Dear families & friends, 

 Students are immersed in our current Inquiry Unit , ‘We are connected through people, place and culture’. With a strong focus on learning about and understanding First Nations people, history and cultures, it has been wonderful to see students genuine care, reflection and understanding grow. Students are keen to share this learning with each other and looking forward to sharing this learning with families at the end of term learning expo.

SURVEYS

There have been a few surveys that have been sent out recently for a range of reasons.

Perspective Surveys:

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Departments parent perspective survey. Staff also participated in a staff perspective survey. These, along with our student climate survey, support us to make decisions about the direction of the school and identify areas to celebrate and areas to improve in.

School Name Change:

We also recently sent out the ‘School name change’ poll and were pleased to have 67 responses in total. Thank you to everyone who responded and also to those who made some additional comments for us to reflect on as we now move forward with the process of name change. We have now sent the name change request to the Department, endorsed by Governing Council and our Education Director. We will now wait to hear back from the Department.

The final results were as follows:  

Volunteer Survey:

Recently we also sent home information regarding our volunteer survey. This is an open survey that can be done at any time if you wish to begin the process to volunteer at Felixstow. We are working towards gaining back some lost time from the last couple of years to bring our families back in to support our learning programs and school site. If you are interested in volunteering please take the time to fill in this survey so we better understand your needs, skills and availability. Thank you to Casey (Oliver’s Mum) who has started coming in regularly to help in the resource hub.

VACATION CARE

We are very excited to be opening Vacation Care for the first time in the upcoming holidays. Information has already been sent home. Please book early as we only have 25 places available each day. Well done to Hannah, our OSHC director and our OSHC Committee and Governing Council for supporting Hannah and the team to be able to get Vacation care up and running quickly. It will be a trial holidays which we hope will mean we can continue to operate in each school holiday period.

It has been great to start having families in to help celebrate events with us. We had lots of families in to share our book week celebrations and we are looking forward to our upcoming Sports Day together.

REMINDERS:

School Closure Day this Friday 9th September

Pupil Free Day Monday 12th September

Cheers Skye 😊

On Tuesday 30th August, Skye, Chantal, Kelly and Maddi ventured off to Ronald McDonald House to cook dinner and dessert for some of the wonderful families currently housed there. Money raised by our primary students through ice-block sales, is used to purchase ingredients with a different group of staff teaming up to cook for the families each time. 

Meals from the Heart is such a special program which allows members of the community to support and engage with families whose child may be seriously ill or injured by cooking them a meal.

Ronald McDonald House Charities does such an amazing job supporting families and we love having the opportunity to volunteer with them ♥

This year Jarrod joined our team and has been working with us maintaining the grounds and all sorts of odd jobs we find!

You will likely see Jarrod on a Monday or whenever we have some bigger jobs or special occasions.

He is multi-talented and we are very grateful to have him join our team!!