Information for Parents
School Hours
| 8.30am | Students may enter school grounds when the siren sounds |
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| 8.40am | School day begins |
| 10.40 - 11.00am | Recess |
| 12.30 - 12.40pm | Lunch eaten in classrooms |
| 12.40 - 1.20pm | Lunch play time |
| 3.10pm | School dismisses |
| 3.20pm | Students are to have left the school grounds |
Office Hours
Our Front Office is staffed from 8.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. each school day.
Reporting to Parents
Parents may request an interview at any time throughout the year. A Student Report is provided in Week 10 in Term 2 and 4.
Newsletter
This is our most important means of communicating with parents and is read in classes with students to demonstrate and model the value of regular and reliable communication. Please look for it. It is sent home with the eldest child in the family on Tuesday of odd weeks.
Assemblies
These are held fortnightly for our whole school Reception to Year 7. They are an important sharing of the work of the classroom. Parents are always welcome to attend.
Register of Visitors
In accordance with occupational health, safety and welfare requirements, all people who visit the school at any time during the day are required to enter through the Front Office to register their visit in the �Register of Visitors' book. The information required is name, purpose of visit, time of arrival, time of departure. Visitors need to return the visitor badges to the Front Office before they depart.
Leaving the School Grounds
No student is permitted to leave the school grounds once he/she has arrived for the school day, unless being collected by a parent/caregiver. Parents/Caregivers contact the Front Office before taking students.
Parents are to collect their children from a staff member. We do not allow students to wait at the gate, or to walk home alone, during school time.
Emergency Evacuation
Emergency evacuation is signalled by continuous short blasts of the siren. If they are in their classrooms when the emergency evacuation siren sounds students are to leave immediately. If students and adults are away from the classroom then no-one is to return to the classroom. Adults and students must move directly to the Top Oval where a report of adults and students in attendance is made to the Principal.
Medication
Parents requiring their children to have medication during the school day must take the medication to the Front Office. The medication must be in its original pharmaceutical packing, be clearly named, be dated and full written instructions for administration must be provided. Teachers do not keep medication in classrooms because of the risk of misuse.
Absence or Lateness
We are required to keep records of the reasons why students are absent, late or depart early on every occasion. Teachers do this record keeping on a daily basis. You can assist by telephoning, reporting in person or by sending a note to explain your child's absence or lateness. Please note that written notification through student diaries is not suitable as the record can not be collected and archived at the end of each term. Verbal explanation by another student is not acceptable.
When we are not notified we contact parents and if a satisfactory response is not received we are required to make a report to the Attendance Officer.
School Dress Code
Students may dress in the shade of blue only. Tops are to have no large slogans or motifs other than the school emblem. Unacceptable clothes are midriff tops, tank tops with gaping armholes, ripped jeans, ripped tracksuit pants (patches are acceptable), mini skirts, brief shorts, thongs, slippers, party shoes, make-up, nail polish or dangling ear-rings.
Acceptable clothes are t-shirts, polo shirts, culottes, shorts, bike pants, rugby tops, wind cheaters, zip jackets, skivvies, blouses, shirts, jeans, dresses, skirts, pinafores, tracksuits.
School uniform clothing is available in sky blue polo shirts and navy blue windcheaters, tracksuit pants, basketball shorts, rugby shorts, parachute pants, parachute shorts and legionnaire hats. Our school logo is available on the polo shirts and the windcheaters. Orders for school uniform items are called for though the Newsletter.
Student Support Services
A Guidance Officer, a Speech Pathologist, FAYS and the Interagency & Student Behaviour Management Services provide support to students of our school. Students may be referred following consultation between the school and parents.
Contact Information
Changes to telephone and address details for family members and emergency contact people need to be advised to the Front Office as soon as they are known. In times of stress or distress children can not always provide this necessary information.
Car Park
Parents are not to access the carpark with their cars between 8.00 a.m. and 9.00 a.m. and between 2.30 and 3.30 p.m. on any school day. The dividing road between our school and the Southern Montessori School is not an access road for our school and traffic is not permitted along this route.
Galloway Road - Drop off Zone
The enforceable purpose of the Drop Off Zone is to allow parents to safely drop off and pick up their children from school. It is not a parking zone. Drivers must not park and wait in, or leave, their vehicles and they must not do u-turns from the O'Sullivan Beach Kindergarten side of the road to access the Drop Off Zone. Traffic Inspectors from the Onkaparinga City Council monitor the correct use of the Drop Off Zone.
School Access
The eastern and western steps are to be used to access the school from Galloway Road . Passage through the carpark is not safe practice for any pedestrians and we wish to model safety habits for our students.
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