10th June 2020

OUR SCHOOL VISION: “Wandong Primary School … Making a difference by developing confident, independent

and resilient learners who strive for personal excellence.”

‘The Puggle Post’

Congratulations to our ‘Students of the Week’

Foundation C : Everyone in FC (Being so kind and caring towards one another)

Foundation G: Claire (Showing pride in her learning and practising her common words)

Foundation M: Hunter (Being an honest and caring friend to all his peers and teachers)

1/2B: Mia (Extra effort towards writing her Information Report)

1/2E: Benji (Trying his hardest and displaying pride in his writing)

1/2G: All of 1/2G (Displaying wonderful mateship and collaboration since returning to the classroom)

1/2L: James (Always helping others)

1/2M: Indianah (Writing a fantastic information report about Uluru)

1/2W: Aaliyah (Demonstrating excellent work with the ability to count mixed collections of coins up to $50)

1/2Y: Holly (Trying her hardest in everything she does)

3/4C: Liam (Sharing an engaging read aloud of his fairy tale by using expression and making his story interesting )

3/4E: Koby (Completing writing tasks to a high standard and putting amazing effort into his learning)

3/4H: Riley (Putting a lot of effort into his adapted fairy tale by using dialogue and sound effects)

3/4M: Ivy (Showing pride in her remote learning by taking feedback and showing positivity)

3/4P: Olivia (Displaying amazing effort throughout remote learning)

3/4S: Madison (Displaying enthusiasm and curiosity throughout remote learning)

5/6B: Jaxon (Being consistent and completing his remote learning tasks with a positive attitude)

5/6M: Levi (Consistently being enthusiastic and technologically savvy throughout his remote learning experience)

5/6R: Maddison (Consistently completing all her remote learning tasks to a 5-Star standard) 5/6S: Saxon (Having a positive and flexible mindset and maturely helping and assisting others)

Art Award: Harrison (Happily coming to the Art room and completing his task)

PE Award: Riley (Displaying awesome dribbling and handling skills in Basketball)

STEM Award: Lola (Always completing five star learning and helping other students)

Indonesian Award: All of 5/6H (Demonstrating commitment and effort with their Indonesian remote learning tasks)

5/6H

Dear Families

Return to Normality – well of sorts!

Tuesday was an exciting day as we welcomed back our Year 3 to 6 students. Our middle and senior school teachers have been working hard continuing remote learning and preparing their classrooms in readiness for the 9

th June date, which marked our whole school return to onsite

learning. We have acquired some great new learning during the remote period but we are all so pleased to be back at school and doing what we all do best. Our Prep – Year 2 students continue to approach their schooling with engagement and persistence and I know that our Year 3 – 6 students have been eagerly awaiting this time back with their teachers and friends.

Please know that your children are amazing! We know that for some children, anxiety about

leaving home and being at school can sometimes get the better of them. As a parent, this can be

heartbreaking and your natural instinct is to be with them, to comfort them. However, what

appears to work best for most is a quick kiss and hug, and then walk away. Thank you again for

working hard with us to ensure a smooth transition back to onsite learning.

A huge shout out to everyone who have greeted staff at our gates each morning and afternoon

with a smile and friendly welcome. It is super important that you continue to drop off and pick up

at the correct gate in the attached map. If you have made arrangements for children to meet you

somewhere else, please ensure that you have communicated this to the relevant teachers. A

reminder that it is never appropriate to swear or be disrespectful to staff who are only trying to

keep our community safe and do their job.

Drop Off and Pick Up

Next week we will continue to utilise every possible entry/exit point around our school. However,

we will no longer be staggering our start and finish times, as we have noted through this

transition that we have not had adults congregating at these times. We are looking forward to all

children arriving as normal and finishing as normal from Monday. As per the

arrangements before remote learning, children will be marked as late if they arrive after 8.55am

and will need to obtain a late pass from the office.

Please support this process by moving on once you have said hello/goodbye to your child.

Front office gate (Ms Pollock and Ms Hall) – All 5/6 students

Gate above office gate on Affleck Street (Ms Yarni and Ms Green) – 1/2G, Y, W

Rail Street (Mrs Gaffney and Mrs Morrow) – 1/2M, B, L, E

Wandong Avenue corner gate (Ms Potts and Ms Elliott) – 3/4S, P, E

Wandong Avenue portable side gate (Mrs Andrew and Ms Hocking) – 3/4M, C, H

Church car park gate (Ms Monaghan and Mr Warren) – All Foundation students

Essentially we are attempting to keep parents, students and staff safe and we thank you for your

cooperation.

