Good afternoon Artarmon community and welcome to Week 6 Term 1

To all our Year 5 parents and carers out there I wanted to start this week's newsletter with confirmation your children have arrived at camp, are having an amazing time and will not come home as clean or fresh as when you dropped them off this morning.

I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank our amazing staff who have volunteered time away from their families to provide this experience for our students, knowing the opportunities it provides.

A huge thank you to our P&C and all the families that came along to our online P&C meeting last week. It was great to see over 100 of you online and to be able to share what is happening within our school and our volunteers' projects. It is really helping to build connections within our community so that we can provide the best quality education for our students.

COMMUNITY CONNECTION

It has been wonderful to interact with our community and having them come into the classrooms for the meet the teacher nights a couple of weeks ago. The feedback from families was so positive and I thank you for your engagement and connection with your child's classroom teacher and learning environment.

Further down in this weeks Newsflash, you are able to download the PDF slides used in the whole grade presentations.

Class Parents: Thank you to all those parents who volunteered to be a class parent for 2024. We were inundated with responses and ran through the process to lock people in for this year. Over the next few weeks, you will be contacted by your class parent to share your contact information for important class communications.

K-2 Easter Hat Parade:

We have locked in a date for you to add to your family calendars to hopefully join in the fun of an Easter Hat parade for our K-2 families this year.
If you are able to join us on the day, please add Thursday 28th March at 9:30am to your diary!

Post Easter - Band Breakfast

We have moved the Easter Band Breakfast to the last week of term to allow our students to be best prepared for our morning showcase.

The morning performance will now be on Thursday 11th April.

A huge thank you to our parent volunteers for organising this morning. More information about how the morning will run will come home from the P&C band committees.

HAPPY P&C DAY!

The first Wednesday in March (today) is officially know as P&C Recognition day.

As mentioned above, it was so wonderful to see over 100 members of our community at our last P&C meeting and then to showcase how our community came together to support each other with last Friday's Fathering Project 'Pizza and Paper Planes' event.

We are currently building an article for the next newsletter with more images, but I wanted to share with you today a sneek peak and to thank our parents and community for volunteering their time to provide this opportunity for our school.

We are so very lucky to be in a school with a supportive and collaborative P&C that always puts our students first. If you have not yet had an opportunity to connect with our P&C, please do and I look forward to seeing you at our next face to face meeting.

TRAFFIC SAFETY 

I can not stress enough the importance of our families and communities prioritising safety and role modelling the correct behaviour for our students in order to keep them safe when travelling to and from school.

Drop Off and Pick Ups - Please take advantage of the kiss and drop zones created by the council in consultation with the school and P&C to keep our children safe.

Stopping and dropping off at the back of the school on Barton Rd, either in the school driveway or double parked, is not safe. Please ensure you take extra time and teach your children how to walk into school safely from one of our kiss and ride zones.

TRAIN SAFETY

If your child is a train traveller, please remind them of the correct way to enter and exit the train safely, taking into consideration the public. I spoke with all students at this week's assembly as there have been a few reports from the public about behaviour and safety whilst travelling.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR CALENDAR

All our school events and calendar reminders are located in the School Bytes calendar. These can be accessed through the portal or via the School Bytes app.

Please make sure you have accessed this to know what events are coming up at school.

CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY

A huge thank you to our Green Team for their work on sustainability and a focus on Clean Up Australia Day this year.

Our Green Team members have been promoting and reminding classes of Nude Food Tuesdays and the importance of reducing the rubbish in our school and community.