Dear families & friends,
Primary Camp
The primary camp last week was a great experience for all. Students enjoyed all the activities and both staff and students were well and truly exhausted by the end of it! We always really enjoy the growth we see in students over the camp and appreciate the trust given to us by families to take care of their children, with many experiencing their first night away from their parents with us.
Arts Intensive
We had our first ‘Arts Intensive’ week this term as a way of ensuring students all got to each arts area in term four with all the other commitments and we were all very impressed with how it worked. We will look at this as a model for offering the arts in term four. Students were exposed to daily lessons and then shared their learning with each other at the end. It was great to see how they were able to use all their previous experiences to very quickly bring a performance together. We all got to enjoy some tasty treats from the kitchen garden group as well. See some videos and photos of our Arts intensive week later in the newsletter.
End of term
We have a busy last 3 weeks coming up with Swimming for R-5 students, Aquatics for year 6’s, transition for 2023 Receptions and our year 6’s in their new high schools, our end of year celebrations, graduation dinners and last day farewells! Keep your eyes out for any updated information about these events.
Resource Hub
The resource hub is slowly being rebuilt with all carpets and furniture now back in place. Books are slowly coming in and being catalogued and covered. We are very grateful for the support of a few dedicated volunteers that are regularly covering books for us and a group of parents who came in for our covering morning tea last week and managed to cover around 50 books over a cup of tea and a biscuit or two! We are holding another morning tea covering session this Friday so come and join in if you have a bit of time to spare.
Storms
The storms caused a fair bit of damage to our trees and caused the closure of our front gates and driveway. Again we are grateful that our grounds person, Jarrod was able to come in on the Sunday and for the most part clean up everything in the yard for us before everyone came back to school on the Monday. Thank you to everyone for working through the messy parking at drop offs and pick ups during this time.
Vacation Care
We will be offering a modified Vacation Care program in the upcoming school holidays. We are keeping a close eye on the viability of the vacation care service as it is expensive to run and we only have small numbers so please book in early if you need or want your child to attend so we can keep it running.
Please keep an eye out for information about the program and bookings.
Name Change update
The name change process is underway. Our new logo has been updated and sent to necessary printers as required, new signage has been ordered and will be installed over the break so we will come back next year stronger than ever as Felixstow Primary School. We will be doing some local promotion and will be looking for some volunteers to do letterbox drops. Please let us know if you are interested in lending a hand.
We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the end of year celebration evening.
Cheers Skye 😊
Dear Felixstow Students and Families,
Following the flooding in the Resource Hub, we have had a great response from families offering their assistance, either by donating books or helping to cover them. We would like to thank all those who have helped as this has made the process of replacing books and then making them available for students to borrow much quicker than it would otherwise have been. We are very grateful to have such community spirit at our school.
Premiers Reading Challenge (PRC)
Congratulations to 45 of our students who participated in this year’s PRC, they will be receiving their individual awards before the end of term. A special mention goes to the following students; Daniel, Tori, Stella, Ella, Thomas, Niamat and Kevin for undertaking additional reading and completing more than one PRC form. They will receive an additional certificate to acknowledge their extra commitment to reading.
Resource Hub Student Monitors
Our student monitors have been a great asset to the Resource Hub this year. We have appreciated them giving up their own time once a week to contribute to the running of the Resource Hub. They have also had the opportunity to learn new skills and gain experience in this setting.
Thank you to Amelia, Elene, Eva, Hannah, India, Joelle, Niamat, Oliver, Raghuveer, Zahra and Zoe J.
We plan to continue with the Resource Hub student monitor program next year, so keep an eye out for it being advertised at the beginning of term 1, 2023, if you are an interested student.
Borrowing/Returns
The Resource Hub is now closed to borrowing and students are asked to return books by Friday 2nd December as this allows staff to commence stocktake.
Kind regards
Kelly
Resource Hub SSO
A reminder that OSHC is available for families for before (BSC) and after school care (ASC) and for a modified Vacation Care based on needs.
BSC open 7:30am ASC open 3:10-6:00pm
Vacation Care 7.30 - 6.00pm on modified days as per each program.
Bookings are essential.
Hannah Gustard is our OSHC director and can be contacted on
☎ 8368 7305
Felixstow Community School is truly an extraordinary place of learning. Our talented and dedicated staff provides each student with rigorous care, challenge and support academically, socially and emotionally.
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