Redlands House/Transition Gold
Welcome
What a fabulous first few days we have had in Redlands House and Transition Gold to start the year! We warmly welcome all new and returning families to our environment and look forward to embarking on a wonderful year of fun and learning together.
Parent Information Session
For Redlands House families this event will take place via Zoom in Week 2. This event is for parents to listen and participate in the presentation from the Redlands House teachers.
Redlands House Tuesday 2 February – 4.00-4.30pm https://redlands.zoom.us/j/98202620883
Transition Gold Wednesday 3 February – 4.00-4.30pm https://redlands.zoom.us/j/95958202868
Parking
Parking around the school can be problematic, especially around pick up time. To ease congestion and ensure the safety of our students, the Prep School uses a carline that enables parents to collect their children from the underground carpark from 2.45pm each day. We, therefore, ask Redlands House families to refrain from parking in the five minutes parking zone outside the Preschool from 2.45pm onwards. Families are still able to park for five minutes out the front of Redlands House between 2.30 – 2.45pm. Cones will be placed on the road at 2.45pm, not before, in order to prepare for the Prep Carline.
Food Breaks
Just a reminder that each child has three breaks for food in the Preschool each day – Crunch & Sip, Morning Tea and Lunch. They will need three separate containers that are all labelled or their name written on the outside of the packet.
Crunch & Sip is a small fruit or vegetable snack that is accessible to the children, along with their drink bottle, please place the container in the wire basket at the door of your child’s classroom.
Morning Tea and Lunch are stored in separate containers in the big fridge in the foyer. Each class has a fridge door to open. Morning Tea containers are kept in the class basket in the fridge and lunch boxes are stored on the shelf.
Please remember that we are an Allergy Friendly Centre (ie. allergy aware) and have a number of children with serious allergies. Therefore, we ask that any food your child brings to Preschool does not contain nuts or traces of nuts, egg or shellfish. We have a number of resources containing nutritious and well-balanced lunch box ideas available in our parent library in the foyer for inspiration.
Birthdays
The Preschool staff love to celebrate the children’s birthdays each year. The children love to celebrate their birthday too – it’s a great conversation topic all year round! We have many children in the Preschool with food allergies, so we are not permitting cakes or any type of food in the Preschool for birthday celebrations. Please be assured we will celebrate their special day in a variety of ways.
Mrs Chemane Huon
Redlands House and Transition Coordinator
chuon@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9904 1448
Mrs Ainslie Breckenridge
Head of Preparatory School
abreckenridge@redlands.nsw.edu.au
9968 9848
