Principals Report
Welcome to 2021, our students are settled in and looking forward to a great year. At the time of this Newsletter we will have just completed our Student Parent Teacher Goal Setting Interviews. This will be a chance for parents to meet with teachers with student present to discuss goals for 2021, at least the start of it. The goals are a positive way for our students to set their targets for learning in partnership with parents and teachers.
We have started the year with 41 students, pretty evenly distributed across our Foundation to Year 2, Year 3 to 5 and Year 6 to 12 classes. A variety of curriculum is being delivered on a face to face basis to all our students.
Students in the Foundation to Year 2 class apart from their core curriculum in class including English, Maths, HASS and Science will receive Design and Technology, Digital Literacy, HPE, Art, Polish and an Instrumental Music lesson, learning how to play the recorder. The Year 3 to 5 class will also receive their core curriculum of English, Maths, HASS and Science, along with HPE, whilst also receiving Art, Design and Technology, Digital Technology, Polish, while the Year 3s will join in the Instrumental Music lesson with the Foundation to Year 2s and some students will also be taking Instrumental Music lessons.
Our Year 6 to 9 students will receive lessons face to face in all areas of the curriculum, with classes in English, HASS, Maths, Science, Art, HPE, Home Ec, Health, Design and Technology and Polish up to Year 8. Once again we have two Year 12s at school this year, receiving face to face delivery in Stage 2 English, Stage 2 Workplace Practices, Stage 2 Community Studies and delivery from the Open Access College in Japanese and Digital Photography.
We have already had some whole school events and extracurricular activity. In week 2, our students went to Quorn and competed very well in the Swimming Carnival, with four of our students qualifying for the MNSEC Swimming carnival in Booleroo which was held on Tuesday February 16th. Well done here to Madi Hately (who was also the Under 14 champion in Quorn), Jack Allen, Jaiy Hately and Rihanna McKenzie on their selections. In week 3 we had our swimming lessons as part of the Water Safety Program, students having the chance of five days of lessons to improve their form. Last Friday February 19th our swimmers went to Leigh Creek for their swimming carnival at their 50m town pool, students competing against swimmers from Leigh Creek and Marree on the day.
The Governing Council had it’s AGM on Monday the 8th of February with the next meeting following up on February 22nd. The Parents and Friends had their AGM on Wednesday February 10th, with their next meeting scheduled for Wednesday March 10th in the Library at 2.10pm, any parents still interested in attending are welcome to come along.
I can also provide advanced notice of our other school events coming up:
- Our whole school camp will be at Erappa, 25-27th May.
- The Hawker Area School Sports Day on 21st May, Friday Week 4. Please note this change of date from term 3 in previous years.
- Book Week from 21st – 27th August, Term 3, with the Dress up Day planned for Wednesday 25th.
- Book Fair from 30th August – 3rd September.
As other days are confirmed they will be published in Schoolzine and on our school website calendar.
As always if parents have any questions I can be contacted at the school on 86484003 or by my email at daren.oneill253@schools.sa.edu.au