A message from the Principal

This Saturday morning sees us holding our first SKiPPS Working Bee for the year from 8am through until lunchtime.

As well as being a fun community event and an opportunity to get active and help out the school, our Working Bees play a really important role in keeping our school looking good and working safely.

Sadly, the amount of funding that we are provided with each year by the Education Department to maintain our buildings and grounds does not even come close to what is required for a 141-year-old heritage-listed building and to provide the beautiful grounds that our community deserve.

Until school funding is made more equitable, running termly working bees and calling on our parents and carers to take on a long list of jobs is the only way that we can do this.

As always this Saturday, there will be a range of jobs for all different abilities and fitness levels. these include;

• Fixing the retaining wall at back of school 
• Building compost bays
• Fixing up the sand pit table
• Weeding and tidying the kitchen garden
• Fixing the garden bed irrigation
• Pressure washing the deck and concrete in quiet area
• Cleaning quadrangle shade sail
• Clearing out the storm drains
• Repainting back quadrangle & blackboards
• Mulching and weeding Oyster plants
• Post painting in quadrangle
• Clearing out the area around heritage shed (old furniture in bin, weeding, pruning)
• Garden bed weeding around school

If there are any parents who can help us to source some heat-treated timber pallets to build our compost bays, please get in touch with Neil.

Please put the day in your diary and we will look forward to seeing you there. We will finish the morning with a community sausage sizzle!

Neil Scott

Principal