Wishing the following children a very Happy Birthday

Lily F

Rose F

Oscar L

Lily P

Lilly J

Savannah

Max V

Hip Hip Hooray!

Congratulations to the following students for receiving an award this week.

FAR	Daisy	For trying to write initial sounds in words.
FAR	Bonnie	For trying to use finger spaces in her writing.
FBB	Sienna	For writing longer sentences and using goof sounding out.
FBB	Lilly	For getting along with others and contributing to class discussions.
12AD	Sadie	For being resilient and working hard with a broken arm.
12AD	Thomas P	For working hard in writing to produce great text using capital letters and full stops.
12AD	Thomas S	For working hard during mental Maths strategies.
12BB	Dakota	For focusing on beautiful, neat handwriting. Super!!
12BB	Oliver	For choosing a good learning spot during Narrative Writing so you could work really well!!
12BB	Autumn	For writing a nice clear problem and solution in your Narrative Writing. Well done!!
12BB	Georgia	For adding extra detail into your Narrative Writing. Well done!!
12CE	Alexia	For demonstrating your understanding of sharing and grouping in Maths, with enthusiasm and focus.
12CE	Nadia	For always being kind and ready to learn. You are a superstar!
12CE	Sylvester	For demonstrating your understanding of arrays and repeated addition in Maths.
34AD	Mackenzie	For showing persistence in her learning. Congratulations on a fantastic persuasive writing piece arguing why she should be Principal for a day! Mr Shaw will find it hard to say no! Well done!
34AD	Blake	For his outstanding work ethic and positive attitude. Whether he is tackling a challenge or helping our a classmate, he always does it with a smile.
34BB	Ilaria	For an excellent effort and practice of spelling words.
34BB	Patrick	For an excellent effort and practice of spelling words.
56AP	Jasper	For a detailed and clear information report on the Amazon Rainforest. Well done!!
56AP	Joseph	For a well constructed information report on The Amazon Rainforest. Great job!
56BM	Benjamin	For his hard work in Maths finding missing angles.
56BM	Oscar	For his thorough note taking and transferring this information into paragraphs.
56BM	Martha	For her hard work at District Basketball. Great sportsmanship!

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation Competition

The Art of Kitchen Gardening:

We know getting hands-on in the kitchen and garden is great for our mental health, fitness and wellbeing. Show us a kitchen or garden activity that has improved the wellbeing of children. Does your garden offer a space to reflect and connect? Do you gather around a table to share delicious, inclusive meals and conversation?

At St Anne's this year, we have transformed a small, neglected space in our kitchen garden into a sensory, aromatic haven: a tea garden. Students channelled their energy and creativity into clearing the plot, designing and planting herbs to brew herbal teas, and creating an artistic installation complete with teacups, teapots and a mosaic water feature.

Inspired by the sights, smells, and textures of nature, students deliberately selected and arranged a vibrant array of aromatic plants - including apple mint, lemon balm, pineapple sage, lemon verbena, stevia and classic mints. To bring this peaceful space to life, children collaborated on a mosaic water feature crafted from tiles and broken pieces of fine China. This centrepiece grounds a space where their imaginations can run wild: leaves and flowers can be crushed, sniffed, and nibbled; water can be poured; and tea can be brewed and steeped.

This project allowed students to use nature as their medium, turning a patch of weeds and rubble into a living installation. The tea garden is not only a functional source of produce, but a proud exhibition of our students' creativity, proving that when children connect with the soil, their imagination truly blossoms.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation Competition

Wellbeing Champions

We know getting hands-on in the kitchen and garden is great for our mental health, fitness and wellbeing. Show us a kitchen or garden activity that has improved the wellbeing of children. Does your garden offer a space to reflect and connect? Do you gather around a table to share delicious, inclusive meals and conversation?

At St Anne's, our daily lunchtime garden club has become a vital sanctuary for student wellbeing. The garden offers a peaceful space for children to reflect and connect, especially for those needing a break from the busy playground. Students across all year levels come together and build friendships while patting a chook, watering plants, or channelling their energy into turning compost and shovelling gravel for fresh new pathways.

Our hands-on projects have fostered a deeply connected community. Through teamwork, we have designed a sensory tea garden, planting herbs to be picked, smelled, tasted, and brewed. We have also spent rewarding lunchtimes harvesting and

storing giant pumpkins, which we later transformed into a massive batch of pumpkin soup for the whole school.

Gathering around the table to create and share this delicious meal sparked wonderful conversations and filled our garden club students with immense pride. Knowing they grew exactly what we ate was incredibly empowering. By engaging with the earth, our students aren't just improving their fitness and mental wellbeing; they are building an inclusive environment where every child has a place to belong.

Mrs Briggs

Tree Planting Day

What a tree-rific time we had on Friday!

We were blessed with wonderful weather and were able to plant a tree and have a cup of tea with our freshly grown herbs from our tea garden here at school. A huge thank you to everyone involved, especially Mrs Briggs, Mr Brooking and our Grade 6 Sustainability Leaders. Well done to all the students who showed great co-operation and great listening skills to successfully plant a tree.

Mr Sullivan

Crazy Sock Day

Fire Carrier news:

Thank you to students and families for their support on Crazy Sock Day: Walk In Their Shoes, where we raised an amazing $287 for Opening The Doors Foundation.

This money goes directly to First Nations children from Yr F-12, enabling them to participate fully and equally in education.

We loved seeing the array of crazy and creative footwear! Our FIRE Carrier Leaders organised lunchtime activities of indoor sock-er, scavenger hunt, colouring competition and guessing the spots on the socks. Students from all year levels were eager to participate in the fun.

Mrs Briggs

No Dogs Allowed on School Property

A reminder that dogs are not allowed on the school grounds. If you bring your dog to school please make sure to tie him/her up outside the gate. Thank you.

Captain's Catch Up!