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Volume 6 Issue 5 8 May 2020 Newsletter

From The Principal’s Desk

PARENT INFORMATION UPDATE

Dear Parents,

Thank you for your ongoing support of our school and your family. I am sending out another survey

today regarding school attendance in week 3 of this term. Your previous responses helped greatly;

and a response today will support our planning for next week. I’d appreciate it if you would please

take 5 minutes to complete the survey for me as soon as possible.

The position of the Minister remains the same at this time with parents able to choose whether their

children learn from home or attend school. Year level Learning at Home packs will be available

from the front of the school for collection between 12:00 – 2:00pm today (Friday 8 May). My special

thanks to our wonderful P&C volunteers who will be helping us today.

The information and instruction to schools remains the same. For students attending school there

are some points that need to be clear:

Please do not send your child if they have a temperature; a cough; a sore throat; or if they feel

sick in any way.

Please send your child with their own drink bottle. This bottle can be refilled from our clean

drinking fountains.

Young people will be asked not to drink directly from the fountains – only from their bottles.

Crunch and Sip – please pack the usual healthy crunch and sip foods for your child but let

your child know that there will be no sharing of food. This extends to birthdays at this point in

time.

Play equipment – the metal play equipment will re-open at Golden Bay PS.

The additional cleaner will continue to work throughout the school day to support cleaning of

equipment and to clean all frequently used surfaces and door handles. Cleaners have been

provided with Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) as required.

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Hand Hygiene

Please support us by continuing to reinforce good handwashing and sanitising between

tasks. We’ve always had soap in all ablution blocks, and sanitiser has always been provided for

classrooms. This best practice will continue in our school.

Students will be asked to wash their hands/sanitise before commencing school work, eating,

between tasks, and at the start and finish of each play period.

Social Distancing

The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) issued a statement on 24 April

that reads, “AHPPC does not believe that the ‘venue density rule’ of no more than one person

per four square metres is appropriate or practical in classrooms or corridors, nor maintain 1.5m

between students during classroom activities”.

During class activities, our staff will provide individual student work and reduce group activities.

As you are aware, the greatest known risk of transmission at this point appears to be between

adults. Staff will attend to social distancing guidelines as provided.

To support social distancing for you, parents are requested to drop off and pick up their children

at school gates, or nearby (as per the previous two weeks). This is based on advice from the

Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC).

School and Learning arrangements

Our teachers will be in classrooms next week. This will mean that WebEx will only be used once

per week for students at home. The purpose will be to retain a connection for our young people

who are learning at home. It will keep them in touch with their class peers to say hello and have

a brief sharing time. These connections will last no longer than 15 minutes. Learning at Home

packs will be the main learning available for students at home from week 3 onwards.

Staff will continue to manage traffic flow in and out of the classrooms to reduce congestion.

Managing drop off and pick up locations - I continue to seek your support with the following:

Parents with children in Kindergarten and Pre-primary:

Can you please drop your children at the ECE gate on the Tangadee Road side of the school.

Staff will be available to receive your child and take them to class. Preferred time between

08:25 – 08:40am. If your ECE child has an older sibling they can enter through this gate.

All other students in years 1 – 6 are to enter from the Arizona Parade car park side. Staff will be

there to welcome them and direct them towards classrooms. Preferred time 08:30 – 08:40 am

Kiss and drop in the morning would be preferred for the older students. Afternoon pick up will

require you to park if early so that the entrance isn’t blocked and traffic flow can be

maintained. This will require patience from everyone and a commitment to keep the flow

happening.

Older students who need to collect siblings from kindergarten and Pre-primary will be released

at 02:40pm so they can help us in collecting their younger sibling/s ready for you to collect your

family outside the ECE school gate on Tangadee Road carpark side (as per drop off). Again, I

respectfully call on your patience during this time of difference for us all.

Please remember that parents will not be permitted on school site, and social distancing for you

and staff is still required.

All other gates will remain locked at this time.

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SMS texts from us regarding attendance:

Each day (whether learning from home or school) all parents will receive two texts from us at

10:00 am and 12:00. To have your child marked as present please respond to these texts from

our system. My apologies but we had to streamline the one message for everyone.

Students with special needs

The ACROD parking bays in the staff carpark can be used for students with special needs.

Bike racks

I ask that students leave their bikes and scooters at home unless there is an absolute need to

bring them to school (Eg – considerable distance from school). Bike racks will be cleaned down

at the end of each school day.

OSHClub

The usual gate for OSHClub will continue to be used during drop off and after school collection

times.

Learning at Home packs

These will be available for collection as per the Connect notice and schedule provided by

Cherie Raymond.

Thank you once again for all your positive feedback, support and community spirit. We couldn’t have

done all this without your help! Again, the Executive Team will be available this afternoon if you need

to speak with one of us.

Have a relaxing weekend with your family everyone….and Happy Mother’s Day!

We remain ‘A Community of Learners’ (School Vision statement for GBPS).

In your service. Take care everyone.

Kind regards,

PETA LAWRENCE

PRINCIPAL

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Calendar

TERM DATES 2020

Term 1 3 February — 9 April Holidays 10 April — 27 April

Term 2 29 April — 3 July Holidays 4 July — 20 July

Term 3 21 July — 25 September Holidays 26 September — 12 October

Term 4 13 October — 17 December Holidays 18 December — 1 February

School Bank account details.

Golden Bay Primary

BSB 016—745 (ANZ Mandurah)

Account 393342748

www.goldenbayps.wa.edu.au

Term 2 IMPORTANT DATES

Term 2 update of important dates will be posted as they come to hand.

2020 PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

Western Australia Day Monday 1 June

GOLDEN BAY PRIMARY SCHOOL WEBSITE

All school information, programs, and key events can be found on the Golden Bay Primary

School website at the following address:

School Development days (No students)

Term 3 Monday 20 July

Term 4 Monday 12 October

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Positive behaviour support

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Chaplain

Dear Golden Bay school community.

Welcome to Term 2

This term is starting off a little bit different than what we are used to but ‘different’ can also be

good sometimes.

I want to encourage you to keep looking for the good things that come out of these different times.

I am excited to connect with everyone again this term and to continue to support families and

staff. I will be on site on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for supporting students and families in need of

emotional support and connection.

Here is a list of random acts of kindness that you can do to show others how much you care.

I look forward to hearing about all the good deeds you have done.

See you soon

Joané –

Golden Bay School Chaplain

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Chaplain

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Community

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Community