Wendy’s Class Week 7 Term 4

Many thanks to Meg for taking the group on Thursday and Friday while I spent some time helping my daughter and baby Arty (now five weeks old) manage some medical appointments. And thanks to Sarah D for helping the Year 6 kids with their leavers project.

In the past week, we completed some work on protective behaviours, mass in maths and continued individual reading and sharing Hunger Games.

Summerhill Day, even though the weather was so very hot, was a lovely day as you will see from the photos, I am sure. My algebra group tackled some year 7 work and did stunningly well. Everyone looked after themselves, staying in the shade when possible and drinking plenty of water.

On Summerhill Day, we had a visit from Cecelia, an ex-Currambena teacher, her sister and two young teachers from Taiwan who were involved in running the first APDEC in Taiwan in 2016. They spent an hour or so with us and loved seeing Summerhill Day in operation. See elsewhere in this Newsletter for information on 2025 conferences.

Camp is high on everyone’s agenda now. We have started discussions about tents and I’ve asked everyone who is bringing a tent to share to have a practice at setting it up with the people sharing the tent. Please make sure the children start gathering all the personal items needed, make sure those raincoats are waterproof and name everything! Please also make sure that the permission note is returned and the camp money paid into the school account. Thanks!

Next week, Year 6 are off to print T shirts on Monday (permission slip and money must be brought to school on or before the day), then most of them are off to high school orientation days on Tuesday so on Wednesday we will decide on our camp menu and bring all the camping gear out from under the building. Please let me know if you can help by doing any of the jobs I listed in the note I sent home by email this week. As always, many thanks to the parents who are coming with us or helping to drive us there or back. We couldn’t have a camp without you!

Have a great week!

Love,
Wendy