Principals Report

Dear Parents and Carers,

COVID continues to have impacted many of our students and staff over the past couple of weeks. Please, if your child/ren feels unwell or has symptoms such as: fever or chills, cough, headache, sore throat, nausea, diarrhoea or fatigue please test your child. The Department of Health recommends 5 days of isolation. If you require any RATs please contact the office.

Thanks to all our students who participated in Walk Safely to School Day last Friday.This day aims to raise awareness of the health, road safety, transport and environmental benefits that regular walking (especially to and from school) can provide for the long term wellbeing of our children.
 

Next week our school community will acknowledge and celebrate National Reconciliation Week (May 27th – June 3rd). The theme for 2023 is “Be a Voice for Generations’, encouraging all Australians to be a voice for reconciliation in tangible ways in our everyday lives – where we live, work and socialise. 

Tomorrow all our students will participate in the National Simultaneous Storytime at 11am. Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, preschools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. This year's book is The Speedy Sloth by Rebecca Young and Heath McKenzie.  Be sure to ask your children about the book.

This week is National eSmart Week. Although online safety is something we focus on all year through our PBIS, Respectful Relationships and Resilience Project learning, it’s important to shine the spotlight on online safety and how our students can be the best versions of themselves when online. An email was shared last week with a link to a free parent webinar hosted by eSmart about parenting in the digital world, hopefully you were able to attend.

The school grounds have been busy with workers this week. Our new building is nearly ready for the concrete slab to be poured and our shade sail (which we were awarded a grant for two years ago) is nearly completed.

The new shade sail will provide shade over the rock circle next to the oval. This is a very popular place for our students during break times and will provide some much needed shade during the warmer months.

This Friday at our afternoon assembly, Barry Bylett from Fallons Bus Services will speak to our children about the importance of wearing seatbelts when travelling on a bus. In light of the tragic accident last week, it is really important for all our children to hear this message. If your children are bus travellers, we ask if you could please have the conversation with them at home also to reinforce the message.

Have a good week