Term 3 -- Week 7

Hi everyone,

It's SPRING!! We had a beautiful day to welcome in spring and we were able to get out and enjoy the sunshine for the Heart Foundations Skipathon this afternoon. The kids were looking for water and shade after lots of skipping and fun! It was a fantastic afternoon.

Skipathon fundraising: Please make sure all money is returned to school by Wednesday so I am able to send the money to the Heart Foundation. :) A big thank you to everyone who has fundraised and to those who have already returned their money!! You are awesome!

School Mass is on Sunday, please be there by 9.45 in full school uniform. If you are unable to attend you need to let me know by email, text or a note.

A big thank you to all of those parents who helped out with transport to the pool on Thursday. We were there in plenty of time and the children all enjoyed their lessons. We will be swimming every Thursday for the rest of the term, so sports uniforms and tracksuits can be worn on Thursdays.

Homework: basic facts worksheet and reading as usual. Last week was mad, so spelling testing only happened today. I'll hopefully have the new levels ready for tomorrow. Only three nights will need to be completed.
Project - this week the children have to design a 'Frolly' for us to enter into the Blossom Festival Parade. We have a had a few parents offer their expertise to build the Frolly which is amazing, now we need some fantastic designs to create. At this stage we will be making one between Room 5 and 6 but if there are a number of designs that the children like then we could potentially make more than one (time allowing). I'm happy to make the flowers at home but may need some help later on in the term to put it all together.  The designs need to be at school by FRIDAY 5th Sept.

FUNDRAISING: We are looking at fundraising for camp on Election Day (20th September) by having a car boot sale at school. This will be for Room 5 and Room 6 families only. If you are interesting in helping with this (cooking the BBQ and helping at the devonshire tea stall) please let me know ASAP. If there are not enough families interested then this may not go ahead. It will be an easy way to get funds for camp so get involved. :)

Camp: Apologises that I haven't given any more information out regarding camp, I've been waiting to hear back from a  few businesses to confirm costs. At this stage it is looking like camp will be no more than $150. I will send home a form this week for parents to return if they are willing to take on parts of the Rail Trail with 27 children. Camp dates are Tues 2nd - Thursday 4th December.

Athletics training starts next week - more information will be in the newsletter on Wednesday.

Summer uniforms can be worn from Monday 8th September (next week) but full winter uniforms will need to be worn on Friday 19th for school photos.

Please get in touch if any of this does not make sense.

Have a fantastic week and the sunshine!!

Jo :)