COVID UPDATE

Next week, on Tuesday 9th June sees the majority of our grade 3-6 students return to school from off-site remote learning. I would like to offer a huge vote of thanks to all our students, parents and staff for supporting us to make sure we have been following the correct return to school guidelines in relation to social distancing, drop off and pick up, hygiene and keeping our school admin clear where possible. Everyone has done a terrific job making sure we are operating safely and in the best interests of all in our learning community. We have put in place very clear guidelines for our school to operate correctly in the Covid -19 space and I believe we have ticked all the boxes and then some. Well done to all! Don't forget Monday is a public holiday & students are not at school.

School pick up and drop off is now more balanced after having a week to iron out the wrinkles. These procedures will continue to the end of this term.

A – K Family Surnames to drop off/pick up their children up at the regular Victoria St staff carpark loop.

L – Z Family Surnames to drop off/pick up their children at the Drouin Rec Reserve car-line loop.

SCHOOL REPORTS

Semester One school reports will be available via NFORMA online. Parents will be able to download their child’s report from the NFORMA Report portal via a password to be sent by email on Wednesday 17th June. Please make sure your email address is correct in CareMonkey, if not, please advise the office of your correct email address in writing to: admin@stidrouin.catholic.edu.au & please also update your details in CareMonkey.  Your child’s report can be viewed on-line at anytime, saved to your computer or printed as you need it. Reports from 2017 are also available, if applicable to your child. This new process will alleviate packaging of individual reports and will save an immense amount of time for teachers. Please check CareMonkey for further details.

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS

End of Semester One, Parent-Teacher interviews will be conducted via a phone call during Week 11, the last week of term 2 on Monday and Wednesday for those parents that book an appointment time on-line.

Teachers will be onsite Monday 22nd June from 3.40pm to 6.00pm and 6.40pm to 7.30pm and again on Wednesday 24th June between 3.50pm and 5.30pm. Phone interviews will be 10 minutes in duration. Please contact your child's teacher if you require a longer interview time.

Please book in your preferred phone interview appointment time via the School Interviews website and enter the event code: 9mcc4

https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/

NEW SCHOOL WEBSITE

Our new school website is up and running and I have to say it looks ultra-classy whilst allowing ease of navigation. https://stidrouin.catholic.edu.au/

Thanks to Steve Pitt and Claire Garner for their collective efforts on setting up this professional looking platform for our school. We are now able to import the weekly newsletter onto the website for parents and staff. The new layout also allows parents to go to specific areas of the newsletter for ease of reading. Please subsribe to the newsletter to receive a copy each week.

WELCOME TO OUR NEW TEACHERS

The St Ita’s learning community would like to welcome this term Miss Hayley Roberts & Miss Meg Wiedermann to their role of class teacher.  

Hayley is the new class teacher in Grade 1 to replace Mrs Monique Kiezenberg whilst on maternity leave. Whilst Meg will be taking on the role of class teacher to replace Mrs Kristy Telford who is taking extended leave in Foundation V. Hayley and Meg have both been in and around our school in a variety of different grades for the last 4 weeks of term supporting us through the onsite remote learning. 

2021 SIBLING ENROLMENT FORMS Now Due

Foundation enrolments for the 2021 school year are now open & we request all existing St Ita’s families with a sibling due to commence school next year, to please complete an enrolment form and return to the school office by Tuesday 9th June.

Unfortunately, due to COVID -19, we are unable to have parent - student meetings and tours of the school at the moment, however they are still part of the enrolment process and will be conducted at a later stage, hopefully at the beginning of term 3. 

Enrolment forms are available on Care Monkey, via email or collection from the office. Please contact our Admin staff via email on: admin@stidrouin.catholic.edu.au during school office hours; Monday – Friday between 8.30am – 3.30pm and we will get one sent out to you. 

Any friends or new families to the school that are looking to enrol a Foundation student next year are  requested to contact the school office this term, preferably by email and the enrolment information will be sent to them. They can also access the enrolment information via the school website. Click here to access our enrolment website.

SCHOOL CANTEEN

The school canteen will be open this Friday 5th June for normal snack and lunch orders for the Foundation, Grade 1 & Grade 2 students that have returned to school. Please order on-line via Flexischools.

The school canteen will resume normal days of operation next week as of Wednesday 10th June and will be open each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, commencing on and after 10 June.