Hi everyone.
Thank you very much to Rowena for taking the group last week when I was away. Next Tuesday, Rowena will again step in for me when I take a day to visit a school in Mittagong which uses similar methods to ours with secondary students. This means there will be NO GUITAR NEXT WEEK.
Yesterday we had Janelle from World Vision at school in the morning running a simulation with us about the global food crisis and its effects on markets and tribal workers in Kenya. We learned a few words of Swahili and were ably assisted by Luuk, Willem and Alyce in various roles. I hope you will have heard about it at home last night.
Last Friday we had a talk about the MS Readathon and some of the children were very keen to sign up for this. Parents will need to be involved when the money is ready to be sent.
Tomorrow we have Information Morning. Thank you so much to everyone who worked so hard today making the school look so well-loved! I hope we have lots of visitors to appreciate it.
On Friday is Walk Safely to School Day. Lane Cove Council is hosting a breakfast from 7:30am in the plaza for families who register for the event. Do this asap if you are interested. There will also be some breakfast here at school thanks to Fran’s group!
Next week, as I said above, I will be away on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday, we have someone from the ABC coming to interview the kids about BTN. That should be fun! On Thursday, we will be going with Olivia’s and Fran and Jo’s to Kinma for the day, by bus, and that will be fun, too, I am sure.
Our two student teachers finish up this Friday for the term but will be back later next term. They have both created some great lessons for us and we are now really getting into electricity, aboriginal studies, 2D shapes and review writing! Sport with Willem and Luuk has been fantastic lately, too, and so we are all getting fit as well.
Have a great week.
Love, Wendy
