From the School Leadership Team
IPSHA Junior Orator Competition
Congratulations to Sedani Gunasekara and Lilli Henry who participated in the IPSHA Junior Orator Competition at Immanuel Primary School on Tuesday evening. Sedani spoke on the topic 'My Future Career', whilst Lilli spoke on 'The Beauty of Art'. Both gave amazing speeches with interesting content and strong audience engagement. We are very proud of Lilli and Sedani and all of their efforts!
Right to Disconnect
From 26 August 2024, employees in each Australian workplace, including Lutheran Schools, have a new 'right to disconnect' outside of work hours under a new section of the Fair Work Act. The new law aims to give employees the scope to switch off from work after hours, promoting a healthier work-life balance. This means that whilst a staff member may be emailed outside of work hours, (or sent a text regarding bookings in the case of GGOSH), that they may not respond until the next working day. Appropriate opportunities for contact in each holiday period will also be provided to our families at the conclusion of each term.
Thank you
A huge thank you to our class carers team, especially Katherine and Sarah, for all of your efforts in arranging a wonderful Fathers' Day Stall again this year. We appreciate all of our wonderful volunteers who came to help out on the day!
Professional Learning
Thank you to Mrs Zadow, our Director of PYP, Teaching and Learning, for all of her efforts in arranging an engaging and busy day for our staff team on our Pupil Free Day this Friday 6 September. On this day, much time will be dedicated to preparing for our IB PYP Evaluation in 2025, where an external team from the IB organisation will visit to assess our curriculum and instructional practices in a range of areas, as well as some learning on the delivery of differentiated instruction in the classroom.
A few reminders
Please be reminded of some of our key events coming up over the next few weeks.
- Friday 6 September - Pupil Free Day
- Friday 20 September - Special Person's Afternoon (please note this is now one week later due to clash with SACSA AFL on Friday 13 September)
- Friday 27 September - Closing Service
Will Wallace
Principal