Dear Students, Parents, Carers and Families,

Welcome back everyone for Term 3. I hope you have all had a great break!

OUR MARAMBA SCHOOL VALUES

While we emphasise the importance of our school values everyday with our students and community, each term we have a specific focus on one school value. In Term 4 this year our focus is on responsibility. When students are observed demonstrating this value that is above and beyond our general expectations of being responsible they receive a values sticker. This sticker goes into the student’s personal values record book. When they have filled all of the spaces for a school value they are presented with a values badge on assembly.

RESPONSIBILITY:

We recognise our actions and make a positive difference.

Our school values logo is representative of responsibility being constant and ongoing.

We have an individual and collective responsibility for:

The environment
Ourselves – choices and actions
Others – family, friends and community

As a school, we want to encourage everyone to keep developing and growing, expanding our minds and our horizons.

We can show our responsibility and commitment through:

being excellent role models to others;
owning our choices and decisions;
accepting that we all have an important role to play as part of a community;
to speak out against inequality;
being prepared and ready to learn;
being life-long learners;
supporting the learning of our peers and the wider community;
taking care of belongings and school property;
offering additional support to enable all students to reach their potential.

SCHOOL COMMUNITY FUNDRAISER

Thank you, students, parents and carers, for your very generous support of our Student led MND BIG Freeze fundraiser held on 24th June at Maramba.

As a Human Literacy School, we aim to build strong social awareness, consciousness, understanding and acceptance in all of our students.

Learning about and acknowledging that many people in our community suffer from various illnesses. As well as understanding that our medical system needs help from all of us to continue to grow and provide treatment, care and opportunities to make life easier for the patients and families facing such challenges, is important in forming an understanding about how precious life is, in all of our young students.

Every day, two people will die from MND and two more will be diagnosed. The average life expectancy of a person living with MND is 27 months.

Acknowledging the courage of those currently fighting this disease greatly inspired our senior school students this year, in true Maramba form, they wanted to act and help. Hence our whole school event today.

On the 24th June was Global MND Awareness Day. As a school we are so proud that as a strong social community we have donated $305.00 to help support this very worthy cause.

Fun days such as these can only take place when as a community we come together to make a difference.

Once again Maramba! Thank you!

SRC and Student leaders.

Kind regards,

Darren Wallace Diane Morwood

Principal Assistant Principal

Birthdays

Happy Birthday to the Students and Staff who will celebrate their birthdays this week and over the holidays.