Dear Families and Community,

We are now well into Term 3, and it’s incredible to see our school priorities coming to life across classrooms, corridors, and the playground. Every day, students are visiting me with proud smiles, eager to read aloud and demonstrate their growing skills. Their confidence and enthusiasm are a testament to the hard work of our staff and the support of our families.

Celebrating Connection and Belonging

Yesterday’s 5/6R pizza afternoon was a fantastic example of the strong partnerships we continue to build with families. The turnout was amazing, and the joy on students’ faces was unmistakable. Events like these remind us how important connection and belonging are to learning. When students feel safe, valued, and supported, they thrive—and so does our whole school community.

Building Works Update

We’ve made some exciting improvements to our learning spaces this term:

• New carpet has been installed in 1/2H and 3/4A.
• Fresh paint now brightens our main corridor, 3/4P, and the staff room.
• Library upgrade: Later this term, we’ll be updating our library to include a new teacher resource room—a collaborative space for staff to plan and enhance student learning.
• Kitchen Garden connection: We’re adding a door from the Kitchen Garden room to the main courtyard, creating a welcoming space for families to join us for shared meals and community events.
• New fencing and storage: We’re about to purchase an additional shipping container to store bikes and safety equipment. This will sit between our kinder/prep building and our main building. We will also add some new secure fencing either side.

Coming Soon: Our Bike Track!

We’re thrilled to announce that construction will begin later this term on a bike track at the back of our oval. Learning to ride safely and maintain a bike are valuable life skills, and we’re excited to welcome The Bike Kitchen to provide onsite training for our students.

We hope to make the bike track available outside of school hours. To help us keep it safe and enjoyable for everyone, we ask our community to look after the space and let us know if it’s not being treated with care.

Thank you for your continued support and involvement. Together, we’re creating a school where every child feels connected, capable, and celebrated.

Warm regards

Tobin McColl

Principal

On Tuesday 5 August Grade 6 students attended an excursion to Botanical to participate in the 24 Carrot Workshop.

Students engaged in hands on activities using their imagination and creativity skills.

In Children's University our students made yummy pancakes from scratch. Cooking is a very important life skill to learn.

One of the activities chosen for Friday Fun was paper mache.

In the garden this term we’ve been continuing our worm investigations. Finding out that worms eat half their body weight every day led to a fun activity where students chose to be a worm for the day. Students halved their weight and then weighed how much food they would eat if they were a giant worm.
Food was bought that could be eaten fresh and also used in our recipes for this term. We also cut some of the fruit and vegetables in half to do some fun painting/printing too.

In the kitchen students have been cooking up some tasty meals, utilising our cauliflowers and other produce from the garden.

Our order of logo school jumbers have arrived. Please come to the office to purchase before they sell out again.