Prescott Primary Northern eNewsletter

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Student Access Only In Classrooms

You may notice the following signs around our school and outside of our learning areas. Our classrooms are strictly student access only at the moment. If parents want to come inside the classrooms, it is very important that you sign in at the Front Office before entering a classroom, as we must abide by our COVID safe restrictions.

Canteen

Welcome back!!

Welcome back PPN families, my name is Margarita Abbott and together with our amazing team of volunteers in the PPN kitchen we would like to say a huge Welcome Back to our PPN families!!

In the PPN kitchen, we believe that the food we fuel our brains and bodies with gives us the opportunity to function at our highest level and helps our children stay alert for learning.

This year, we will continue to do our best to sell and serve foods that meet all the National Healthy Schools Canteen guidelines, with extra care taken to source foods with no additives and preservatives. We will also continue to make things from scratch where possible so that our children's nutritional needs are met, and we also look forward to the reintroduction of pizzas fulltime to our menu along with a couple of new editions.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE: Our full menu is still available to purchase but due to the Fruit Fly outbreak in the metropolitan area any fruit cups, salads, salad sandwiches and burgers with tomatoes purchased, must be consumed at school and not taken home.

It is also with much excitement that I let you all know that this year the PPN kitchen will be opening for four days. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Fridays. If you are interested in volunteering at PPN and have a passion for food or just want to socialise and have some fun doing it and can spare some hours of your time, we would love to hear from you! Please feel free to come into the PPN Kitchen on the above-mentioned days for a chat. The PPN kitchen could not function without the help of its amazing volunteers but as we continue to grow more hands would be appreciated, my favourite sayings are Teamwork Makes the Dream work, and many hands make light work.

We look forward to continuing to serve our PPN families this year and hope that the year ahead is a great one for you all.

With Kind Regards and Much Gratitude

Margarita Abbott

Canteen Coordinator

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2021 School Fees

Dear Parents / Guardians,

Your School Fee Statement was posted to you last Friday and emailed today. We would like to point out the School Fee Policy for your information.

Firstly, all fees need to be paid in the term in which they are issued, unless you have a payment plan organised with the School.

Secondly, all enrolments are planned that your child will complete their Primary School years at Prescott Primary Northern. However, if for some reason you need to withdraw your child’s enrolment the School requires one term’s notice, otherwise, you will be charged the term fee.

ANNUAL ACCOUNTS

Families who have requested an Annual Account need to settle their School Fees by the 11^th February 2021, to receive the 5% Prompt Payment Discount. If the Account is not paid by the discount due date, the full amount needs to be paid by the 4^th March 2021.

TERM ACCOUNTS

Term Accounts attract a 3% Prompt Payment Discount. Most families are issued with a Term Account which means they receive four Statements in the year, and four discount dates as follows:

Term 1 – 11^th February 2021 Term 2 – 27^th May 2021,

Term 3 – 19^th August 2021 Term 4 – 11^th November 2021.

It is important to remember the discount dates, if the School Fees are not settled by these dates they must be paid in full by the following dates:

Term 1 – 4^th March 2021 Term 2 – 6^th May 2021,

Term 3 – 29^th July 2021 Term 4 – 21^st October 2021.

Fees can be paid in various ways:

BPay information is on each statement if you have internet banking you can organise this method.
Credit Card over the phone or in person at the Front Office.
Cash payments in the Front Office.
Direct Debit arrangements via credit card or directly from your bank account, these forms are available from the Front Office.

Overdue School Fees, if left unattended without a payment plan, will be pursued through our Debt Collection Agency.

SCHOOL CARD

School Card Application Forms are available at the Front Office, if you need a copy please come and collect it from the office.

If at any time you are having financial difficulty, please contact the Front Office and make an appointment with the Principal.

Wishing you a Happy School Year at Prescott Primary Northern.

Fruit Fly Outbreak

We received information on Monday afternoon from the Association of Independent schools that the state government Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) has recently advised that much of metropolitan Adelaide and some areas of the Riverland are in fruit fly outbreak or suspension areas.

PIRSA is introducing restrictions as part of the State Government’s response to the current outbreaks and to the long-term goal of preventing fruit fly from becoming an established pest in South Australia. The restrictions are effective immediately and will be in place until at least Thursday 15 April 2021.

While fruit and vegetables from supermarkets and retail outlets is certified to reduce the risk of fruit fly, restrictions are in place for shop-bought host fruit and fruiting vegetables to reduce the risk of fruit fly potentially spreading in our state.

Para Vista and surrounding areas are in a fruit fly suspension area. This means that all host fruit and fruiting vegetables purchased from a retail outlet must be kept secure when taken home – in a sealed bag or container – and it must then remain at home. Below is a full list of host produce.

