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Dear Parents,
Due to a lack of numbers the AGM of the Mother Teresa Community Council was postponed until the meeting on 26th March. The Community Council is the school’s parent body. It incorporates both the School Board and the Parents and Friends Association. If you are interested in becoming a member, please contact the front office and leave your details or simply just turn up to the meeting.
Parents may have noticed most Szapp notifications are now being sent at approximately 5pm. This follows feedback from parents and from our concerns that the volume of notifications, which there are always a lot of at the start of a school year, may be sent at times when parents don’t have time to view them. By sending of an evening we hope parents can find time to read them and keep abreast of what is happening at MTS. Be sure to check the "feed" tab for all notices as the "home" screen will only show the latest message that has been published. Any urgent or emergency messages will still be published during the school day.
Maths Problem
Congratulations to Indiah Lawson who was last week’s winner. This week’s problem is below.
As we head to pancake or Shrove Tuesday we have a pancake challenge for you.
If 872 pancakes can be made in 1 hour, how many pancakes can be made per minute? How many pancakes can be made in 2 hours? How many pancakes can be made in 30 seconds?
Congratulations to all of our award recipients. Certificates will be awarded at our Wednesday afternoon assembly in week 5.
Front Office Reminders
- Absentee Notes—If your child is absent from school due to sickness, holiday or other reason, please ensure a note is submitted via SZapp or provided to your child’s classroom teacher on their return.
- Sickness—If your child has been sick and has been vomiting or had diarrhoea then they must be excluded from school for at least 24 hours after the symptoms have ceased.
- Chess Club Term Fees for Term 1, 2019 will be $64.00.
Could you please arrange for payment to be made at the front office or over the phone by week 5. - School Start & Finish times
- School supervision starts at 8.15am with classes beginning at 8.45amLunch break is from 11.00am to 11.55am
- Recess break is from 1.25pm-1.55pm
- School finishes at 3.00pm with supervision at car line finishing at 3.30pm.
- Parents who cannot collect their child/children by this time should arrange for after school care with Kidsbiz. In the case of any emergency which prevents you from collecting on time, please contact us so that we can make arrangements to ensure the safety/supervision of your child/children.
- Late to school procedure:-
- If you are dropping off your child to school late please remember to sign in at the front office (any time after 9:15am). Every student needs to have their late slip with them to hand on to their class teacher upon arrival at their classroom.
- Early Pickup procedure:-
- If you are planning to collect your child early please try to let the class teacher know beforehand so that your child/children are at the front office waiting for you.
- If you have an unplanned early pickup please contact the front office and let us know what time you will be arriving so that we can have your child/children ready.
- Please remember if this is happens, we will do our best to locate your child but this is not always possible especially if they are out of class or on lunch or recess break.
- In addition, if you are collecting your child early and you have requested they arrive at the office at a specific time, please ensure that you arrive at that time to collect them. It is not appropriate that children be removed from class to be collected and then sit at the office and wait for extended periods of time for you to arrive.
- A sign out slip will need to be completed for each child leaving the school prior to the end of the school day.
