Hello everyone,

We have such beautiful weather recently that it has been delightful to see the children playing outside and making the most of our beautiful grounds. Our 9 acres are being put to use by many of the classes, and we are negotiating additional shade sails for our spaces this year. Do be assured however, that where high temperatures are anticipated, that the classes pair and students remain in air-conditioned classrooms.

PLP meetings (Personalised Learning Plan meetings) and ITP meetings (Individual Transition Plan meetings) are currently concluding which has given all families an opportunity to meet with teachers to discuss their child’s learning goals and needs. This sets our students up for a great year of learning and tailors their learning program to individual needs.

We have been completing some great professional learning as a staff with our new APCI Karen Guerin-Kerr around Literacy and Numeracy, and we are investing heavily in resources to meet the range of access points for Karonga students. She is also going to lead some twilight sessions (3.15- 6.15pm) this term and next term in Literacy and Numeracy, while further extended days will cover learning about Aboriginal programming and autism. Staff voted to complete this learning while the school terms were active as opposed to attending ‘School Development Days’ at the end of the school year, when staff are tired and less focused. I think that this affords our students the best opportunity to benefit from professional learning time, and means that changes to practice can be embedded during the school year. The 4 twilights/ extended days are

• 22.03.2023 Twilight 3.15- 6.15pm Week 9 Curriculum reform
• 24.04.2023 Extended day 1 Term 2 : Autism focus 
• Wednesday 26.04.2023 Term 2 Week 1 Curriculum reform 
• 14.06.2023 Term 2 week 8: 3.15- 6.15pm Aboriginal programming

Hello, my name is Louise Williamson and I am the Room 11 class Teacher. This year, we have Anamika as our class SLSO. Anamika and I welcome our beautiful students Lucas W, Lucas T, Ali, Harvey, Matty and Nakissa to kindergarten for the 2023 academic year. We are so happy to be sharing this learning journey with them.

All students are so happy to be back. Everyday we start the day with outside playwork. It has been such a pleasure to see our students enjoying this social and gross motor skills time and watch them thoroughly enjoy playing on the play equipment.

We then enjoy morning circle, greeting each other and singing songs about the days of the week, months of the year, the weather and what season it is. The children enjoy using books to point at to give the answers.

We have been excited to be getting straight our new K-2 English curriculum, reading beautiful stories such as Our Island and Under the Southern Cross and practising our letter of the week each day.

A highlight of the week has been our weekly music therapy with Jack. It is really fun and we enjoy playing the instruments with our peers. We also love our weekly cooking and swimming class!

Room 13 have had a great start to the new school year. We have all settled into our new class and are enjoying doing all sorts of learning activities.

We have been doing some great literacy work following the new curriculum. All the students in Room 13 like to listen to songs about the letter of the week, and we have been making the letters in different ways; Julie liked using shaving foam to make the letter ‘A’ and George is good at writing the letters on the smartboard.

Science is a big hit with all our students. We join with our friends in Room 12 to try some new experiments. Mason loved making lava lamps and Jedi enjoyed experimenting with liquids and solids.

We look forward to our music therapy session each Thursday. Thomas enjoys playing the piano with Jack and Haley tries all the instruments to find her favourite.

Another of our favourite activities is a trip to the immersive classroom to try out the different sensory games. Popping bubbles and making fireworks are big hits!

We can’t wait to see what else this term brings for Room 13!

Emma and Andrea

From 2023 you can provide consent online for your child's routine school vaccinations.

The following vaccines are offered free for students at school:

• Year 7: diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (dTpa) and human papillomavirus (HPV) - Wednesday 22 March, 2023.
  
  
• Year 10: meningococcal ACWY vaccine - Tuesday 6 June, 2023.

Please note, vaccination will only be provided at school if consent has been received.

To provide consent for vaccination online go to https://nswhealth.service-now.com/school, you will need:  

• your ServiceNSW log-in details, or to create an account with ServiceNSW if you don’t already have one 
• Medicare details for parents/carers and your child 

Benefits of online consent for parents/carers:  

• SMS notifications when vaccinations are given 
• easy updating of your child’s details online 
• faster upload of your child’s vaccination records to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).

If you or your child do not have a Medicare card, consent can still be provided by requesting a paper-based consent form directly from our school. 

To help answer questions you may have regarding providing vaccination and online consent, please visit the NSW Health website at www.health.nsw.gov.au/schoolvaccination 

Reminder Annual General Meeting and General P&C meeting

A reminder to everyone that Wednesday 15^th March at 6.45pm is the Annual General Meeting (AGM) for Karonga P&C. All office bearer positions will be vacant. The AGM will be followed by the monthly general meeting. We hope to see you there! Agendas for both meetings can be found below.

Back to School Vouchers

A reminder that Back to School vouchers can be used for Uniform Shop purchases up until 30^th June. Please include your unique codes with your uniform orders.

Many of you have been asking about sizing. We are unable to refund or exchange clothing items, accept returned items for resale, or visit classrooms for fittings. However, the sizing chart on the Uniform Shop webpage may be of some help.

 https://karonga-s.schools.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/doe/sws/schools/k/karonga-s/Uniform_sizing_chart.pdf