The end of Term 3 is quickly approaching, and we have a busy couple of weeks coming up. On Friday our Prep/1 and 1/2 class will be travelling to Devonport to attend the performance of Possum Magic at the Paranaple Centre.

For the next 2 weeks, our Grade 3 - 6 students will be participating in Swimming and Water Safety. Parents, due to pool demand, we are required to have our Year 3 and 4 students leaving school at   9:00 to ensure they get their correct time in the pool. Therefore, could you please have your child/ren to school by 8:45am. Parents can attend the swimming and water sessions, but we have been asked to restrict this to 1 adult per student. Additionally, it is a departmental and Safeguarding expectation that photos are not taken at these sessions and parents are NOT to enter the change rooms.

During Week 9, teachers will be sharing Evidence of Learning for Mathematics. Please contact your child/children’s classroom teacher/s if you would like to make an appointment to discuss their progress, thus far.

On September 20, Cynthia Hawkins will be joining our Early Years and 3 – 6 students to share some insights into her culture, particularly relevant to the Malaysian Moon Cake Festival. Cynthia will then be returning after school, on Wednesday 20 September to work with students and their parents to build their own lanterns. A community event will be held on Friday 29 September when parents and their children are welcome to attend the Lantern Walk event which will begin at 5:00pm in the undercover area where parents and children have the opportunity again to construct a lantern. Soup and rolls will be served at 6:00pm, followed by a track walk and visit to the Barker Street Reserve.

Our end of Term assembly will be Wednesday 27 September at 1:45 and once again we look forward to welcoming parents and community members as we celebrate our students’ achievements in Term 3.

Currently our staff are working closely with students to be more mindful of the language they are using in the playground. They have been reminded that the use of inappropriate language does not uphold our school expectation of Respectful and Caring. As such, students heard not upholding this value in their speaking will spend some of their break time sitting out, discussing with a teacher the impact their language has had, better ways to address their concerns and better words to use.  Additionally, tackling in games has become an area of concern. We have reminded students that this form of hands-on play is not permitted at school. I ask parents to please discuss what respectful and caring looks and sounds like, particularly in relation to the above – language and safe play.

A huge thank you to all those supportive parents and students who have made an effort to ensure students are wearing our uniform. It has been fantastic to see the improvement in the wearing of the bottom half of our school uniform, most especially the reduction in coloured shoes and bright, patterned socks.

Next Term our school will move to using SeeSaw, the preferred departmental online platform for communicating with parents and sharing Evidences of Learning etc. Shortly parents will be receiving an invite to sign up to SeeSaw.

We have had a great response to our parent satisfaction survey with 17 families already responding. Please take the online survey by clicking this Link. or pasting the link below into your browser: https://ncv.microsoft.com/QJ1cWZDXBQ