We made it! To start, a huge congratulations to the staff, students and parents of STAPS. We've made it through Term 2 and I'm so proud of everyone's efforts. To celebrate the resilience and persistence that our students have shown, we will be throwing a celebration on Friday for them all! They are invited to dress up in rainbow colours and enjoy a day full of fun activities based around wellbeing and team work.
As you may have heard, we're sad to be farewell Natalie from Week 3 of next term as she's taking long service leave through to the end of the year. We hope to appoint the teacher that will take her place this week so that we can have a two week transition next term.
We are excited to have heard the news that our camps are very likely to be going ahead for the end of the year. Keep and eye out for more news coming soon.
Normally, by now we would have run a few transition sessions for new students planning on joining us in 2021 but, unfortunately, Covid-19 has kept that out of reach. Jen and I are hoping to be able to announce some 'Come and Try' sessions for Term 3 soon, and we will be holding a meeting / information session with parents of 2021 enrolments either virtually or in person next term. If you do have any questions about your own child starting next year, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
We have recieved a lot of feedback from parents, students and each other over the past few months and we have all learned a lot about ourselves and those around us. One thing we found was that our teachers loved the ability to create learning opportunities for the whole school, and we also loved working closely together as a teaching team. Over the past few weeks we have trialled a new timetable that allows us each to teach subjects that we are passionate about to each student in the school. We have loved it!! Next term students can look forward to more PE with Ryan, Art with Jen, Cooking and Gardening with Jen and Hayley, and Wellbeing with Nat and Ryan. Kerry and Chan are excited to be back teaching Japanese and STEM face to face as well!
For those interested in helping Jen and Hayley out with volunteering your time or produce for gardening and cooking sessions, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Hopefully we will be able to welcome visitors back in soon!
Lastly, I just wanted to say another big thank you. It's been a long and tricky term and I want to all to know that I greatly appreciate each and everyone of you for playing your part in keeping our school running successfully and helping to keep everyone safe. A special thankk to the parents who provided a lovely morning tea for our staff as well. It was thoroughly enjoyed.
I hope you all enjoy a nice and relaxing term break before we return back to a more normal school life in a few weeks.
Hayley