Year 6

Dear Parents and Caregivers

We would like to welcome you all back to school for the upcoming year. We are really looking forward to seeing the students next week, ready and raring to go in Term 1.

We hope you have all enjoyed the break. Catching up with family and friends and taking time out to refresh and recuperate is always such a wonderful thing- simply doing nothing is such a pleasure. Not having to be somewhere at a specific time is also a relief.

In Year 6 we encourage the students to become more independent and responsible for themselves and their belongings.

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 term starts.
• Please ensure that all items are clearly named as this will assist the students with their organisation in the classroom.
• We kindly ask that you do not subject name the exercise books and folders as we will go through the stationery with the students at school.
• A large soft pencil case is recommended to keep all the spare stationery (pens, pencils, erasers and the like), safe until they are needed
• Families may drop off student books on Monday 29 January between 2pm and 3pm. Teachers will also be available at this time.

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

Year 6 PE days:

6E –Thursday and Friday
6M – Tuesday and Wednesday
6K –Monday and Friday

• Children are to wear their formal uniform to school on the other days and change, into or out of, their PE uniform if they have any extra curriculum sport sessions either before or after school
• Please also ensure your child has a named Pulteney broad brim play hat.
• 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. 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 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 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

• Our school day ends at 3.25pm.
• Students can be collected from the Year 3-6 basketball court
• 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.

We look forward to meeting and welcoming those of you who are able to attend the Junior School Parent Welcome on Thursday 2 February if not before.

Kind regards

Matthew King, Carla Moffat and Amber Elsdon