Updated: 14th November, 2024

Information updated: Update to first day of Kindergarten date and times

Complete your child's enrolment and enrolment interview by the end of Term 3 (Friday 27th September) to receive a free school hat, valued at $13.50. This includes all parents who have already completed their child's enrolment and interview.

Hats will be sent home with children during Session 3 of our Kindergarten Orientation program.

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome to Glendore Public School!

It is with great pleasure and excitement that I extend a warm welcome to you and your child as you prepare to embark on a remarkable journey with us here at Glendore. As the principal of this wonderful school , I am delighted to introduce you to our school community and share our commitment to providing an enriching and nurturing educational experience for your child.

Commencing Kindergarten is a significant milestone in your child's life, and it marks the beginning of an educational journey filled with discovery, growth, and lifelong learning. We understand the importance of this moment and are dedicated to ensuring that your child's transition into kindergarten is smooth, enjoyable, and positive.

Our dedicated team of teachers and staff are highly qualified and passionate about primary school education. They are committed to creating a supportive and stimulating environment where your child can develop essential academic, social, and emotional skills. Our curriculum is designed to foster curiosity, creativity, and a love for learning, preparing your child for success.

Strong partnerships between school and home are essential for your child's progress and well being. Throughout the year, we will keep you informed about your child's achievements, classroom activities, and school initiatives. We also encourage and welcome your active involvement in our school community through parent-teacher meetings, school events, P & C association, and volunteering opportunities.

We are truly excited to embark on this educational journey with you and your child. Together, we will create a safe, nurturing, and inspiring learning environment where your child can flourish, succeed and thrive.

Once again, welcome to Glendore Public School. We look forward to meeting you and your child and are eager to begin this incredible adventure together. Please do not hesitate to contact our school office at 4955 6644 if you have any questions or need further assistance.

Warm regards,

Mrs Annette Van Egmond

Principal

Mrs White is our Deputy Principal and she loves coming to visit Kindergarten to see all of their wonderful work. Mrs White supports all students enrolling at GPS and supports Mrs Van Egmond with running our large school. Mrs White brings her special friend Winston to school to support the students. He is a therapy dog and loves to visit classrooms, hear stories read by the children and go for walks. He does an excellent job of supporting our students when they may need some help and feel good about coming to school.

Welcome to Glendore Public School!

Kindergarten is such a special time filled with new experiences, friendships and learning adventures!

Kindergarten provides the foundation for a child's academic, social and emotional development. As Assistant Principal, my role is to support our students, families and staff in any way I can. I am fortunate to spend time in every Kindergarten class, every week. This allows me to work closely with students and staff to ensure all students have a successful start to school.

It has been lovely to meet new families in the enrolment interviews that have taken place so far. I have also been visiting some of our local early education centres to meet the educators and our new Kinder friends! Visits to our preschools and daycares will continue throughout the year.

To stay up to date with Kinder Transition information, please ensure you check this Smore newsletter regularly. Information will be updated and added as we move through 2024.

If you have any questions about your child's transition to Kindergarten, please do not hesitate to contact me on 0249556644 or glendore-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au.

Thank you for entrusting us with your child's education, I am looking forward to getting to know each and every one of you.

Erin Lewis

Assistant Principal

If your child is turning 5 on or before July 31, 2025, you can enrol your child in Kindergarten. Children must be enrolled in school before their sixth birthday. If you are unsure if your child is ready for school, please contact our Office to discuss.

Documentation Required:

The following documentation is required to finalise enrolment:

• Application to Enrol - https://enrol.education.nsw.gov.au
• Proof of Residential Address (see 100pts supporting documentation requirements on document below)
• Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement
• Birth Certificate
• Copies of any Family Law or other relevant court orders (if applicable)
• Copies of medical/healthcare or emergency action plans (if applicable)
• Evidence of disability or other support needs, including any learning and support plans.

The Kindergarten Enrolment interview provides us with an opportunity to get to know you and your child a little better and discuss how we can make transition to our school a smooth one. It also is a great opportunity to discuss any questions you have about starting school. Children are not required to attend these interviews.

