Our first week back has been a real celebration for our staff and children. We will be just as excited to welcome back the students from Years 3, 4 and 5 next Monday. Thank you for your help in preparing the children so well for their re-entry back into school life. I have hardly noticed an upset child this week, but I did hear some parents whooping with joy as their cars drove out of the carpark last Monday!

The grouping of children into cohorts during non-class time has worked well. I would like to thank our teaching staff members who are now supervising many more playground duties in order to make this system work.

As always we have made some very minor adjustments this week as we observed the new protocols in action. The major alteration is to allow parents an opportunity to park in the Upper Courts each afternoon in readiness for Dismissal. This should take pressure off parents who are finding it challenging to collect little ones from the car pick-up and to find a parking space nearby the school. 

• Congratulations to Mrs Fiona Debenham who has been appointed to St Francis Xavier College at Florey. Fiona has been a long term staff member at St Matthew’s who has been keen to try her hand at life in a Secondary setting.
• Mrs Veronica Ellis has been successful in obtaining an exchange position at St Thomas More’s Campbell for 2022. This will be an exciting change for Veronica in a much smaller school.
• Mr Luke Folkard will be taking Leave next year to relax and regenerate.

We will have an opportunity to farewell those staff who are leaving our school later this term.

Returning Devices
As children return to face-to-face learning I ask that you return any borrowed devices as soon as possible so that they can be used in classrooms. Could you ensure that:

• devices are cleaned
• your child has logged out of Teams or Seesaw or Google suites
• all photographs are deleted and the album bin is emptied
• Chromebook chargers are also returned.

Thank you. This will save Mr Hunt many hours of work.

Signing Children Out
If your child is leaving school early it is important that you sign them out via the Compass Kiosk ipad which is located at our Front Office. Using another device such as an iphone will cause an error message to be generated at school.