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School Council Message

Wow, what a year 2020 has been – COVID-19, Coronavirus, pandemic, quarantine, lockdown, physical distancing, essential workers, self-isolate, on-line learning, zoom meeting, hoarding, unprecedented, work from home, contact tracing, cluster, restrictions, COVID marshal – just some of the words that have become an everyday language for all of us. In a year that has challenged us, I would like to sincerely thank everyone in our community for working together and supporting each other.

A big shout out to our amazing staff for the way they have quickly adapted to the constantly changing environment while still providing quality teaching and a learning program for our students. Your hard work and dedication are much appreciated.

Special thanks to Tim and Jayne for their wonderful leadership and caring guidance. Your willingness to always step up and go above and beyond is to be commended.

Unfortunately, there are always farewells at this time of the year and so we say thank you and goodbye to our departing staff Marion Chan, Kate Burton & Sue Prideaux (who left earlier in the year) and council members Fiona Forgione & Kristian Appelt. We appreciate your contribution to our community and wish you all the best for your future.

We look forward to welcoming our new principal, Will Wallace.

I have been regularly communicating with Will and he is very excited about joining our school and I know he will be a great asset to us. The process of appointing a principal is a privilege and a huge responsibility. It is an extensive process that has been the primary focus for School Council over the last few months and I am confident that we have found the right person for the role. I wish to thank the council team for their input and hard work for creating the job advert, job description and principal position handbook. I also thank the interview panel and John Proeve (Executive Director LESNW) for his assistance and guidance.

Lastly, I would like to express my sincere gratitude and thanks to Shane for his leadership and for serving our community over the last (nearly) five years. I have thoroughly enjoyed our working relationship and on behalf of the School Council, I congratulate him on his new role, a very well-deserved appointment.

We thank and praise God for all the wonderful people in our community and the opportunities we have been blessed with. Sometimes those opportunities aren’t immediately obvious; sometimes things don’t happen at the pace we want; sometimes change is forced on us and it is difficult to deal with and sometimes things don’t always go as we planned due to unforeseen circumstances. We always know though that our God, whom we trust, will guide us in the right direction.

Blessings

Genevieve Freund

School Council Chair

End of Year Gatherings

Like a lot of our activities this year we have had to compromise/alter some of our well-loved traditions. Unfortunately, our closing service is now a victim of this. Mindful of the number of people that are allowed in the worship centre the following will occur:

Closing service: will be held at 8.50 on Tuesday 8th December. This will only be worship (like a normal Friday). There will be NO presentations, farewells etc. We will need to be mindful of the number of parents that attend this as we need to continue to physical distance.

Presentations:

There will be two gatherings on the afternoon of Tuesday 8th. At 1.30 pm the students in F–2 will be in the Worship Centre to farewell staff who are leaving along with a few short presentations. This will conclude at 2.00 pm.
At 2.15 pm students in 3-6 will be in the Worship Centre and leadership positions announced, staff farewells occur (a repeat from the session before), choir singing, Volunteer Award, Service Award for Mrs Prideaux and Foundation students sing to the year 6 students. With half the school not attending, there will be room for any parents/friends etc. that would like to attend this presentation time. This will conclude by 3.00 pm and be followed by a community afternoon tea to acknowledge leaving staff (more information to follow on this).
Yr 6 Graduation Service: This will be held as normal as it only involves year 6 parents and families. However, seating will be more spread out than in previous years to satisfy COVID protocols (more information to follow). The choir will also sing at this event.

School End

School officially ends on Tuesday 8 December. Wednesday 9 December is a non-compulsory day where you have the option of whether or not your child/children attend school. This is a very relaxed day where the students wear plain clothes, watch a movie, play games etc. GGOSH will run as usual (morning and afternoon) and the Vac Care program begins on Thursday 10 December.

LLL Banking

Please note the final day for LLL Banking this year is on Tuesday 1 December 2020. If you would like to take your bank book for the holidays, please advise the front office. Year 6 students will receive their bank books via the grey tray after the banking has been done.

Christmas Gifts for Staff

The Class Carers would like to purchase a small Christmas gift for staff members.

They are asking for $5 per child. If you would like to contribute, please make the payment via the Qkr! app by Monday 30 November.

These gifts will be presented during the last week of school. More information regarding this will follow.

Christmas time for GGOSH

GGOSH is closed from Thursday 24 December until Friday 8 January. First day back Monday 11 January 2021.

Instrumental lessons 2021

Instrumental tuition at Golden Grove Lutheran Primary School is encouraged and well supported. Some families prefer the convenience of lessons being provided at school.

We work in collaboration with a number of qualified, experienced and skilled instrumental instructors and the company, Learning Through Music provide our students with access to lessons within school hours using school facilities.

At this time of year, the instructors and coordinators are re-evaluating the feasibility of providing instruction for each of the instruments. We ask that you complete the on-line form indicating a continuation of tuition, non-continuation of tuition and new enrolment for the 2021 school year.

Staffing

Principal: Will Wallace

Deputy: Tim Kriewaldt

Business Manager: Mrs Karen Howell

Foundation: Miss Celeste Hueppauff, Miss Alyssum Williams

Yr 1/2: Miss Kayla Dametto, Miss Emma Fitridge, Mr James Salisbury

Yr 3/4: Miss Angelisa Marino, Mrs Jacquie Paech (4days)/Mrs Mel Arnold (1 day), Mr Brodie Trezona

Yr 5/6: Mr David Gardner, Mrs Amy Hughes, Mr Luke Napier

Special Needs/Wellbeing: Mr Tim Kriewaldt,

Mrs Jayne Zadow

Japanese: Miss Ashley Jeon

PE: Ms Adele McCusker

Art: Mrs Cloe Richardson

Administration: Mrs Elaine Baldock, Mrs Vanessa Duns, Mrs Deirdre Fox (and library), Mrs Tanya Wilson

LSO: Mrs Kerry Abraham, Mrs Verity Arthur, Mrs Ruth Carter (library), Mrs Glenys Fiedler, Mrs Leanne Hampel, Ms Vanessa Hughes, Ms Tanya Manocchio, Mrs Stephanie Schwartz,

GGOSH: Mrs Vicki Kahl

Grounds: Mr Kuno Berghout

Bus drivers: Mr Darryl Bishoff and Mr Bob Baskerville