We are now at the halfway point of a very busy term, with lots of exciting events having already occurred and several more still ahead. Weeks 3 and 4 saw our students participating in swimming lessons at the Scarborough Beach Pool for the first time. This came with several positives but also a few challenges, as often occurs with change. The short bus ride meant that it saved our students around 30 minutes of travel time per day. It was also great to make use of such a wonderful, modern, local facility. There were a few challenges with so many of our students being in the younger grades and needing access to the relatively small shallow pool. This issue, we hope, will rectify itself over the next few years as our higher number of students start to filter through to the senior grades and the numbers across the school balance out. All in all however, the students had a mainly positive experience and experienced success in developing their swimming skills. Our staff will now discuss what worked well this year and what could be improved for next time when planning our in term swimming sessions for 2020.
Our wonderful P&C will be running our next school event, a Colour Fun Run, next Friday at 2.00pm. This is a great opportunity for community involvement and fundraising so please read the P&C notice below for more information.
On another note, thank you to our School Board who met last week. At the meeting, the Board reviewed, discussed and endorsed the Contributions and Charges and the Booklists for 2020. We also started the development of a Mobile Devices in School policy to comply with the Education Departments recent announcement that such a policy will be mandatory for schools in 2020. As always, the work of our Board members is greatly appreciated in supporting the governance of our school.
If you have any queries about any of the above information please don't hesitate to contact me by email or phone on 9222 9200.
