Principal Message
Dear Families
What a busy and great few weeks we have had with so much happening to engage our children and celebrate learning in our school.
Recently we held our Book Fair. Mrs McKenzie and Mrs Hudson were there each morning for parents to visit and see the books that their children would love to own. Many students were very lucky and went home with one or more books. Your support has enabled us to purchase some new books for our Library. Thank you!
Since our last newsletter we hosted our Annual Book Week Parade and I must say I feel very proud, as each year we have more and more entries in our parade. Nearly all the students and staff in our school dressed up as a book character and many of them brought the book along for the parade.
Our judges, Ms Burn (Tracy), Mrs Saville (Janina) and Ms Gallagher (Jo) had the tricky task of choosing the winners. There were times when the judges had to add some special mention prizes as they just could not make a decision such was the quality of the entrants. Congratulations to the following students:
Kinder - Paige and Harry
Prep/1 - Shelby, Ava, Dayne and Danica
1/2 - Eric and Rubi
2/3 - Jorja, Kade F, Shayla and Malayah
3/4 - Zilah, Asha, Jack and James
4/5 - Summer, Ashton and Harper
5/6 - Kylah, Zavier, Xavia and Khynan
We were particularly impressed by the number of students who showed their creativity with homemade entries and the number of students who thought really hard about their book character and also brought along a book.
The standard of the teacher’s costumes this year was also extremely high with all teachers going the extra mile to create amazing costumes. However, Miss Lovell excelled again and won the staff prize. Mrs McKenzie has put the amazing photos of the event on the screen just inside the front door. Don’t forget to have a look!
Participation in the Swimming and Water Safety program has been fantastic this year, with feedback from pool staff and instructors commenting on the exemplary behaviour of our students. We thank our wonderful parents for your support with this as we know keeping up with dry towels at this time of the year can be tricky. Well done to our Grade 3 – 5 students on a great effort!
This week is Teacher Aide Appreciation Week where we thank and acknowledge the wonderful work of our Teacher Assistants. Our amazing Teacher Assistants support students with learning in the classroom, help students develop confidence in literacy and numeracy, assist teachers to empower students with a disability, notice students who need a little extra attention and encourage students to build positive relationships with others. To all our Teacher Assistants we extend a big thank you. We are so grateful for all that you do. You are our super heroes!