Welcome to the first day of Year One!
We are looking forward to an exciting year together! The first day can be a little overwhelming for both children and parents – we are hoping these handy tips will alleviate some of the stress!
COVID
As WA is still in Phase 4 of the COVID pandemic, parents continue to be required to practise physical distancing (keep at least 1.5 metres or two arms lengths from each other). We have put into place a few changes for our first day to assistant with the number of parents in our classrooms. Please read the following information carefully.
We kindly ask that after you have unpacked your child’s belongings, you implement a ‘kiss and go’ approach to allow other parents into the classroom to do the same. We know day one can be a little emotional…your child is in safe hands!
Breakdown of the day:
- Our classroom door will open at 8:30am.
- We will commence our day at approximately 8:45am.
- Our day concludes at 3pm. The children will walk down to the front of the school for collection through ‘drive through’. Children can also be collected outside our classroom – please wait underneath the big tree. We are encouraging all children to begin using the ‘drive through’ system as of week 2.
Handy Tips:
- These items are to remain in your child’s school bag: hat, library bag, spare change of underwear, lunch box and crunch and sip container. Please ensure your child’s name is printed on their hat!
- Water bottles are to be placed on our water trolley located inside our classroom.
- Please write your child’s name on their blue note folder. This is to be placed outside the classroom in the box labelled ‘Note Folders’.
- Place glue sticks, crayons, scissors, coloured pencils, writing pencils and black fine liner pens in the labelled boxes. The children will share these items – no need to label everything! Both classes will have a table outside with boxes clearly labelled for each item.
- Headphones: please ensure your child’s name is written on the actual headphones rather than the box…as the box will end up in the recycling bin 🙂
- Place your child’s scrapbooks, writing books and black display folders in their trays. The trays are located just inside the classroom by the door. Please ensure your child’s name is printed on these – no covers are necessary.
- If your child has a Medical Alert Plan (Asthma, anaphylaxis, Allergies etc) please ensure the front office has an updated copy of this and any necessary medication as soon as possible.
Our Parent Information Evening is being held on Tuesday 2nd February – We would love to see a representative from each family attend. It is here that you will hear some of our important messages for Year One. Our Parent Information Booklet will be available shortly on the St Emilie’s website.
The breakdown of the evening is as follows:
5:45pm-6:15 School Hall ( Year One Session)
6:20 pm – Lights out!
Specialist Teachers
TUESDAY
Music – Mr Dabbs
Japanese – Mrs Aroozoo
WEDNESDAY
Sport – Mr Davis
(Children to wear coloured House Sport Shirt)
THURSDAY
Health – Mr Davis
Science – Mrs Cogger
FRIDAY
Yr 1 & 2 Sport (Children to wear yellow St Emilie’s Sport Shirt)
Library (Requires library bag)
We look forward to seeing you on Monday!
Year One Teachers
Miss Tanya de Gooijer and Mrs Simone McKenzie
Year One Educational Assistants
Mrs Jo Roberto and Mrs Amy Andrews
Every week we have a book focus where we learn new vocabulary words and discuss the meaning of each word. 
