The Future begins here!

1. The Future begins here! Parents’ Meeting27th September, 2019 Scholastic Year 2019-2020

2. School Opening Hours • School for Kinder starts at 8.15am. Doors will open between 8.15am and 8.30am for Kinder students. • Kinder 2 students are in main school & will enter through door opposite Gnien l-Eden. • Kinder 1 pupils will be in Annex 1 (next to gym) & will go straight there. • 1st day starts at 9 for ALL kinder classes. • Kinder 1 ONLY till noon first week.

3. School Opening Hours • Late comers have to sign at reception main building and given a slip to present to teacher. Once you have chosen to send your child to Kindergarten, you have chosen to abide by our opening and closing hours. SCHOOL IS NOT A HOTEL

4. Dismissal • Dismissal will be through main door opposite Gnien l-Eden (where there are fountains) • Doors for Kinder open at 1.45pm. You will pick your child from the school entrance 2 classes at a time. • Door closes at 2.00pm. After that go through door opposite Gnienil-Qighan. (till 2.15pm) • Don’t park in the parking if you want to leave as there are signs and you will not be allowed.

5. School Uniform • All students are to wear the school uniform. For now they will be wearing the Summer uniform. You will be informed when to change to winter uniform (depending on weather). • All uniform items are to be labelled, even trainers.

6. Dress Code • Students should come to school in a clean uniform. • Students with long hair are to tie it back neatly. • Any kind of make-up and nail polish is prohibited.

7. Absenteeism • Students are excused from school only in cases of illness or for a valid reason which needs to be documented from both parents by a letter & proof. • Once your child turns 5yrs, please advise admin office to issue a Medical Certificate Record Card. • Medical certificates will need to be presented on the child’s 1st day back to school. • Kindly inform school when your child is not going to attend school (an email is enough). In the case of infectious diseases even Kinder 1 students need to present medical certificates.

8. MCRC

9. A Valid Medical certificate • name and address of student, • date when the child was medically examined, • the period of time that the medical certificate is valid for • clear doctor’s signature and stamp. • this must be also on the medical card you were/will be given.

10. Discipline and Responsibility • Our school believes in discipline. Students need to follow the school/class rules, obey, study and respect their teachers & authority. • Any kind of Bullying is prohibited • Pupils who have certain behavioural problems will be referred to Early Intervention teacher. • Students who do not take care of school property/books have to pay for the damage.

11. Communication with the school • To facilitate communication between parents and teachers we have the Home-School Link Copybook. It’s important that you check this copybook everyday, and if there is a note kindly sign next to it so that the teacher knows you have read it. • Kindly indicate if the child will be staying for Klabb 3-16.

12. Healthy Eating • Abide by our school Healthy Eating Policy. Encourage children to eat fruits and veggies. • No cakes on birthdays. No goody bags either. You can coordinate with teacher and send fruits if you want. Invitations for parties are not to be distributed at school. • Kindly inform us of children who suffer from any type of allergy.

13. Data sheets • Kindly fill in data sheets you will be given today and pass them on by next Thursday 3rd October, 2019.

14. Pick ups • Fill in form with names of persons who have permission to pick up your child/ren from school in your absence, together with their ID card number and recent photo. • When someone who is not the legal guardian of the child comes for pick up, they need to bring their ID card with them. • Persons not on the form won’t be given access via phone calls.

15. Consent Forms • Please sign the consent forms for outing because otherwise we will have to keep your child at school. Give a folder to your child so as to keep these consent forms handy. • Those parents who do not give their consent for their child to have head screened will have to take their child to Top brands to be screened.

