Dear Parents and Caregivers,
PARENT
AND TEACHER CONFERENCES
The Year 1 and 2 conferences will be held
on Monday May 12th and Tuesday May 13th. This is in Term
2 week 2. Online bookings for these will be open straight after the holidays.
Years 3 to 8 will be having parent conferences next week on Tuesday and
Thursday. I apologize for any confusion that this may have caused. Please note
that the whole school will be closing at the earlier time of 2.15 p.m. next
Tuesday April 8th and Thursday April 10th so please make arrangements to
collect your child at this time on those days.
WELCOME
BACK AND THANK YOU
On Monday April 7th, Mrs Mikaela
Cody will be back teaching in room 4. On Monday morning, the children who have
been taught in Room 1 by Mrs Ryan this term will go straight to Room 4. I take
this opportunity to sincerely thank Mrs Ryan for the fantastic job she has
done. The students have been very lucky. Please note - Mrs Ryan and Mrs Cody
will be doing the Room 4 parent conferences together.
ANNUAL
EASTER EGG HUNT
Shhh – please don’t tell the children but
we have an annual Easter egg hunt around the playground at school. The children
design egg shapes, which are collected by Easter Bunny and hidden. They then
have fun searching the playground for theirs. Once they find it, they redeem it
for a small chocolate egg from Easter Bunny. If your child is not allowed to
have chocolate, is allergic or you do not want them to take part please can you
let me know by email by next Friday April 11th so alternative
arrangements can be made?
CROSS
COUNTRY RUN
Our annual Cross Country event will be held
on Tuesday April 15th if fine. The Year 1 and 2 children will be
leaving school at 9 a.m. to walk down to the recreation ground. The Year 1
children will be warming up first and then they will have their event. They
will then cool down and the Year 2 children will warm up then do their event
and cool down. All children will then return to school.
Your child needs to wear suitable shoes for
running and bring along a warm sweatshirt to put on and also their drink bottle
containing water. You are very welcome to come along and watch the events. I am, however, unable to give you a precise
start time for each of the events.
ASSEMBLIES
Room 2 will be hosting Junior School
Assembly in the library on Friday and the Year 2 children will be singing at
the Full School Assembly in the hall next Friday April 11th at 1.30
p.m.2014. Parents are very welcome to attend.
BLOGS
Thank you to those parents who have posted
comments to our classroom blogs. The children love to read these. If you need
instructions on how to do this please let me know.
MATHLETICS
AND READING EGGS
All children are subscribed to Mathletics.
If you have any problems with this can you please let me know? Those parents
who subscribed to Reading eggs for their child should have got their details of
passwords etc. If you have not or would like to subscribe or have any problems
can you please email me?
HOLIDAYS
Some families who wish to take their
children for holidays within term time need to apply in writing for permission to
Mr. Bird (an email is fine) and also let your child’s teacher know. We need to
account for the attendance of every child. If you are going away, please do not
ask teachers to supply work for your child to do. Here are some suggestions
that you can do instead.
1.
You can purchase a book and
felt pens etc for them to write a diary or draw pictures or glue mementos of
their trip in.
2.
In the book, you could write in
some basic facts equations and/or spelling words for them to practice.
3.
You could purchase some books
for them to read or you to read to them.
4.
They can do Mathletics and
Reading eggs and other educational apps on your Ipads and laptops.
5.
You could orally practice
counting forwards and backwards, skip counting in twos, fives and tens,
recalling the number before and after a number, read numbers all around them.
6.
You could send us photos/video
clips by email and we can share them with the class on the screen.
School finishes for the holidays at the
usual time of 2.55 p.m. on Thursday April 17th and your child will
be bringing home their sunhat. School will start again for Term 2 on Monday May
5th at 8.40 a.m. and your child will need to have slippers with them
to wear inside the classroom.
If you have any questions about the Junior
School or your child’s learning, please do not hesitate to ask your child’s
teacher or myself. Thank you for your continued support in your child’s
learning. They have made great progress this term and need to have a well- earned
rest. We have planned some exciting learning experiences for them for next
term. Please make an opportunity to discuss ANZAC day with your child.
Best wishes for a relaxing holiday break.
Kind regards
Maureen Buckley
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