COLOUR RUN

What an amazing day today with our Colour Run! Our students have been so excited leading up to the day and they weren’t disappointed. Lots of colour flying everywhere, lots of laughter and smiles and lots of families joining us for the experience.

We need to thank in a big way our P&F core group who worked to make it all happen, as without those hands doing the work it would not have been a success. Thanks to all parents and friends who helped in the lead up by giving their time to bottling and bagging the powder, setting up the course and providing donations or resources. We thank the staff at school for their preparation of the students, course and resources, especially our amazing Matt and Darren who always work so hard behind the scenes to make sure everything on the course is prepared. 

We are pleased to let you know that our aim in raising funds is to purchase new shade tents for our sports colour houses to be used at school events. Our goal is $12,000 for these resources, help us reach it!

YEAR 6 DEBATING

Our Year 6 students have been engaged in a debating experience with other local schools this term. They completed their last debate on Tuesday this week, where four students travelled to Laurieton and vice versa. It was a great experience to see our students putting together arguments for the affirmative and positive points of each debate, practice speaking in front of an audience, and receiving feedback from the adjudicator. Thanks go to the Year 6 teachers for organising this for our students, to the other schools involved for making it possible and to our students who prepared and presented at each debate. 

GLASSHOUSE PERFORMANCE

Our performance is quickly approaching …. just under 2 weeks to go! Practices at school continue and we remind families to please carefully check the note that went home for requirements on costumes and props. 

ILLNESS

We have had a large number of students sick over this winter, with illnesses ranging from colds to flu and gastro. I would like to thank you as parents and carers for working with us to reduce the amount of possible viruses spreading, by keeping children home when they are sick. It is appreciated by the school in managing illness as well as other families who are impacted by the spread of these. We understand it is difficult when you need to be at work, so we know this is challenging. When children can rest early in their illness, their recovery can be quicker and they are able to return to school able to learn. We are hopeful that with spring now with us, we will see wellness return to all of you and your families.

SCHOOL UNIFORMS

In observing students’ uniforms recently, we have noticed quite a few things that do not follow our uniform code. I have included the link to our uniform requirements and ask that you take some time to read through and check that these are being followed.  Please pay particular attention to shoes and accessories that are also part of the list, as these are often overlooked. Staff remind students regularly of expectations, and while we encourage students to become independent in wearing and taking pride in their uniform, we need parents to help them. Our summer uniform comes back in on Monday 14th October (Day 1 of Term 4). Please take the time from now until then to ensure that the items your child/ren are wearing are correct. We will send reminder notes home next term for items that need adjusting and ask for your support to follow these up.

As you are already aware,  St Agnes’ Parish Education announced a review of its school uniforms across both Primary and Secondary schools which will look at whether there will be some changes in the next few years, but until such time, the requirements remain unchanged. The review committee are seeking community feedback on the current uniforms. Please see a link to the survey in the Parish News Article of this newsletter.

COMPUTERS FOR SALE

Rob Walker, who works in Technology support across a number of schools, has been able to offer to our school families, some ex school refurbished computers, which would otherwise have gone to landfill. These are not from our school, but have been offered to us to support families who may be looking for a home computer that is much more affordable than from stores. This is not a school project, so any interest or enquiries need to go through the Google form below.

THANK YOU FROM THE SUSTAINABILITY TEAM

Tess Koning

Principal