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It is very important that host fruit and fruiting vegetables must not be included in lunch boxes or otherwise moved around. Families will need to consider alternatives for lunch boxes, like non-fruit fly host vegetables such as carrots, celery, cucumbers and lettuce, or cooked fruit, processed fruit (such as fruit straps), fruit puree, canned fruit or frozen fruit.

For more information please click here.

We thank you in anticipation of your support of this State Government directive.

PPN Leadership

Parking Around The School

1. Parking out the front of the school-
We are noticing a lot of parents parking in the front area of the school, walking to the single gate and dropping off, only to return to the car minutes later and reversing out into traffic. We understand the convenience but parking here and reversing out is stopping the flow of traffic from the drive through zone. We are asking that if you are walking your child onto our school grounds or collecting them in the afternoons, please use the back car park.

2. Keeping the car park entrance clear
It is very important that you please do not park in the entrance to the back car park. If the drive through line is full, please wait with your left indicator flashing while on Nelson Road. When the line starts to move, then feel free to move into the drive through zone but please don't block the car park entrance.

3. Turning left only out of car parks and drive through
In peak times, when families wait and try to turn right onto Wright Road from the drive through, it again, slows the whole drive through down - often to a complete stop. We are asking kindly that you turn left only out the drive through onto Wright Road.

4. Side gate entrance
We have opened the side gate walkway again to allow an alternative entrance, rather than going through the Front Office.

We hope to continue to develop the parking around the school so it runs as smoothly as possible.

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School Car Park

Please keep the following information in mind when using our school car parks:

Maximum speed limit—10kph
Use the marked car park areas—you must be parked prior to your children exiting your car—do not stop in the middle of the car park and let your children out while your car is still running
Look out for little people
Please keep to designated walkways
Only cross the carpark at the crossing provided
The car park closest to the double yellow gates in the church carpark, is only for those who have a Disabled Parking Permit. Please do not park there unless you have the permit. There are also 3 Disabled Carparks over by the main church entrance for those with the appropriate permits.
No right turn is permitted out of the Car Park on Nelson Road. Please turn left and go round the roundabout.

Children need to be accompanied by an adult at all times in our car park.

If you arrive 10 minutes after the afternoon bell the car parks are usually less congested.

Please make sure you cross at the correct spots in the Car Park! Ensure you walk behind the bollards and cross at the crossing.

Thank you in advance!

Worship

This year we will continue having 2 Chapels on a Thursday:

Lower School (F - Yr 2): 9:05am-9:50am
Upper School (Yr 3 - 6): 10:00am-10:45am

Asthma/Medical Records

Each year the school needs to update student asthma records. If your child is currently listed as asthmatic, you will receive an asthma record to complete and return to school.

If your child has recently been diagnosed with asthma, please update and upload the plan in Consent2Go. If you are unable to do this, please call for information and help.

Medication

If your child requires regular medication to be administered during school hours, please send it to Student Services. Please note that staff may only give medication, prescribed by a doctor, in an original, labelled (with your child’s name) pharmacy container. Any other medication that your child requires must be in the original packaging, labelled with their name and clear instructions on how and when it may administered.

Contact Details

If you move or have new mobile or home telephone numbers, please let the Front Office know. Children can get distressed if we are unable to contact parents because we do not have their current details. Please keep emergency contact details (eg grandma, aunty) up to date as well—thanks!

Student Absences

Please inform the school if your child is away or will be late to class either by:

Phone on 8396 2577
SMS on 0429 557 989
Or email: info@ppn.sa.edu.au

For extended periods of absence please fill in the official Exemption Form.

Uniform Policy

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Uniform Passes

There are times throughout the year when students do not wear a part of the uniform due to something unforeseen happening. When this occurs, the parent/carer is to write a note, send an email to info@ppn.sa.edu.au or an SMS to 0429 557 989 explaining the situation and the student will be issued with a uniform pass for the day.

Students will not be issued with a pass without first presenting a note from home.

A uniform notification will be issued to children without a uniform pass, and parents will be asked to address this promptly.

Safe School Procedures

School gates will be closed between 9:15am and 3:00pm for the safety of our students. If you are coming to the school between these times, come through the Office and ensure that you sign our visitors register on our iPad and take a visitor’s identification tag. If you are reading or helping out anywhere in the school between these times, you should also sign our visitors’ register on our iPad and wear a visitor’s identification tag. By signing-in you are letting the office staff know where you are, so that you can be accounted for in an emergency situation. Parents who help regularly with reading, crafts, excursions etc, will be asked to complete a Volunteer Pack which will include a copy of their Police Report and our Prescott Schools Code of Conduct.