“ A c h i e v e m e n t f o r A l l i n a H a p p y , S a f e & C a r i n g E n v i r o n m e n t ”

Volume 19 Issue 9

Date: Monday 25th March 2019

Phone: 6343 2122 Fax: 6343 1480

Email: grenfell-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: grenfell-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Facebook: www.facebook.com/GrenfellPS

March

Tues 26th Peachey Shield

(7 a side league)

School Banking

Wed 27th Charlie and the Chocolate

Factory Excursion Stage 3

Fri

29th

Whole School Assembly @ 12.00pm Class item by

5/6 Red

Taronga Zoomobile

Performance @ 1.30pm

April

2nd Girls Rugby @ Bathurst

5th PBL Reward Celebration Day

9th Girls Rugby Day @ Dubbo

7.30pm P&C Meeting

12th Easter Hat Parade @ 2.00pm

Last week we celebrated Harmony Day by dressing in orange. The SRC distributed Jelly cups at lunchtime as a treat. Harmony Day celebrates Australia’s cultural diversity. It’s about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone. Children decorated traced hands and created a beautiful Harmony Day display. A huge thank you to Mrs Forde for coordinating the day.

This week we have a lot of events happening. Mr Kilby will be accompanying students to the Peachey Shield on Tuesday, which will be a fabulous day of football.

Students from Stage 3 and a few lucky year 4 students will be travelling to Sydney to view the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” stage production with Mrs Joyce, Miss Robinson and Mr Martens. They will have a very early start in the morning and arrive home in the evening. A huge thankyou to Mrs Joyce for organising this unique activity for our students.

On Friday the Zoomobile will visit our school at 1:30. This will bring students nose to nose with some of our country's most stunning wildlife. During a visit students will be able to meet, learn about and interact with native animals, and be encouraged to take positive action for wildlife.

Later this week I will be travelling to a Primary Principals meeting in Queanbeyan. It is a great opportunity for professional learning and networking with other Principals.

If students forget to bring a hat they will not be able to play at recess

Please Note — Change of Times

Due to our Taronga Zoomobile performance for K-4

students at 1.30pm this Friday, we will be moving our

Whole School Assembly to 12.00 - 12.30pm and then

students will have lunch from 12.30 - 1.20pm ready for

the performance at 1.30pm.

Don’t forget your permission note and payment to attend.

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Make Online Payments

It is now possible for parents to make online payments

to the school for amounts owing for students, via a secure

payment page hosted by Westpac. Payments can be made using either a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card, and can be made via computer, tablet

or mobile phone. The payment page is accessed from the front page of the school’s website by selecting $ Make a payment.

Items that can be paid include voluntary school contributions, subject contributions, excursions, sales to students and creative and

practical arts activities (these include band, drama and dance). There is also a category called ‘Other’ to cover items not covered in the previous head-

ings, ‘Other’ can be used to make a complete payment of a school Statement of Account.

When you access the $ Make a payment you must enter:

the students name

class

date of birth

These details are entered each time you make a payment as student information is not held within the payment system.

This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit card details are captured in a secure manner, these details are not

passed back to the school.

You have the ability to check and change any details of the payment before the payment is processed. Receipts can be emailed and/or printed.

Details of the payments are passed daily to the school where they will be receipted against your child’s account. As a receipt has been issued from the

payment page a further receipt will not be issued by the school.

For any enquiries regarding the online payment process please contact the School Administration Office.

We have had some cases of School sores please read the information below. Impetigo (School sores) Symptoms—Small red spots change into blisters that fill up with pus and become crusted; usually on the face, hands or scalp.

School or home? Keep home from school until one day after antibiotic treatment starts. Sores and blisters should be covered with watertight dressings until all blisters have dried up.

How can I help prevent spread? Parents of children who may have had contact with impetigo should look for signs of infection and seek treatment if symptoms develop.

Careful hand washing especially after changing dressings. Avoid sharing toilet articles, towels, clothing or bed linen. Consider using anti-bacterial soap for bathing for two to three weeks. Avoid scratching or touching the lesions to prevent spread to other parts of the body.

Completing the recommended antibiotic course is very important.

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CANTEEN VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

5th, 12th April

*Please contact Mia on

0423 123 168

Beef Burritos

(mince, cheese, sour cream & salsa)

Plus a hot chocolate

$5.00

Available from Tuesday 26th - Monday 1st

President: Rachael Power

Secretary: Tennille Starr

Treasurer: Erica Moore

We were unable to fill the position of canteen treasurer so if anyone is interested in the position please contact Rachael Power on 0417 209824.

Please come along to our next meeting at 7.30pm on Tuesday 9th

P &C Easter Egg Raffle Once again this year the P & C will conduct a chocolate raffle in

conjunction with the Easter Hat Parade.

Our Easter Hat Parade is scheduled for Friday 12th April at 2.00pm and will be held under the COLA. All students will have the opportunity to make

Easter hats at school beforehand.

For this raffle, we ask for donations of Easter themed goodies (baskets/toys/books/ lollies

decorations/chocolates etc...which we will bundle up for drawing at the Easter Hat Parade.

It proves to be a very exciting raffle for students, and a nice way to break for the Easter holidays.

We are now accepting both non- perishable donations of baskets, stuffed toys etc as well as easter egss. Donations can be left at the office . We will be counting the contributions from each class and there will be a prize for the class that brings the most Easter goodies in. Kinder are winning at the moment.

Raffle ticket books will be distributed shortly.

Don’t forget donations of small glass jars for

Mother’s Day Stall would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Winter Uniform

Winter is about to set in and we need to keep our students warm.

We have a good supply on hand. Students should be wearing:

Sky blue school jumper $32—$34 (depending on size) or navy blue

school polar fleece jacket $30.00

Navy blue school parker $40.00

Navy blue skort with Navy blue tights $20.00

Navy blue pants $25.00

If you want to buy a jacket without a logo it needs to be navy blue.

In winter students can also wear gloves $4.00, a beanie $7.00 or

scarf $7.00 but they have to be navy blue. If they are not navy

blue students can not wear them. Black shoes are part of our school

Uniform, joggers are acceptable on a Friday for our sports day.

Just a reminder that 1st Grenfell Cub Scouts are running a fundraiser

for Mother’s Day.

For $30 your cuddly 25cm bear will be dressed with your own

personalised photo or drawing on a t-shirt that it wears.

Orders and payments must be in no later than Friday 29th March.

Bring in your Easter Eggs

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