Term 3 was certainly filled with events, starting with a surprise lockdown in week 2 and sending students home with packs of work to do at home. It was fun linking up every morning to see how the students were going and answer any questions they had. We were also sent lots of fabulous photos of work in progress and interesting things in the garden.

The team from the Port Augusta Radio show ‘Umeewarra media” came to visit with some Aboriginal musicians, who told us their story about their path into music. All of the musicians wrote their own music, using both their Aboriginal language and English, something very important for Aboriginal kids to learn and kids of all cultures to understand and respect them.

We honed our skills at basketball with a coach from Adelaide who came up to give us some training for 2 days.

The next 3 weeks were focused on book week, culminating with the schools open night. Starting with a visit from the author Rosanne Hawke, the students had a wonderful time dressing up and finding out how Rosanne develops her ideas for stories and eventually get them published into books. Next was the simulated story from the space station that the kids really enjoyed. Book week parade was next and all came with the most wonderful costumes. It was great to see so many different characters from books, movies, cartoons and games.

Then we had Open Night. The Junior Primary students enjoyed making their 4-sided dioramas about a story they chose, explaining the beginning, the problem, how the problem was solved and the ending of their story book. They also made information reports on an Australian animal, while the foundation students made a model of a habitat for the animal they chose. This all went on display on Open night and the students were very excited and proud to show their parents around.

Recently we have been preparing a garden plot for planting lots of edible plants and watching them grow. Next term we look forward to the Kindergarten kids transition to school.