Interviews will occur on specific days during Term 2 and Term 3, 2024 with Miss Lewis or another staff member. Term 4 interviews will occur over the phone.

How to book your child's interview:

• Once you have completed your child's enrolment and submitted your 100 points, you will receive a booking link from our Office. You can select an in-person or phone interview.
• In-Person interviews: We ask that you arrive 10 minutes before your selected interview time to complete a survey on your child's development. You will then meet with Miss Lewis for 20 minutes to discuss your child's transition to Kindergarten. Children are not required to attend these interviews.
• Phone interviews: If you have selected a phone interview, a staff member will call you at your allocated time.

Please contact our Office on 49556644 if you need any assistance with the booking process.

Please join us for our Parent Information Session about starting Kindergarten at Glendore Public School in 2025. Children are not required to attend the Parent Information session.

Date: Monday 26th August, 2024
Time: 5pm-6pm
Location: Glendore Public School - Hall

Please note, there will be no Zoom option for this information session.

A PDF version of the Powerpoint will be uploaded here after the session.

Our Kindergarten Orientation Program will involve three visits over three weeks in October and November. There will be a session each day across the week, so you are able to book a day that best suits your needs.

Kinder Orientation Dates:

Session 1 - Choose 1 day between 21st October to 25th October

Session 2 - Choose 1 day between 4th November to 8th November

Session 3 - Choose 1 day between 18th November to 22nd November

Students will attend from 9:00am-10:30am and participate in a number of play based activities that connect to literacy and numeracy skills.

Parents do not attend these sessions; however, you are welcome to wait in our Malang area at the front of our school.

Kinder Orientation days will be booked via an online booking system.

Parents who have completed their child's enrolment will receive the Orientation booking link on Monday 9th September, 2024.

Please make your child's bookings by Monday 14th October.

How to make your child's booking:

• Please only book ONE day in each session.
  
• For example, Session One runs across the week of 21st - 25th October.
  
• Please choose the day that best suits you to attend and only book ONE day during that week.
  
• You do not have to choose the same day in following sessions.
  
• As we have three, week-long sessions, you will book 3 days in total.
  

Students should bring:

• Water bottle
• Fruit or vegetable snack
• Sun hat
• All items should be clearly labelled with your child's name.

We are looking forward to having all of our new Kindergarten friends join us at school!

Many thanks to our P&C volunteers who invoice and pack our uniforms for our families. Unfortunately, they do not have a physical shop for the collection of uniforms. This means all orders need to be placed online and are filled on specific days. Students can buy school hats from the canteen at any time.

When students wear a school uniform, they feel included in our school community. Students, teachers, parents and carers, as well as members of our local community helped develop our school uniform to make sure it:

• meets the requirements of occupational health and safety, anti-discrimination and equal opportunity legislation.
  
• includes items that are affordable, comfortable and are made from easy-care and easy-wear fabrics.
  
• is appropriate for the full range of school activities.
  
• is suitable for all body shapes.

COMING SOON - Our new bucket hat will be available to order late 2024

COMING IN 2025 - Sublimated polo with Indigenous print designed by Glendore students. These shirts will be able to be ordered late 2024. Due to factors outside our control, they will not arrive until mid to late Term 1, 2025.

To ensure your child's uniform is ready for collection in 2024, please ensure you place your order before Friday 8th November, 2024. Orders placed after this date will not be available for collection until 2025.

How to order uniforms:

• Orders are to be placed via our online ordering system via Flexi-schools.
• To set up your child's FlexiSchools account, please visit - FlexiSchools registration
• When selecting your child's class, please select 'Kinder Orientation'. You will be able to change your child's class once Kindergarten classes are finalised in 2025.

• To ensure your child's uniform is ready for collection in 2024, please ensure you place your order before Friday 8th November, 2024.
• Orders placed by this date will be ready for collection from our Office from Friday 6th December, 2024. Please disregard the due date on your invoice.
• You will receive an email once your order is ready to collect from our Office.

