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Term 2 Week 7 2021 Tuesday 1 June
• Year 9/10 White Card and Asbestos Training
Wednesday 2 June
• Reconciliation Day Whole School Assembly – Gym – 9:15am
• Year 7-10 Boys North Volleyball Competition
• Uke Choir
• Year 9/10 White Card and Asbestos Training
• ACT Up - Fringe Festival
• Christian Education K-6
• 7/8 Gungahlin College SEL Performance
Upcoming 3/4 Birrigai Camps Wednesday 2 June – Friday 4 June
• Group 1: 3/4DH, 3/4OP, 3/4SH, 3/4KW, 3/4PG
Monday 7 June – Wednesday 9 June
• Group 2: 3/4DF, 3/4HB, 3/4JH, 3/4KF Wednesday 9 June – Friday 11 June
• Group 3: 3/4SV, 3/4FE, 3/4DW, 3/4LM
REMINDER: For ALL events in the Gym
please wear flat - soled shoes ONLY
Dear Families,
It has been a wonderful start to my time here at Harrison School! The
team have been very welcoming as have the children and it has been
great to get to see the teaching and learning that is happening! A truly
amazing thing that I have learnt in my very short week at Harrison is how
proud and united the whole school is around the school values! What an
amazing platform to build strong learners of the future!
Teaching is my passion – I absolutely love nothing more than seeing what
I call a “lightbulb” moment in learning! I see our job as so important –
growing inquirers who problem solve new ways of being and responding
to challenges is paramount to the learning we do. I have been in
education for over 20 years now, and through this time have always
endeavoured to empower our students as learners – both within and
beyond the classroom! I am passionate about true inquiry learning, and
love to use evidence-based research to support not only our students’
learning, but also our teachers’! We are all learners and can learn from
each other! As an experienced P-10 leader, I am so excited to support our
students and teachers to be agents in their learning – with strong
foundational skills to interact with the world.
I believe that successful schools start with strong relationships – the
partnerships that we create help support our learners to be the best they
can be. As a mum of four, I recognise the immense job that we all have
in building a strong future for everyone – and I work hard to build a strong
community of advocates behind every single one of our students. I
welcome any opportunity to work with each of you to support your child’s
learning.
I would like to thank the Harrison team for all their support over the past
week – it is clear when I walk around and meet our amazing students and
teachers, that inclusion, respect, and integrity are a huge part of Harrison!
Harrison School Newsletter 1 June 2021
March
2019
I look forward to working shoulder to shoulder with
our community – please feel free to come and say
hello so I can best learn how to support our very
precious students!
Kind Regards,
Jacq Chapman
P-6 Principal
Harrison Facebook Page – Coming Soon!
We will soon be publishing our own Facebook page!
Permission notes for this will be emailed home
sometime this week, and the permission required is
different to other permission the school has
requested in the past. We ask that families please
return the permission notes ASAP either via return
email or to either front office.
A separate email will also be sent home this week with
a link to the Facebook page. Keep your eyes peeled.
Paperless Communication
As part of the school’s drive to move towards a more
sustainable/eco-friendly environment, we will be
phasing out the amount of paper-copy notes that get
sent home to families. Almost all of our
communication will now be sent home electronically
via email. If you believe the school has old contact
information such as an email address or phone
number, please ensure you get in touch so we can
update this on our system.
2021 Voluntary Contributions The 2021 Voluntary Contribution note has been
emailed out to all families electronically. If you did
not receive this electronically, can you please let the
school know so we can resend the note home, or
send a paper copy home with your child.
COVID-19 Reminder
A reminder that the COVID-19 pandemic is still with
us and while many restrictions have been eased
since last year, some restrictions are still in place in
our school.
It is important that students stay home and get
tested if they are unwell.
Visitors to our school, including parents and carers,
should sign in using established processes, meet
density requirements of one person per two square
metres, and maintain physical distancing of 1.5m
from other adults. Students and visitors also need to
practise good hand and respiratory hygiene. You can
find more information on COVID-19 and ACT public
schools on the Education Directorate website
National Reconciliation Week 2021
27 May to 3 June
P&C NEWS P&C Contact List
The updated 2021 P&C contact list can be found on
the Harrison School website, available here.
Casual Canteen Assistant
The P&C are looking for a casual canteen assistant on
Tuesday and Friday from 9:00am-2:00pm, and
available extra hours when required.
To apply, please send your CV and a 1-page cover
letter with your expression of interest to Olivia
Wenholz, P&C President,
[email protected]. Applications
due on Friday 11 June at 5:00pm.
More information, including a duty statement can be
accessed here.
