Welcome to Week 4!
Thank you to the candidates, prayer buddies and parents who came to our Year 4 Family Mass and Eucharist Commitment last night. The pizza from Peace Pizza was a lovely way to end the warm evening together. Next fortnight, Tuesday 27th February from 5 - 6pm, we will have our Parent and Child Eucharist workshop for our candidates in the lead up to our first Holy Communion in Week 7.
A few reminders for the week:
Tuesday Swimming Time Trials:
Please make a note on family calendars and come to school prepared on Tuesday for the time trial morning with the rest of the Year 4 to 6 students with swimming gear ready to go underneath and faction uniform on top. There are still a few permission forms to come back please bring them in tomorrow. Please see the note from Mrs Sinclair sent home last week about this Tuesday's Time Trials 20th Feb and the Swimming Carnival on Friday 1st March and contact mandy.sinclair@cewa.edu.au if you have any queries about participation.
Cyber Safety Presentation
Please consider attending tomorrow night's Cyber Safety Parent Information Session presented by Nola Marino on Monday 19 February at 6.00pm in the School Hall. Parents of students in ALL year levels are welcome to attend. Great timing with the Year 4 laptops arriving home on Monday.
Before School:
Please note if your child arrives before 8.30am, they are to wait quietly in the courtyard (outside the main office) until the class doors are opened at 8.30am. I will open the doors and collect them from the lining up area at 8.30 and ask students not to wait by the doors to enable smooth and calm morning starts. I also encourage parents to make our bag zone also the 'hug goodbye' area rather than at the class door as it gives your child time to walk the verandah on their own and settle into the classroom calmly as we are now in Week 4 of routines and ready to start our morning tasks independently. Feel free to send me an email in the mornings or a note with your child if you want to let me know anything.
Laptops
Forms are signed and handed in and laptops are all updated ready for your child to bring home tomorrow! We have been really lucky to have had two one-hour school sessions last week getting to know how our laptop works, how to log in and how to access the student dashboard and beginning to get to know our class notebook.
With a laptop as a learning device comes great responsibility too! We have discussed the signed user agreements so your child clearly understands the expectations with these being used at school. We have also had a discussion about internet safety use at school, the importance of accessing the internet safely and let them know that no open searches will be allowed in year 4 - safe links or access directions will be provided in their learning and the reasons why using the internet safely is important. I have also discussed the consequences that will occur if laptops are not used correctly and clear expectations about how laptops are to be used. A reminder that no homework tasks will be set requiring laptop use this year unless notified by teachers.
We recommend you take some time to make a family plan about how laptops and any other devices they may have will be used by your child at home and how internet access will happen in your home with parent supervision and guidance. Please also have a dedicated a charging zone for their laptop in your home that will be used each night and keep the charger equipment at home set up. There is a light on the charging side of the laptop that shows if it is charging (amber) and fully charged (white light). There are no spare chargers available for your child at school so it is essential that your child comes to school each day with their laptop charged. Please encourage your child to pack their laptop inside their school bag (the slot inside the back of the bag is made for this capability) as the weight of it helps your child recognize on the mornings it may be forgotten to be put in. There are no shoulder straps this year for the laptop bags.
Homework
Your child has now brought home a homework booklet to complete some daily reading, mental maths review and some times table work. Later this term we will also send home some multiplication flash cards to help your child build their recall skills which will assist their skills to solve larger number problems. It is expected that your child will have completed Week 3 and Week 4 pages by the end of this week and bring it in on Friday 24th Feb to mark a part of it in class. We will send a reminder text this Thursday to get used to the fortnightly format.
Uniform day reminders for 4K:
Monday and Thursday - formal uniform
Tuesday and Wednesday - sports uniform
Library day is Monday
Please read our previous blogs for any further information about school events and class routines.
Thank you for your support and assistance,
Penny
Upcoming Events
- Sunday 18th February - First Sunday of Lent
- Monday 19th February - Nola Marino Parent Cybersafety Presentation
- Tuesday 27th February - Parent Child Workshop Eucharist 5-6pm
- Monday 4th March - Labour Day Public Holiday
- Friday 22nd March - Student Free Day - Parent Teacher Meetings
- Sunday 24th March - Palm Sunday
- Thursday 28th March - Last Day of Term 1
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