Throughout the year, uniform orders are filled by our P&C volunteers on a regular basis and items delivered to your child's classroom or to collect from the Office. When ordering, please disregard the due date on your invoice and allow 21 days for delivery from the supplier should items not be in stock at time of ordering. Orders can take up to 4 weeks to fill if current stock is unavailable so we suggest orders are placed well in advance.

To view our 2025 Uniform list and pricing, please click the attachment below.

We are fortunate to receive pre-loved uniforms from many families. Second-hand uniform sales are held on Flexischools several times a year.

Our P&C will be holding the next second-hand uniform sale on 28th August, 2024.

Parents with a Flexischools account will be able to purchase items in this sale!

During our Orientation Sessions, your child will be supported by a variety of our 2025 Year Six buddies.

At Glendore, students are not allocated a specific buddy. Instead, they are supported by a range of different buddies, usually from the same class. This approach promotes social and support networks and promotes a sense of community and belonging in our school.

Buddies look after the Kindergarten students for the first few weeks of school. Year Six buddies come to the Kindergarten classrooms each lunch and recess and look after our new students in the playground. They help teach our Kindergarten students the school rules and values, assist them with eating times and encourage them to play with their new friends.

In December, your child will be placed in a Colour Group. The Colour Group is used to group children for their Best Start Assessment, their First Day arrival time and it is the group they will spend their first week of Kindergarten in.

Our Kinder cohort average is around 100 students. Some children come to school knowing many children, while others come knowing no-one. We use a range of information including but not limited to; Preschool and Kinder Orientation observations, Transition to School statements, preschool communications, student need, student relationships and gender to form our Colour Groups. Staff endeavour to place your child in a group with at least 1 known child/friend.

As students settle into school routines, we regularly review our Colour Groups. Groups are often adjusted by staff before we formalise Kindergarten classes. This means children may be moved into a different group. Once we confirm our enrolment numbers, we will form our formal Kindergarten classes and no longer use Colour Groups. This will occur in weeks 2 or 3, 2025.

The Best Start Assessment identifies student’s literacy and numeracy skills on entry to Kindergarten. It has been conducted in all NSW public schools since 2010. The assessment is conducted in line with existing school practices and builds upon teaching and learning programs that support students in the transition to school.

All Best Start assessments will be conducted by class teachers during school hours from weeks 2 to 5.

Our first day of Kindergarten will be Thursday 6th of February, 2025 at 8.45am.

First day schedule:

8.15am to 8.40am: Arrive at school. There will be ‘First Day’ photo props in Malang for you to use

8.40am: Parents to take their child to their Colour Group classroom

9am: Parents leave classroom

2.30pm: Flexible finish option - Parents welcome to collect their child from classroom

2.45pm: School finishes

Early Finish Time

• Kindergarten students will finish early at 2.30pm for the first 3 weeks of school.
• The early finish will occur until Friday 28th February, 2025.
• Students attending OOSH or waiting for a sibling will wait with the class teacher until 2:45pm.

• Early Term 1, 2025 all Parents will be invoiced for their child's 'Resource and Technology Levy'. In 2024, this annual levy was $80.
• This levy covers all your child's learning equipment, including books, folders, pencils, crayons, scissors, glue, headphones and whiteboard markers.
• It also includes your child's subscription to Reading Eggs, Maths Seeds and Decodable Readers online.
• Parents only need to provide their child with a library bag.
• Parents do not need to supply anything else for their child's learning.

Official School Hours: 8:45am to 2:45pm

• 8:15am: School opens
• 8:40am: Morning lines
  
• 8:45am: Morning learning session *Rolls marked
  
• 10:45am - 11.30am: Lunch
  
• 11.30am - 1.30pm: Middle learning session
• 1:30pm - 2:00pm: Recess
• 2pm - 2.45pm: Afternoon learning session
• 2:45pm: School day ends

If you are unable to collect your child at 2.45pm, you are required to enrol them in OOSH.

• Our School Canteen is open for online lunch orders only via Flexi-schools orders before 8:00am each day.
• There are no over the counter orders or sales to students for lunch orders.
• No cash payments will be taken for lunch orders. All orders to go through FlexiSchools.
  
• School hats can be ordered online via Flexi-schools and collected from the canteen.

