Year 4

Dear Parents/Caregivers,
We hope you have all enjoyed a wonderful break over the summer and the students are feeling refreshed and excited to start Year 4.

We have outlined some information below that may be helpful for you and your child as the new school year begins.

Please note, Full School Summer uniform is to be worn on day 1, Tuesday 30 January 2024.

We look forward to meeting and welcoming those of you who are able to attend the Junior School Parent Information and Welcome Evening at 5.30pm on Thursday 1 February. Please RSVP here.

Term 1 is a 11-week term, with Easter falling within the Term, Friday 29 March – Monday 1 April.

• By now you should have received your stationery packs. Please check the order carefully so you can chase up any missing items with the company before the term starts.
• To support us with our organisation for 2024, please ensure that all items are clearly named.
• We kindly ask that you do not cover the exercise books as we have made subject specific covers in class. Having said that, if books have already been covered, we will assist your child in class to add the class cover.
• Families may drop off student books on Monday 29 January between 2pm and 3pm. Teachers will also be available at this time.
• We have provided students with pencil pots this year to store core stationery items to build their organisational skills. In the pencil pots there will be a lead pencil, rubber, sharpener, scissors, glue stick and ruler. Students will also need a pencil case that is big enough to fit day-to-day stationery, which will be stored in their trays.
• Please also ensure your child has a named Pulteney play hat.

The children are required to wear their sport uniform to school on the following days:

• Year 4 Physical Education days are Wednesday and Thursday
• Any other day that your child participates in co-curricular activities
• Children are to wear their formal uniform to school on the other days.
• Play hats are required every day at school and worn during Recess and Lunch when the UV rating is 3 or above.

Please pack a healthy snack for a morning Brain Food break.  This snack could consist of fresh fruit or vegetables, yoghurt, cheese or dried fruit. No processed food please.

Please be aware Pulteney is a nut aware school, so nuts or nut products are not to be brought to school. 

Recess and Lunch should be packed into your child’s lunch box. Tuck shop orders are also available to order through the Qkr! App.  Any recess and lunch orders on the Qkr! App website must be completed by 8.30am on the day.

Please send a drink bottle containing water for your child to drink during class time.

MORNING

• Please wait with your child in the playground until the classroom doors are opened at 8.15am by a staff member.
• Alternatively, you may choose to drop your child at the Gilles St ‘Kiss and Drop’ from 8.10 – 8.30am.
• Classroom learning will commence at 8.30am promptly.
• Students arriving at school later than 8.30am need to be signed in at Wheaton House before coming into class.
• We are encouraging the children to get into the routine of unpacking their school bag in the classroom before going out to play with their friends each morning before school, weather permitting.

AFTERNOON

• In the afternoon the school day ends at 3.25pm.
• The children can be collected from the Year 3-6 basketball court or they can wait with the teacher on duty at the Gilles St pick up area to be picked up by parents.
• Children attending OSHC will be collected by an OSCH staff member.
• Children not collected by 3.40pm will be taken to OSHC.

• Birthday invitations –We do not encourage birthday invites to be distributed at school. Please find family address information via the Parents Community Portal.

We are really excited for the year ahead and look forward to meeting you all in the coming weeks.

Kind regards,

Sarah Richards, Laura Gray and Jacqueline Lee