From the Principal
Welcome to our last newsletter for term 1....how quickly this term has flown by!
It has been wonderful this year to return to a certain level of normality within our school, particularly in relation to being able to have families and community members join us for events such as our recent athletic carnivals. Family and community partnerships are an extremely important part of children's education and we have, and continue to work hard to find ways to maintain and strengthen this partnership whilst adhering to all Public Health requirements. I sincerely thank you for your continued understanding and support as we continue to make adaptions to meet Public Health requirement in order to include our school community in school events and everyday activities.
Please remember that it is a Department of Education requirement that you have a current Working with Vulnerable People card if you would like to be part of our family support within classes.
Registration to work with vulnerable people (cbos.tas.gov.au)
Thank you to all our parents who were able to join us for our recent Parent/Teacher meetings. Our move to holding these during term 1 is in relation to further building family connections between students, parents and teachers early in the year. If you were not available to meet with teachers during the scheduled two-week time, but would like to make a time to meet, please contact your child's class teacher.
Car Park Safety
Unfortunately, and highly concerning, the national statistics for child injuries and fatalities on roads continues to be alarming. It is the responsibility of all adults to teach and model the appropriate safety to our young people. I have included a link below that displays some information in relation to road injury and fatality statics.
Many of our staff have recently expressed some concern in relation to the foot traffic within the school car park of a morning. We ask that you only access the school car park of a morning if you are dropping off children to Before School Care, and that when doing this you take extreme care to be vigilant with cars coming in and out by having your children close to you and in your sight at all times.
Please also remember that the car park is not to be accessed for pick up (other than for disability parking), for drop off, or pick up to and from school. Pedestrians are also required to walk within the walk ways and not through the car park. We will be working with children to also give reminders about the appropriate walk ways.
Can we all please be sure to take care and consideration for our residents living close to the school. We have had reports of cars parked over residents driveways, sometimes up to 10-15 minutes at the end of the day. Aside from this being a traffic offence it is very disruptive and intrusive for the residents.
Finally, thank you to everyone, including our students, who have been wonderful in following the rules of the pick-up and drop-off area. Students and now waiting at the top of the zoned area for traffic to keep moving up for pick up. Please remember that just one car parked there and left, disrupts the entire process.
I understand that this all sounds like lots of reminders, however, we all want each and everyone of our children to remain safe and we all have a part to play in that.
Kind regards, Karen