Dear Families

As I move around the school, I continue to be impressed with students’ positive attitude to learning. A highlight over the last few weeks has been watching the Year 1/2 students build on their writing skills by learning new vocabulary and then using these words in their writing. Preps have been working hard to put their knowledge of letters and words together to write simple sentences. In Year 3-6 students have been focusing on developing reading comprehension strategies. We also have many students who have now done more than 50 nights of reading at home. Congratulations to all students on improving their literacy skills.

Last Thursday we held our Year 3-6 Cross Country Carnival at the Longford Skate Park. Students walked down before participating in their events. Student behaviour during the walk and the carnival was outstanding, and it was wonderful to see students cheering each other on and giving their best during their races. Students and house captains displayed strong leadership, which supported the day to be successful and fun. Thank you to Mr Ellis for his organisation of the carnival.  Later in the term we look forward to holding a K-2 running event. Details to come soon.

This week students in Year 3-6 will engage in workshops around respect, building positive relationships and bullying. This is part of our focus in building a respectful and positive school culture. Our aim is to continue to reduce incidents of bullying or put down language as well as to equip students with the skills to maintain positive healthy relationships with their peers.

A reminder that school hours are from 8:30am-2:50pm. This is when the school has duty of care for students. We encourage our families to use our playground and oval after school and on weekends, however we need to ensure that children are safe and school property is respected. If children are on site after school hours they must be with an adult (parent or guardian). Children who are not accompanied by adults will be asked to leave school grounds. If you have any questions regarding children being on school grounds out of hours, please contact the school. 

Congratulations to students for receiving a Respect Certificate of Merit

Mahlia, Pacey, Bronte, Charli, River, Percy, Jakobee and Koa

Joshua, Henry, James, Riley, Lexi, Piper, Makyhia, Chayse, Aidan

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We have had reports from Police and the public regarding unsafe crossing of roads and riding of scooters and bikes. There has been several near misses with cars at the Motivity Fitness car park and the roads surrounding the school.

ADULTS PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILDREN ARE USING THE ROAD CROSSING AND KNOW GENERAL ROAD SAFETY IF RIDING A SCOOTER OR BIKE. We do not want to have any accidents involving our school community.

On Friday 10th May our students attended sporting events at St Leonards.

Lilly, Piper, Harriet, Claudette, Ashley, Ella, Malaki, Rhys, Liam, Rhylee, Bibi, Lochie and Lucas competed at the Hockey Gala Day. Well done!

The garden team have been welcoming grade 3 /4 students to sit under Grandma Gum to start their garden class. Grandma Gum stands in the native forest edging the oval and when the class arrives, Eric the Echidna appears from his burrow. He is a puppet who tells stories. Sometimes we snuggle under blankets while we listen to the stories. Last week we learnt about the hidden world of mycelium that Eric found while digging. To find out more, just ask any grade 3 /4 student!

To get our hands learning, we form small groups after the story. Chefs prepare delicious food, Mark and Aidan lead small groups in the dynamics of fire making, student gardeners have created two new tunnel beds in the orchard and, believe it or not, another small group of students has been channelling Eric the Echidna and creating stories of their own. For some, this is the first time they have ever told a story.

This term we welcome a new Fowl Friends team into the orchard; Alexis, Indie, Koa, Lacey and Matthew. They look forward to welcoming visitors.

Grade 1-2s

Grade 1-2s have recently finished their Scratch Jr. coding projects, with outcomes such as moving to the next 'scene' of our game/story, making characters move when bumped into by other characters and adding dialogue speech bubbles. This week 1-2s are finishing their Hex Bug maze/obstacle courses, working cooperatively in groups, with creations made from cardboard and craft items.

3D Printing

Grade 5-6s are now completing their 3D print designs using Tinkercad. We have added a new available colour for students to utilise, blue. Sandra printed this yellow Star Fruit, and Elinore found a duck on another 3d Printing website.

National Simultaneous Storytime is an annual event that encourages communities, schools and libraries across Australia to read the same book simultaneously. This year the featured book is 'Bowerbird Blues'.  Our school had our own 'Bowerbird' read to the whole school!

Download link is below to our updated lunch order list. We will be offering 'specials' every second Thursday (the Thursday that is off Subway Canteen Hub week). Please check on the Qkr! app for the specials to order.

Leadership Staff

Support Staff