sutton school newsletter
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Principal’s Report
Our swimming carnival held at Dickson Aquatic Centre on Thursday was a great success. Thank you to all our parents who supported, participated and assisted us on the day. Our students enjoyed the competitive and social aspects of our carnival on a beautiful summer’s day. I commend them all for their excellent behaviour, team work and sportsmanship. Our place getters, champions and winning house will be announced at Assembly next Wednesday. I hope you can join us. Communication is a key part of a successful home school partnership. All matters relating to student attendance, change of routines, and general queries or messages needing to be relayed during the school day must be directed to the front office before 2.30pm. Please call 6230 3215 or email [email protected]. Absences can also be reported via our Skoolbag App. If you have any questions or need clarification on something that has happened during the day, please contact the office and leave a message for your child’s teacher. Your child’s teacher will then contact you back. If you are contacting your child’s teacher directly via email, please ensure you cc the front office using the above school email to ensure your message is received and responded to even if a teacher is away from school. At these times a school executive or relieving teacher will return contact. Our morning assemblies are an important time of the day for our students to hear messages about the many different things we do at the school. Parents are more than welcome to stay and hear these messages. Lots of notes and information will be coming home in the next few weeks. Please check your child’s bag for notes as sometimes they can be squashed in the bottom of their bags. Clare Pritchard Principal
Sutton School Newsletter
“Value Learning, Learning Values”
Term 1 Week 2 Principal: Clare Pritchard
Friday 8th February, 2019
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://sutton-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/
Phone: 02 6230 3215 Fax: 02 6230 3327
18 Victoria St, Sutton, NSW 2620 PO Box 7463 Sutton NSW 2620
DIARY DATES
*Wed 13th Feb -Assembly 2:30pm
*Thurs 14th Feb - Choir begins 8:15am
*Thurs 14th Feb - P&C Meeting 7pm
*Wed 27th Feb - Meet the Teacher Evening
*Sat 6th April - School Fair
*Mon 11th March - Canberra Day, Pupil Free Day
*Tues 12th March - Years 3/4 Museum Excursion
WHAT’S INSIDE
*Skoolbag Update
*Note & Money Bags
*No Parking RFS
*Student Health
Information
*MathsBURST Program
*Birthday Wishes
*Canteen Order
Skoolbag Update
To do -
1. Download the app ‘Skoolbag: School Communication’
2. Use the login you made for the old app
3. Search for Sutton Public and add the groups you want to receive notifications for
4. Delete the old app
Make sure you select relevant classes in the Groups tab!
What you can do on the app -
submit absentee forms
access our website calendar
make POP payments
read the newsletter
see class specific notes
access canteen forms
EAST GUNGAHLIN NETBALL CLUB 2019 GRADING
New and returning players are invited to attend the 2019 club grading at Harrison School Gym.
Tuesday 5th and 12th of February for both boys and girls:
6 to 10 Years - 3.30 to 4.30 10 to 12 years - 4.30 to 5.30
Friday 8th and 15th of February:
13 to 18 years - 4.30 to 5.30
For more information please contact the club on 0456 397 847 or email: [email protected]
******NO PARKING******
All parents are kindly reminded to refrain from parking in or across the driveway of our
Rural Fire Service premises. Access for the brigade vehicles must be clear at all mes.
Thank you for your coopera on.
MATT GITEAU CUP
Friday 22nd March 2019
The Matt Giteau Cup is Brumbies Rugby premier primary school tackle competition. Catering for teams in Years 3/4 & 5/6, the 10 a side competition will be held at Campese Oval in Queanbeyan. Teams can be a mixture of both girls and boys. First games to kick off at 9.30am with the competition concluding by approx. 2pm.
For further information please email Samantha Maxwell:
Happy Birthday to the following students
who are celebrating their birthday in
February:
Nicholas K Lillian F Toby W
Zahra R Eliza L Oliver K
Sidney K Hamish V Eliza W
Dillon W Felix B Deng C
Luke J Katy W Zara M
Joel D Elias C
Student Health
Allergies Students with allergies are a high priority for Sutton Public School. We require all families who have children with allergies to make a time with the school to develop an allergy management plan. Parents are encourage to make an appointment to discuss or review their child’s health needs at anytime.
Anaphylaxis and Asthma All students who are identified as requiring an EpiPen or require asthma preventers/relievers are required to provide the school with a management plan completed by your child’s GP. You must meet with the School Principal to complete an Individual Health Care Plan.
Staff training All staff are provided with annual CPR, emergency management and EpiPen training administered by certified trainers.
