PRINCIPAL NEWSLETTER Dear Parents and Carers,

We made it! What a term it has been. A big thank you must go to all students,families and staff for your ongoing commitment to learning throughout thesecontinued trying times.

Remote LearningDuring the past 6 weeks of online learning, the students within the SeniorLearning Area have been focusing a majority of their work around maintainingconsistency in routines, whilst being engaged in each activity they undertake. Wehave seen some amazing work submitted online via the Seesaw app, both fromthe students working remotely, and from the students working on site. We havealso celebrated two genre focused weeks – Book Week and Science Week – atvarious periods throughout this lock down. See below for more information.

Book Week We had fun celebrating Book Week during week 8, with much of the work we did,whether it was Math, English or even Physical Education, linking to ideas that werefound in text. Student’s were provided engaging work from all staff, includingawesome readings and activities created by our fantastic Education Support staff.To wrap up and celebrate Book Week, we had an online ‘Dress As Your FavouriteCharacter’ catch up for our staff and students. See below for a little snapshot intosome of the fun costumes both staff and student came dressed in.

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TERM 3 IMPORTANT DATES

17th September: Last dayof term 2.30pm finish

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Book Week Celebration Senior Learning Area online Zoom catch up

Science Week

Throughout Science Week in week 6, the students for the Senior Learning Area were provided week long activitiesthat focused on the creation, observation and analysis of various science experiments.Staff selected activities that had varying levels of instant and gradual cause and effect results, providing students theopportunity to test their memory and/or compare and reflect previous work to current work. See some of the activity responses of the work provided by our students below.

Inquiry Focus for Term 4

As teaching groups, both our Senior and Primary teaching staff will spend Friday of this week planning thefoundations for next term’s work. Although interrupted by the current lock down, we have every much enjoyedcelebrating the history of the Olympics with our students this term, and feel they have engaged well in many ofthe activities that were provided. Please stay tuned for what’s in store for the Inquiry Focus of Term 4.

What’s next?!

We will wait patiently to see what the pathway out of the current lock down looks like for our school and ourstudents, and with any luck, we will see all staff and students back on site in week 1 of term 4.

Please stay safe, and have a warm and relaxing break.

Tim WitcombeActing Leading Teacher and SLA Leader

Room 11 students are staying engaged during onsiteand offsite learning in term 3.

Well done every one.

Parent/CarerInformation

Elaine Quinn

Principal

I wish all students, families, and staff a safe and restful break and we look forward to working together in Term 4.

Thank you for your support