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It seems both coincidental and fortuitous that just two weeks ago the focus of my newsletter article was the importance of the partnership between home and school.  So now during these extremely challenging and unprecedented times, I want to share with you what we are doing as a school to keep our students and staff safe, prepared and calm. I will also share some ideas of ways that you can be supporting this at home.

As everyone is very well aware, the Coronavirus has created an environment of great uncertainty and confusion. We understand that this is a stressful time for everyone.  Please be reassured that Bayswater Primary School will continue to remain open unless the Government and Department of Education change their policy on this.  We have had no incidence of any staff member or student / family member testing positive. We have already implemented increased hygiene awareness – hand sanitiser in every classroom, posters in every classroom and student toilets with instructions of how to wash hands properly.  Our cleaner has implemented additional cleaning / sanitizing protocols.  We are also taking additional precautions such as limiting external visitors to the school.  This has resulted in Breakfast Club and Kids Hope being suspended for the foreseeable future.  These will be reinstated as soon as it is safe to do so.

In keeping with the recommendations from the Federal Health Department in relation to social distancing we are asking parents to limit the amount of face to face contact they have with staff at our school.  For example, rather than meeting in person with parents for SSG’s this term, we will be emailing these to families for consultation. We ask if you would like to discuss anything with your child’s teacher that you send them an email or call via the school office.  Our new website is now live and operational, and contains hyperlinks to staff emails. We will put general information regarding any updates onto our website as they become available.

All staff at school have been busily preparing in case of school shut downs and we have a comprehensive plan in place to continue to deliver an ongoing and uninterrupted learning program for our students.  This would involve teachers working from home to provide regular learning opportunities and work that would be completed at your homes.  Teachers would stay in regular contact via email and would provide feedback on student work.  This would allow our usual teaching and learning program to continue as well as assessment and reporting processes.  All staff will be given clear roles and procedures to enable this to happen smoothly if this plan needs to be enacted.  In order for this to be possible it is important that we have up to date contact information for all of our families.  Please see the communication sent out yesterday for further details.  And as always, if you have any questions or concerns please contact Raelene or myself.

The following is an excerpt from on online article entitled “Helping kids cope with the COVID-19 epidemic” by Tali Health, that I wanted to share with you as many parents have been asking me about how to approach the current situation with their children. 

“It’s important that parents and caregivers recognise that children may be dealing with heightened feelings of anxiety as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds. As well as monitoring our own anxiety levels, we need to take the time to look for signs in our children that they’re more anxious than usual. We need to speak openly, honestly and directly with kids, and limit their exposure to constant news and information updates about the spread of the disease. As much as we might find it challenging, it’s important to model calmness when we’re around our kids, and it’s also important that we stick to their daily routines as much as we can. We might not be able to fully calm our kids’ fears the way we’d like and, if we find that to be the case, it’s important to seek the advice of a professional sooner rather than later.”    

Our Wellbeing team of Kelly Roberts and Jacqui Carter are also as always, available to give any support, advice or material assistance that you may require during this time.  I would like to take the opportunity to thank our entire school community; students, staff, parents and other community members for the calm, responsible and collaborative ways that you have been managing throughout this situation.  I am very proud of our wonderful little school and the resilient way that we cope during difficult times.

Brooke Cross

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Diary Dates

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March

 

Wednesday 18

Newsletter Day

Thursday 19

Facilities Committee Meeting - 1.30pm

Tuesday 24

School Council – 7pm

Friday 27

Last Day of Term 1

Assembly - 2pm

Early Finish at 2.30pm

April

 

Friday 10

Good Friday

Monday 13

Easter Monday

Tuesday 14

First Day of Term 2

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Whole School Athletics

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On Tuesday, we had a fabulous time celebrating community and athleticism at our Whole School House Athletics. Students showed off their excellent dress sense, teamwork, sportsmanship and athletic ability as they ran, jumped and threw their way to personal bests!

A great deal of work went in to making sure that this event was even possible. It’s not every day you have a school with enough grounds and facilities to run a whole school athletics!

Special thank you’s to the following community groups who helped to make the day as special as it was:

  • Interchange Outer East Volunteers for digging the long jump pit.
  • Noel and Richard from Bayswater RSL for helping us finalise construction of the long jump pit with a cover.
  • Landcore Group who donated the fresh sand for the Long Jump and Triple Jump pits.
  • Boronia Hawks Football Club for donating their line marker for the day.
  • Bayswater Secondary College staff and students for attending the day to help us run the events.
  • JD’s coffee for providing much needed coffee to staff and families.
  • St John’s Ambulance who donated their time to ensure our event was as safe as possible.
  • Bayswater Primary School families for supporting the day.

A fantastic day for everyone involved!

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Student Stars

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Junior S

Sadie K – For being an amazing bucket filler! You bring such kindness and happiness to our classroom.

Junior M

Lilly D – For your excellent listening and attitude in class this week. Keep up the great work Lilly!

Junior A

Awuoi M - For using self-regulation to make better choices in the classroom. Well done Awuoi, keep it up!

Middle M

Kaden A – For his terrific focus and effort with his writing. Well done Kaden!

Senior C

Aiden P – For his outstanding self-regulation in his classroom room effort and behaviour. Keep it up Aiden!

Senior B

Connor P – For putting in such an enormous effort towards your schooling. It is fantastic to see you approaching tasks with a growth mindset!

Art

Tung Pi T (MM) - For always working with excellence in the Art Room.

Mandarin

Chloe M – For her excellent bravery when practicing conversational Mandarin! Well done, Chloe!

Phys Ed

Hailey R – For her beautiful display of dedication and technique during Whole School Athletics. Your additional practice definitely showed.

Science

Jake C (SC) - For his enthusiasm and concentration during our flower investigation.

Kindness Award

Madison W (SB) - For showing great kindness by always thinking of others and being the first to help.  Thank you Madison!

Tyla P (SB) - For showing great kindness and generosity to younger students in the playground.

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Year 3/4 Camp

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We have been in touch with Allambee Camp regarding our Year 3/4 Camp that is scheduled to take place from 18th - 20th May.

Due to the current COVID-19 situation, Allambee Camp has generously offered our school the option of postponing our camp until Term 4, instead of having to cancel altogether.

No dates have been confirmed at this point in time.  As soon as we have locked in the actual dates, we will notify parents and students.

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From our Wellbeing Coordinator

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Fundraising News

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Our Fundraising Team have been busy organising Hot Cross Buns and an Easter Raffle.

  • Hot Cross Bun orders are due back today (tomorrow at the absolute latest).  Please order some buns to support our school.  From every pack ordered, the school receives $1.50.  The Hot Cross Buns will be delivered to the school on Thursday 26th March ready for the holidays and Easter.
  • Easter Raffle tickets went home yesterday.  Every family has received 10 raffle tickets.  Extra tickets are available from the office.
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Breakfast Club and Kids Hope

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In order to look after the health and wellbeing of our volunteers and students, we have decided to temporarily suspend the Breakfast Club and Kids Hope programs.

Hopefully we will be able to resume these programs at some point during Term 2. 

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CommBank School Banking

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Below is a message received from the Head of the Commonwealth Bank School Banking:

  • The health, safety and wellbeing of our communities and our people is our first priority. Due to the rapidly developing situation with coronavirus, School Banking has been temporarily paused from 20 March 2020 until the start of Term 2.
  • Please don’t bring your deposit book with your weekly banking into school and we will notify you when banking will recommence.

Student banking was processed as normal this morning (before this message came through), but please do not bring your bank books to school next week.

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OSCH Newsletter

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Please click on the link to read the latest OSCH Newsletter.