I am including the front bit I write in each weeks newsletter in a post on this blog:

A BIG thankyou to all the families who kept children at home on Tuesday afternoon while many of the staff were at a funeral. It is one of the real strengths of a community like Outram that people gather around each other at times like this. Our whole staff, and particularly Lyn and her family, felt very supported by this, particularly given the short notice. So thanks again!

We have a Working Bee on the 20th September. This is a Sunday and we will begin at 10am. The main thing we are aiming to do is pour concrete to extend path areas behind R3/4 to keep mud out of the classrooms. We will also be making new garden beds and doing a small amount of paving around the Garden Club gardens by the Hall. While we have the digger the long jump pit will be moved from the edge of the soccer field. So bring along shovels, wheel barrows etc and any concreting equipment you may have. Any specific offers or questions to Garth Mitchel, or Greg at school please. It would also be good if you are intending to come if you can let us know so we can pass numbers on to the caterers. There is a return slip later in this newsletter.

A reminder and plea to PLEASE let us know if your children are not going to be on the school bus on any particular day. If you pick them up and don’t let us know it can mean a big hold up for the rest of the children while we confirm what has happened. Equally if your child is on the bus when this is not part of their usual routine we need to know so we can add their name to the bus lists.
Each day we gather names of children not going on the bus and mark them absent on the appropriate bus list. We update the lists based on any calls that come in to the Office before the end of the school day. Children then line up at the end of the day in their designated places for each bus and the bus lists are checked against the children in the line. We then also do a head count on each bus and ensure that the number of children on the bus matches with what we were expecting.
As you can see a lot of work goes into ensuring we have the right children on the buses each day and buses have to wait for the last child to be checked off and accounted for. This is why not knowing where a child is can be a real problem. PLEASE let us know as soon as you can of any changes to who we can expect on the buses.
Thanks

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