Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

Wow!  What a week.  The continual rain this week has really left us drenched and hoping for a couple of days to dry out.  Wet lunches are never fun for kids or staff, but we just get on with managing them.  

The oval area is saturated but, with a break in the weather, we are hoping to be able to run the Slime Spectacular this week.  We have a third back up day as well - just in case but we are at the mercy of the weather at the moment.  We will keep families informed of plans and re-plans as we need to make them.  

The highlight of this week was the Year 6 celebration dinner.  It was a lot of fun for the students who were able to dress up and have dinner with their friends and teachers.  The photographer will have the photos ready for us soon and I will be able to share some next week.

Our prep classes began their swimming program and they really enjoyed the opportunities.  Thank you to our staff for doing such a great job with this. 

And now there are just 10 school days remaining for the 2021 school year.  Crammed into this time is:

Week 9

• 2021 Year book release  (TBA)
• Volunteer afternoon tea  (Monday)
• Year 5 Surf Safety excursion  (Tuesday)
• Alliance debating finals (Wednesday)
• Slime Spectacular (New date) (Thursday)
• Year 6 Challenge Day  (Friday)
• Year 34WH excursion prize (Friday)
• Qld Table tennis championships (Friday)

Week 10

• 2x Swimming carnivals
  • Year 3 and 4 (Monday)
  • Year 5 and 6 (Tuesday)
• Awards assemblies for each year level
  • Prep - Year 2 (Monday)
  • Year 3 and 4 (Tuesday)
  • Year 5 (Wednesday)
  • Year 6 Graduation Ceremony & whole school farewell (Thursday)
• Report cards sent home by email (Wednesday)
• Slime Spectacular (Second reserve date) (Wednesday)
• Year 6 Wet n Wild day (Friday)

COVID plans for 2022

The Queensland borders are re-opening in the coming weeks, and the likelihood of COVID entering the Gold Coast increases.  The days of widespread lock downs have passed replaced by localised quarantines.  It is possible that a quarantine could affect our school and community so we need to have some very flexible plans organised now - just in case.  

We are currently working on our remote learning programs for 2022.  We will send out more information in the coming fortnight so that all families will be able to access them on their devices and home computers.

And now the weather

The weather might just cause us a few headaches across the final 10 days of school.  We have our activities very well planned but COVID restrictions combined with inclement weather might see a couple of last minute changes.  For example, we can only hold 400 people (students, staff and parents) in the hall due to the meterage restrictions.  As a result, we will conduct our end of year events for Prep to Year 4 in the Cafe covered area.  Outdoors means no limitations other than social distancing.  If it is raining on the day of these events we will head to the hall but the times for the groups will change to allow parents to attend.  Please stay flexible with us.

Kind regards

Vic