Principal's News

In sickness and in health?

After a quick google it gave me this definition: It's about finding what is good enough and works for now and having willingness to adapt as things change.

Probably a term which most of us have heard whether we believe it or not it was stuck in my head for the last two weeks as I thought about all of our school community affected by some kind of sickness and how we support this as a school. We most certainly have a much better understanding of when to and not to send ourselves and our children out and about when sick due to covid. In these times as a community we would most definitely support the notion of rest and recovery as we have seen in the school recently that more and more have been affected by some kind of sickness. I would implore you to rest and recover during what has been a very quick striking sickness within our school. 

It is inevitable our attendance rate will decline due to sickness but we most definitely recognise that the health and wellbeing of our community takes precedence. The second part to my thinking around this topic was how we are willing to adapt to things as they change as this again was never more evident than in covid. We feel that our staff, students and parents are very good at being flexible in all situations and if we may lack in an area collaboration with peers will be a key to this success. Again I ask that all families stay safe during this unpredictable time of sickness and pray that you are lucky enough to not encounter it before the school holidays.

We will have a smaller newsletter going out next week as well, it will be our last before the holidays commence. 

Thank you

Mathew Mills

Unfortunately our attendance rate has dropped slightly but we most definitely understand why. Lets continue to give our students the best chances for success by attending school as regularly as we can when we are as healthy as we can be.

A day away from school here or there doesn’t seem like much but absences add up.

When your child misses one day per fortnight, 

they miss upwards of 4 weeks per year which equates

 to one year missed over their school life.

from NSW Government - Education