From The Principal
ANZAC Day ceremony
Recently, we commemorated the ANZACs with a ceremony where the school captains spoke about the sacrifices made by many during World War 1. Our leaders highlighted the importance of ANZAC Day and the need to stop, reflect and acknowledge those men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Thank you to Mrs Aghdam, Mrs Dyball, Ms Yu and Ms Garcia for their organisation, and our speakers, Ruben and Alexa - for ensuring the service was so memorable.
Mother's Day stall
Thank you to our wonderful mums who helped at the Mother's Day stall. The stall was very popular with the children and a great fundraising success for the P and C. It was great to see community involvement once again at Yates.
Mother's Day breakfast
We hope all our mums, grandmas, aunties and special ladies had a great Mother's Day. Thanks for making the morning a huge success! It was our biggest ever response to the breakfast, with over 170 people in attendance!
A huge thank you to Mrs Dyball for the many hours spent organising the breakfast, and to the teachers for cooking and serving a delicious feast!
Attendance
Education for your child is vitally important and regular attendance at school is essential for your child to achieve their educational best and increase their career and life options.
At Yates, we work in partnership with parents to encourage and support regular attendance of our students. When your child attends every day, literacy and numeracy skills improve, learning becomes easier and strong friendships with other children are maintained.
At times, children become sick and need to stay at home to recover. If your child is absent, it is important that all days are explained with a note, phone call or message to a teacher via Seesaw, so we can update our attendance records. The school will contact you if an absence remains unexplained after 2 days.
Below is some important information about the impact of non attendance on learning.
Change of contact details
If your contact details or emergency contacts change in any way, please email the school office as soon as possible at yatesave-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au. This allows us to contact you quickly in the event of an illness or injury to your child, or if a teacher needs to discuss your child's learning or wellbeing.
School Payments
This year we will not be invoicing parents for school or P & C contributions.
Instead, we are only asking for a payment for Term 1 gymnastics ($20), Term 2 dance ($20) and Term 3 athletics skills lessons ($20), all of which have been subsided through a school grant. These programs are being delivered by the Moving Bodies fitness company.
In addition, there will be a $25 cost for a Spelling Mastery workbook for students in Years 1-6.
This information was sent via School Bytes on 25th March.
We would greatly appreciate your support in paying for these activities. Where possible, please pay online through School Bytes using the ‘make a payment’ option on the website.
Have a great few weeks!
David MacSporran
Principal