Good Afternoon Families,

Mrs Shelton’s Retirement

We were honoured to contribute part of our assembly on Monday to Mrs. Shelton. We celebrated her contributions to our school and expressed our gratitude for the 28 years that she has dedicated to our school community.  

Please remember to put a special personal farewell message or card in the box in the school office foyer. I’m sure these keepsakes from parents, carers and families will bring Mrs Shelton much joy for many years!  

Colour Run, activities and a delicious lunch! 

On Monday you would have received a letter informing you of our upcoming exciting colour run event organised in conjunction with our Community Champions for the last Thursday of term the 10th of April. Please return the lunch order form for a sausage, croissant and/or juice box by Monday 7th April. You may choose to send your child with one or two dollars to purchase something from the cake and slice stall at lunchtime too. 

Students will need to be prepared with a few things for the day including an old white or light-coloured t-shirt, to be worn to school under your child’s school polo top. Please check the letter for details and contact your child’s teacher or the office with any queries.  

At 2:30pm the Community Champs will announce which staff member has the most amount of money donated to them. This will mean that they will have to endure a special surprise! Families are invited to come along and see how the day ends from 2:30-2:45pm! We encourage you to collect your child on this day or send with a full change of clothes if they must catch the bus home. 

Financial Literacy Lessons with Verity 

This Friday we welcome Verity to work with our P-6 classes on financial literacy. Each class has a different focus including concepts such as recognising Australian coins and notes,  budgeting, the relationship of gaming and gambling, advertising and the cost of buying and keeping a pet.  

School Association Update

I would like to congratulate the following parents on their role in our School Association following our AGM: 

Edwina Caswell - Chairperson 

Gemma Smith - Vice Chairperson  

Amanda Smith – continuing as Treasurer 

Naomi Shelton - Secretary 

We look forward to working in partnership to uphold the values of our school, respectfully challenge for improvements and have the best interests of our students at the core of everything we do. 

All parent community is always welcome to attend our termly meetings.  

Gumnuts  

Our Launching into Learning Gumnuts is every Monday morning. It has been wonderful to welcome some new families to Gumnuts over the past couple of weeks. If you know people in our community that have young children, please encourage them to come along for some fun and connection at school. We are always excited to see our littlest learners and their families join us in the Kinder classroom on Mondays from 9:30-11am.   

Brixhibition 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS MRS DUGGAN

We send our best wishes to Mrs Maree Duggan as she enjoys a well-deserved holiday during her long service leave. She works extremely hard and puts in many additional hours to ensure that everything at our school is organised and running efficiently every day! The school staff and I will do our best to ensure that every child has a positive end to the term in Mrs Duggan’s absence. If you have any queries over the remainder of the term, please do not hesitate to contact the office or myself. 

Regards,

Bella Mitchell 

AST/ Principal Delegate 

 Please see the Parent Friendly calendar attached. 

Last Friday we went to St Leonards to the Northern Midlands athletics carnival. It was a beautiful day and our team were excited and a little bit nervous. The 1500m was the first event and probably the toughest event for the day. Our runners did an amazing job. Next up we had the 100m, then the 200, 400 and 800. Some of us went in all of these races. Our team were lucky enough to win lots of ribbons for placing in their events and we think we did a great job representing our school. The relays were last, and they are always lots of fun. We mostly changed the batons smoothly, and we won some more ribbons. The day was a lot of fun and we would like to thank Anieka Crosswell and Mrs Smith for coming along and helping out on the day.

By Regan Finger

Easter Raffle

Our Community Champions have organised 5 major prize baskets and 5 second prizes from your donations. Your child will have brought home a raffle book that you may wish to sell or return.  Raffle ticket butts and monies need to be returned to the school office by Monday April 7th.  The raffle will be drawn on Thursday April 10th . Additional raffle books are available at the school office upon request.  

Mother’s Day Stall

The Community Champions are organising a Mother’s Day Stall next term.  Can you help them by donating or making some items?  There will be a box in the entrance foyer next term where items can be placed or let one of the CC’s know what you are planning to prepare.  

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