WWVP Registration

Have you got your WWVP registration? To volunteer in the school and attend excursions, all visitors must have current registration status.

Registrations are completed online at:

Sun Safety Message from Nurse Bec

A reminder to all parents. Please ensure your child brings a school hat to wear each school day between the months of September and April. The weather is now warming up and the UV is increasing rapidly. The UV’s average this November alone is ‘very high’ on the UV index scale. This indicates that even on cloudy or colder days, sunburn can still occur. Wearing a hat as well as sunscreen on exposed skin is necessary when playing outdoors. We encourage all parents to assist in applying sunscreen to children prior to the school day. Please be especially mindful of this as we approach end of year excursions and outdoor sporting activities.

School Association AGM

March 2nd 2021

Nominations will be called shortly for vacant Parent positions and we ask parents to consider nominating to support our School Association. Further details have been sent home.

School Association Notice of Election

Inquiry in the Library 2021

This year at Perth Primary School students will be working with Mrs Woods in the Library for one specialist lesson a week. During this time students will be discovering how libraries work, exploring books, developing a love of reading, and learning lifelong skills through inquiry investigations and real-world, hands-on learning experiences.

To ensure students learning during Inquiry in the Library lessons is uninterrupted, students will not borrow books during this time.

Students will be invited to return and borrow new books before school on their allocated day, as follows:

P-1D, P-1WR, P-1WI and 2-3B Tuesday 8.30-9.00am
2-3C, 3-4JL, 4-5D, 5-6LH and 5-6W Wednesday 8.30-9.00am

Canteen commences Thursday 11th February 2021

Ordering canteen is done online via our Qkr. Parents need to update their child/ren’s class every year. Please look further in the newsletter for instructions to download the Qkr app.

Raspberry Muffins (Week 2 & 3)

Plastic Free/Recycle

In our canteen we are trying our best to be as Plastic Free and recycle as much as possible.

1. We don’t use any plastic wrap anymore at all, we place our pre made toasted sandwiches into large Sistema tubs before they are toasted.
2. We use metal spoons for our frozen yoghurt
3. We use block cheese which we slice and grate which are placed in Sistema containers
4. We use reusable bowls for our popcorn and cheese and biscuits
5. Any items that can or need to be frozen (Ham, Chicken, Pineapple or Baked Beans) we freeze in Sistema reusable containers
6. Our Cheese and Biscuits and Popcorn are sold in reusable bowls which are returned to the canteen
7. We wash and dry yoghurt containers and lids to recycle
8. We only use paper bags for our lunch orders
9. We use a piece of foil to cover our pizza muffins before placing into a paper bag
10. We place 4 Black Tubs in our eating areas so all our return items, bowls, spoons, yoghurt containers. They are returned after lunch to the canteen washed and put in appropriate places
11. We have 4 Soft Plastic Bins around the eating areas, only soft plastic is placed in these bins. Our Waste Warriors empty the bins on Wednesdays and the soft plastic it taken to the appropriate deposit areas, Coles or Woolworths. The bins are washed and placed back in the playground eating areas
12. We recycle everything that are one use items in the correct way
13. We also compost our food waste in the school compost area
14. We only offer wholemeal bread, rolls and wraps also wholemeal fruit loaf when available

Bicentenary Picnic Activity

Perth Primary School Home Reading Program

Road Safety Important Information

Outside School Care Hours (OSHC)

Located in the Hall

Early Birds and After School Care
Early Birds 7:45am - 8:30am Monday – Friday
please contact the school office 6398 2302 ($3 per child)

Please Note: Payments and bookings can be made via cash or the Qkr app
(our preferred payment method).

Please Note: Parents are required to personally drop off children to BSC.

After School Care – Midlands Kids Club (Northern Midlands Council)
please contact Kate Lee – 0438 911 303

Scholastic Book Club – Online Order via the LOOP

All orders are to be placed online by Monday 22nd February

Get involved in the School Banking program

Perth Primary School is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program to all students.

School Banking is a fun, interactive and engaging way to help teach your child about money. Children who deposit money into their Youthsaver account through School Banking earn Dollarmites tokens, which they can save up and redeem for exciting rewards.

The rewards available during 2021 are:

School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. Our school receives a Regular Savers Contribution of $5 for every 10 deposits processed per student as well as an Annual Contribution which is based on the number of students who made at least one School Banking deposit in the prior year. For more information about contribution payments, visit the link below:

Getting involved in School Banking is easy!

