Dear mums, dads, carers and colleagues

Thank you once again for supporting our school at the Community Fair last Saturday.  It was a great event and one that I hope will form positive memories for our families.  All of the clean up is nearly finished and the accounts are being finalised.  We will know the operating profit from the day in a week or so and share the figures at the P&C meeting on August 20.  The profits are still being directed towards air-conditioning of classrooms.  

Year 4 camp

Year 4 camp this week saw great weather and great fun.  The gallery here shows some of the Facebook photos but the real gallery will be in next week's newsletter issue.  Well done to the staff who ensured that our children were safe and well and that they had a great experience.

2020 preparations

Our school has also begun its preparations for 2020 with enrolments being organised for Prep.  We are also preparing the 2020 booklists and I anticipate that these will be sent home at the very end of this term.  Additionally, the Student Resource Scheme will be prepared and presented at the September P&C meeting.  

Road safety

I have received two reports in the past week of students practising poor road safety.  One of the students was not from our school but was struck by a vehicle and injured while crossing the road.  And another student for whom I received a report was just plain lucky that the motorist was alert.   

Please discuss your expectations with your children.  These expectations around how they walk, ride or bus to and from school should be non-negotiable.  You should set the route they are to travel and explain precisely what you want in terms of crossing roads and safe behaviours.  Please remember that traffic and children are a potentially dangerous mix and it takes but a split second for things to go from nothing to tragedy.  

We discuss road safety in class at school often but nothing will influence your children's safety like your own parenting.  

What's ahead for us?

The next couple of weeks will be busy for our music department as we compete at the Gold Coast Eisteddfod.  Best wishes to our bands and string ensembles for wonderful performances and thank you to the staff involved.

The languages competition is being held at Griffith University next Sunday.  Thank you to everyone who is representing our school.

Good luck to Coomera Rivers at the Australian Education Awards announcements next Saturday night in Sydney.  A small team will be representing us at the event where we were shortlisted for two categories.  This itself is an incredible achievement.  

Have a great week.

Kind regards

Vic