How quickly this term is flying by! With only 4 weeks to go, teachers are busy completing assessments ready for Semester One reports, and students are starting to wrap up topics. We are also finally at the end of our swimming lessons for 2025, and these have been overwhelming positive – even though it has completely exhausted students and teacher! We have put in preferences to take part in swimming lessons again in 2025 and will provide an update when we know if these will be offered to us.

On Monday we will also mark walk / ride to school day (hopefully the weather holds off for us). On this day, we encourage students and families to walk or ride, or if this is not possible, park slightly further away so that the last part of the journey can be on foot. Some of our student leaders will be around in the morning to hand out faction tokens / some stickers for those that walked or rode!

Thank you to those families that made it to Mr Gorton’s farewell last week; whilst very emotional, he appreciated the kind words that were shared with him on the day and will be back to visit in the future!

New Playground

Work is still ongoing with planning for our playground, with this now being progressed to the Department of Education’s project management team. The process can be quite long winded, but we expect to start seeing some movement on this (and hopefully some installation work) occurring in Term 4. Whilst we have seen some designs and got some feedback from students, the final designs may change when the process goes out to tender. When a final design is in place, we will share this with everyone, so watch this space!

We are also looking at adding some extra elements into our Early Childhood Playground, and once we have a bit more of an idea of what will come first, we’ll share these in a future newsletter.

Behaviour

Recently, we have been having conversations with our older students around some of the behaviour we are seeing at school, particularly around respect, following instructions and arguing / back chatting with staff when they disagree with something. Sometimes these are easily resolved, however in the case of significant or repeated incidents, a member of the school leadership will call families.

If this occurs, I ask that you please support the actions taken by the school, and discuss strategies with your child to prevent this happening again. Actions may include discussions with students, loss of lunch / recess time or loss of Good Standing points for senior students.

This is a major focus for us at the moment, so I am expecting that there will be more instances in the short term where families are contacted, but this should reduce very quickly.

Good work / Sporting Achievements

Recently, one of our Year 6 students competed in a Statewide Trampolining Competition! She placed 2^nd for her division which is absolutely fantastic! Well done, Diana!

We have also had some superstar Year 1’s sharing their reading and writing skills with us lately from CR3 and ECE6! It is great when this happens as we get to see just how far they have come – well done!

Upcoming events

This term, we have a lot of events coming up; please make sure to check the SchoolZine calendar regularly for updates, but these include:

• Monday 9 June - Walk / Ride to school day
• Friday 13 June – P&C Crazy Hair and Socks day / CR13 and CR24 Assembly
• Monday 16/Thursday 19 June – School Photos
• Friday 20 June – Winter Carnival (select Year 5/6 students)
• Wednesday 25 June – Year 6 Bake Sale
• Friday 27 June – Year 5/6 Respect Workshop
• Friday 4 July – Faction Cross Country

I hope that everyone has a great weekend, and I look forward to seeing everyone around the school over the next few weeks!