Year 2

We are looking forward to being part of your child’s learning journey this year.

To stay up to date with important information throughout the year, we strongly encourage you to download the Pulteney Parent App and subscribe to Year 2.

• Once your books and stationery arrive please check you have everything. You can contact the supplier directly if anything is missing.
• To help your child stay organised, please ensure everything is clearly labelled.
• This year, we ask that exercise books not be covered at home, as we have created subject-specific covers for the children to use. If books have already been covered, that’s completely fine. We will help your child add the class cover.
• A large soft pencil case is recommended for storing spare stationery items (pencils, pens, erasers, etc.). Pencil pots will be supplied on tables for everyday use.
• Families are welcome to drop off books and stationery on the afternoon before school begins on Tuesday 27th January, between 2- 3pm. Teachers will be available during this time if you need any assistance.

Children will be required to wear their PE uniform on two days each week. We will confirm the specific sports days as soon as our timetable is finalised.
On all other days, children should wear their formal uniform, unless a co-curricular activity requires otherwise.
Please ensure your child has a named Pulteney play hat.
These must be worn outside during recess and lunch in Terms 1 and 4, and in Terms 2 and 4 when the UV rating is 3 or above.

Please visit the Pulteney Uniform Shop for opening times, seasonal uniform guides, and to purchase any required items.

• 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.

• Children may bring their own lunch and recess items from home or order through Qkr! App.
• To download the app go to the Parent App and visit links
• All online orders must be placed before 8:30 am on the day.

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 

• • 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 email us if you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us.chloe.rees@pulteney.sa.edu.au
  isabel.oreo@pulteney.edu.au

  Warm Regards,

  Chloe Rees (2 Kurti)
  Isabel Oreo (2 Tarnma)