Nut Products We ask that all families assist us to support students with allergies through not packing nut based foods and spreads in children’s lunches.
Administration of Medication Parents/carers of students needing prescribed medication during the day at school for a short-term complaint must make arrangements in writing for this to be administered. The principal, student’s class teacher and the office staff must be informed. A permission form must be completed by the parent and signed by the principal / assistant principal prior to any medication being administered at school. If a long-term medical or allergy condition requiring medication exists, parents must provide information in writing outlining the nature of the drug, the appropriate dosage, use and possible side effects.
All medications must be provided to the school by the parent in the original packaging. Students are not to bring medication to school.
Students who routinely administer medications themselves for conditions such as asthma, diabetes, epilepsy etc will be supervised by a class teacher at the school as negotiated between the teacher, parent and Principal. The parent will provide the school with an action plan.
Sickness and Accidents Health issues in schools are extremely important. Parents are therefore asked to cooperate in complying with any requests from the school concerning health issues. When children become ill during school time, parents will be contacted and asked to collect their child.
Occasionally children do have accidents and first aid is given. In the case of serious accidents an ambulance is called. Parents are notified immediately.
School Counsellor The Department of Education provides a student counselling service for students who are experiencing learning or behavioural difficulties. Additionally the counsellor advises on students with diagnosed disabilities where the aim is to ensure that adjustments are made to facilitate equitable and successful access to the mainstream academic program. Access to the counsellor is by referral after consultation with the learning and support team.
MathsBURST Enrichment Program
Spa al Reasoning Interven on Trial
Facilitated by: Centenary Professor Tom Lowrie ‐ University of Canberra
In 2019, all teaching and executive staff in Primary Schools across the Queanbeyan Network of Schools will be part of the MathBurst Spatial Reasoning Program trial. MathsBURST is an inquiry-based teacher professional learning and student enrichment program that:
develops students’ mathematics understandings through the spatial reasoning component of the general numeracy capability; and
promotes STEM practices through units of work that integrate STEM across all curriculum areas with digital tools.
ALL teaching and executive staff are instructed to attend a professional learning day on Monday
March 11th, 2019. To enable this training to take place, a variation of Staff Development Day from
Thursday 19 December 2019 to Monday March 11 2019 for all Queanbeyan Network Primary Schools has been approved by the Deputy Secretary – Murat Dizdar.
This means Monday 11th March (Canberra Day) is a pupil free day as ALL staff will attend the professional learning event at the University of Canberra.
A letter home to advise of this change to school routine and with further details regarding this program will be sent to parents next week.
Please mark this date. This is an important opportunity for our students, staff and school.
Money and Notes
Zip lock bags have been provided to all students this week. Your child brings the bag with notes and money enclosed to the front office, and places it in the “mail box” in the front counter, before school begins. Please do not hand to the class teacher. Your receipt will be placed in the zip lock bag and returned to the class teacher, who will hand it back to your child. You can then use the zip lock bag the next time your child needs to bring money to school.
School Starting Times
A reminder to parents that our school starting time is 9.20 am. The playgrounds are unsupervised before 9am each morning so students are asked not to arrive at school before this time.
Not receiving notes? Misplaced Notes? Copies can be obtained from our website or our Skoolbag app.
Lost Clothing
Could you please continue to check all items of clothing that your child brings home to ensure that they have not inadvertently picked up someone else’s clothing.
The Real Food Canteen Week 3 Term 1 Friday 15th February, 2019
Canteen is a fun way to meet other school parents and get involved in our community. If you would like to volunteer to join our team in the canteen on Fridays 9.30-12.30 please contact Ros
on 0418416726 or email [email protected].
Wk3 15th Feb Bek Bec Low Lacey Lorissa Nachos Wk4 22nd Feb Ros Vicky Ruth K Ella C Beef or Haloumi Burgers Wk5 1st March Bek Johanna Shona Krystal Spaghetti Bolognese
Place your orders and money in the box in the School Office by 3.30pm Wednesday- no orders on Thursday or Friday please
PLEASE write your child’s name and class on a zip lock bag (if you use) and we will return to your child to reuse
We offer fresh pieces of fruit and vegetables for free!! Snacks and treats available to buy at the window:
$1.50 / each $1.00 /each 50c /each
Bulla Frozen yogurt Smooze Fruit Ice (Frozen) Jelly Annie’s Natural Fruit Leather Popcorn
Chocolate and yoghurt coated rice cakes
Plain chips
Freeze dried fruit various flavours Pretzels