Drive and Park Safely
The start of the school year is a particularly busy time in our school carparks and surrounding streets. To help keep students safe when making their way to and from school, please ensure you drive and park safely and legally at, and around, school grounds. We all have an important role to play in supporting road safety.

Access Canberra has notified us that mobile speed and parking vans will be in operation to support our students’ safety. These enforcement teams play a critical role in supporting our students get to and from school safely and we thank them for their ongoing support. In addition to sticking to the speed limit, please remember to park safely – including not parking across pedestrian crossings, in no stopping zones, on corners, verges and double parking. It’s particularly important that you do not park in the No Stopping Zone of Stutchbury Street. Doing so makes it impossible for buses to turn safely.

Unsafe and illegal parking can reduce visibility of our students and motorists to see each other, creating a significant hazard when students cross the road. Let’s work together to keep our children safe.

Be Allergy Aware

St Matthew’s Primary School is concerned about the safety and well-being of all our students. Many of you will know someone who is affected by anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction. Our school does its best to be an allergy aware school. Staff have had training in severe allergy management, and we have implemented lots of strategies to help keep students at risk of anaphylaxis as safe as we can. We now have students across every grade who live with the risk of anaphylaxis to foods and insect stings. Whilst these children are being taught to care for themselves at an age-appropriate level, we ask that you help us educate your child on the importance of not sharing food with others, washing hands after eating and calling out to an adult if they think their friend with allergies is sick. With increased awareness and understanding of anaphylaxis, you will be able to help protect those around you.

As the only way to manage a food allergy is avoidance, the school has implemented several strategies to help prevent a severe allergic reaction. We can never totally eliminate the risk of an anaphylaxis but we can all do things that will help lessen the risk. Please consider the child with food allergy when packing your child’s lunch or when sending in food for any occasion, including school excursions. For this reason we are asking you not to pack peanut butter or egg sandwiches for your child’s lunch. Further information can be obtained from www.allergyfacts.org.au

Some children in our school are highly allergic to nuts and eggs. Please do not pack peanut butter sandwiches, nuts, or egg products in your child’s lunch.

GUJARATI

અમારી શાળાના કેટલાક બાળકોને બદામ, કાજુ, અને ઈંડાથી ખૂબ જ એલર્જી છે. મહેરબાની કરીને તમારા બાળકના લંચમાં પીનટ બટર સેન્ડવીચ, બદામ અથવા ઈંડાના ઉત્પાદનોને પેક કરશો નહીં.

HINDI

हमारे स्कूल के कुछ बच्चों को बादाम, काजू वगैरह और अंडों से अत्यधिक एलर्जी होती है। कृपया अपने बच्चे के दोपहर के भोजन में पीनट बटर सैंडविच, मेवे, या अंडे के उत्पाद पैक न करें.

POLISH

Niektóre dzieci w naszej szkole są bardzo uczulone na orzechy i jajka. Prosimy nie pakować kanapek z masłem orzechowym, rownierz innych orzechów, lub produktów jajecznych na obiady twojego dziecka.

SPANISH

Algunos niños de nuestra escuela son muy alérgicos a las nueces y los huevos. Por favor no prepare bocadillos con mantequilla de cacahuetes, nueces, o con productos que contengan huevo para la comida de su hijo.

NEPALI

तपाईंको बच्चाको खाजामा बदाम वा अण्डाका उत्पादनहरू प्याक नगर्नुहोस्। हाम्रा धेरै विद्यार्थीहरूलाई बदाम र अण्डाबाट एलर्जी छ।

DZONGKHA

Petra Cole
Assistant Principal
petra.cole@cg.catholic.edu.au