In the community

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY IN TERM 4

DECEMBER 2020        Friday 18th - Last Day of Term 4 - Early Dismissal @ 1:30pm

2021 DATES FOR STUDENTS

TERM ONE:  Wednesday 27th January - PUPIL FREE DAY

                          Thursday 28th January -  Friday 1st April  

(Foundation students do not attend Wednesdays for the first four weeks, except for scheduled meeting time on a designated Wednesday.) 

TERM TWO: 19th April - 25th June

TERM THREE: 12th July - 17th September

TERM FOUR:  4th October - 17th December

SCHOOL PHOTOS

Thursday 26th & Friday 27th February 2021 - 

Classic Studios School Photos 

LIBRARY NEWS

Just a friendly reminder to all Parents/Carers about library books.

The end of 2020 is fast approaching and we are missing many library books.

If you have a library book at home, in the car or behind the couch please return them to school as soon as possible.

GARDENING

Term Four has been a big and hot time of gardening. P-2 have been rediscovering our gardens and planting our hot season plants such as zucchini, tomatoes and beans. We have also been exploring our First Nations Food, Fibre & Medicine garden, of which has finally got some signage going up, helping us learn the names of plants in various Indigenous languages, the common english names and the scientific Latin names. For NAIDOC week, we were lucky to have parent Arika Warlu, come in and share her stories and digging stick with the students, and then do some digging of our murnong and vanilla lilies. Next year we look forward to this garden sharing its seeds with us in our propagation space and our murnong growing bigger every year. We hope to have a whole school murnong and lilly harvest next year. Students have also been learning how the sun creates the energy for plants to grow, and that plants then share that energy up through the food web. We have been using the phase "there's no such place as away" as we begin to explore matter cycles and how matter moves and changes over time, especially in the compost! It was also pollinator week, so we spent a bit of time looking at who visits our flowers, and watering. Lot's of watering as the hot season is certainly here!

Chicken Report 

This week in chicken news; as the weather starts to heat up the chickens can find it stressful.  Luckily, their pen is nice and shady as chickens don't like it over 30 degrees.  Our chickens enjoy the cool water provided by our students each day as they lazily lay in the shade. 

by Leah, Romy and Jackie