As we approach the end of another action-packed term, I would like to thank our entire school community and staff for their commitment and dedication to supporting our students to reach their full potential each and every day. I am grateful for our amazing leadership team who have worked hard to support our teachers and coach them in best practice to support our children.

I am grateful for the support to ensure our key sporting and cultural events occurred smoothly over the course of this week. It has been great to watch the Athletics action and NAIDOC Day. Check out our school Facebook page for all the recent action.

Teachers have been working hard finalising Semester One report cards which will be emailed out today.

This data will guide the coaching support for our students, to ensure all children arrive at the end of the 2023 school year with a full years growth of learning. The information for students and families is an important collation of the last six months of teaching and learning across the eight key curriculum learning areas. It provides a great opportunity to reflect on the teaching and learning provided for your child, celebrate and look for the next individual steps, for the learning to occur in Semester Two.

In closure, I wish all students and families an enjoyable rest and break for the June-July holiday period. We look forward to reconnecting after the holidays and the exciting learning that will occur in term 3.

Our whole school attendance for this term was  88.03%

Congratulations to Prep D for having the highest attendance for this term with 94.78%.

The class with the highest attendance for the semester is Prep D with 93.05%. Well Done!

Before School Champion Class

For the last fortnight we have been running a before school class competition. Each class started with 50 points. Class lines were expected to leave their line litter free, sit safely and to use quiet voices. Congratulations to 4T who were enjoyed a pizza party as their prize! 

On Tuesday 13^th June 2023, our school’s Juggling Team, Choir and Instrumental Ensemble performed for The Uniting Church Ladies Fellowship Group.

Forty-seven students, under the direction of Mr Dunn and Mrs Conway, proudly displayed their many talents. It was a diverse group of performers- singers, jugglers, instrumentalists, devil stick twirlers, hula hoopers, plate spinners, baton twirlers and poi performers. The audience was delighted.

A big thank you goes out to Lesley Hickmott and Megan McCluand for assisting with the organizational side of the day. We could not have done such a great job without you.

The audience was so impressed that the group have been invited to return later this year for another performance.

We’d better get practising!

Deadly Day Out

On Tuesday 20^th June, our school celebrated NAIDOC Day with the theme – For Our Elders. They participated in a variety of activities throughout the day. The school joined together in the morning for Welcome to Country and the year 6 students performed The Mosquito Dance which was choreographed by Patrick Thaiday.

Throughout the day, students rotated around activities including taste testing kangaroo and beef sausages, learning about the history of hunting, face painting, joining in a yarning circle, playing indigenous games, storytelling and singing the traditional song Taba Naba. The prep – year 2’s created chalk snakes on the ground and decorated the snakes with patterns. The year 3 – 5 students created their own boomerang shaped dot paintings each.

 The year 4 and 5 students were lucky to have Megan and Rachel from Bunnings visit the school and donate native plants and native seeds to create a new native garden behind our school Yarning Circle. The year 6 students finished the day by decorating the rocks around the garden with chalk patterns.

The Australian Curriculum Personal and Social Capabilities have been in full swing this week during our whole school NAIDOC and sports day activities.  These capabilities are embedded across our key learning areas of English, Maths, Science, HPE, HASS, Arts and at an intense level during this last week of school.

First Nations – games and sport day rotations not only have the physical benefits of movement, they also have psychological benefits and teach life skills.

• Trying our best - effort
• Congratulating others
• Resilience: being able to bounce back
• How to be a good winner
• How to be a good loser
• Social skills: turn taking, communication, teamwork, effort, working under time pressures.

I’m so proud of our kids for their ‘can do attitude’ so many experienced anxiousness and overcame it.  I’m proud of our staff and parents for their commitment to support our students to have this learning experience whilst having fun with the whole school community. Well done to all involved. 

In Science this Term, Prep D have been learning about materials and their properties. We made wind ornaments using objects that we thought would be suitable for blowing in the wind and being outdoors. We then had to describe what the objects were made of and used our senses to describe their properties – what they looked like, felt like and sounded like. Students then explained why the objects were suitable for a wind ornament, and reflected on whether they would change their wind ornament construction or keep it the same.