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Principal: Mrs Terrie Payne Condobolin Rd, Ungarie NSW 2669 Ph: (02) 69 759 030 Fax: (02) 69 759 157 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ungarie-c.schools.nsw.edu.au From the Principal’s desk… Welcome back! It has certainly been a long time since we were all at school together in Week 9 last term. It was a relief to see all students walking through the school gates on Monday with smiling faces and ready to learn. We all enjoyed a sausage sizzle on Monday to welcome students back to school. At home learning was certainly a challenge and I would like to thank our parents who put so much time and effort into ensuring their children were on track and completing their work. Thank you to our staff for your efforts over the past nine weeks. We were certainly teaching in unchartered waters but we made it through the other side successfully. We had so many last minute changes but UCS staff showed resilience and perseverance, just as we would expect from our students. Finally, thank you to our students. We had many students who pushed themselves to complete their learning at home. We’re very proud of your efforts and the way you committed yourselves to your independent learning. As you would be aware, returning to school has resulted in some changes to our routine and activities. We are still restricted in some areas. These include ensuring only non-contact sports are played and there can be no school excursions or incursions. Enhanced cleaning is occurring and supplies of antibacterial wipes and sanitizer have been provided for all students. Visitors to the school are restricted. As a parent, caregiver, grandparent or community member we ask that you go to the front office where our office staff will be more than happy to help you out. No visitors may enter the school grounds including the playground. Staff are able to give students messages or get students to come to the front office where you may pick them up. Thank you for your understanding. We have signed up for School Stream, a school communication app. This app will replace our current communication tools and will allow us to send out permission notes, information notes and the newsletter digitally. It will include a photo gallery and a calendar with school events. There will be more information in the coming weeks about our new app. We will hold our cross country on Wednesday 10 th June. Unfortunately we are unable to have spectators at the cross country but we’ll take photos and we hope to have the drone recording some footage, which you will see on our Facebook page. We are also planning for our Athletics Carnival in Term 3, however we have not set a date yet. This term there has been a hive of activity around the school. The outside of the music and maths rooms have been painted and the science lab, timber room and kitchen have had a fresh coat of paint inside as have some other spaces. We have new carpet in the front office and 2/3/4 room. We have new air conditioning in the library, computer room, science lab and kitchen as part of the Cooler Classroom project and are in the process of getting a new bubbler and play equipment. Until next week, Terrie Payne The Humbug 28th May 2020 Week 5, Term 2
