Reception

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

We are delighted to be a part of your child’s learning journey in 2026. This is such an exciting time for your family, and we feel privileged to support your child as they take their first steps into school life.

We look forward to working in partnership with you and building strong relationships that will help your child learn, grow, and thrive throughout their early years of schooling.

To stay up to date with important information throughout the year, we strongly encourage you to download the Pulteney Parent App and subscribe to the Reception year level.

Please bring or send the following to school:

• Labelled art smock
• Coloured library bag (red, green or yellow)
• Blue reading bag, if not already at school
• A Pulteney play hat (two hats if your child attends OSHC)
• Navy blue pillow

Please note, these items can be purchased from the Pulteney Uniform Shop.

Please click here to view the uniform for Reception students.

Play hats are strongly recommended every day at school and must be worn during Recess and Lunch whenever the UV rating is 3 or above. Play hats are compulsory during Terms 1 and 4.

• Please pack a healthy snack for your child’s morning Brain Food break in a small, named container, separate from their recess and lunch. This snack will be placed in a basket when they arrive at school and could include fresh fruit and vegetables, cheese, crackers, or dried fruit. Please no processed foods. Children are also welcome to bring a healthy snack for an afternoon Brain Break if needed. Please note that Pulteney is a nut aware school, so no nuts or nut products are to be brought to school.
• We do not have access to a fridge to store your child’s lunch, so please ensure that an ice bag or freezer block is packed within your child’s lunch box to keep their food fresh and cool.
• We are also unable to heat food, so suggest either packing hot food in a thermos or ordering a hot meal from the tuck shop if you wish your child to eat something warm for lunch.
• Please send a named drink bottle containing water for your child to drink during class time. Please note, we have a water only policy at Pulteney.

• Recess and lunch should be packed into your child’s lunch box. Tuck orders are also available to order through the Qkr! App.  Any recess and lunch orders on the Qkr! App must be completed by 8.30am on the day.
• Please note, the link to Qkr! is available via the Parent App links.
• Please ensure you select the correct class, so your child’s food is delivered to the correct location.

MORNING

• Please wait with your child in the playground until the courtyard doors open at 8:15am by a staff member.
• Alternatively, you may choose to drop your child at the Symonds Place ‘Kiss and Drop’ from 8.15 – 8.30am.
• Classroom learning will commence at 8.30am promptly. Please ensure your child is at school on time to start their day.
• Students arriving at school later than 8.45am need to be signed in at Allan Wheaton House before coming to class.

The children are encouraged to be independent with the following morning tasks:

• Carry their bag to and from the classroom
• Unpack their drink bottle and place it on the drinks tray.
• Unpack their brain food and place it in the brain food basket.
• Leave their lunchbox in their school bag.
• Place their play hat on named hook in the classroom . (If attending OSHC an extra hat remains in front pocket of school bag).
• Children then move to a quiet activity in the classroom.

AFTERNOON

• The school day ends at 3.20pm.
• Children will be taken downstairs to the undercroft. Parents and caregivers are welcome to enter the courtyard (undercroft area) and collect their child from their teacher.
• It is important that children say goodbye to their class teacher each day so that we know your child has been safely delivered to you.
• Children attending OSHC will be collected and taken to the OSHC building.
• Children not collected from the designated area will be walked to the blue boxes in the outside playground and remain with the teacher on duty until 3.40pm. Children remaining after this time will be taken to OSHC.  If the weather is inclement the children will remain in the undercroft with the teacher on duty.
• If your child requires OSHC and Vacation Care Services please fill out the enrolment form here 

• Library books will be sent home from Week 1. Borrowing books gives your child the chance to explore a wide range of texts, and having new stories at home provides a wonderful opportunity to share quality reading time together. We encourage you to read, discuss, and enjoy these books several times throughout the week, as this repetition helps build important early literacy and pre-reading skills.
• Readers will be sent home from mid-term, Term 1.

• All toys, games and precious items are to remain at home please.
• Birthday invitations – please use addresses located in the ‘Buzz Book’ which can be accessed via the Parents Community Portal to send birthday invitations directly to families. Please do not give invitations out at school as it could cause upset to some children not invited.
• Please remember to send your child’s play hat, art smock, library bag, blue reading bag and pillow to school on the first day.
• Please bring all labelled books and unnamed stationery to School on ‘book drop off’ day – Tuesday 27 January between 2-3pm. 

Thank you for your support.

Please name and cover your child’s books as follows:

• Write your child’s name on every coloured cover sheet supplied with Reception Information Letter.
• Place each coloured cover sheet on the correct book as instructed below
• Cover the A4 books and Scrapbooks with the clear plastic book covers from the book pack.

Thank you for taking the time to prepare your child’s books.

Please email us at cass.vandenbroek@pulteney.sa.edu.au or jody.sadecki@pulteney.sa.edu.au if you have any further queries.

Kind regards,

Cass van den Broek (Tamingka Community RT)
Jody Sadecki (Karra Community RK)