16. Appointments • You can kindly call or send an email to mrc.mellieha.pr@ilearn.edu.mt to make an appointment if you need to talk to any of my Assistant heads or myself. • Mr Clayton Pisani i/c of Kinder • Ms Rosemarie Mifsud i/c of Year 1 & 2 • Ms StephaniaGauci i/c of Year 3 & 4 • Mr Mark Camilleri i/c of Year 5 & 6

17. INFO • Any tel/mobile/address change please inform administration office asap.

18. Website & FB page • We will try to keep you updated with what is going on at school through our FB page and an online calendar. • FB page: Mellieha Primary School • Google calendar which can be synced to your phone/laptop/tablet/pc. • Website: www.melliehaprimary.wordpress.com

19. School Calendar • Log onto your Google Calendar, by going to http://calendar.google.com • On the left, you will see "Other Calendars".  Click on the small triangle in front of the words to open it to a list. Copy and Paste the below address into the box that says "Add a Friend's Calendar", then press Enter melliehaprimaryparents@gmail.com

20. School Calendar NO SCHOOL ON THESE DAYS 12th November, 2019 staff training 2nd December, 2019 Staff training 11thFebruary, 2020 staff training 4th May, 2020 SDP full day 18th May, 2020 staff training SCHOOL FINISHES EARLY ON 18th October, 2019 @ 11:30 SDP 20th December, 2019 @ 12:00 in lieu of 22nd November 29th January, 2020 @ 11:30 SDP 13th March, 2020 @ 11:15 Celebration Day 27th March, 2020 @ 11:30 SDP

21. School Calendar Christmas Concerts Kinder 1 December 9th – doors open at 8:30 – starts at 9am Kinder 2 December 9th - doors open at 11:00 – starts at 11:30am

22. Stationery List €20 listed as photocopies • Cooking lessons • Science experiments • Art supplies

23. Transport this scholastic year • VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION: • Parents or guardians have to be on pick-up with the children waiting for the bus and on the drop-off point waiting for the children to return from school. NO STUDENT can alight the bus unattended by parent or guardian. • Students have to be on pick-up point at 7.30am.Earliest drop-off at school can be from 7:45am onwards. • ONLY students who are on the list sent by Education Division can start making use of transport from tomorrow. • Teachers have list of students which will make use of transport. Outside the hall, on the board, there is a list of pick-up points and which route they form part of.

24. Transport services for this scholastic year • VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION: • Parents who applied but haven’t received the confirmation email yet have to wait for said email. Then they are kindly asked to inform school and provide proof of confirmation email. • Students who misbehave either on-board the bus or at school in the morning (before the start of school) or in the afternoon (after school finishes) will be suspended from using transport with immediate effect and parents/guardians informed of action taken. • During first week it’s very normal we come across a number of teething problems, like tardiness or confusion of pick-up points. Please bear patience till things settle down.

25. Transport services for this scholastic year • VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION: • On each bus there will be an onboard supervisor, ie a member of staff, both in the morning and in the afternoon as from October 1st. It is important to note that it is not their duty to alight from bus to help students cross the street or to wait with students on stop while parents or guardians turn up. So please be considerate and on time. • Each student will be given TWO COLOURED KEYCHAINS depending which route s/he will use. Keychains have to be attached on the OUTSIDE of school bag AND outing bag. Please write your kids’ names on label. They have to be visible AT ALL TIMES.

27. TRANSPORT ROUTES • ROUTE 302 – GREEN – ARMIER/ GĦADIRA BUS STOP / LUNA COMPLEX/ SEABANK/TAS-SELLUM/ ONE80/ POPEYE VILLAGE • ROUTE 303A – PINK – BELLA VEDUTA • ROUTE 303B – BLUE– PAWNS N CLAWS PET SHOP / SALVA DIRECT / TRIQ IL-BEBUNA

28. ROUTE 304 – ORANGE– REFLECTIONS/ STA MARIJA ESTATE / SELMUN CHAPEL • ROUTE 305A – YELLOW– BELLEVIEW/ CHARLIE’S BAR/ ĠNIEN ĦIDMET IL-VOLONTARJAT / TRIQ L-ETNA • ROUTE 305B – RED– BILLY’S MUSIC CLUB / PJAZZA THOMAS SPRATT/ TRIQ L-GĦERIEN

29. Thank You for coming MRC Mellieha Primary School 2019-2020