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Murwillumbah East Public School
Newsletter Term 2, Week 1
28 April, 2020
Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner
45 George Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Welcome back!
I hope that the holiday break has provided you
and your family with the opportunity to both enjoy
some down time together, and to recharge for
another wonderful term.
Welcome back to what will continue to be a
challenging and slightly different time for us all.
Thank you to you all for your response to our Term 2
learning packages. Yesterday was a very
successful first day of continued remote learning.
Our teachers very much enjoyed seeing familiar
faces from the cars in the work pick up area. Thank
you to you all for following the advice, keeping
your children home where possible so that we can
all return to school as soon as we can.
It was announced on 21 April that students will be
returning to school for one day a week for a
phased return back to school from Monday 11
May. Our school’s planning for this return is well
underway and will be communicated in the
coming days. This will be distributed via School
Stream. School remains open for families of
essential workers who have no other supervision
options for their children.
When our managed return begins, parents are
welcome to enter the school grounds, however,
we ask that you please adhere to a couple of
requests:
Parents are asked to kiss and drop and not
congregate in the playground.
Parents are asked to wait at the grass area at
the front of the school next to where the flood
affected buildings have just been demolished.
Your children will be walked to you.
If you need to see the teacher, please call or
email where possible.
We understand that this is a change from our
normal, welcoming and warm procedure and
hope that it will be short term only. We very much
appreciate your understanding of our attempts to
make the school as safe as possible.
Scheduled works
With fewer students at school, scheduled works
have been completed at the end of last term and
throughout the holiday break. These works have
included painting in our some classrooms, hallways
and our front office area. Our canteen stairs have
also had a colour change. The roofing in the
School Support Unit walkway has been replaced in
addition to external painting on the railings. It has
been wonderful to have these updates and we
can’t wait for you to share them all soon.
Mr Tunaley is in the process of a major upgrade of
our ‘Hall of Fame’ in the hall with our honour
boards as we needed more wall space. We look
forward to sharing this new upgrade with you in
the coming weeks.
Be Safe Be Respectful Be A Learner
45 George Street, Murwillumbah 6672 6781 www.murwillume-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Update on Infrastructure Improvements
Work that commenced during the holidays will
continue early in Term 2 to finalise a permanent
ramp to the hall for disabled access, a roof over the
path to the hall to create a covered walkway, and
permanent fencing throughout the school.
This week work will also commence on improving
the school car park. Works will include levelling and
resurfacing, new line markings, addition of bollards
and wheel stops, and a much improved, covered
student waiting area. Once complete our car park
will be more functional, safer and include a drop off
and pick up area.
The eastern portion of the car park will be
temporarily fenced off as shown in the attached
map to allow work to commence. The car park will
continue to be available for staff parking but there
will only be a maximum of nine parking spaces
during this time. There will be no changes to drop off
and pick up arrangements or bus movements
during these works and contractors will park off site
at a distance from the school to reduce demand on
the car park.
Asbestos notification
Please see the attached works notification provided
by School Infrastructure. There was work scheduled
to take place during the holiday period which has
now been moved to Wednesday late afternoon on
6 May.
Anzac Day Service
Our Anzac Day Service will be hosted ‘live’ by our
student councillors this coming Friday at 12:00pm.
The link will be available via Seesaw.
We ask that students are seated at a table, against
a wall where possible and stay in the one place for
the entire assembly. Students should be dressed
neatly like they would be for school and ready to
connect with their peers.
Our zoom-room is just like the classroom where we
are looking forward to seeing and connecting
virtually with our safe, respectful learners for this
special service. We will also announce our weekly
assembly awards.
Keep safe and well and have a great week of
remote learning.
We look forward to seeing you all soon,
Joanna Henderson
Principal
Premier’s Reading Challenge
Wow! Busy readers over the school break!
Congrats to the following students for completing
the Challenge!
Lee J, Ella G, Britta, Melita, Alice C, Delilah, Jack D,
Felicity, Bree, Emma, Isaac R and Navraj !!!!
WHO HOO!
Mrs Evans (Teacher Librarian)
Scholastic Book Club
We have postponed receiving Scholastic Book
Club for Term 2—we will resume again in Term 3.
“Happy Birthday” to these students
Ava B, Ethan A, Olivia S, Sofia P
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