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Minimal staff supervision on-site at school will continue, as well as one unit of work for all students. 

To assist us in organising sufficient limited supervision on-site at school, please complete a separate survey for each child:

https://forms.gle/srMVaUT7T6K98hmh7

Important information for students requiring onsite supervision:

• DO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD/REN TO SCHOOL IF UNWELL - child/ren showing any mild COVID/flu-like symptoms will be sent home until a negative COVID test result is produced, as well as NO SYMPTOMS displayed. The safety and wellbeing of all students and staff, at all times, is paramount.
• Supervising staff are UNABLE TO FACILITATE NON-ESSENTIAL LEARNING at school ie online music lesson with Directions in Music

Thank you for your continued understanding and support. Stay safe everyone!

Enrolling at Balmain PS

• Value - up to $50 ONLY per student
• NO cash or negotiable instruments such as cash vouchers, 'pre-paid cash' and 'EFTPOS' cards, Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), shares or money orders
• Gift cards are acceptable as a gift of gratitude, as they are considered non-cash vouchers that must be used as specific retailers and cannot be converted to cash eg David Jones, Bunnings, Tara Dennis - a gift card cannot exceed $50 per student
• Alcohol - MUST NOT exceed a value of $50

On one lovely spring morning, in a lovely garden somewhere in North America a caterpillar egg started to split open on top of leaves of a milkweed plant.

Crack! Crack, Crack.

Out popped a small caterpillar covered with black, green and white stripes, gazing at the view of a spectacular looking garden. 

If the whole world looked like this stunning garden, everyone who lived in it would probably be beautiful! He thought to himself gazing at the tulips, roses and sunflowers flourishing in the sunlight.

I hope I will make really nice friends.

With that thought, the caterpillar decided to find some friends that shared the same home. He climbed off his milkweed plant and scrambled on top of a beautiful rose next to the milkweed. On top of the rose, he spied, just a few flowers away he saw a group of bees, buzzing around busily.

I should ask them if they want to be my friends! Thought the caterpillar excitedly to himself as he crawled closer to the bees.

There once lived a wolf who was extremely indolent and unappreciative, and needed an assistant who was a panda, to help him accumulate food, find shelter and even protect Wolf when he is in a vulnerable position. However, Panda wasn’t given enough reward for his good deeds, it was mostly just tiny morsels and leftovers from what Wolf had eaten. Panda wanted to quit, but Wolf was the only animal accepting his help. Wolf, though, would then realise that he would be as dejected as a cloud because he was about to lose his slave…

Winter was near, and Wolf was going to be even more famished. However, this would mean Wolf would have to reward the Panda even more. Wolf thought and thought, and suddenly had a lightbulb above his head. He decided to flatter Panda to give him additional food, but was going to give him the same amount of leftovers.

A dog, who was very greedy and hungry, had caught a large fish, after a long hour of waiting by the river.

“This fish will be so good,” he thought greedily, “and I am so hungry I could eat all the fish in the river!”

Since he was tired and hungry, he decided to eat the fish straight away, and opened his jaws to take a large bite when… 

Snatch! A giraffe had stolen it and put it high on his back so the dog wouldn’t get to it.

The giraffe had seen a small, starving fox over the river, and thought the dog should be nice and share it with her.

“Hello dog,” he said politely, “Did you know there is a hungry fox over there? Would you mind sharing your large fish with her? She would be very happy if you did.”

“Why would I do that? Give my fish back!” demanded the displeased dog.

“Think smarter, dog,” counselled the clever giraffe. “You know, really, that you can’t eat the whole fish, and sharing it means no leftover meat to attract annoying ants!”