Nar Nar Goon Primary School 27 Spencer St, Nar Nar Goon 3812 Phone: 5942 5311 TERM 1 2020 IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER Friday 27th March Last Day Term 1 2.30 finish Tuesday 14th April First Day Term 2 Issue No:4 March 12th 2020 From the Principal’s Desk: FOR A FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS SEE THIS NEWSLETTER OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.narnargoonps.vic.edu.au Bell Times 2020 9am School Starts 11am -11.30 Recess 1.30pm-1.40pm Children eat inside 1.40pm—2.20pm Lunchtime 3.30pm Children are dismissed VANDALISM ON SCHOOL GROUNDS: Unfortunately vandalism on the school grounds aſter hours has connued to be a problem for our beauful small school, with the latest being the shade sail at the back of the school ripped in half thanks to young adults/teenagers on the roof using the shade sail as a makeshiſt trampoline. On the same weekend there was evidence that these visitors on our school property had aempted to light a fire in the alcove behind the main classroom block. This has now become a criminal acvity and both the Pakenham and Bunyip Police are invesgang as well as patrolling the school grounds aſter hours. Once again, I am appealing to our parent community to be vigilant if you are driving past the school. If you do see anyone on our roof or witness behaviours of concern by visitors on the school grounds please don’t hesitate to call the Bunyip Police Staon on 5629 5205 or Pakenham Police on 5945 2500. School Council has made the decision to install cameras as an extra security measure that will be operaonal out of school hours. NATIONAL RIDE TO SCHOOL DAY IS ON TOMORROW – 13 TH MARCH: We would love the whole school community to join us tomorrow for our “Walk/Ride/Scoot to School” morning. Please meet the staff at 8:30am at the park adjacent to the kindergarten where we will be joined by Councillor Graeme Moore for our walk to school. Weather perming we will walk a lap of the NNG recreaon reserve oval before entering the school grounds. SCHOOL UNIFORM: Thank you to all those parents who ensure their children are in the correct Nar Nar Goon Primary School uniform at all mes. Your support in this maer is very much appreciated by all staff. Please note that the Nar Nar Goon Football and Netball Club hoodies and jumpers are NOT school uniform and children wearing these items will be asked to remove them and find a spare jumper in lost property. DIVISION SWIMMING RESULTS: Congratulaons to our small team of swimmers who parcipated in the Division Swimming Carnival yesterday. Their brilliant results are as follows: Giaan Mc – 3 rd place – Breast Stroke Harley M – 3 rd place – Back Stroke Taylor D – 2 nd place – Free Style Taylor D, Millie H, Azahlia P, Olivia W – 2 nd place – 11 year old girls relay. Considering we were compeng against much larger schools (including Private Schools with rigid training regimes), our school performed extremely well. A Fantasc effort! NEW AIR CONDITIONERS: Thanks to School Council funds being made available to us, two classrooms have received brand new air condioners today, replacing old models that are no longer working. I am sure 3/4H and 1/2K will be much more comfortable on days of extreme temperatures. LIGHTNING PREMIERSHIP COMPETITION: Good luck to our 5/6 cohort as they compete in the summer Lightning Premiership compeon tomorrow! I know you will demonstrate great sportsmanship whilst represenng Nar Nar Goon Primary School as you always do! A FINAL THANK YOU: I would like to sincerely thank everyone who came along to our Sound and Sizzle Night to welcome in the 2020 school year. It was a lovely atmosphere with lots of interacon between the whole school community-students, teachers, parents and grandparents alike. A special thank you to PAFA once again for cooking sausages and providing drinks on the night. PAFA are now asking for donaons of chocolates and Easter Eggs for our Easter egg raffle to be drawn on the last day of term. They have placed a box in the foyer for you to place any donaons. Thank you! Fran Van Lambaart Principal
