Parent Yarns 

Yesterday we sent detailed information about our Yarns next week. This is an opportunity to meet with your child/ren's teacher/s.  If you would like to book a time for a Yarn please go to the following link and select a suitable time to talk to your child's teacher. The Yarns will take place in your child's classroom, please make your way there on arrival.  For your convenience, appointments can be made by visiting https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au and using event code 89zdu

Information Sessions 

Our information sessions this year are virtual and contained further down in this newsletter. We listened to parents' feedback from last year and have made these available to watch anytime. We thank our teachers for the work they have put in to make these videos possible. 

P&C

We love the work our P&C do for the school and the support they give us. I really encourage you to come along this coming Monday night, 7pm and meet our wonderful group. You can enter through the front office and the meeting is held in the staffroom. I will be there and I would love to see many of you there too. For more information please see the P&C section of the newsletter. 

School Board Nominations

Another important group in our school is our school board. The school board serves an important role in the school and has the responsibility for overseeing the school's strategic direction. Nominations are now open for our school board and we will have three positions vacant, P&C Member and two Parent Members. If this is something you would be interested in please see further down in the newsletter. 

The Shepherd Centre - Loud Shirt Day

Our school supports The Shepherd Centre a provider and specialist in helping children with hearing loss learn to listen and speak through hosting a Loud Shirt Day. The total raised last year has now been donated and was very much appreciated and a massive help for The Shepherd Centre. Congratulations to the Neville Bonner community for raising a huge $624.70.

Parking

We ask everyone to be actively involved in keeping our students safe by parking in designated carpark spaces or following signs for street parking. Parking on the verge including nature strips is not safe, damages the ground and may incur a fine. 

Supporting student safety - mobile speed and parking vans

As school re-commences for term 1, we are reminding parents and carers to please drive and park safely and legally, at and around school grounds.

Access Canberra has notified us that mobile speed and parking vans will be in operation. These enforcement teams play a critical role in supporting our students get to and from school safely and we thank them for their ongoing support.

In addition to sticking to the speed limit, please remember to park safely – including not parking across pedestrian crossings, in no stopping zones, on corners, verges and double parking. Unsafe and illegal parking can reduce visibility of our students and motorists to see each other, creating a significant hazard when students cross the road.

We all have an important role to play in supporting road safety. Let’s work together to keep our kids safe.

Before School Supervision

We have a teacher on duty 8:30-9:00am on The River, this is the main area of the school grounds. The teacher on duty wears a bright fluro vest so they can be easily seen. We ask that all children stay on the river, basketball courts and wagabaliri before the bell goes. Other playgrounds areas are not supervised and we ask families not to let children play on these before school. 

If you have moved house or changed phone numbers, please be sure to update your details with the front office. 

You can do this in person at the office or via email: nevillebonnerps@ed.act.edu.au

It is important to keep this information up to date in case we need to contact you in an emergency as well as for when the new parent portal is released later this year.

Thank you, the admin team.

Neville Bonner Parents and Citizens Committee

Our P&C provides services to the school such as canteen, second hand uniform shop, disco and other activities. Without a P&C, we cannot continue to do these things. 

For more information on our committee and event notices and updates, please head to the P&C Facebook or the Neville Bonner P&C page We are always happy to accept new members into the P&C and event volunteers as well - send us an email.

More information about our canteen; lunch orders with flexischools, over the counter sales and birthday cupcakes, as well as the uniform shop can be found on the P&C component of the school website.

Contact Us

Want to touch base with your P&C? You can email us at nevillebonnerps.pandc@gmail.com, or connect through FB at https://www.facebook.com/NBPS.PandC.