Things To Know

Parents and Citizens' Association

The Parents and Citizens' Association meeting is held on the first Thursday of each month, beginning at 7:30pm in Staff Common Room, Western Side.

All Personal Belongings

All personal belongings should be labelled. Valuable belongings should be left at home as no responsibility can be taken for any breakages or theft.

Dental Services

Are available through a visiting Dental Clinic.

Book Club

Pupils are given the opportunity of purchasing leisure books at various stages through the year. These books are of reasonable lasting quality with very good literary content and sell at low cost. Many children use these to build up personal libraries. The encouragement of leisure reading is the basic aim of this service. There is no obligation to purchase any of these books. Details are communicated to parents at appropriate times during the year.

Arts Council

Usually one or two Arts Council Cultural Performances will be offered each year at the school. Parents are encouraged to allow their children to attend. The cost is included in the Junior School resource levy.

Lost Property

Items found under covered seating areas, in toilet blocks or in the playground are generally placed in the lost property bin located at the office. Parents are welcome to check these for lost items. At the end of each semester any items unnamed and unclaimed will be given to the second hand shop.

Library Usage and Borrowing

Children are encouraged to borrow books starting from their first week at school. To take a book home they need some kind of library bag (an old pillow slip or a Woolies bag will do). If they do not have either they may still borrow but the book must stay at school in the classroom. We also encourage the children to use the library before school and during the lunch break. We have suitable games and toys for them to use as well as stories on cassette for listening.

Sports Houses

This will be decided in the first week of term after all enrolments are processed. If students who are enrolling have siblings or relatives at the school every effort will be made to place them in the same sports house.

Lunches

Children who bring their own lunch to school need little lunch and big lunch in SEPARATE containers. Little lunch stays in school ports, big lunch boxes go in the box provided in the classroom.

The Parents and Citizens' Association runs the School Tuckshop at which students may purchase a wide range of foodstuffs and drinks. N.B. Softdrinks are available for sale to secondary students, but NOT to children in the Primary School. All profits go to the P&C Association to benefit the school. Parents, relatives and friends are urgently needed as voluntary workers and the school would be greatly obliged if willing workers would contact the Tuckshop Convenor on 4090 6428

To order from the Tuckshop Write name, year level/class, order and which break (1st or 2nd) the order will be needed, on a brown paper bag and enclose money in it. Separate bags should be used for each break.

 Example: John Smith 1W

(2nd Break)

1 ham roll. $1.50
1 milk .......$1.20
total..........$2.70

Each class has tuckshop baskets where these orders are placed. Monitors take the baskets to the tuckshop and collect them before lunch. Orders placed for morning tea (1st break) are to be picked up at the order window at tuckshop.