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 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

Sentral Parent Portal https://sentral.narnargoonps.vic.edu.au/portal2/

Nar Nar Goon Primary School Website https://www.narnargoonps.vic.edu.au/

Phone the school – 59425311

Unexplained absences will appear as unapproved until an explanation is received by the school

AUSSIES OF THE MONTH

Congratulations To Our Aussies

Of The Month

Eden B

(Junior)

Scharlotte M

(Middle)

Joel T

(Senior)

PLEPLEASE NOTE THAT PAYMENTS FOR BOOK CLUB CANNOT BE AC-

CEPTED AT THE SCHOOL.

ALL ORDERS AND PAYMENTS MUST BE DONE ONLINENO

Welcome to PAFAs Corner where we will keep you up to date with Events, fundraisers and activities that you can mark in your

calendars and volunteer to help out with :)

TERM 1

Meat Pie and Sausage Roll Meal deal day: Thursday 12th March

Easter Raffle: Tickets due back Wednesday 25th March

Raffle drawn Friday 27th March

Canteen- helpers to prepare and serve in our weekly canteen Wednesdays 9-11:45

Menu: Popcorn, Zooper Doopers, Icy Poles, Chocolate Balls.

ALL 50c each.

Last Canteen of Term will have Special Easter themed treats!!

Fresh Fruit Friday- helpers to cut up fruit to send to all classes Fridays 9-9:30

PAFA Monthly Meeting- in the staff room. Anyone welcome Monday 16th March 9:10am

*Donations for the raffle prizes would be appreciated if you can spare an egg or bunny or an Easter themed donation please

drop it into the box provided at the Office. Thank you J

Helpers are always welcomed at our weekly Canteen on Wednesdays 9-11:45am and our Fresh Fruit preparations on Friday

mornings from 9-9:30am.

All Volunteers do require Working with Children Checks. If you would like to help out but don’t have one and would like more

information please ask our friendly office staff or feel free to post any questions on our School Facebook page and one of our

PAFA parents will get in contact with you.

We hope you all enjoyed the Sizzle and Sound evening held on Monday 2nd March. It was a great turn out and thanks to

everyone who came along and bought food, drinks and raffle tickets. Thanks to a fun night we all managed to raise $879 for the

school. Amazing effort everyone :)

School Uniform

It is our School’s policy that all students wear school uniform.

Our school uniform is:

Summer Girls: Blue check dress, navy blue shorts, pale

blue or navy blue polo shirt.

Boys: Navy blue shorts, pale blue or navy blue polo shirt

ALL STUDENTS MUST wear a wide brimmed bucket hat in

a dark navy blue colour

(school logo optional) from October—April

Winter Girls: Navy blue track suits, navy blue w indcheater

with pale blue or navy blue polo shirt or skivvy

Boys: Navy blue track suits, navy blue w indcheater w ith

pale blue or navy blue polo shirt or skivvy.

Our uniform is available from Beleza, Bald Hill Road, Pakenham

5941 4989.

As a cheaper alternative we have iron on school logos in blue or

white available for purchase

LOST PROPERTY

The Lost Property stand is located outside the Canteen

each day for you and the children to check.

Please make sure ALL belongings (including lunch

boxes and drink bottles) are clearly named and

WE WILL RETURN them to your children.

Please note that we only keep lost property for one month.

Unclaimed items will be sent to charity

PETS AT SCHOOL

A reminder that dogs and other pets

ARE NOT PERMITTED

at school under any circumstances unless prior

permission is received from the Principal.

BUSHFIRE RELIEF CONCERT presented by Koo Wee Rup Secondary College

to support Clifton Creek Primary School’s music program

March 22nd

2.30 to 4.30pm

College Hall, 345 Rossiter Road, Koo Wee Rup

Featuring present and past students, the College Band and the College Stage Band

Refreshments provided

Admission by donation

WHOLE SCHOOL

HOUSE CROSS COUNTRY BE IN THE FUN

Thursday 19th March

11.40am - 1pm

At the Recreation Reserve (back oval)

Wear your House colours!

Have a go—run or walk

ALL FINISHERS EARN HOUSE POINTS

Parents welcome to come and cheer children on.

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*)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: