Pigeon Post

Balmain Public School prides itself on supporting student voice and authentic student leadership. Voting for student leadership strongly depends on all students from Kindergarten to Year 5 having the opportunity to listen to candidates' speeches and voting for the people they feel will make an effective leader, as well as represent the overall student body.

This week has seen our K-5 students watch pre-recorded speeches from all the candidates who have expressed an interest in being part of the 2022 Student Leadership team. A Google form, allowing one response per person, has also been created, allowing all students and staff the opportunity to cast their vote for a boy and girl leader. Voting closed at 3pm today.

We wish all our candidates the best of luck! Our 2022 Student Leadership team, consisting of 2 Prime Ministers (boy and girl) and 10 Ministers (5 each of boys/girls) will be announced officially during a formal presentation in Week 11.

Maria Lambos - Principal

Your tokens of appreciation, although so heartwarming and generous, especially during this time, are neither necessary, nor expected.

Staff are very appreciative of your generosity, however, as per the DoE's 'Gifts, Benefits and Hospitality Procedures', the token of appreciation must adhere to the following:

• 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

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IF YOU SEE A COLOURED CIRCLE AROUND OUR EMBLEM, DON'T FORGET TO TAP ON IT, FOR OUR LATEST STORY...you've got to get in quickly, as it disappears after 24 hours!

SOME OF OUR STORIES ARE SAVED AS HIGHLIGHTS...

Until further notice:

• Kiss & Drop - using both Gladstone Park & Eaton St gates, from 8:30am
• Staggered pick-up - Gladstone Park gate & basketball court - ES1/S1 @ 2:50pm & S2/S3 @ 3pm

Your understanding and patience in this matter is much appreciated.

To ensure you receive all communication via SkoolBag, please have the app downloaded on your phone, with the notifications turned ON.

Although the school pushes out notifications via the app and email, there may be times when an important message may be missed as emails may sometimes not be checked regularly.

If you need assistance downloading the app, please see below?...

SkoolBag installation instructions

Thanks to Ms Karstrom, who organises the collection and distribution of the Gelatissimo ice-creams, as well as takes the fab photos!

Under the current guidelines published by the Department of Education, the uniform stall will be operating via online ordering only.

Orders placed before 8pm October 21 will be packed and delivered to the office for collection. (Orders for current Kindy and Year 1 students will be delivered to the classroom.)

All orders after this time will be packed and delivered to classrooms after students return on October 25 (with the exception of any orders for new students starting 2022).

Exchanges and returns can be arranged by emailing the uniform stall volunteers: balmainpsuniforms@gmail.com

Thank you!