Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to term three. We have a very busy term coming up with lots of wonderful opportunities for our students. UNE Discovery incursion program comes this week, with opportunities for our children participating in a range of science-based activities. Book Week is always a favourite with many activities including the book fair, dress up day, dance-a-thon, story circles and Grandparent’s Day. We round the term off with JAFA and our performance evening at the MEC. Our students have already started to work on their plays in class, and I am very excited to see the result in week 10.

Last term we welcomed some students from St Clare’s to lead our Year 5 and 6 students in some activities based on the Trinity. The Trinity is much like a three-leaf clover, three leaves, but they all belong to the one plant. In the same way the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are the leaves that all belong to the one plant, God. Our students enjoyed the formation provided by the students and the fun activities that went along with the lessons.

Mobile Technology Procedure and Agreement.

Last term parents were provided with a copy of the new Mobile Technology Procedure and Agreement. Class teachers will be going through these new procedures with students from Years 3 – 6 over the next week and the student agreement will be sent home for parents and students to sign and return. Please keep an eye out for this document.

Welcome Miss Hammond

Welcome to Miss Sarah Hammond who will join us for the remainder of the year. Miss Hammond will replace Mrs Fraser while she is working on Year 4. On Monday and Tuesday Miss Hammond will work as our Aboriginal Education Teacher, on Wednesday she will be on Year 1 while Mrs Bridgeman is undertaking our role as Pedagogical Mentor and on Thursday and Friday she will be our onsite roaming teacher until the return of Mrs Whitlam from her maternity leave.

NAIDOC Day Celebrations

Last week we celebrated NAIDOC Day as a school community. Aunty Kylie led our school with the help of Kinder and Year 6 in our liturgy and our cultural dancers performed a cleansing dance. During the week Aunty Kylie was very busy cooking, which allowed our students the opportunity to taste some bush tucker, including kangaroo, lemon myrtle cheesecake and wattle seed pancakes. Our students took part in some fun activities including damper making with some of our visiting elders, boomerang decorating, bag design and making instruments. Our Deadly Door competition was judged by our Aunties and congratulations to Year 4 and Kinder for being awarded as the winners. Thank you to Aunty Kylie for all the behind the scenes work she put in to make sure our day was an enormous success.