Dear families & friends, 

Thank you to everyone who attended our Term 2 Learning Expo. It was so special to see so many families sharing the learning with students and current and previous students and families that came to farewell our amazing Tuula. While there have been many tears this week, we are excited to see where Tuula’s next adventures take her and know there will be nothing but success ahead for her.

Learning summary reports and conferences

Thank you to all the families who made a time to come in and discuss their child’s learning progress. These conversations are highly valuable in ensuring we are all on the same page to support each child in their learning. We had close to 100% of families attend.

AUSLAN Choir

Congratulations to a small group of our students who auditioned to be part of the Festival of Music AUSLAN choir to perform 'Advance Australia Fair' in AUSLAN with the main choir. More information will go to these families once we have dates confirmed. The performances are held in September. 

School Sports

It has been exciting to have this year been able to get a few sports teams up and running with the planning and organisation of Emma, our PE teacher, and the support of some volunteer parents.

I want to thank parents who have put up their hand to support students to now have a cricket, basketball and soccer team. Without these volunteers we would not have coaches or managers to keep these running. Teachers are able to help set up the teams and get them started but cannot be available for trainings and games so without our volunteers these would not be possible.

I also want to thank the staff who have taken time out of their own personal time to support and visit trainings and games. Staff are under no obligation to do this yet do it out of a care for students. This is what makes our school great as we all work together to support students to have opportunities and feel supported.

We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday and look forward to seeing everyone again in term 3. Our first day back is Monday 24th July. 

Cheers Skye :) 

We had our final volunteer morning tea for the term on Wednesday 28th June. Thank you to Carmelina (Stella, Tori & Ricky's mum), Lucy (Nora, Maggie & Hugo's mum), Ran (Ethan's mum) and Renee (Tess's mum) who covered new library books.

We are planning on having more volunteer morning teas in Term 3  and the dates will be announced in the near future so please keep an eye out.

A reminder to those who have completed all their paper work that our morning reading groups will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 8.30 am - 9 am. 

If you think you might be interested in volunteering with us, there are forms available at the front desk, alternatively you can talk to Di or Gillian 😊 

In craft club, primary students have continued to work on their paper mache birds. We have had Emily (a secondary school student, who is on a work experience placement) help us.

Craft Club will be held every Wednesdays during 2nd break and is voluntary.  Di will be tailoring activities for primary students in odd weeks  and junior students in even weeks.

Being a Resource Hub Student Monitor 

Our student monitors play an important role in the functioning of the Resource Hub. Once a week during break times, they work together in pairs to  assist with tasks, such as scanning books for borrowing and returning, sorting and shelving books, tidying the shelves and other tasks as requested. We would like to thank them for their service and by focusing on 2 student monitors each newsletter. This issue it is Logan and Eva, from Primary 1 & 2 classes.

Logan "I like scanning the books and putting them away."

Eva "I like scanning books and making sure they are borrowed and returned at the right time."

Premier's Reading Challenge

There is still plenty of time for your child/ren to participate in the Premier's Reading Challenge. Student reading record forms (both the normal and the 20th anniversary) can be downloaded from the Premier's Reading Challenge website: 

https://premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/students/student-reading-records/

or students can see Kelly for a paper copy. Completed forms can be submitted to the school any time up until the final date on Thursday  7th September (Week 7, term 3).

Student Borrowing

Students may borrow books for up to 2 weeks. Please return books by the due dates which can be found in the back of picture books and some other books or on a return slip given to the student when borrowing a book(s).

I really like doing basketball and I hope I can do it for a long time because it gives me something to do on a Wednesday afternoon. I have improved a lot and I think it’s fun to do because you get to use teamwork. We practice on Thursdays, and also when we get to the ARC Stadium. I have learned how to defend better by not leaving the person I am defending alone and to stay close to a teammate so they can pass the ball if they need to.  Annie (P1)