Principal's Report

Staffing Update

Hi everyone, recently we appointed Education Support Staff Noor and Ritu , we welcome them to Aitken Hill and look forward to our work together.

Last week we appointed Jeff Hampton to our STEM Leading Teacher position, Jeff will take the Year 3-6s for a STEM session each week for the remainder of the year. Moving into next year, the plan is that we will have STEM classes running for 1 session a week for all students. He have hired a teacher from the USA, Trevor Bradtke who will be here sometime this term and will be the 2nd STEM teacher. 

We have also have another teacher, Michelle Waddy, from USA arriving this Term and a teacher from Canada, Calvin Ung, who will be joining us next term. 

We also said farewell to Assistant Principal Daniel Xuereb, who has moved to a school closer to home.  One of our Education Support staff, Maddy Flask, has begun her career as a Kindergarten Teacher.  Farah, Education Support, and her family are moving to Dubai to live for a few years. 

We wish Daniel, Maddy and Farah all the best with their adventures and thank them for their support of our students, staff and community.

Our House Spirt

We began working with Our House Spirit in Term 1 this year. Our House Spirit works with schools and in particular student leaders to implement fun and engaging activities for students and the school community. Last term our student leaders worked with the team from Our House Spirit to run activities for our Year 1/2 students.

This term the team is organising a House Spirit Day. All students will be in their house colours on the day and participate in a 2 hour session with will have 4 zones,  music, art, sport and party games. House Spirit Day will be held in the last 2 weeks of this term.

You can read and view more about Our House Spirit in the link below.  

New Building

Work on our new building will begin next term. Below you will find a link to some of the architects drawings of the building. The building will be completed at the end of 2024 ready for use in 2025. The building consists of 8 classrooms, 2 STEM rooms and a large library which can also be used as a meeting space for teachers and for parent sessions. The building also has a number of meeting spaces for staff to access.

This building is part of the Department of Education's new school expansion project.

Playground, Paths, Walkways, Garden and Musical Instruments

Architects have completed the drawings and design for our Our new playground and this has gone out to tender. We are hoping that the playground, paths, walkways and garden near the sandpit and musical instruments in the learning street will be completed by the end of the year. This project was funded by the Department of Education's Inclusive Schools Fund. 

New Paths

New temporary paths have been installed to reduce the amount of mud around the school. These paths link our Year 5/6 doubly storey building across to the gym and performing arts  area and provide access for students during recess and lunch to navigate to and from the canteen, basketball courts and oval. This will also help for families who access the car park at the softball ground. A big thank you to Ian and Luigi, our maintenance staff who worked on this project.

Assembly

Assembly is held every 2nd Thursday morning at 9am in our gym, The Golden Sun Centre.  This Term's assembly will be held on the 17th August, 31st August and 14th September.