Principals Report
Like all years this year has been a fast start, with the Quorn Swimming Carnival being delayed but then held finally on the Tuesday of Week 3. As a result of this our Student Parent Teacher Interviews were moved back to this week, on Tuesday and Wednesday. We welcomed our new staff member Lisa Simpson to our school, and have since had two Year 12 enrolments arrive in Jackson Byrne and Nate Kinbacher. Our students have settled into their classes:
- Foundation to Year 2 with Amanda Hilder and Penny McCulloch
- Year 3 to 6 with Victoria Barratt
- Year 7 – 12 with Sharon Bates (HASS, English, HPE) and Sharon Lam (Maths and Science)
In addition to this Travis McDonald teaches Design and Technology to our Year 3 to 6 and 7 to 12 students. As mentioned earlier in the term Sharon Lam is now teaching in the LOTE area, delivering Chinese language and culture to our students from Foundation to Year 8. Ailsa Green also has a teaching role with our Foundation to Year 2 class and Year 3 to 6 classes delivering in the Digital Technology area. In addition to this Ailsa Green and Stef Teague (community rep) are taking on the leadership role with our SRC, more on this to come later in the term. Karmela Coulthard continues at the school in the very important role of ACEO for our students, working across our year levels and putting an Adnamatna perspective on curriculum in the HASS area.
Well done to our students in Week 3 when they finally had the chance to go to Quorn to participate in the swimming carnival. The attitude of our students was fantastic, participating in their chosen races and giving it a good go. At the end of the carnival four students received invites to participate in Booleroo at the MNSEC carnival:
- Maddison Hately
- Jackson Byrne
- Lachlan Hilder
- Jaiy Hately
Student Parent Teacher interviews are now this week. It was good to see that many parents booked interview timeslots, for them and their children to speak to class and subject teachers.
Term overviews from class teachers are included in this newsletter, please have a read. Enjoy the term. I will be going on Long Service Leave from March 13th, in my place will be Jan Love, the former Principal from Leigh Creek.
Have a great term.