In The Spotlight!

In the Spotlight Friday 4th September	In the Spotlight Friday 11th September
FAR- Ava B	FAR- Noah
FED- Rupert	FED- Beau
FRU- Summer	FRU- Anders
FRF- Grace	FRF- Flora
FSJ- Rumi	FSJ- Frankie
1AM- Ted	1AM- Jackson
1CE- Ollie B
1KL- Callum	1KL- Lincoln
1AG- Grace
2TH- Noah	2TH- Max
2SD- Axil	2SD- Xavier
2BB- Eloise	2BB- Zara
2CS- Dusty	2CS- Isla S
2ME- Leo	2ME- Hudson
3SD- Logan	3SD- Jude
3JN- Primrose	3JN- Charlotte
3AM- Nash	3AM- Isla
3DW- Rohan	3DW- Isabella
3KB- Parker	3KB- Jack
4LC- Tyson	4LC- Lillian
4SG- Alfie	4SG- Ayla
4SC- Chase	4SC- Haylen
4JN- Owen	4JN- Nina
4JP- Mia	4JP- Khaiya

FORTNIGHTLY AWARDS - announced at assembly Friday 11th September

1AD	Emilia Schmidt	WOW (Writer of the Week)	For her amazing effort with her information report about a moose!
1AD	Monty King	Maths Mindset	For his amazing work with skip counting and equal sharing!
1AG	Flynn Kelly	Little Learner	For working so hard during little learners and always giving 100%
1AG	Poppy Nowlan	Maths Mindset	For never giving up during a maths challenge
2CS	Poppy Margach	WOW (Writer of the Week)	For using excellent persuasive devices and structure in her Father's Day writing - Go Poppy!
2CS	Lenny Lanati	WOW (Writer of the Week)	For excellent structure, editing and presentation of his persuasive writing for Father's Day. Well done Lenny!
4SC	Margot Bennie	Literacy Legend	For applying new learning in her reading comprehension responses and for contually striving to improve her reading.
4SC	Savannah Weigert	Maths Mindset	For developing her understanding of fractions and taking on extension activities with positivity and curiosity.
5JB	Kai Ives	Literacy Legend	For your amazing writing and the way you are always looking for ways to make it even better! You put so much thought and effort into your writing and are constantly challenging yourself to uplevel your ideas and vocabulary.
5LC	Simon Cassidy Arriagada	Inquiring Mind	Making rich connections with our history unit of inquiry and our excursion to The Old Melbourne Treasury..
5LC	Indie Hyde	WOW (Writer of the Week)	Using the rubric to edit and improve her Bushranger Report, with a focus on developing effective topic sentences and consistently using an expert voice.
5MS	Miles Forrest	WOW (Writer of the Week)	For working exceptionally well on his information report about bushrangers. We are so impressed!
5MS	Chayse Barry	WOW (Writer of the Week)	For wonderful use of vocabulary throughout his information report on bushrangers. You sounded like an expert!
5PD	Spencer Morrison	WOW (Writer of the Week)	For working so well on his bushranger information report!
5PD	Fletcher Jones	WOW (Writer of the Week)	For working so well on his bushranger information report!

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Issue 14 · 03 Sep 2026

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