SCHOOL PLAYGROUND IMPROVEMENTS

We received good news on Friday... We have secured a Veolia Mulwarre Grant for about $9000 to replace the shade cover over the Junior Equipment and build a new shade structure over the Senior Equipment.  This funding is a good portion of the $17000 total cost. We hope we can get the shade up before summer arrives!

We are also really looking forward to our walkathon tomorrow! Money raised will be used to complete our hall upgrade project and go towards our shade cloth project.

Feel free to enter the school grounds to have a look at the beautiful Aboriginal Art Mural that has been painted this week on the hall wall. Many thanks to artist Wendy Rix who is designed and painted the mural. You can check more about her at http://www.wensart.com.au/.

The new shade & our mural is really improving our great playground space.

I have also been in talks with Catholic Education and some architects about upgrading our Kinder and admin building and the older building containing the chapel & music room. I’m looking forward to sharing some of these ideas with you. The School Community Council has been looking into this future project to keep our school modern. The present admin block was opened in 1986 and has had a few internal changes, however it needs to be made more functional to take advantage of the space we have. Exciting times for our school!

Last week we also were able to look at some preliminary NAPLAN 2022 data. We were very pleased with our Year 3 cohort results where over half the group were in the top 2 bands! Our Year 5 results were also very pleasing. The results were very good considering we had periods over the past 3 years of remote learning. I think staff and parents should give themselves a pat on the back for their hard work to support student learning.

LIFE EDUCATION

This week students have been visiting the Life Education Van. We fund attendance at the van through your school fees. Students work on follow-up lessons in class after their visit.

About Life Education:

"Life Education is Australia’s largest provider of preventive health and drug education to school children. With the help of its iconic mascot Healthy Harold the giraffe, Life Education has been empowering children and young people to make safer and healthy choices for more than 40 years.

We work in more than 2000 schools and preschools across NSW and the ACT, with approximately 290, 000 school children participating in our program each year. Our 60 specially trained educators visit students via our 44 mobile classrooms, three pop-up classrooms and our new virtual and online program.

The Life Education program provides valuable lessons exploring healthy eating, personal safety, physical activity, positive relationships, cybersafety and the impact of alcohol and other drugs. All modules are age and stage appropriate and aligned to the NSW PDHPE syllabus and the Australian school curriculum."