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Principal’s Message

Voluntary School Contributions

Kindy: $40 per child

PP-Yr 6:

$60 per child

P&C CONTRIBUTION $40 per child

These fees can be paid via Direct Debit, cheque or

6206 7950 Thank you.

School Contact MacDonald Ave Padbury 6025 NEW PHONE NUMBER Ph: 6206 7950

Email:padbury.ps@ education.wa.edu.au

Web: www.padburyps. wa.edu.au

SMS Attendance to 0437 208 493 (text only) School Times 8.40am Classes open 8.55am: Start of day 10.55-11.15am: Recess 12.45-1.20pm: Lunch 3.00pm: End of day Term Dates 2020

Term 1 3rd Feb—9th April Term 2 28th April—3rd July Term 3 21st July—25th Sept Term 4 13th Oct—17th Dec

C a r i n g f o r t h e F u t u r e

Pa dbur y P r ima r y S choo l

NEWSLETTER ISSUE No. 4 2020

Welcome back to the new school term. The finish to last term and the start of this one have been challenging for staff and parents alike and our school staff are extremely appreciative of the support we have received to date from our entire school community. Like every school in WA, we have needed to make ongoing adjustments to school processes to accommodate the challenges faced. We continue to make adjustments to processes as advice/instructions from the government, Health Department and Department of Education is updated and are endeavouring to communicate these as soon as possible for parents. I would like to remind and/or advise parents of the following:

Parents are currently not permitted on the school grounds Students who are unwell should be kept at home. Teachers have been

instructed to contact parents if children present at school and are clearly unwell. In some circumstances, I may require parents to provide a medical certificate attesting to their child’s fitness for school. This is to ensure that we minimise the risk of any infections being passed on at school.

Students should arrive at school between 8:30am and 8:40am. Whilst I have

previously advised parents of this, I had overlooked advising staff, who were still operating on our initial decision to have students arrive at 8:40am. This was an oversight on my part and I apologise for any misunderstandings this may have caused.

We have been allocated approximately 10 hours per day of additional

cleaning for the school site (PPS and LDC). The cleaning is being coordinated by Mrs Tan and all classrooms are being cleaned daily on a rotational basis. The focus for our cleaners is cleaning high contact items and surfaces.

All classrooms have been provided with hand sanitiser, hand soap and paper

towels. The school is very supplied with these products and the students have been using them as required. Some students have brought in their own sanitiser and this is kept on their desks for their personal use.

Playground equipment and sports equipment is available to students on a

restricted basis and these are cleaned following each recess and lunch break. Playground equipment is also cleaned before school.

Large gatherings such as assemblies, carnivals etc will not be held until we

are advised otherwise

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The school library will be open and children can borrow books on a weekly basis. Books with plastic or contact covers will be cleaned on their return. Books without plastic or contact covers will be quarantined for 24 hours on their before being made available. This will be undertaken by the Library Officer.

The quarantining and cleaning of home reading books on a daily basis is

problematic. Like library books, there are some which have been covered and some which have not. In the interests of minimising risk to students, home readers will not be sent home for the time being.

Birthday treats should not be sent to school for the time being. As with all the

current advice, this decision has been taken in the best interests of student wellbeing in the current circumstances.

It is hoped that, as restrictions and circumstances change, much of the above will return to “normal”. We will keep parents advised of changes and seek your continued support for these measures we have put in place to make our school as safe as possible. ATTENDANCE Because of the disruptions faced last term, we will not be awarding attendance certificates for the term. However, I am pleased to advise that our attendance rate for this week has risen from 84% on Monday to 94% today. We are optimistic that we will soon be back to full attendance. NEW PHONE NUMBER The phones at Padbury Primary School were upgraded at the end of term 1 and as a result we now have a new phone number: 6206 7950. Please update your records. LUNCH ORDERS Lunch orders are available to be ordered again from Duncraig Senior High School as of Friday 8th May. To order your lunch go to https://www.flexischools.com.au Steps to order: 1. Register an account 2. Add a Student 3. Search for Padbury Primary School and select 4. Select Online ordering to begin an order Lunches are delivered to the front office and distributed to students. Orders can be placed for Mondays Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. DUNCRAIG SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL If your child is currently in Year 6 and interested in enrolling at Duncraig Senior High School, please be advised the following: 1. Due to the current social distancing measures they will not be delivering

enrolment packs to our school. I 2. If you would like to register your interest, an enrolment pack will be mailed to

your address. 3. Click on the hyperlink below to register

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=-RaA4P3Ru0yDsLdutDYWJ-7WWgGUWbJDkZkZKv6l259URTZSN1JJNlM1M1pOMDlGTE1INkFaTExTQS4u

Administration Neil Wood Principal Kim Atkins Deputy Principal Teri Tan Manager Corporate Services Michelle Innes School Officer School Council 2020

P&C Committee 2020

Nicola Graham President Leigh Slabosz Vice President Jo Clarke Treasurer Amanda Cross Secretary

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TERM 1– 2020

Year 6 Grip Leadership Conference

On Friday 13th March our year 6 students

attended the Grip Leadership Conference

at the Perth Convention Centre. The

students had a fantastic time, interacting

with students from other schools and

learning valuable skills like how to be a good leader and what it means to

be a good leader. Thankyou Mr Gillett and Mrs Holmes for making this

opportunity available to our students.

Art with Mrs Reid

Last term our Year 3/4 class made clay

fish hanging ornaments in Art. They look

fabulous well done everyone.

WELCOME BACK TO TERM 2

It is great to see all the students returning this term and settling in well. There are a lot of

happy faces in classes and we are seeing fabulous peer support with the Year 6’s buddying up

with the Year 4’s for a Science experiment. Our Library is looking so colourful with the addition

of our new shelving and fabulous world map mat.

Administration Neil Wood Principal Kim Atkins Deputy Principal Teri Tan Manager Corporate Services Michelle Innes School Officer School Council 2020

P&C Committee 2020

Nicola Graham President Leigh Slabosz Vice President Jo Clarke Treasurer Amanda Cross Secretary

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Education Security If you notice suspicious behaviour on our school site call: 1800 177 777 9264 4632

Professional Development Day

Term 2 Friday 29th May Term 3 Monday 20th July Term 4 Mon 12th Oct Friday 18th Dec

PHYSICAL EDUCATION WITH MRS HOLMES Yoga poses

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Education Security If you notice suspicious behaviour on our school site call: 1800 177 777 9264 4632

Professional Development Day

Term 2 Friday 29th May Term 3 Monday 20th July Term 4 Mon 12th Oct Friday 18th Dec

Term 2 Planner 2020

MON TUES WED THUR FRI

Week 1

27/04

28/04 SCHOOL

DEVELOPMENT DAY

29/04 1St Day Term

30/04 01/05

Week 2

04/05 05/05 06/05 Staff Meeting

07/05 08/05

Week 3

11/05 12/05 13/05 14/05 15/05

Week 4

18/05 19/05 20/05 Staff Meeting

21/05 22/05

Week 5

25/05 26/05 27/05 28/05

29/05 SCHOOL

DEVELOPMENT DAY

Week 6

01/06 02/06 03/06 FACTION CROSS

COUNTRY TBC Staff Meeting

04/06 05/06

Week 7

08/06 09/06 10/06 School Council

Meeting

11/06 12/06

Week 8

15/06 16/06 17/06 Staff Meeting

18/06 19/06

Week 9

22/06 23/06 24/06 25/06 LIGHTNING

CARNIVAL TBC

26/06

Week

10

29/06 30/6 01/07 Staff Meeting

02/07

03/07 LAST DAY TERM FREE DRESS

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