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Week 7 COVID Operational Changes – key messages
Book Week – Recap and photos
Pupil Free Day- Friday 3 September, no school or WOSHC.
Parent Teacher Interviews – Thursday 16 September 2021
Enrolment – information regarding enrolling and acceptance of out-of-catchment enrolments
Prep Enrolment Sessions – booking system now open, by invite only.
WEEK 7 COVID OPERATIONAL CHANGES
Please refer to Operations Email 7 sent on Friday 20 August for full information.
School Access
- This week we have welcomed parents and visitors back onto school grounds. On the school grounds we ask that facemasks continue to be worn by adults and that social distancing is maintained (1.5m).
- Classrooms will have a maximum capacity of 5 adults at all times – please contact your child’s class teacher to resume classroom volunteering roles.
- All access points to the school will be opened for pick up/drop off with entry points no longer staffed.
- In the mornings we encourage students to arrive from 8:30am.
- Students are to wait at the front of the office if prior to 8:30am or from here on, in the Arena only.
- Please do not wait outside classrooms or allow children to use play equipment outside of school hours.
Hygiene
- Maintain high levels of personal hygiene- please do not send children to school if they are sick.
- Masks*- all adults (including school staff at all times) on the school grounds are to wear a mask. *subject to next easing of restrictions 27 August 2021
- Sanitisation stations will remain at entry points to the school.
School Activities
- Instrumental music (including band), choirs, dance team, sporting events have resumed.
Sporting Equipment/Toys
- Please do not allow your children to bring their own toys or sporting equipment to school. All of our ovals are now resourced with school sporting equipment for students to use.
BOOK WEEK
This week we celebrated Book Week. The theme for this year was ‘Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds’. It was amazing to see both the students and staff engage in this exciting event with a focus on reading! Well done to all who participated.
PUPIL FREE DAY
Next Friday 3 September is a Pupil Free Day- no students are to attend school. Please also be aware that WOSHC is also closed on this day.
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO ATTEND WONDALL HEIGHTS STATE SCHOOL IN 2022
In catchment students can currently enrol at the office during office opening hours.
Out-of-catchment students can join the waiting list, please contact the office.
A decision will be made for out-of-catchment enrolments in early Term 4, as per the departmental guidelines.
Please share this information with family and friends living in the catchment area!
PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEW – Save the date
Parent Teacher interviews are coming up in Week 10 of Term 3. They are scheduled for Thursday 16 September, 3.30pm to 8.00pm. SOBS bookings will open in Week 9. Booking information will be sent out in the next newsletter.
PREP ENROLMENT SESSIONS
Starting Prep is such an exciting time and Wondall Heights SS is about to start their Prep transitioning sessions, which form an integral part of a smooth and successful transition. As our future Prep students spend time with staff and students, parents will be presented with information to prepare their child for 2022. Session are as follows:
Enrolment Session – Preparing your child for Prep – Wellbeing Session (Enrolment forms to be filled in)
Orientation Session 1 – Preparing your child for Prep – Literacy Session (School Tour)
Orientation Session 2 – Preparing your child for Prep – Getting ready for the first day - (Uniform Shop will be open)
We begin with Enrolment Sessions in early September, these sessions are by INVITE only and invitations to book have been sent.
If you are in-catchment and wishing for your child to attend Prep in 2022, please ensure you have completed your child’s enrolment at the school office to ensure you receive an invite to our Prep Transitioning events.
If you are living out-of-catchment, you are welcome to add your child’s name to the waiting list, more information will be provided to you upon completing this process.
To find out your school catchment status, please access the following link:
Please contact the office directly, if you have any questions about the enrolment process.
We look forward to meeting our future Preps soon!
PBL Up-date
The upcoming fortnight’s behaviour focus is going to be a lesson on “Flipping your Lid”. This is about arming our students with skills and strategies to assist them in responding to emotional triggers in a constructive way, and to communicate and manage strong or intense emotions more effectively.
The concept is based around recognising and understanding the signs in our bodies that let us know when our emotions are becoming overwhelming, and being able to employ strategies to avoid us “flipping our lid”. The hand model of the brain is used to assist students in understanding the role each of the different parts of our brains play, and how a balance in all the parts is required in order for us to regulate our emotions.
Students will be explicitly taught about the process that occurs in our brains when we are overcome with emotions such as anger, frustration, anxiety to name a few. Students will then be taught effective tools to calm and manage their self-regulation.
You may like to ask your child about the hand model of the brain in the upcoming weeks. Some adults find this concept beneficial in managing their emotions too!
Dougie Dollars
Despite our recent school closure due to Covid, our Wondall Learners are well on their way to achieving our school goal of 5000 Dougie Dollars! Our students are motivated and diligent at being Safe, Respectful and Responsible every day, in order to earn our whole school reward. Staff are constantly on the look out for those displaying our school expectations and values and have Dougie Dollars at the ready to reward those students!
Book Fair is coming!
Following Book Week this week, we will continue to celebrate our love of reading with Book Fair next week from 31 August to 6 September. Keep an eye out for the flyer coming home today.
Due to the current situation with COVID uncertainty and the difficulty ensuring social distancing in the Book Fair display area, we will not be having our Book Fair open to parents and carers this year.
Children will visit the Book Fair display with their class on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday next week. During their visit, they will fill out a wish list for books they are interested in, and bring their list home to share and discuss with you.
Books can then be purchased online and collected from Book Fair by the children. Information on how to do this will come home via an email to parents.
When making a purchase online through the Scholastic Book Fair website, you will be given a receipt number which you record on your child’s wish list along with the books you have paid for. Children then return their wish list with the receipt number from Scholastic to the Book Fair in the library and they will be given their book/s to bring home.
Children will be able to make payments by cash for novelty items and books before school or during lunch breaks. To minimise cash handling in the interests of health and safety, if you are sending cash for purchases please endeavour to send your child with the correct amount.
As part of our Book Fair we will be running a colouring competition for all children with a prize per year level of a $10 voucher to spend at Book Fair. Entries will need to be returned to school on Monday morning (30 August) clearly labelled with name and class of the entrant. Four students across the school will also win a $10 voucher in our Book Fair Scavenger Hunt competition run during their class visits to Book Fair. Vouchers will need to be used at the Book Fair, they can not be redeemed for online purchases.
Premier’s Reading Challenge
The Premier’s Reading Challenge ends this Friday. 68 children have handed their competed records in to the office. A special shout out to Prep A, every child in the class has completed the challenge!
Completed record forms must be returned to the school office by Monday 30 August for children to receive a certificate from the Premier for their super reading effort.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR TERM 3
EVENT |
DATE |
Prep Information Session |
Week 8, August 31 |
P and C Meeting |
Week 8, August 31 |
Student Free Day |
Week 8 September 3
|
Prep Enrolment Sesssion 2022 |
Week 9, September 6, 8 and 10 |
Teacher Aide Day |
Week 9, September 2 |
Fire Education Visit Year 1 |
Week 10, September 13 |
Prep Street Science Incursion |
Week 10, September 14 |
Lost or missing items found at school are on display in the arena. If your child has misplaced or lost any school items throughout the term, please take a look too see if they can be found here. All items not claimed will be donated.
