Important Dates
TERM 1 DATES
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| Wednesday 7 February | Prep Assessments |
| Wednesday 7 February | Swimming Trials |
| Tuesday 13 February | Year 5/6 Beach Program - Session 1 |
| Wednesday 14 February | Prep Assessments |
| Wednesday 14 February | Meet and Greet #1 |
| Thursday 15 February | Meet and Greet #2 |
| Monday 19 February | Year 5/6 Beach Program - Session 2 |
| Friday 23 February | District Swimming |
| Monday 26 February | Year 5/6 Beach Program - Session 3 |
| Wednesday 28 February | Curriculum Day |
| Thursday 7 March | Division Swimming |
| Friday 8 March | School Photos TBC |
| Wednesday 13-25 March | NAPLAN for Y3 & Y5 |
| Friday 22 March | Cross Country Trials (Y3-Y6) |
| Thursday 28 March | TBC Cross Country Trials (Y3-Y6) back up day |
| Thursday 28 March | Last day Term 1 |
Waste-Free Wednesdays
The Sustainability Captains and team would like to say a big thank you to our Wembley community and all of the people who responded to our survey regarding Waste-Free lunches which was sent out last term. We also want to thank people for the great suggestions and supportive comments they made, which were much appreciated by our Sustainability Captains, Matilda Ruddick and Lola Crosbie-Paul.
We were thrilled to receive so many responses, with over 100 people responding. An overwhelming number of respondents said that they would like to trial ‘waste-free lunches’ once a week or more. 38% of people voted for waste free lunches to occur once a week, while another 38% voted for them to occur every day. Given these results, we would like to launch:
WASTE-FREE WEDNESDAYS!
We would like to invite our community to give their best effort in reducing the amount of single-use plastic in their lunchboxes on Wednesdays. Of course if you were one of the people who voted for every day to be waste-free, then we would encourage you to make every day a waste-free lunch day. We won’t be counting lunchboxes, but we will be celebrating some excellent example photos of waste-free lunchboxes in future posts and on our website. This way, you will be able to gather great new ideas from other families at school!
We will be starting Waste-Free Wednesdays from next week, with Wednesday October 11 being our first Waste-free Wednesday. Thank you also to those of you who provided other suggestions and ideas for our Sustainability team regarding other areas of improvement we could make in the area of sustainability. We have heard you and will move forward with these ideas in mind!