Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

Congratulations to our public speakers

10 students for Years 5&6 represented our school on Tuesday evening at the AB Paterson College public speaking competition.  This is an event that we have maintained involvement in for many years.  Like the Year 4 team from late last term, the senior speakers were wonderful.  Of the 10 speakers, four have been selected into the finals next week.

Thank you sincerely to the families and teachers who have helped the students across the past months as they prepared for the event.  

Below is a small gallery of some of the speakers.  It is quite a challenge to get around to each heat at the right time so I apologise to those students we missed.

Speaking respectfully at school

Next week I will be speaking with students once again to discuss appropriate language at school.  Unfortunately there has been a recent increase in the number of boys and girls who have been making inappropriate and disrespectful comments to other students.  I also ask parents to reiterate to their children that any racial or offensive language is never ok.  Please understand that I will be suspending from school any students from Years 3-6 should they speak (or imply an offensive message) in such a manner to other students or staff .  This could range from 1 to 20 days.  Parents of children in Prep to Year 2 will be called to the school to help us re-teach appropriate conversation.  The same requirements will also apply to our OSHC.  Our school values all students and we aim to teach children to celebrate people's differences.

Free Dress Day coming

Please support our free dress day by wearing RED on Friday 27 October.  We are asking for a gold coin donation to our Student Council - who will in turn donate to the Daniel Morcombe Foundation for school safety programs.

Enjoy the lovely weekend weather

Kind regards

Vic