Phone 67 461894

Fax 67 463266

E-mail qdipreschool@bigpond.com

quirindipreschool.nsw.edu.au

Educational, Caring, Family Focused

Term 3, Week 1

20th July 2020

WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SUPPORT GARDEN AND MOWING ROSTER

Thank you, Min Hamilton for caring for our gardens over the holidays. Thank you, Minna and Henry, for looking after the chickens over

the holidays. The garden is a vital part of our learning

environment. The garden maintenance is an ongoing commitment to valuing the

importance of young children learning, and education & care.

Thank you to all the families who have volunteered for the 2020 Lawn

Mowing and Garden Roster. Your time is sincerely appreciated.

Return to Term 3 Wk1: 25th/26th July - Wk2: 1st/2nd August - Peter Ingall Wk3: 8th/9th August – Wk4: 15th/16th August – Katie Duncan Wk5: 22nd/23rd August – Jenna and Chris Wilson Wk6: 29th/30th August – Lee and Krystal Kelly Wk7: 5th/6th September – Wk8: 12th/13th September – Brooke and Andrew Stevenson Wk9: 19th/20th September – Sam and Sally Stockwell Wk10: 26th/27th September Return to Term 4 Weekend before we return to T4: 10th/11th October – Min Hamilton

Thank you for being an active part of our

preschool community. To all the families who volunteer for our lawn mowing and garden roster. Your time is honestly appreciated.

News Note

Welcome Back Term Three Fees

No Fee

for Service.

A huge ‘Thank You’ to our Management

Committee for all their hard work with

keeping up to date with all the current and

rapidly changing COVID-19 information.

Fundraiser Pie Drive

Orders Due: This Friday

Friday 24th July 2020 Please return orders to preschool

with payment

Delivery: Friday 7th August 2020

Thank you, your support is sincerely

appreciated.

Thank you to

Dougie’s family and

Charlie’s family

Thank you we are extremely excited about

your wood donations. Campfires here we come!

Thank you

to Quota

Quirindi

Community

Pantry for

their kind

donation of

two big

pumpkins

for our

campfires.

Due to COVID-19 at this stage we will not be

attending any excursions in Term Three.

Coronavirus COVID-19 Dear Families, thank you for your diligence with keeping your children at

home if they were feeling unwell.

Term Three brings the same challenges and it is vitally important that ▪ If your child is sick, please keep them at home.

▪ If your child has symptoms like a runny nose, fever, cough or sore throat,

see your doctor.

▪ If you are contacted by our educational team because your child is unwell,

please make arrangements immediately to collect them.

▪ Please use the hand sanitiser provided on the sign in bench on your arrival

and departure.

▪ Adults please support physical distancing practices, please maintain the

physical distancing rules of 1.5m – 2m.

▪ Children are to hang their bags up and unpack their lunch boxes and drink

bottles and wash their hands before signing in.

▪ Try to make your drop offs and pickups as quick as possible. Please email

or phone if you would like to have a longer conversation.

▪ If you have symptoms, get tested. Anyone with symptoms of COVID-19,

even mild symptoms, should get tested at a COVID-19 testing clinic.

▪ Thank you for your support and your understanding.

I would also like to acknowledge and share my sincerest thanks and appreciation to our educational team for the extra deep cleaning required each day due to the pandemic. Thank you, ladies, for doing your absolute best to keep our learning environment clean. https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/education/schools-and-childcare#childcare

https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/symptoms-and-testing

https://raisingchildren.net.au/guides/coronavirus-covid-19-guide/coronavirus-and-children-in-australia

If you have any questions about COVID-19 call the National Coronavirus Health Information Line for information about COVID-19 on 1800 020 080

Welcome Kylie We are all looking forward to Kylie Slade joining our

educational team.

We enjoyed some favourite fun stories shared from home. ▪ One of Toby's favourite books is

Alpaca’s with Maracas

▪ One of Layla's favourite books was a

comical book with a humorous

rhyme about a chicken racing around

space discovering aliens.

▪ One of Charlotte's favourite books is

‘Wandering Star’ a book with gentle

cantering rhythm that tells the story

of a magical horse.

Thank you for sharing! Sam shared a poem that he written.

Sam’s Poem Their once lived a turtle named Boo He snapped at a mossie – yum, yum.

He snapped a fly – yum, yum. But he couldn’t catch me!

Karen’s foot is on the mend and she should be returning either in week 3 or week 5 of term.

Week Three we welcome a UNE teaching student for one week.

Dear Families

If you are interested in your child attending the Winanga-Li extra school transition days or you have any questions regarding the transition, please contact Renee. Kind Regards Alison

Hello everyone, We hope you had a fun holiday and have all stayed safe and well. We have had a whirlwind two weeks travelling across the border and settling into our new home in Brisbane. Alice wants to show you some new parks we have found, we have three that we can walk to in the pram. We have also travelled on some beach adventures. At the Gold Coast beach, we could take our dog along too. Ali discovered that when she moved her fingers in the sand, she noticed “it looks like stairs”. At Woody Point, we rode our bikes along the jetty! Lots of people were fishing and we stopped to watch a girl catch a fish with her dad. Wagner Road is my new preschool. They call it Kindy here and Mac is at the same place but in daycare. The playground has lots of climbing things and we played doctors in the dress up corner, so I took in my human body book to show my new friends. At another park, we found some enormous seed pods. They made good tapping sticks, this is the tree they fell from. I also found a nest, we couldn’t find eggs or the bird who built it. The last picture shows our backyard, we have lots of shady trees. Dad built me a red swing which goes really high into the trees. Thinking of you all and hope you have a fun and healthy start to the term, Lots of love, Sarah, Bill, Alice and Mac