Mother’s Day
I hope all mums had a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday. Congratulations to Cheio and his mum Marie who won the Mother’s Day Stall raffle for a gift voucher to Café Elixir.
Cross Country Carnival
Yesterday our cross-country carnival was run, and some great racing took place. Thank you to Miss Jones for preparing the students and organising the carnival. Thank you also to parents and staff for assisting with the running of the event and to parents for supporting on the day.
Students Insurance
Students Personal Accident Insurance covers all currently enrolled students and provides benefits for a range of medical services, such as dental and physiotherapy costs which have been incurred as the result of an accident. Additional expenses such as medical expenses and emergency transport are also payable under the policy. Cover under the policy applies whilst a currently enrolled student is engaged in school Education Activities.
I write this as information for all families but wish to highlight that it only applies to accidents during school Education Activities, this means that if a child has an accident on the play equipment after school, they are not covered.
After Hours Play
As you know, school staff supervise your children at all times during the school day, including while they use play equipment. The students understand the rules allowing them and others to enjoy doing so safely and respectfully. No school staff are on duty after 3pm to supervise your children, enforce the rules of play, or attend to any need arising.
Therefore, if you choose to remain on school grounds with your child or other children in your care, you understand and accept sole responsibility for supervising them. ‘Supervision’ is keeping a direct line of sight to your child. It means ensuring your child behaves according to our Code of Conduct and other rules in their play and interactions with other children and parents. Students know the rules they follow during school hours and I ask you to enforce consistency while you supervise them after hours.
If you identify any broken play equipment or other risk to students after hours, please alert other parents to remove their children and bring the matter to our attention by contacting the office.
Whilst I understand that many parents use the time after school to come together as community, which is important, if you supervise your children as described, then we can all enjoy the gifts of play and friendship in our school community.
Smart watches
There are a few children, who ride or walk to school and their parents provide them with a phone in case they need to seek assistance. The practice for these children is to hand their phones into the office on arrival and collect their phones at the end of the day. Recently, we have discovered that there are children who are wearing watches with cellular capabilities – meaning they can act like a phone in making calls, sending messages, taking photos and accessing the internet. Watches with these capabilities are to be treated in the same way as mobile phones. If they are not able to be put into “school mode” then they need to be handed into the office on arrival at school and collected at the end of the day.
In Harmony
Martin Tucker
Principal
