PTA AGM postponed until July 6th

Dear parents,

Our PTA Annual General Meeting is postponed until Wednesday 6th July @ 6.30pm. We are investigating whether we can offer the Parent Seminar Coping with Stress with Captain Jay McClean on this new date. Flyers are coming out today.

Newsletter - Term 2 Week 1

Dear parents/caregivers,

Our latest newsletter is now online for you. In this issue:

• Bullying article
• EnviroSchools - new vege garden
• How we use student images/names/audio and video
• Road safety success
• Learning Conferences - these start next week
• Cross Country - also next week
• Student Leadership Council update
• PTA tea towel fundraiser
• ANZAC speech is online

Have a great mother's day this weekend.

New Sports Equipment

Today it was really cool to see the children excited about receiving new sports equipment funded by the PTA. What a huge difference this makes - I even got to brush up my cricket skills with some of the seniors! Thank you to the PTA team for their ongoing support of our school!

From our Student Leadership Council:

"A HUGE thank you to the parent teacher association (PTA) for the brand new sports equipment for our school. The Student Leadership Council thinks the PTA have done a tremendous job and the children in our school will love the new equipment."

Creativity and Activity

One of the wonderful things I've been reflecting on recently is how the arts (e.g. dance, drama, music, visual art) stimulates learners in different ways. The engagement and delight created by the Dancing Like The Stars programme is an excellent example of how learning through the arts can engage students in different ways. It is also a reminder to us as educators to use the arts as a means to activate what we may view as the more 'traditional' learning areas at school.

Our soccer and hockey zones sports is postponed until next week and so we hope the weather allows us to get the children involved in this great event next Tuesday. Every child in our senior school will participate so as to provide the opportunity for every child to learn through being an active part of the team. On that note I'd like to acknowledge the hard work of our wonderful PTA team who put on a superb disco last Friday - thank you for your support it is appreciated. There are many ways in which we as a school activate learning through the arts and through being physical, and I invite you to come and have look yourself.