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Dear Parents,
Week 2 has seen our students settling into routines, sort of. Staff absences due to illness have impacted the commencement of teaching and learning programs like Spelling Mastery and InitiaLit but our students, your children have adapted to changes and different activities easily. I hope your households are faring ok with illness as well. If your child has cold/flu symtpoms, a sore throat, runny nose please keep them at home.
New Teacher
Andrew Lawson commences with us today. Andrew is an experienced teacher who has been teaching for the last 12 years in Victoria at a large catholic school. Andrew will be working across the school K-6 and providing support particularly to Year 5/6 as I complete my principal duties. Please welcome Andrew if you see him around.
Sport
Swimming lessons are going ahead on Mondays and Fridays for the next fortnight. Yr 5/6 are having an additional lesson on Wednesday afternoons while the pool is open.
Have a great week ahead.
Jannine
Cake raffle will begin next FRIDAY 17 February due to illnesses this week.
The ASHRAFI family will be our first family for the year.
Tickets are sold for 50c each
The SALMON family will be on home cooking next FRIDAY 17 February
Cooking is sold for 50c each
We will also be selling zooper doopers on Fridays this term
for 50c each with home cooking.
Fees will be sent out via Compass and email soon.
Attached is the guide for families on how much you will need to pay.
Fees need to be paid in FULL each term unless making regular payments.
Please only pay via your UNIQUE BPAY REFERENCE NUMBER on your fee statement
and not through COMPASS PAY as this will incur a fee.
Families are asked to update any phone numbers, addresses and contact details in Compass
as things change so we have records up to date at all times.
Absences also need to be submitted in Compass.
DO NOT use Compass pay as this will incur fees.
In Science and Technology this term we are resuming our Biology studies.
We are looking at the environment in which living things survive and flourish.
Our first activity was to look at the environment of the seeds we planted last term.
The corn, chives and potatoes have flourished, but we have not been as fortunate with the flowers and strawberries.
The students had fun testing the pH of the soil in the garden beds.
We found the soil to be a bit too acidic, and I hope to get the students to find a solution to this problem next week!
I am excited to be taking K/1/2 for Science and Technology this year.
We have started Biology this term and spent our first lesson looking at how living things need food and water.
The students were given one of the school's beautiful puppets and they all made
their puppet tell the class what they ate and where they found their water.
Mrs Saunders