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VANDALISM ON SCHOOL GROUNDS: Unfortunately vandalism on the school grounds after hours has continued to be a problem for our beautiful small school, with the latest being the shade sail at the back of the school ripped in half thanks to young adults/teenagers on the roof using the shade sail as a makeshift trampoline. On the same weekend there was evidence that these visitors on our school property had attempted to light a fire in the alcove behind the main classroom block. This has now become a criminal activity and both the Pakenham and Bunyip Police are investigating as well as patrolling the school grounds after hours. Once again, I am appealing to our parent community to be vigilant if you are driving past the school. If you do see anyone on our roof or witness behaviours of concern by visitors on the school grounds please don’t hesitate to call the Bunyip Police Station on 5629 5205 or Pakenham Police on 5945 2500. School Council has made the decision to install cameras as an extra security measure that will be operational out of school hours. NATIONAL RIDE TO SCHOOL DAY IS ON TOMORROW – 13TH MARCH: We would love the whole school community to join us tomorrow for our “Walk/Ride/Scoot to School” morning. Please meet the staff at 8:30am at the park adjacent to the kindergarten where we will be joined by Councillor Graeme Moore for our walk to school. Weather permitting we will walk a lap of the NNG recreation reserve oval before entering the school grounds. SCHOOL UNIFORM: Thank you to all those parents who ensure their children are in the correct Nar Nar Goon Primary School uniform at all times. Your support in this matter is very much appreciated by all staff. Please note that the Nar Nar Goon Football and Netball Club hoodies and jumpers are NOT school uniform and children wearing these items will be asked to remove them and find a spare jumper in lost property. DIVISION SWIMMING RESULTS: Congratulations to our small team of swimmers who participated in the Division Swimming Carnival yesterday. Their brilliant results are as follows: Giaan Mc – 3rd place – Breast Stroke Harley M – 3rd place – Back Stroke Taylor D – 2nd place – Free Style Taylor D, Millie H, Azahlia P, Olivia W – 2nd place – 11 year old girls relay. Considering we were competing against much larger schools (including Private Schools with rigid training regimes), our school performed extremely well. A Fantastic effort! NEW AIR CONDITIONERS: Thanks to School Council funds being made available to us, two classrooms have received brand new air conditioners today, replacing old models that are no longer working. I am sure 3/4H and 1/2K will be much more comfortable on days of extreme temperatures. LIGHTNING PREMIERSHIP COMPETITION: Good luck to our 5/6 cohort as they compete in the summer Lightning Premiership competition tomorrow! I know you will demonstrate great sportsmanship whilst representing Nar Nar Goon Primary School as you always do! A FINAL THANK YOU: I would like to sincerely thank everyone who came along to our Sound and Sizzle Night to welcome in the 2020 school year. It was a lovely atmosphere with lots of interaction between the whole school community-students, teachers, parents and grandparents alike. A special thank you to PAFA once again for cooking sausages and providing drinks on the night. PAFA are now asking for donations of chocolates and Easter Eggs for our Easter egg raffle to be drawn on the last day of term. They have placed a box in the foyer for you to place any donations. Thank you!
Fran Van Lambaart Principal
Last weeks’ E for Excellence Award Winners
are pictured below (also featured on our website)
MARCH
Friday 13th 5/6 Lightning Prem iership
Thursday 19th W hole School Cross Country 11.40am —1.00pm
see this newsletter for details
Monday 23rd School Council 4.45pm
Friday 27th Last Day Term 1 2.30pm finish
APRIL—Term 2
Monday 13th Easter Monday Public Holiday
Tuesday 14th First Day Of Term
Tuesday 21st Grand Parent’s Day 10am-11.30am info to follow
Friday 24th 5/6 Sport info to follow
Wednesday 29th Prep Open Morning 9am -10am
MAY
Friday 1st 5/6 Sport
Monday 4th School Council 4.45pm
Wednesday 6th Prep Open Evening 6pm -7pm
Darcy K
Taylor D
Gemma C
Georgia C
Luke T
Tanika B
Piper M
Isla S
REPORTING ABSENCES
It is a Department of Education and Training policy that when a child is absent, we receive an explanation on that day. You can do this in several ways
Anyone who would like to volunteer to help MUST have a current
Working With Children’s Check. Please
contact Mrs Deveny at school
WORKING WITH CHILDREN’S CHECKS—A
GOVERNMENT REGULATION
A reminder that EVERY HELPER in our school must wear their
Working With Children Card on one of our visitor lanyards, or a
visitors badge when helping in our school. This could be for
reading helpers, sport helpers, classroom helpers, PAFA friends
etc. This is policy in our school and we will be monitoring this
diligently. Remember, it is not only for the safety of our children,
but protection for yourself. Our students have also been instructed
to look for these.
