Newsletter Engagement

During Term 3 we are going to be sending home paper copies of the newsletter with each family. This is happening because we have had a lot of feedback to suggest that people are forgetting to access the digital version and are therefore missing important information and messages. It also gives our students and opportunity to read and look at the newsletter more easily too. The digital version will still be available and PDF's can be viewed clearer on this. We will review this and seek further feedback later in the Term.

Improvements around the school

There have been a few improvements happening in our school grounds over the past few weeks. During the holidays Rob, Dan and Martin put in a fantastic new path between the new kinder fence and the oval. A HUGE thank you to Dan and Martin for volunteering your time. Some of our Grade 6 girls took great delight in strutting proudly along our new path when I asked them to help me take a photo for the newsletter.

Over the weekend we also had some artificial turf installed in the picnic area under the trees at entrance to the school. This patch of ground seemed to endlessly need re sowing, fencing off, watering and even with all this, it was constantly being returned to bare ground. We now have a great spot for sitting and eating lunch or just hanging out at recess and lunch times.

School Tree Day

School Tree Day is coming up this Friday July 30. At some stage over the course of this week we will have a delivery of 100 native shrub tube-stock. Each class will be given a number of plants to put into our gardens throughout the day. These are quite young plants and so each class will be responsible for watering and looking after these plants.

On Friday it would be helpful if students could bring along trowels and also 2L soft drink or milk bottles which we can trim the tops and bottoms off to make protective casings for the plants. Please do NOT go out and buy these times; only bring them along if you have them at home already.

School Association Meeting including Special General Meeting

A reminder again that our next School Association Meeting will be taking place on Wednesday 4th August at 6pm in the staffroom.

All parents are welcome to attend.

Please note that the meeting will begin with a Special General Meeting for the purpose of electing a new Chairperson. This is required as our current Chairperson, Kobi Goodwin, is no longer able to continue in this position as she is working as a Teacher Assistant in our school and the Chairperson cannot be a member of staff. Nominations for this position (and any other subsequent vacancies) will be taken at the meeting.

Tuesday Morning Library Helpers

We are still calling for a few more volunteers to help with book covering for the new Guided Reading books we have ordered for our school Library.

If you happen to have some free time every now and then on a Tuesday morning from 9:00-11:00 we would absolutely love some help.

Miss Kate Harvey is keen to train a few people up on the ‘art’ of book covering and Mrs Lees will provide morning tea.

Please let the office know if you are available to help and then we will look at setting some dates.