Badge Ceremony – finally!

It was our hope that we would be able to have a big celebration assembly to present our students leaders with their 2020 bade. Given we still have restrictions in place, we are going to do this presentation remotely via video. This will be sent out to all families with our Friday assembly video. Please find attached the names of our 2020 student leaders.

Kelly Morrow - Principal

WANDONG PRIMARY SCHOOL IS PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

Wallan & Kilmore Community Bank® branches

2020 WANDONG SCHOOL LEADERS

School Captain Charlie Thomas

School Captain Ellie Hall

School Vice Captain Riley Roberts

School Vice Captain Marley Tasevski

HOUSE LEADERS

Pickett House Captain Taylah Fitzgerald

Pickett House Vice Captain Beraiah McMaster

Lightwood House Captain Campbell Harrison

Pickett House Vice Captain Lacy Cesaria

Arkell House Captain Jack Brundell

Arkell House Vice Captain Saxon Mitchell

Davern House Captain Kyron Seddon

Davern House Vice Captain Kane Lemmar

SPECIALIST

LEADERS

Arts Captains Maddi Toohey

Lacey Fogliaro

STEM Captains Kayleigh O’Shannesey

Riley Comiac

LOTE Captains Kobee Mann

Ella O’Brien

School Captain Charlie Thomas

School Captain Ellie Hall

WHOLE SCHOOL RETURN PICK UP AND DROP OFF

POINTS – KEEPING OUR KIDS, STAFF AND

COMMUNITY SAFE

Parents and carers must avoid entering the school grounds or congregating outside the school

gate. Communication with the school and your child’s teacher should occur via email, seesaw or

phone. If in the event of documents needing to be delivered, this can also be sent via

Staff will be located at all possible entry/exit points (as below) to ensure that students are safe and

supported at drop off and collection times. Please note that ALL STUDENTS WILL BE STARTING

SCHOOL AT 8.55AM. Any child arriving after 8.55am will be marked as late.

Teachers will welcome and dismiss students from the below gates. Please support this process

by moving on once you have said hello/goodbye to your child.

Front office gate (Ms Pollock and Ms Hall) – All 5/6 students

Gate above office gate on Affleck Street (Ms Yarni and Ms Green) – 1/2G, Y, W

Rail Street (Mrs Gaffney and Mrs Morrow) – 1/2M, B, L, E

Wandong Avenue corner gate (Ms Potts and Ms Elliott) – 3/4S, P, E

Wandong Avenue portable side gate (Mrs Andrew and Ms Hocking) – 3/4M, C, H

Church car park gate (Ms Monaghan and Mr Warren) – All Foundation students

PARENT

PAYMENTS

RECEIVED

64%

What’s gone home recently?

The following notices/information was sent home between Thursday 4th June to Wednesday 10th June:

Staggered Pick Up

Welcome back students in 3-6

Week Eight Assembly

3rd June Newsletter

The majority of information/notices that are distributed

by the school are now available through Compass.

Should you have missed any details in relation to the items

listed above please speak to your child’s teacher or the school office.

WOW! … WHAT’S ON & WHAT’S DUE @WANDONG

JUNE

Monday 15th School Council meeting (WebEx)

Tuesday 16th PAFA Meeting (Zoom)

Wednesday 17th CANCELLED Regional Cross Country

Monday 22nd POSTPONED Special Evening for those enrolled for 2021 (6:00 to 7:30pm)

Friday 26th Last day to accept new CSEF applications End of Term 2 (school finish at 2:30pm)

JULY

Monday 13th Start of Term 3 (school starts at 8:55am)

Tuesday 21st School Photos today

Wednesday 22nd Bravehearts Ditto Program for Foundation incursion (10:30 to 11:00am)

Monday 27th TO BE ADVISED Wandong Olympics (whole school event)

AUGUST

Monday 3rd School Council meeting

Mon 10th to Sat 15th Wandong PS Book Week Celebrations

Tuesday 14th 2020 Book Fair

Friday 28th TO BE ADVISED District Track & Field Championships

The teachers and office staff would like to request that

parents/guardians pack a full set of spare uniform items in

their child’s bag for them to change into if they suffer a

small accident or muddy mishap at school.

We have a very limited amount of spare clothing available for students

to change into so if you have any spare unwanted uniform items that

your child has outgrown or no longer needs we would greatly appreciate

a donation to our dwindling supply of ‘sick bay’ clothing.

Additionally, if your child has recently needed to borrow items

from our sick bay can you please wash and return them

to the office as soon as possible.