This week we welcome Emma and Vanessa, two student art teachers from UNSW who are spending two weeks with us. Great timing for us with all the play sets and costumes to create! Judith is also working hard to assist us so we are hoping it will all come together in time! Please help your child learn their lines if they ask… there is a lot of memorising needed from some of them. (Not to mention costumes and sets!…Detect a slightly panicky tone!??) Dress rehearsal here at school on Friday this week and then again at Tambourine Bay on Thursday next week.
The concert itself will start promptly at 6pm on Friday 13th November. All children should be at the park ready to perform at 5:45pm but, as parking will possibly be an issue, it would be a good idea to come early and enjoy your picnic dinner before the show. Each family will need to bring their own picnic food and things including rug or chairs (at the back please) and parents will need to be responsible for their own children while they are not actually engaged in a performance. Let’s hope for a fine, warm night… wet weather option is back here at school in Aussie Kids’ room. Please be mindful of issues of sustainability when packing your picnic! Bring food in containers which can be taken home and washed. Let’s leave no rubbish behind us at all! And please be respectful of performances in progress. The acoustics are going to be interesting outside (to say the least) so please make sure children (and adults!) not performing are a very quiet and attentive audience.
Last week at Class Meeting, our group voted to have News at 9am on Monday mornings from now on. This is to prevent it from taking up too much of our Inside Time! It worked quite well this week for the first time.
From now on this term, swimming is an option on Monday afternoons for sport. Please help everyone remember this!
Please come and buy Currambena Calendars from the office. They cost $18 each or two for $30 and they are just gorgeous. Perfect presents.
Thank you to all the parents who have spoken to me about Jervis Bay. It looks as if we will have plenty of helpers and drivers. In a week or two, I will hold a meeting to discuss details with you all.
We are also, believe it or not, actually doing quite a lot of academic work along with our rehearsals! We are working on a Science unit about Living Things, a Maths one on Time and an English study of Exposition.. a couple of these might make it into this Newsletter. Maths and Spelling text books, times tables tests and reading are all continuing as usual, too.
We did enjoy walking up to Lane Cove Civic Centre last week to look at the entries in the Eve Vonwiller Youth Art Awards, proud to see Jody and Isla represented there!!
Have a great week.
Love Wendy
AN EXPOSITION by Shannon.
RUBBISH FREE LUNCH EVERY WEDNESDAY
It’s a fantastic opportunity to challenge yourself in not producing as much rubbish. When we entered the original Rubbish Free Lunch competition, we won so now that we are having a rubbish free lunch every week, We will be unstoppable in reducing rubbish.
It’s important to reduce our rubbish because we are in a drought. Climate change is happening and trees are getting cut down as we speak and reducing our rubbish is a big step to help save us, the environment and the world.
By not using as much rubbish, we help the environment in not producing as many fumes and greenhouse gases. So in the end, by reducing our rubbish on Wednesdays, we help save the world, stop climate change and live on a healthy, clean planet.