STUDENT ABSENCE / LATE ARRIVAL
REMINDER
We would like to remind parents and carers that if
you receive an absence or late arrival text message for
your child/ren, the easiest way to respond (and
approve your child’s absence or late arrival on our
system) is by replying to the text message with the
below information:
• Student Full Name
• Homeroom class
• Reason for absence / if it is parent approved
or not
E.g.
Gareth Richards, 1/2HS, parent approved late arrival
on 01/06/2021.
OR
Gareth Richards, 1/2HS, parent approved full day
absence 01/06/2021.
If you have more than one child, please send an
individual text message for each child.
The second-best method for approving your child’s
absence/s is by emailing
[email protected] directly with the
above information. If you know of any upcoming
leave, we strongly encourage parents or carers to
email the absence email address, as well as the child’s
homeroom teacher to inform them of this. By pre-
empting the school of any upcoming leave, you avoid
receiving the daily text message.
ALL students MUST be signed in and out of the school
by a parent or carer. If you need to add a
parent/guardian to your child’s contact details, please
come to the front office to fill in the appropriate form.
Preschool – Yr. 6 students MUST be signed out from
the main administration office before they are
collected from class.
Years 7 – 10 students MUST be signed in and out by a
parent or carer from the senior office.
FRONT OFFICE HOURS Harrison School Front Office hours are:
Monday – Friday 8:30am – 3:30pm
For all enquiries and calls
SCHOOL GATES
The Harrison School gates will be locked at 9:30am
each morning and are reopened at 2:30pm. If you
need to enter the school between the hours of
9:30am-2:30pm, you are required to sign in via the
front office. All gates will be locked again at 3:30pm
daily. If you are still on school grounds after 3:30pm,
you need to exit via the main gates located on
Wimmera Street.
ASSEMBLY CERTIFICATES Congratulations to our P-6 Principals Award
Recipients:
Adau K, Caprice M, Livia L,
Marah N, Brielle W, Rylie B,
Maaseiah T, Archie N, Leeland D F,
Andreas T, Cooper T, Vrishab S,
Sasvath S, Noah K-H, Sofia N,
Madina W, Maissa W, Mihir K,
Harlow M, Tilly E, Riley B,
James C, Hayeong K, Arivini T,
Lucas L, Siryn S, Saryn S,
Ravneet S, Gemma H-W
ASSEMBLY CERTIFICATES Congratulations to our Year 7-10 Bronze Award
Recipients:
Daniel A, Sofia M, Yoonsol K,
Katelyn R, Lachlan B, Arsh K,
Liam C, William R, Jillian P,
Joel K, Serafina S, Esmail Z,
Priyanshu K, Patrick S, Rabgyel T,
Lainey B, Khan W
Year 7-10 Bronze Award Recipients
Pictured below are some of our amazing Year 7-10
Bronze Award Recipients for Term 2.
Congratulations to these students on their wonderful
achievements.
STUDENTS ARRIVING LATE TO SCHOOL ALL students arriving late to school MUST sign in at
either the main front office or the Senior Office.
Mother’s Day Breakfast Update
Thank you to everyone who attended the Mother’s
Day Breakfast in Week 3. We raised a total of
$1,138.94 towards The Breast Cancer Foundation. A
big thank you to the wonderful volunteers from the
Gungahlin Aurora Rotary Club for supplying their BBQ
and their expertise with cooking. Thank you to the
student leaders and staff who helped with the running
of the morning including the overall setup and cooking
on the BBQ whilst collecting money for the fundraiser.
Thank you to the senior cooking group who made
tasty muffins to sell on the morning and to the
photographers on the day taking snaps of the overall
community spirit shown.
Thank you to our suppliers, Home Grown meats and
Woolworths Gungahlin. Woolworths donated the
bread and money to cover ingredients for the muffins.
A further massive thank you to OSH Club who donated
$500, this covered the cost of the eggs and bacon and
other items needed for the breakfast.
Thank you to the choirs who provided wonderful
entertainment during the morning, and thank you to
YOU; the community, for getting together to make this
year’s Mother’s Day Breakfast such a success.
Carpark Safety and Student Arrival Times
• Carpark Safety during Drop off and Pick up Times:
The school has recently received complaints from
the community regarding student safety in our
school carpark during drop off and pick up times.
We would like to remind families that during school
drop off, students are to only exit the car once the
car has come to a complete stop and is a designated
drop off/pick up zone, or in a designated car park.
There have been reports of some close incidents
where students are exiting the car BEFORE the
crossing and stepping out in front of other moving
cars travelling through the car park. Student safety
is our number one priority, and we need your help
to reinforce this while dropping off and picking up
your child/ren.
• Disabled Car Parks
We would like to remind families not to park in
disabled car spaces unless permitted to do so. There
have been some instances this year where cars are
using these parking spaces without a permit to park
there. This prevents our families who require these
parking spaces from using them. Harrison is an
inclusive school, and we seek your support to
enable access for all students.
