Principal's Message

Welcome to Winter!

The cooler weather is here and students are rugging-up in jumpers and jackets. We have plenty of school jumpers and jackets in our uniform stock - just order through the front office. A reminder that beanies are not part of our uniform and our colours are green!!

So much has been going on in our school as we near the end of term 2 (and the half-way point in the year!):

• Congratulations to Mrs Maatouk - who gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Sophia, last week.
• Thank you to the parents who attended our Asthma information workshop last week - more information about asthma can be found at Asthma Australia.
• Congratulations to Mrs Mellish and Ms Ward who represented GEPS at a 4Cs conference in Brisbane last Thursday/Friday. They shared what we are doing to increase student agency and build creativity, collaboration, communication and critical reflection at GEPS.
• Well done to Mrs Yee and Mrs El Bety, who spent 2 days last week at a conference for school admin support staff - learning lots of new things and being acknowledged for their great work.
• Thank you to the Student Leadership Team for their efforts last week. I met with them to get some feedback on our Student Agency framework - identity, belonging, mastery and efficacy. They gave great insights (see below).
• Thank you to the families who came for Learning Conversations - these are special invitations to take some time to talk about your child's learning and progress.
• Thank you to our teachers and students, who are continuing to work hard on learning in classrooms - even though we're all getting a bit tired!

Students across the school are working hard to finalise learning units - and with excursions and expo's coming up there is lots happening inside classrooms too.

What's coming up: