Dear Parents, Carers and Community, 

This week marks the end of Term 1.  I take this time to wish everyone a

Holy and Safe Holiday.

Students return Monday April 15. 

A reminder for all we have a school closure day on April 26. Staff will be having their first training day on Flourishing Learners. Day one will be about Classroom Control, Rules and Routines. If classrooms are not under control, students cannot learn and what we want is for students to behave in a way where it is automatic for them which also frees up their working memory allowing them to learn better. We have already started to introduce some of these practices with introducing uniform

- Calls to attention

- Entry Routines

- Exit Routines

- Gaining Student attention

- Moving through the school

- Behaviour during learning tasks

- Students gaining teacher attention

Easter Raffle: Thank you to all our families that brought and sold tickets for our Easter Raffle. We have many, many prizes so good luck to everyone in the draw. Thank you for the many donations we received. The students love it. Our draw takes place Wednesday afternoon. Over $3000 has been raised!! A special mention to the grandparents who donated many, many prizes to make it a special event for all our students. Thank you also to Tanya Dias, Kate and Mitchell Van Noordenne, Meagan Burke, Luyen Tan,Tasmayn Goode and Katie O'Hara who gave a lot of their personal time for this event. It if you attend this afternoon's draw at 2:30 you will see how much effort they made.

Parent Information Sessions: Our Parent Information Sessions were a huge success with many new and existing families attending to hear about the school. At the sessions we spoke about what is happening in the school, the science of learning, our curriculum program, our Faith Program, Student Well being and the Student Support Program We have started sending offers out to some families, so if you are an existing family please complete your application as soon as possible.

Launch of our Indigenous Uniform: Yesterday we had the launch for our Indigenous School Uniform and for many people, their first experience of a smoking ceremony. We thank the Bunurong Council for leading us through this ceremony. What we have done is created something special with a shared story sitting proudly on our uniform giving our students a connection to land and history.

Have a great holiday

Anthony