Hello Everyone,

Welcome everyone including our new Foundation students for 2025!

Starting off the school year well is imperative.

At WPPS we do this by commencing the previous year with various programs including the ‘Step up to School Program’ for Foundation students and our ‘Whole School Transition day’ which allows students to become familiar with their next year's teacher and classroom.

The ‘Start Up Program’ runs for the first two weeks of school and aims to familiarise and/or reacquaint our students with our school values, why we have them and how they look when in action on the playground and in the classroom.

You’ll find there were many marvellous ways of doing the above as evidenced below:

Our Students

Foundation A selection of our Foundation students 
Please see the separate article for more pictures.

Yr 1/2s working with their new Yr 4 buddies
Please see the separate article for more pictures.

Yr 3s Monster glyphs constructed from individual names

Yr 5s Working on their Egg Drop challenge

Yr 6 Student Leadership Roles

Notices

Kinder Update

Assembly
Fridays at 9.15am. This week we had our Year 6 Leadership Presentation.

Year level websites
For up to date information about each year level, including camp go to:

Term 1 Parent-Teacher Meetings
Parent-Teacher Meetings are an opportunity for you to talk to your child’s classroom teacher/s to discuss how we can work together to provide the most beneficial educational experience for your child. These are held in term 1 and term 3. Parents who normally have a Student Support Group Meeting (SSG) each term do not have Parent-Teacher meetings.

Student reports are provided in terms 2 and 4.

Parent-Teacher Meetings this term will be held in 10-minute sessions on the following days:

Tues 11.2 from 3.50 – 7.30 pm
Wed 12.2 from 3.50 – 5.00 pm

Interviews will be held face-to-face unless otherwise organised with the classroom teacher via Video Conferencing (Zoom/WebEx).

Parent-Teacher Meetings will be available to book via your COMPASS portal from 4.00 pm today (Friday 31.1). Bookings will close at 12 pm on Tuesday 11.2.

Please contact the office on 9808  2165 if you need assistance.

2025 WPPS Annual Permission Form on COMPASS
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Every year, we send out a list of permission questions (see below) to be completed, covering your child for the entire year. The WPPS Annual Permission Form will be available online using COMPASS.

This form will be sent as an event, '2025 WPPS Annual Permission Form,' and we ask that you complete sections 3 and 4 by Friday, 28th February, 2025. This should take no longer than a few minutes to complete.

Please answer the questions below regarding:

• Accident Declaration

• Permission and Authority Form for Walking Excursions

• Media Permission Internal - School Newsletter, Website

• Media Permission External - Newspaper, Television

• Head Lice Check Consent

• Health Management Plan

• Volunteering

Please contact the office if you need assistance.
Thank you everyone.
Wattle Park Primary School

Canteen
Our community-run Canteen has recommenced with a slight change to operating times. Now open on Thursdays and Fridays and some wonderful new menu items.

Ordering - Full Menu
Thursday orders by 5pm Wednesday
Friday orders by 5pm Thursday

Last Chance Ordering - Reduced Menu
If the normal daily service cut off has been missed.  Items such as pies, nuggets, sausage rolls, popcorn and drinks will be available as part of this service with a cut off time of 8.30am the day of canteen.

Please be aware Flexischools does not automatically change the class of your child to their 2025 class. Please ensure you update this information when you next order.

Chicken Care
Our Year Fours do an incredible job caring for our chickens. However, they're not always there to help like on weekends and during the holidays. So, we're in need of some help.

Our SignUp is structured so that you are responsible for the chickens for the full day, but this only requires one visit in the morning (at or before 9am) and one visit in the afternoon (between 3pm-5pm). 

Please sign up here: https://signup.com/go/dKqTDEy

For further instructions on their care, please use the following link:

2025 Chicken Volunteer Duties

Thank you for your help, 
James Feather, Lauren Neilson & Richard Abell
SAKGP Co-ordinators

Running Club
Running club will be on again this year. More information later.

Volunteers course
If  you’d  like to volunteer in 2025 please obtain a Working with Children’s Check and complete our Volunteers course:  This is an annual requirement.

Hats on in Term 1!
With our emergence from the winter gloom into the glorious summer sunshine comes the need to be aware of the damage rays can do. As per our Sunsmart Policy WPPS states the following:

From 1 September to 30 April, all students must wear a sun protective hat that shades the face, neck and ears for all outdoor activities. 

‘Hats on in September, off in May.

Students who are not wearing appropriate protective clothing or a hat may be asked to play in the shade or in a suitable area protected from the sun.

Have a great weekend!

Steve Donohue

Principal

Wattle Park Primary School

Can parents please notify the school when they have used their SSB voucher and itemise the spenditure and for which child.


2. Remember September to May - No Hat No Play
 

Please note that it’s that time of year all students are required to have on a hat for outside play.  Children will be required to play in the shade if no hat is worn, and being a Sun Smart School its important to have sun protection from now till May.
New hats are available from the office $20.

3. Second Uniform Shop
Second Hand uniform shop will open in the school gymnasium from 8.30am - 9.30am on:

Friday, 7th February 
Friday, 14th March


4.Book Club




5.Chess Club

6.School Photo

7. Wattle Park PS x Auskick

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