Information Book

ASSEMBLIES

A general school assembly is held at 8.50am on Mondays and at 11.10am Tuesday to Friday. It is very important that students are present at the assembly to hear the day's messages.

A Kindergarten to Year 2 weekly assembly is held each week on Thursday afternoon at 12.15pm, with the Years 3-6 assembly on Thursday afternoon at 1.55pm. The assemblies are managed by the students, with one class being responsible for an assembly item each week.

A whole school assembly (K-6) is held twice a term.

EXCURSIONS

As an integrated part of the learning programs in the school, excursions (trips outside of school) are organised. Students can only attend these excursions with the permission of their parents and costs are normally invoiced.

Parents will be regularly informed of planned excursions.  

PARENT REPRESENTATIVE ORGANISATION

The School has a formal organisation through which the views of parents can be expressed and parents can participate in the running of the school.

Parents & Citizens’ Association
The P&C Association is concerned with all aspects of the school. All parents are encouraged to participate in the P&C Association of the school. We welcome new parents at meetings. Meetings are held throughout the year and a reminder of the meeting date and time appears in the School Newsletter.

Fund raising is an important role of the P&C. It has provided many of the wonderful resources and facilities available for our children.

The P&C provides services for students in the school through sub-committees.

PARENT INVOLVEMENT

This school believes that the more parents are involved in the school the better will be the quality of the education our students receive.  It gives children a good feeling about the school when they know and see their parents helping.  Parents can assist in many aspects of our school life.  These include helping in the classroom with Reading, Writing, Maths and Creative Arts.  Opportunities also exist to help with Sport, Excursions, Library, Canteen and grounds beautification.  Parent participation in the P&C Association is also welcomed.

Samuel Gilbert is a community focussed school where we value and encourage parent participation in all aspects of our operation.