Welcome to the midway point for the term, week 5! Many successful events have taken place over the past two weeks, and there are many more to come!

Market Day

The SRC student run Market Day on Thursday 10th of November was a wonderful success, with 47 stall holders being able to sell their products, most of which were created by the students themselves. The event had grown this year so much that we needed to spread the market over two locations; the undercover area (UCA) and the gabled verandah. There was a wide variety of products sold, and there was equal enjoyment of the selling and the buying during the Thursday lunch time. Thank you to the SRC for running the Market Day, and a big shout of ‘thanks’ goes to the stall holders and the students, staff, and parents who came to the market to support them!

SAPOL ‘Think U Know?’ Cyber Safety

On Tuesday 15th of November, the Year 3/4s attended a SAPOL run, ‘Think U Know’ cyber safety presentation. The presentation covered content informing our students about the knowledge and skills required to take actionable steps to keep themselves safe at all times while online. The students were shown a variety of situations to identify what were safe or unsafe situations and shown when and how to seek help. Next week, on Tuesday 22nd of November, the Years 5/6s will have the opportunity to attend a session of ‘Think U Know’.

Grandparents Day & Year 6 Showcase

As part of our ‘Welcome Back’ event, our Year 1 students held a Grandparents Day on Friday 4th of November. It was a fabulous day that was well attended. The students absolutely loved having their grandparents or significant family members attend. Well done Year 1s on such a lovely event.

On Wednesday 16th of November, the Year 6's presented a Showcase event. In front of a live audience, the Year 6 students presented dances, drama, drumming performances and poetry. It was a very polished performance and they did themselves extremely proud. The Year 6's were then able to provide a guided tour of the Year 6 classrooms, showcasing work they had done at school. It was a wonderful performance, well done Year 6s!

Casual Day Friday 25th November – to support the Robotics Challenge ‘Team Sydney’

Our IQ club recently competed in a Robotics Challenge and managed to come 4th, putting them through to a national competition held in Sydney! Four of our oldest students of the IQ club have been selected to fly to Sydney to compete, which is beyond exciting. To help them with the costs, the SRC are holding a casual day on Friday 25th of November. The cost to participate will be a gold coin donation. However, the costs of the trip are quite high. The SRC would like to invite people to make an additional donation on top of the gold coin donation to help support the team flying to Sydney. Additional donations can be given to your child’s teacher. Alternatively, donations can be made at the front office. Your support is greatly appreciated!

I wish you all well as we launch into the second half of our busy term.

God bless you,

Deb Clifford
Deputy Principal

Virtual Urgent Care Services by Women’s and Children’s Hospital

It’s the worst feeling in the world when caring for a sick child and not knowing what to do. Women’s and Children’s Hospital offers free Child and Adolescent Virtual urgent care Services which connects parents with a virtual team of highly skilled emergency doctors and nurses who can assess and provide medical advice for children aged between 6 months to 18 years. Please see the poster and the flyer for further information in this newsletter.

Medical History and Consent Update Form

Just a reminder, beginning of this term we sent a Medical History and Consent Update Form to be filled out and returned to school in preparation for 2023. If you haven’t returned the form already please return it to the school via your child’s red folder ASAP.

Kind regards,

Priya Wilson
School Nurse

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The library was buzzing with excitement on Tuesday, 15th November when they hosted a ‘BLIND DATE WITH A BOOK’ event for the Year 2’s!

Books were gift wrapped and displayed around the Junior Primary library area with only keywords as hints on what the book was about. The children loved the ‘surprise factor’ and had to wait out the day to unwrap their book at home which was very challenging! With lots of curious conversation around what their books might entail this was a very successful event and we hope the children really enjoyed having their ‘Blind Date with a Book’!

What an incredible day! Our girls played with great heart, and all put in 100% all day. Their sportsmanship was above reproach with great professionalism. Congratulations to our Gold team who walked away in 1st place! Our Silver team putting in a gallant effort all day and winning their last game of the day.

Mr Huntley