After a very foggy and soggy start to the morning, our Year 4-12 Inter-House Athletics Carnival ran incredibly well yesterday. I was really impressed with the can-do attitude of most of the students who attended and it was wonderful to see greater participation in the events on the day. An enormous vote of thanks to Ms Lynch and Mr Watson and their teams for the huge amount of work that goes into the organising of such a huge event. The new venue provided a few challenges but also some opportunities to do things a bit differently. 

Grateful thanks to the parents who helped in the canteen, who baked goodies to sell and who helped in the lead up to the day with shopping and other organisational tasks. The food was delicious and we are very thankful for your efforts.  

Thanks also to the parents who volunteered their time to help in other ways during the carnival - measuring, raking, handing out ribbons etc. Carnivals can’t run without many hands so thank you again for donating your time.  

Congratulations to all the individual medal winners – there were some outstanding results throughout the day. For the full list of winners will be published in next week's newsletter. Here are some highlights from the carnival!

Staffing  

• At the end of this week we farewell Mrs Dayna Maxwell who has been with us since the start of the year teaching AUSLAN to students from Pre-Primary through to Year 7. We wish Ms Maxwell all the best in her new endeavours. 

• We welcome to the Secondary campus, Mrs Vicki Spraggs who will be teaching in the Maths, English and HASS learning areas this year and we also welcome back Mrs Cat Naughton, this time to the Secondary campus. Cat will be teaching some Year 7 classes. 

Upcoming Long Weekend

A reminder about the two pupil free days at the start of week 5. The school will be closed on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 August for staff professional development days.