Dear Parents and Carers,

As we come to the midpoint of the term, we have been very busy working on both class based activities as well as our preparations for the coming Henry Lawson Festival.

For some children this busy period of term is very challenging. Unfortunately, some are using the busyness of both school and home as justification for poor choices in how they speak with others around school, or how they are responding when games are not going their way.

I encourage you to have a conversation with your children about using appropriate language – “paddock” language is not appropriate for school.

During busy times, it is difficult to make right choices, and congratulations go to those children who are working very hard to be doing the right thing.

Making right choices can be difficult and it takes a brave person to do so.

Henry Lawson Festival – Please be aware that the Play Day is scheduled to take place on Thursday June 6, in the THLHS auditorium.

The Concert will be held on Friday June 7 at 7:00pm at THLHS. Those singing will wear their winter uniform.

The procession is set for on Saturday June 8 beginning at 1:30pm. The Yr. 6 girls have been putting together the concept for the float for the festival parade. The theme for this year is an ode to winter. Our float will reflect an aspect of this theme.

Please fill in and return the attached note, so that we are aware of who will be participating in the concert and the procession.

The children have been putting the final additions on their play for the upcoming play day, as well as preparing for both the concert and the festival parade.

It is terrific to see people choosing the growth mindset of I’ll give that a go or I can try this out, or I can learn new dance steps for a performance shows a positive approach to learning new ideas or concepts. The satisfaction of achieving or learning a new skill is enormous.

NAPLAN- on Tuesday, we completed the re-sit of the Yr. 5 writing and reading papers. Congratulations to our Yr. 5 students for completing this process in a professional manner, thank you.  

Semester Reports - Our staff have also been undertaking the process of preparing semester reports for the first half of this year. These will be sent home at the end of week nine. Parent teacher conferences will take place during week ten.

Uniform – thank you to those families who have clear labels on uniforms items, this makes it easy for us to return jumpers etc.

Facebook page - We have been working on developing a Facebook page to share more with the community about the teaching and learning that is happening at school. The page is under construction, but will not be launched until we have completed working through various steps with IT and media staff from head office.

A separate note will be sent home relating to permissions for including pictures of your child on the page.

Please be aware that this page is only for promoting teaching and learning at school, it will not be used as a general communications page.

This week is National Reconciliation Week and this affords us the opportunity to reflect on two notable events, one being the 1967 referendum and the other being the Mabo Decision. Did you know that National Reconciliation Week started as the Week of Prayer for Reconciliation in 1993 (the International Year of the World’s Indigenous People) and was supported by Australia’s major faith communities?

In 1996, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation launched Australia’s first ‘National Reconciliation Week’.

Changes to routine - Thank you to those families who are keeping us informed when children are absent from school, or there are changes to the regular routine. Please be aware that we are required to keep the rolls up to date and that thorough explanation for absences enable us to do so.

Sincerely,