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Cyber Safety Project
This year Cairnlea Park Primary School is proudly collaborating with the Cyber Safety Project to facilitate cyber safety education across our whole school community, including students, staff and parents. Students will uncover the risks of learning, connecting and playing online. They will be empowered to navigate the online world as safe, independent and responsible digital citizens. The … Read more
SunSmart and School Hats
Our school is a SunSmart school, and all students must wear a school hat from 1st September to 30th April. As part of sun protection measures all students are required to wear either the bucket hat or the legionnaire style school hat for outdoor activities. Hats can now be purchased from the office for your … Read more
Is your child leaving at the end of 2023?
As we begin to start to plan for 2024, we would greatly appreciate that if your child is not returning to ourschool in 2024, that you please notify the office. This assists us greatly in the planning of grades for nextyear.
Yard Supervision
A reminder that all entry gates will be open from 8:40am for an 8:55am start. Students must not arrivebefore 8.40am. For breakfast club on a Wednesday and Friday the front gates will open at 8.30am, students need to enter Room 5 or remain outside Room 5 until 8.40am.School finishes at 3.20pm for all students; the … Read more
Student Absences
When your child is sick or not at school you need to provide a reason why your child is not attending via the Compass app or by phoning the office. If a child is absent from school, they are not learning and can easily start to fall behind in their learning.If we have no reason … Read more
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Help Your Child Succeed in School
Build the habit of good attendance early. School success goes hand in hand with good attendance!
Did you know?
• Starting from kindergarten, too many absences can cause children to fall behind in school
• Missing 10 percent (or about 18 days) can make it harder to learn to read
• Students can still fall behind if they miss just one or two days every few weeks
• Being late to school may lead to poor attendance
• Absences can affect the whole classroom if the teacher has to slow down learning to help children catch up
Attending school regularly helps children feel better about school, and themselves. Start building this habit in preschool so they learn right away that going to school on time, every day is important. Good attendance will help children do well in high school, tertiary education and at work.
What you can do:
• Set a regular bedtime and morning routine
• Lay out clothes and pack school bags the night before
• Don’t let your child stay home unless they are truly sick
• Keep in mind complaints of a stomach ache or headache can be a sign of anxiety and not a reason to stay home
• If your child seems anxious about going to school, talk to the class teacher or the school’s wellbeing teacher for advice on how to make them feel comfortable and excited about learning
• Develop back‐up plans for getting to school if something comes up. Call on a family member, a neighbour, or another parent
• Avoid medical appointments and extended trips during school times
