Principal Report
Responsibility
I subscribe to a local educator called Adam Voigt. I enjoy his weekly thoughts, even if I do not always agree. Recently he talked about responsibility. This is what he had to share.
"People are always trying to bring things back. Mullets are a good example. Sort of.
I’d like to make 2023 the year that we bring personal responsibility back. Not as cool as a mullet, but more important. And I’ve missed it."
I totally agree with him on this one, well maybe not the mullets. Let’s start by knowing our role is to foster responsibility as adults, parents, carers and educators.
The student role is to take responsibility and practice it. Our job is to help. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
This Term we have been signposting responsibility whenever we have a chance. We have started by helping students understand what responsibility is and isn't through a weekly lesson called Flourish.
But the only way for them to become responsible, is for adults to allow them to take personable responsibility for their actions.
We want all of our students to feel like they are leaders in our school. We want them to grow. We want them to know their strengths and their challenges. We want them to lead with or without a badge.
Our school Captains this year who are leading from the front are:
School Captains
Amber Cherry and Lachlan Armstrong
Vice Captains:
Elinor Sinco and Chloe Hughes-Gage
And our school-wide captains are:
Library: James Miller
Design and Tech: Riley Williams
Visual Arts: Polly Blunt
Performing Arts: Grace Palmer
House Captains
Rafter: Luke Van Suylen
Thorpe: Leilah Donnelly
Freeman: Wyatt Peccenini
Bradman: Finn Johnson
They are being offered the chance to take on responsibilities across the school. The Captains and Vice-Captains have been asked to lead a new student leadership approach called SRC - Students Representative Council. Students from all classes have been elected to share their dreams with us through the SRC. They will meet regularly and share their thoughts with our leadership team. Mrs. Granger will oversee their meetings.
The Captains will also be responsible for a 'friendship' stand at Eastlands this Thursday. They will be working the friendship carnival as friendship ninjas, helping visitors make badges.
If you would like to attend as a family please use the link below.
The house captains will take on the responsibility of overseeing sport equipment lending in the afternoons for children.
The SRC students
PAH- Harry Cutler
PAC- Bodhi Camp
PNM- Olivia Turpin
1LP- Cung Lian
1DH- Angus Reynolds
2EW- Tianah Rakotowye
2KH- Macy Layton
2BY- Eleanor O’Connor
34J- Alexis Rhodes
34P- Ruby Hall
34W- Tahli Kilner
34A- Hudson Mortimore
56V- Blake Marshall
56M- Hudson Hall
56S- Stevie Cairns
56P- John Latu
They have already held one meeting. The list of suggestions is impressive....we will need to up our fundraising efforts to meet some of the preps wish lists.
Camps
Thank you to all of our staff and parent volunteers for their efforts on camp last week. A big start to the year. On the plus side it is 17 months until the next camps!
School Council Nominations
It is that time of year when we ask for school council nominations. The details will be a separate Compass post. This is a great way to take on responsibility in a parent capacity sharing your time to help guide the work that underpins our great school.
Council seats that are ending this cycle are Emily Murcott, Danni Bortignon, John Hays and Jacinta Parolo (Community). We also have shared an early farewell to Claire Cripps and Mandi Ashby. I would like to thank them all for their efforts over the last 12+ months. They are all welcome to renominate ; )
We will need 2 staff, 3 parents plus 1 community.
Traffic Management
Please continue to follow the traffic management plan across the school. Drive slowely, safely and wait for the car in front to elave before moving through the Kiss n Go. Need to park? Please park away from the Kiss n Go unless you have a special reason to park and it has been pre-discussed with us.
Help and support -
Volunteer wanted - Sign extraordinaire
At the front of the school, we have a signboard that needs a volunteer to change the letters/sign. Last year we had a parent who done this for us for a number of years - superstar!
In the past we have had a group of parents who took a turn each term. Some parents chose to do the sign on weekends with their children helping, some chose to do the sign on assembly afternoon. You can change the sign when you like and you can have creative license over the messages. We just need someone to help us!
Upholsterer
We are also deciding whether we purchase new staff chairs, or we reupholster the existing chairs. The frames are in great condition with the material needing some TLC. If anyone has a person they know and trust that can help we would be interested in hearing from them.
Key dates for the calendar
These dates are firm and will not change this year.
KEY DATES
Term 1
27th January – pupil-free day
6th March– Curriculum Day 1 - School PL - pupil-free day
13th March - Labour Day - public holiday
7th April - Good Friday - public holiday
Term 2
24th April – Curriculum Day 2 - School PL - pupil-free day
25th April - ANZAC Day - public holiday
12th June - King's Birthday - public holiday
19th June – Curriculum Day 3 - School PL - pupil-free day
Term 3
7th November - Melbourne Cup - public holiday
Term 4
11th Dec – Common PPD - pupil-free day
Best wishes,
Craig