: 20 th – Staff return 21 st – First day of Term 3 for students FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK Welcome! Welcome to the Week 5 Newsletter! Whole School Excursion Update Due to COVID19, this year’s Whole School Excursion to Canberra has been postponed until later in the year. Currently, we have it booked for December 9-11th. If we are unable to confirm the excursion by mid November, we will sadly have to cancel and try again next year. Fingers crossed! Healthy Lunches at HPS Thank you to parents for supporting us in creating a healthy school! It is great to see so many healthy lunch box items each day. Thank you also to parents for remembering that it’s a water only school. Students need not bring juice boxes or cordial to school as water is the best drink when you are thirsty! WEEK ENDING FRIDAY MAY 29 Term 2 2020 Week 5 Social Distancing Guidelines at School We very much appreciate your cooperation with these measures and understand that sometimes this is not an easy situation. Morning ‘Drop Off’ Please say goodbye at the gate Parents and carers are asked to ensure their child is safely inside the school gate and then going when dropping their child off in the morning. If your child is late Please visit the office briefly to sign your child in. Please follow the guidelines below for visiting the school office Afternoon ‘Pick Up’ Please wait on the grass area for your child Please practice social distancing (1.5m) Visiting the School Office Only visit the school office when essential
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NEWSLETTER
What’s On?
TERM 2 Social Distancing for adults will still continue in schools.
June: 8th – Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday 29th – Reports go home today July: 3rd – Last day of Term 2
Winter Holiday Break
TERM 3
July: 20th – Staff return 21st – First day of Term 3 for students
FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK Welcome! Welcome to the Week 5 Newsletter!
Whole School Excursion Update Due to COVID19, this year’s Whole School Excursion to Canberra has been postponed until later in the year. Currently, we have it booked for December 9-11th.
If we are unable to confirm the excursion by mid November, we will sadly have to cancel and try again next year. Fingers crossed!
Healthy Lunches at HPS Thank you to parents for supporting us in creating a healthy school! It is great to see so many healthy lunch box items each day.
Thank you also to parents for remembering that it’s a water only school. Students need not bring juice boxes or cordial to school as water is the best drink when you are thirsty!
W E E K E N D I N G F R I D A Y M A Y 2 9
Term 2 2020 Week 5
Social Distancing Guidelines at School We very much appreciate your cooperation with these measures and understand that sometimes this is not an easy situation. Morning ‘Drop Off’ Please say goodbye at the gate Parents and carers are asked to ensure their child is safely inside the school gate and then going when dropping their child off in the morning. If your child is late Please visit the office briefly to sign your child in. Please follow the guidelines below for visiting the school office
Afternoon ‘Pick Up’ Please wait on the grass area for your child Please practice social distancing (1.5m)
Visiting the School Office Only visit the school office when essential
Semester One Reports Due to COVID19 and the disruption to learning for students this semester, the semester one school reports will look a little different from last semester’s reports. The reports will contain these elements: • No A to E grading for subjects • Effort ratings for all subjects • Comments for English and Mathematics • Ratings for Social Development • Ratings for Commitment to Learning • No ‘Other School Activities’ • General Comment • Days Absent
Painting the Planters Thank you to our amazing Stage 3 boys, James, Jonathan, Sam and Seth, for helping Annette paint the planters on Thursday! They look so much better
Playground Antics
Playground Antics Students in 3-6 have been playing Kick Tennis a few days this week both in class and during recess and lunch. A popular activity at the moment! Another current favourite in the playground is
the sandpit where the students have been digging a hole to China, making mashed
potato and creating the amazing, one and only, Cheese Mountain!
K-2 Science Students in K-2 are continuing to explore forces in Science. This week the children explored how friction slowed down a moving object. Last week the students investigated how air pressure could be used to make a boat move through the water! Look at these amazing young scientists!
3-6 Science Students in Stage 3 have been inventing products that use energy for a purpose. Lucas did an amazing job this week creating a green night light. Congratulations to Lucas and all of our amazing scientists at HPS!
High Tea is Back! This week we held High Tea for the first time since COVID 19. There were quite a lot of worthy recipients who had missed out over the last few weeks!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Kind Regards, Melissa Tracy Principal
Community Announcements
TENNIS LESSONS
With the easing of restrictions, group tennis lessons are back on. Lessons are Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. Saturday mornings will be individual lessons only. Lessons commence from Monday 1st June. The cost for the remainder of Term 2 is $60. This will cover 4 lessons. Individual lessons are $30 per ½ hour. As numbers are still restricted there are only a few vacancies.
Cardio tennis will be Wednesday evenings 6.10-7.10. Numbers are also restricted here so enrolments are on a first in basis.
To enrol for hotshots or cardio or for more information contact Helen Garratt on 0407139164, or email [email protected]
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Attendance It is wonderful to have all our students back at school again full time!
Sometimes it takes a while for little people to get back into the routine of getting up early and getting ready for school, but we encourage parents to keep encouraging them to come along. Once they get here they forget all about how nice and warm their bed was!
Lunch Orders Lunch orders are back up and running! Parents please write the order on a paper bag or envelope with money inside.
