Welcome back to the 2018 school year after hopefully a great Christmas break. This year promises to again be a busy and interesting year.

We all hope that you got those magic enrolments that got you across the line and all your classes settled early with very few parent “inquiries”.

We started the year off with controversy surrounding the demise of Reading Recovery and then there was the issue of schools not having their demountables ready to start the school year. We also had some great “building” stories with Artarmon PS opening up their 21 new classrooms, Wentworth Point PS opening and Ultimo PS moving across the road to a new “pop up school”. Wentworth Point PS and Ultimo PS feature later in this Newsletter.

This term some crunch activities need to be done ….uploading your budget and completing the Annual Report. – let’s hope it all goes well for you. We will soon hear what we are required to do for the A-Z tool & I’ve heard there will be some schools followed up by their Directors as they haven’t completed their 2016 &/ or 2017 A-Z uploads.

As usual this Newsletter has a great variety of news from schools, PPA and the Department has also some featured updates.