Year 5

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 5.

• Please do not name stationery items
• 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.
• A large, soft pencil case is recommended to keep all the spare stationery (pens, pencils, erasers and the like), safe until they are needed.

• The children are required to wear their PE uniform to school on the following days for PE lessons:
• 5M (Yumpu) Wednesday and Thursday
• 5C (Kuula) Tuesday and Thursday

• Formal uniform is to be worn to school on all other days. Please note – students will need to bring their sports clothes to change into on these days if involved in after school sporting activities.
• Please ensure your child has a named Pulteney play hat. Play hats are required every day at school and must be worn at Recess and Lunch when the UV rating is 3 or above.

Please pack a healthy snack/brain food for children to eat in class. This snack could consist of fresh fruit or vegetables, cheese, yoghurt, or dried fruit. No processed food please. Please send a drink bottle containing water for your child to drink during class time. Please note, Pulteney has a water only policy.

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

Tuck orders are available to order through the Qkr! App.  Any recess and lunch orders on the Qkr! App website must be submitted by 8.30am on the day.

• Qkr! by MasterCard is a secure payment app for schools and can be downloaded for free from your smart phone’s App store.
• Thee link to Qkr! is also available via the Parent App links.

MORNING

• Children are to wait in the playground until the classroom doors are opened at 8.30am by a staff member.
• Alternatively, children may be dropped off at the Gilles St ‘Kiss and Drop’ from 8.15am – 8.30am where they will be accompanied into school.
• You are welcome to visit classrooms in the morning from 8.20am if you wish to speak to the class teacher.
• We are encouraging the children to independently get into the routine of unpacking their school bag, including placing their school diary (to be provided on the first day) and drink bottle on their desk, before going out to play with their friends each morning before school, weather permitting.
• Classroom learning will commence at 8.30am promptly. Please ensure your child is at school on time to avoid disruption to the learning program.

AFTERNOON

• Our school day ends at 3.20pm.
• Students can be collected from the Year 3-6 basketball court (outside the Year 3 classrooms). Alternatively, they can wait with the duty teacher at the Gilles St entrance until parents arrive.
• Children attending OSHC will be collected by an OSCH staff member.
• Children who are not collected by 3.40pm will be taken to OSHC.
• If your child requires OSHC and Vacation Care Services please fill out the enrolment form here 

Children are encouraged to carry their own school bag to and from school.

• Birthday invitations – Please use addresses located in the ‘Buzz Book’ which can be accessed via the Parents Community Portal link on the Pulteney website to send Birthday invitations to home addresses. Please do not hand out invitations at school as it has the potential to cause upset to those students not invited.

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

Kind regards,

Carla Moffat (5M Yampu) and Dylan Colsey (5C Kuula)