All you need to get involved in the School Banking program is a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account. You can open an account for your child in one of two ways:

1. Online
   Visit www.commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click on the link to open a Youthsaver account.
2. In branch
   Visit a Commonwealth Bank branch with identification for yourself and your child, like a driver’s licence and birth certificate.

If your child has an existing Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account they can start banking straight away. They just need to bring their deposit in every week on School Banking day using their Dollarmites deposit wallet.

School Banking day is Thursday.

If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2021 School Banking program parent guide from the school office or visit the link below:

A reminder that student levies are now due. Please finalise your account or contact the office to organise a Levy Payment Plan.

A reminder to parents to sign and return Student Validation Forms to the office.

Please return your child’s ICT Agreement to your child’s teacher.

Information from our School Psychologist

Duty of Care Reminder To Parents

Medication

In line with Department of Education guidelines for the administration of medication, all medications are kept in a secure location.

Department forms, available from the office, must be completed by a medical practitioner and a parent, before any medication can be administered to a student.

Medication is administered by authorised school personnel according to instructions received from the Medical Practitioner.

It is not possible to dispense over-the-counter medications such as Panadol without authorisation.

If your child requires prescribed medication to be administered whilst they are at school, you must arrange for:

• Form A / Form B written request to the school to administer the medication;
• the medical practitioner’s specific prescribed instructions for administration on the pharmacist’s label;
• the safe transfer of medication to the school;
• medication to be delivered to the school in original prescribed container only. An official register for the administration of medication to students will be maintained by the school.

Asthma

If you child has an Asthma Plan, please provide this to the office.

Monday 2:45pm – 3:00pm

Payments by cash, Qkr, or EFTPOS (at the office)
Hats are available from the office

Limited stock:

Boys bootleg trousers $10.00
Cargo shorts $12.00
Boys long cargo pants $17.00

Absence

• Regular attendance is necessary for children to engage effectively in school, so we ask all parents to ensure children attend on every possible occasion.
• Please provide an explanation for all absences - notes, messages, online form or phone calls are all acceptable.
• Online form is available via the Schoolzine app (szapp).
• If someone is away for an extended period of time, regular contact with the class teacher is recommended. For those who do not have access to text messages, an answering service is available on the school phone after hours.
• Following any five unexplained absences the school is required to start a formal communication process with families.

LATE ARRIVAL

• Anyone who arrives after class teacher period must report immediately to the school office so that their attendance can be noted and a pass issued for entry into class.

APPOINTMENTS DURING THE DAY

• Parents must sign students out for appointments during the day.

EARLY LEAVING

• Parents needing to collect children during the day are asked to advise the school by note or phone call earlier in the day.

When can your child be authorised to be absent from school?

Changes have been made to provide certainty for schools, parents and students as to the reasons a child can be authorised to be absent from school.

Reasons your child can be authorised to be absent include:

• sickness/incapacity
• medical, legal or related appointments
• natural disaster or extreme weather preventing your child from safely attending their enrolled school
• terminal illness of an immediate family member
• bereavement of a person your child had a close, significant or family relationship with
• having witnessed or been subjected to family violence
• being a participant or official at a recognised State, National or International event
• participation in a recognised learning experience
• an application for home education being received by the Education Registrar and provisional registration being granted.

What will happen if my child is absent for a reason that isn’t listed?

The absence will be recorded as an unauthorised absence.

Principals receive notifications about the number of unauthorised absences your child has.

Your child’s school may send you a letter notifying you of the number of unauthorised absences your child has.

They will seek to work with you to increase your child’s attendance to maximise their learning if the Principal is concerned about your child’s attendance.

What happens if my family go on holiday during school term?

Schools have always encouraged family holidays to be planned for during the scheduled school holiday breaks.

If your family decides to take a holiday during school term, you are encouraged to discuss your plans with the Principal. Penalties will not apply if an absence is explained.

Costumes for the Bicentenary Picnic

As the Bicentenary 2021 celebrates 200 years since Perth was named it was thought a simple way to be inclusive with the costuming was to highlight costumes in 100 year blocks.

I am happy to help with ideas and patterns and sewing advice.

If there are any people with sewing skills who are happy to help others please let me know and I can pass on that information.

I would suggest the holidays are a good time to start gathering ideas and materials and making or assembling costumes as the picnic will be early in the the first term and life can get fairly hectic around this time.

Please email or text me in the first instance.

Jo Saunderson. josaunderson@iinet.net.au
Mobile: 0400 239 104