There is a wonderful amount of energy at school at the moment. What a thriving community we are! Building Committee and Reunion meetings and, of course, we have the AGM this Thursday at 6pm. This will start at 6pm and we are all asked to bring some soup and bread to share for a winter’s supper while we listen and vote.
Last Thursday we very successfully joined the Lane Cove Children’s Voices for Reconciliation event in the plaza and we have received many compliments and thanks for our contributions and for hosting the Alexandria Park students and teachers back here for lunch. They really enjoyed coming here … so thanks very much to everyone who helped with the BBQ.
Our joint PE adventure with Olivia’s group to Ice-skating and Rock Climbing was a great success on Monday (once we finally managed to organise the children and cars). Thank you so much to everyone who helped with that also. Next Monday is a public holiday so Monday 15th June will be the mirror image event. The children will go to the other activity and we will need as many drivers again… please! That will be Luuk and Willem’s last week with us… and it is also the week some of us leave for Laura!
In an attempt to make sure we look after the new sports equipment, we are now locking the spare room unless we specifically need it, so if you ever see it open, please get a key and lock it for us! We are also going to try very hard to address the issue of rubbish and lost property being left in such enormous volumes around the school. So please help by encouraging kids to pick up anything lying around… sports gear, rubbish or lost property.
REMINDER: School starts at 9am for everyone. This Friday we are trialling a new, more flexible timetable for Friday with School Meeting at 9:30am so it will be essential for everyone to be here at 9 to settle in before the meeting. Also on Friday, our group is holding a MINI-FAIR to rasie money for our sponsor child in Uganda. There will be toys, books, cakes and biscuits for sale from 11am.
Next week, we will be helping the Building Committee by conducting a survey at the school gate asking everyone how they travelled to school. This is to support the building proposal to LC Council by assessing the impact of lost parking spaces outside the school while building work is carried out. So the children rushing to speak to you with clip boards will NOT be asking for money (although the MS Readathon has also started this week …). Please help us by answering their questions as you arrive. Thanks.
In class, we have completed our unit on 2D shapes and are moving into Fractions as well as Data in Maths. In English we are writing stories and plays for the group… and talking and listening in very long Class Meetings! Today six children are coming with me to a Sustainable Leadership Forum at Riverview sponsored by Lane Cove Council. We’ll report on that next week. As you can see, we are as busy as ever.
Have a great week. Love, Wendy
