Week 7 in K2

Class Details

In the past, teachers have sent out class lists giving contact details of parents. This information is now accessible to all on the Parent Portal on the UWCSEA website. Class Parents are using this information to contact you with details of parties and activities pertinent to your child's class. In addition, other parents in the class will use the information on the Parent Portal to contact you if the need arises.

To avoid missing out on important information, invitations and dates of events that are being shared within your child's class, please make sure you have submitted your data protection form. If you have not yet done this, the data protection form can be found on the portal forms page on the portal (the grey 'forms' button in the middle of the parent portal will also take you there). Alternatively, you can also login to the portal, click on update details, and then update your profile on the parent address book tab to 'opt in', without having to download and return the form.

The new data protection laws meant that unless the data protection form was signed and returned we needed to opt you out as the default from the start of the year. When you opt in, parents in the class can then find your contact details. We recommend at least one parent being opted in so as to not miss out on important social opportunities for your child.

UWC Day - Wednesday 1 October

UWC Day is an opportunity for the whole Campus to focus on our values, in particular Service to others. The usual timetable will be suspended for all students as they take part in activities and projects with outside groups and students from the High School.

The K2 children will be going off campus for the morning to the Botanic Gardens with their teachers and some Grade 11 and 12 students. As part of the Service element, the older students will be helping our children with their current Unit of Study on materials by exploring the gardens, finding out and discussing what things are made of, searching for different materials and recording their findings with their iPads. 

In the afternoon, the older students will continue working with the K2 children; using Doodlecast Pro they will help guide them through the process of selecting a few photographs and recording their voices as they talk about the materials they found. 

We will have Brain Food at school before leaving UWCSEA at 8:30am. We plan to return by 12:00pm.  

IMPORTANT! In preparation for the trip, could all parents:

• have your child wear his/her PE kit and trainers
• put sunscreen and insect repellant on before school, if desired
• make sure a hat is at school
• pack two snacks and two drinks (water bottles with a strap are ideal) in a small backpack 
• pack a raincoat or disposable poncho

We will have lunch in the classrooms as normal. End of day bus and car pick ups will remain the same. Please note that after school activities will run as normal. 

Swimming for K2HWe and K2SMH 

This starts next week!

K2SMH will swim every Tuesday from 30 September and conclude on Tuesday 11 November.
K2HWe will swim every Thursday from 2 October and conclude on Thursday 13 November.

On swimming days, your child will need the following items: swimwear, a UVA swim top (compulsory), goggles (if they wear them), shoes to wear to the pool and a towel.
Swimming is part of the P.E. programme and all children are expected to swim each week. If for any reason your child is unable to swim, he/she will sit by the side of the pool and watch or read a book.

Theatre Trip

On Thursday 9 October, we will be taking the children to see a production based on the popular Julia Donaldson picture book 'Stick Man'.  If you have not yet returned the letter requesting permission and payment, please could you do so by Monday 29 September?