Also when signing in please sign in your toddlers too,
just in case of emergency.
STUDENT SUPERVISION
Please be aware that staff are on yard duty in the playground from
8:45 am before school and until 3:45 pm after school. Students
travelling on late buses are supervised in the Multi Purpose Room
after school until the final bus leaves. For your own child’s safety
it is recommended that children do not arrive at school before
8:45 am.
STUDENT INSURANCE
Please be aware that the Education Department does not cover
students for accidents in the school grounds, nor does it cover for
Ambulance costs should the need to call an ambulance be
necessary. I would therefore encourage all families, to please
consider making personal insurance and ambulance cover
arrangements for all their children.
CHILD SAFE STANDARDS
Nar Nar Goon Primary School is committed to child safety.
We want children to be safe, happy and empowered. We
support and respect all children, as well as our staff and
volunteers. We are committed to the safety, participation
and empowerment of all children. We have zero tolerance
of child abuse, and all allegations and safety concerns will be
treated very seriously and consistently with our robust
policies and procedures. If you would like more information
please go to the ‘Wellbeing’ or ‘Policies’ tab on our website
where you will find our Child Safe Policy and/or further
information and resources go to: www.education.vic.gov.au/
protect
FEEDBACK
Your feedback is important to us. If you have a concern or
would like to raise a complaint as a parent, please speak to
the classroom teacher in the first instance, Team leader in
the second instance (ie: Foundation: Jodie Watt, Years 1-2:
Kimberly Feher, Years 3-4 Ryan Marsland, Years 5/6:
Jackie Hope).
Otherwise, please contact the Principal Mrs Fran Van
Lambaart or Assistant Principal Jacqui Cutler, by calling
the office to arrange an appointment.
VISITING THE SCHOOL
We would respectfully ask that every person who comes onto the
school grounds between the hours of 9:15am and 3:15pm does so
through the main office to ensure that we know who is on the
school grounds at all times. We would ask for your cooperation
as parents to ensure that if you have a message for your child or
an item that needs to be delivered to the classroom that you ask
the office staff to pass it on rather than interrupt the class and/or
the teacher durin instruction time. Anyone without a WWCC
lanyard or Visitors badge will be redirected to the front office.
MEDICATION AT SCHOOL
Often we are asked to administer medication for students at school and if provided with the correct written information and parent signatures, we are more than happy to do so. Students know (and parents need to be aware) that any medication brought to school must be kept in the Sick Bay, not in classrooms or student school bags. In order to administer medication correctly we are seeking parent support to ensure the medication provided to staff does not fall beyond the expiry date provided on medication packets/bottles. The office ladies are very busy and it is quite frustrating for them to have to repeatedly request new medication for students when the medication provided is no longer safe due to expiry dates. They often need to make contact with parents multiple times before parents take action and in the case of serious conditions, this can put student’s health at risk. Please support us in our endeavours to keep your children safe and healthy.
ABSENCE MANAGEMENT AT NAR NAR GOON
PRIMARY SCHOOL
When submitting online absence forms please ensure you
provide us with details to enable us to determine whether
or not they will be school approved absences or not.
Parent Choice
School approved – illness/medical. Religious/cultural
observance. Bereavement. Family holiday (with principal
approval). Special circumstances, unavoidable cause,
unforeseen circumstances, and family member ill.
School unapproved- No explanation provided by
parent. Student absent due to participating in leisure or
social activities such as shopping, a child’s birthday,
visiting relatives or friends. A day off for no valid reason.
No approval given by principal to attend family holiday
(requires an absence learning plan with Principal’s
signature).
PLEASE REFER TO THE NAR NAR GOON PRIMARY
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE POLICY LOCATED ON
THE ‘ABOUT US/POLICIES’ TAB ON OUR WEBSITE
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
PARENTS AND FRIENDS ASSOCIATION
**FACEBOOK PAGE**
Join the Nar Nar Goon Primary School – Parents & Friends Group as another way to stay informed and up to date with the activities and events
happening within the School. (*this is a closed group only available to parents/carers) with current students at the school*)