If you are able to volunteer your time in our canteen, please CLICK HERE

For information about updating your child's class on FlexiSchools, please visit - Update FlexiSchool class

Our P&C plays an important role in supporting the school’s teaching and learning activities and is the forum for parents, caregivers and citizens who have an interest in their children’s education.

P&C Aims

• Bringing the community, students and staff together, to promote the best interests of the school
  
• Assist in the provision of resources, facilities and amenities for the school
  
• Encouraging communication, cooperation and participation within the school community
  
• Providing a forum of discussion on school issues and gathering of ideas
  
• The fostering of community interest in education
  
• Our P&C is interested in actively promoting a strong and vibrant school community with open, transparent lines of communication, so to provide our children with a first-class learning environment.
  

P&C Communication

Information is posted on the school website, posted on our Facebook page and included in our Newsletter. You are welcome to email suggestions to the school at any time on glendorepspandc@gmail.com or secretaryglendorepandc@gmail.com

While not everyone wants to or is able to be a position holder, everyone can be involved. This can include the following;

• reading about what the P&C is doing.
  
• making suggestions on how we can improve our school.
  
• supporting fundraising efforts with either time or donations.
  
• attending meetings to participate in positive, vibrant discussions.

P&C Fundraising

An important element of our P&C is fundraising. The P&C organises numerous fundraising activities each term including Mothers’ Day & Fathers’ Day Stalls, Christmas/Easter Raffles and many more.

Without the support of families, teachers and the wider community in fundraising activities, the P&C are not able to give back to the school. The extra money we raise, the more resources that can be purchased for our school, benefiting all our children. We thank all families and the community for supporting our fundraising activities, so that we can support our school and students!!

P&C Meetings

The P&C meets Mondays, twice a term (Weeks 3 and 8) in the school library. Our meetings start at 6:30 pm and dates are posted on the school website, Facebook page and Newsletter.

A spread of parents from throughout the school helps ensure decisions made encompass and benefit all. The more people involved, the easier it is to enhance our wonderful school community. It’s also a great way to meet other parents.

We look forward to seeing you at our meetings.

Glendore PS P&C Association

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

2025 OOSH bookings will open online on Monday 4th of November, 2024.

2025 bookings are now open! Enrol your child in OOSH here -

https://www.owna.com.au/enrol.aspx?c=afterschoole

Before School, After School and Vacation Care is operated by After School Excellence is operated on the school premises.

Parents can drop their children off early in the morning for supervision by highly qualified and trained After School Excellence staff from 6:30am and concludes at 8:30am. Supervision commences again after school by After School Excellence Staff at 2:45pm and lasts up until 6pm.

At After School Excellence, we work closely with each family to understand your individual needs.

We know how busy life can be and we are here to help. We provide a safe, fun and exciting environment for your children so you can focus on getting yourself to work, having a productive day and ensuring that your evening is as stress-free as possible.

OOSH Opening Hours:

Mondays - Fridays 6:30am - 8:30am

Mondays - Fridays 2:45pm - 6:00pm

Contact Number: 0431 665 538

Email: info@afterschoolexcellence.com.au

For more information go to www.afterschoolexcellence.com.au

For further information about applying for a school bus pass, please visit https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-for-a-school-travel-pass

Glendore bus route information - https://cdcbus.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Glendore-Public-School.pdf

We offer SRE (Scripture) weekly.

Parents select their child's scripture preference early Term 1.

We offer: Non-Denominational scripture, Islamic scripture and non-scripture.

• Sentral is used for Student Attendance, Academic reports, School Calendar and notifications.
• The school will provide you with a letter detailing your individual Sentral Parent Portal key once your child has commenced school in 2025.
  

Online parent payment portal

• SchoolBytes is used for all payments and permission notes.
• Parents will receive all School Bytes communication via their email.

Parent Communication

• The parent communication module allows schools to send personalised email correspondence to parents/carers and students in bulk, such as for newsletters and general notifications.

• Facebook is used to celebrate our good news stories!
• Follow us to see the wonderful things happening at Glendore - https://www.facebook.com/GlendorePSofficial