• Student Arrival Times
Students are not permitted to be on school grounds
any earlier than 8:30am. Before school duties, the
front office/s, and our duty of care does not
commence until 8:30am, daily. There have been a
number of students arriving to school before this
time and are unsupervised. We would like to
remind families that we do have a before and
after school care program, run by OSHClub which
commences at 7:00am daily. OSHClub can be
contacted here if you wish to enquire about
booking in your child/ren.
Message from OSHClub
Dear Families,
Crazy to think that we're halfway through Term 2
already!!
So far this term, we have been engaging with a First
Aid incursion. This has taken place on a Monday
afternoon for the past month. The children have
learned a lot of information about what to do in First
Aid situations and have had some practice with
making slings out of bandages. We've also seen an
increase in our cooking activities in each of our
rooms. If you have any child-friendly recipes that
you'd like to share with us, please hand them in or
send them through! We're always open to new and
exciting ideas!
As some of you may have seen, the bookings for our
holiday program are now open. You can add your
bookings via the iParent Portal or simply by
contacting us directly on 0418223198. Our
excursions these holidays will be to the National Zoo
and Aquarium as well as the Kambah Adventure
Playground. We're also lucky enough to have an
interactive science show and nerf blaster warz as
incursions.
We are currently reviewing the medical information
we have onsite for the children. If you are contacted
in relation to any of this, please supply medication or
documentation as soon as possible. It is in your
child's best interest that we have current, up to date
information as well as in date medication. Your
assistance with this is greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
OSHClub
LIBRARY NEWS
Book Fair
We recently held a Scholastic Book Fair in the library.
Thank you to all the students, families and teachers
who enjoyed browsing and purchasing their favourite
books. Profits from the fair go towards purchasing
new books for the library for everyone to enjoy.
Thank you for your continued support.
Library Trust Fund
Thank you to all the Harrison families who have
generously donated to the Trust Fund so far this year.
We have recently purchased many books that
students and teachers have suggested to be added to
the library. We hope they bring many hours of
enjoyment. Thank you again for your support. If you
would like to donate to our Library Trust fund, all
donations are tax deductable. More information will
come out to families soon.
Simultaneous Storytime
Last week we enjoyed listening to a story being read
from Space. It was very exciting to watch astronaut Dr
Shannon Walker read the wonderful book.
‘Give Me Some Space’ written by Philip Bunting is
available to borrow from the library.
Overdue Books
A reminder that overdue notes have been sent
out. We still have over 800 books outstanding.
Please remind your child to return any overdue
books as soon as possible to the library. Thanks to
all the parents who have done so, so far.
Book Club
Issue 4 of Book Club is due back Friday the 4 June
2021. Please use the LOOP for ordering online.
DEFENCE NEWS
We welcome Kelly Cvitanovic to Harrison School as
the new DSM for the senior school. Kelly is
currently working Tuesday to Thursdays and can
be found in the Defence Room in the library or
upstairs in the VAST building.
Defence Special Needs Support Group (DSNSG)
provides support, information and assistance to
ADF Families with special needs both here in
Australia and Overseas. For more information on
the services available please visit:
www.dsnsg.org.au or call 1800 037 674.
Coming Up: Defence Families Dinner – Raiders
Club Gungahlin Friday 4th June
DCO Support for ADF Families:
1800 624 608.
Sarah and Kelly
DEFENCE KIDS
Please remind your children that K-2 Activity
Group is Monday Lunch times, and 3-4 Activity
Group is Tuesday lunch times. For students in 5/6
the Defence Hang out is Wednesday Lunch times
and 7 – 10 Thursday lunch times all groups operate
out of the Defence Room in the library.
HARRISON HEARTS
If you would like to join us come to the Defence
Room in the School Library on Monday mornings
between 9am and 11am. We would love to see
you for a cuppa, a chat and to create some
resources for the classrooms. Younger siblings
welcome. Please remember to sign in as a
volunteer at the front office.
SECOND-HAND UNIFORM SHOP
The second-hand uniform shop will be open every
Friday morning from 8:30am-9:30am in the
multipurpose room located in the Junior Hall.
CANTEEN NEWS The 2021 Canteen Menu can be found on our
school website here. FLEXI -SCHOOLS ONLINE ORDERING
ORDERS Cut off time for Flexischools online orders
is strictly 9:00am.
Cut off time for over-the-counter orders
is strictly 10:00am.
Please note that once an order has been placed
either through Flexischools or over the counter,
the order is processed and is non-refundable or
transferrable. Unfortunately, we cannot offer
refunds for uncollected lunch orders.
The friendly canteen staff are always looking for
volunteers. If you have a spare hour or two, your
help would be greatly appreciated - just drop into
the canteen and say hello.
