Welcome to our Week 5 newsletter for Term 2!

The cold weather has arrived after a very mild autumn. It is a timely reminder that we need to keep up our healthy routines to avoid illness and to keep learning.

Our Sports Centre is progressing well and it is exciting to see it taking shape as the walls go up! Thank you for your help in the pick-up and drop off times, we really appreciate your patience.

You would have received the Salisbury Council plans to provide additional drop off space in front of Temple Christian College. This project will take place from next week and although it will add some additional challenges for the time it is being constructed, we will see an improvement in the traffic flow once it is completed. It is one of those times where short-term pain will give long term gain. We are grateful to the Salisbury Council for their help in improving traffic flow and safety around our school.

Next week we have a pupil free day on Friday 6th June prior to the King’s birthday long weekend. This will provide students with two 4-day weeks which gives them the opportunity to rest and be refreshed ready to finish the term well.

Our teachers are currently writing learning reports for your children which you will receive at the end of term. This is one way that we share progress and give you information about what children are learning.

Another way we will be sharing with you is through our Exhibition of Learning which will take place on Wednesday 25th June. For the last few weeks our students have been preparing something to share with you. A whole-school approach allows us to learn together and to show how learning is both about knowledge and about how we learn it. We've been using learning badges to give a voice to the important learning dispositions and skills that help us to grow. We are really looking forward to sharing this with you!

Our Junior Primary (Reception, Year 1 & Year 2) will be open from 3:10-4:10pm. Our ELC children’s work will be open 5-6pm and our Primary (Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 & Year 6) students will be present to share their learning with you from 5:30-6:30pm. We ask that you bring your students along ready to share in their year level exhibition. We will encourage you to ask questions and interact with our Primary students as they present their learning and their reflections to you. This will be another wonderful opportunity for our students to grow!

This Friday we are holding a special Reconciliation Week assembly on Friday afternoon. You are welcome to attend. It begins at 2pm in the Performing Arts Centre and we ask that you sign in via the front office.

This term we have several excursions taking place. Thank you for your support of these and for those volunteers who have completed the appropriate checks and are going along to help. If you are interested in volunteering, please speak to the front office for more information.

On Monday and Tuesday this week I was able to attend the National Policy Forum run by Christian Schools Australia in Canberra. We had a range of speakers who brought information and shared the challenge of current issues facing Christian schooling in Australia. They also shared ways that we can continue to give parents the choice to educate children in our schools. We have a great community at Bethany and we want to continue to express our faith and work in partnership with families as we excel in Christian education and character, inspiring greatness, while serving communities and impacting nations. We appreciate all you do to work with us and to see children flourish!

Have a lovely weekend

God bless you

Wendy Matear
Principal