Keeping Ourselves Safe Week One

In our first week of Keeping ourselves safe we will be focusing on who we are. 

One of the main aims of this unit is that children are able to give their name, address and telephone number if lost.

Please take the time at home to discuss this with your child, do they know their own address?  Do they know a telephone number of someone important if lost?

Combined with this we will also be talking about road safety and how to keep yourself safe around roads. 

What are some of the signs that we might see around the streets?  We would love to see some photos of signs in your street that the children could share with the class.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Over term four we will be teaching the personal safety programme Keeping Ourselves Safe.

Keeping Ourselves Safe has been designed to give students the skills to cope in situations involving abuse. It has three overall aims:

• to develop and strengthen children’s skills to keep themselves safe with other people;
• to support and encourage abused children to get help from caring adults;
• to make teachers and parents/caregivers more aware of the need to keep children safe from abuse by adults or other children.

Keeping Ourselves Safe will be mainly be taught in the classroom with Mrs Sorby and Mrs Baird, with support from the local Police School Community Officer as required.

To be successful, Keeping Ourselves Safe needs your help and support. Your child may have homework activities to work on with you.

It is important that you participate as much as possible and talk to your child about what they have been learning. This will help reinforce the messages the school is giving, and help your child to use his or her new skills with confidence. 

We will also be sending a newsletter home in the first week of school but in the meantime please follow the link below for more information.

Information for parents

Mufti Day on Wednesday 21st September

Sushi on Friday

Thanks to one of our amazing families you are now able to order Sushi for your children for their lunch on Fridays.

Simply pick up an order form at school (these can be found hanging on the yellow noticeboard just inside the classroom door) or print out the form from the link below;

Sushi Order Form

Return the form to the box at the office with the money (or pay by eftpos at the office) by Wednesday 3.30pm and the sushi will be delivered to your child's class in time for lunch on Friday.

Arahoe Spring Fair 2016

The Arahoe Spring Fair is on it's way and it's time to prepare

When: Saturday 29th October

From 10am till 2pm

Where:Arahoe School Grounds

What: Making milkshakes

Our class have been assigned milkshakes.  We are currently looking into hiring the fun bike to shakes and will let you know when we have this ready to run.  

Room 22 will be looking for volunteers to run our stall on the day starting from set up at 8am right through to pack up at 2pm.  We will be asking people to help in two hour blocks so please let us know if you are able to support in some way, and what time best suits you.