2017 Ath Sports Newsletter East Geelong Athletic Sports Carnival On Thursday we had our Athletic Sports day. Well done to all our students who tried their best. The following students achieved the following places Tabby 1 st - 800 m, 1 st - 200 m, 1 st - 100 m, 1 st - hurdles, 2 nd - high jump, 2 nd - Discus Jaykeb 1 st - 800 m, 1 st - High jump, 3 rd - discus, 3 rd - hurdles, 3 rd - relay Makayla 2 nd - 200 m, 3 rd - 800 m Baylee 2 nd - 8oo m, 3 rd - 100 m Destiny 2 nd - 100 m Lana 2 nd - high jump Jesse 3 rd - 800m, 3 rd - relay Jai 3 rd - relay Isaiah 3 rd - relay [email protected] Term 3—Week 8— 07 September 2017 Respect Responsibility Resilience Important Dates: Thursday 14 September Beauty & the Beast, whole school excursion Thursday, 21 September The Resilience Project 7.00pm sharp Parents /Carers Friday 22 September Footy Colours Day Special Lunch Last Day of Term Monday 09 October First Day of Term 4 Principal’s Message Hi Everyone, With only two weeks of this term left we still have so many things to look forward to – please keep the info handy so that you know what’s happening. I hope that you all have sent back the Semper Dentist forms as this is a wonderful service provided to our school. The Resilience Project is going to be an amazing project for us to be involved in – please come along to the parent session on Thursday, 21 st September – the flyer went home yesterday. It’s so important that we all look after our mental health and this is a powerful way to learn more about it to support our young children who are our future. Respectful Relationships is another program that our school will become involved in – three staff are being introduced to the program this afternoon – we are partnered with other schools to support us and then for us to support our students and community. Our students and staff can’t wait to go to our whole school excursion – Beauty and the Beast at GPAC. It should be a wonderful experience with the orchestra, lighting and costumes etc - let alone the acting and singing! Mrs Hargreaves certainly has a few butterflies too – not only hoping her Prep/ ones love the performance but her son is the BEAST!! Our new Occupational Therapist students from Deakin commence next week – they work so well with our students helping them to improve letter formation, pencil grip, core strength, sitting positions for writing and a lot more! We love their expertise in this area. The painting of some parts of the school will continue during the holidays. The plan for the rebuild of the BER is on the way!! It is very frustrating waiting for this to happen and I thank everyone for their patience – I must say mine is running out! But we continue to make some progress. I think it’s a credit to all staff and students to continue to be happy in the rooms that they are in with so much incredible teaching and learning happening across the school. Jaren is our STE[A]M go to man – Science, Technology,[Arts] Engineering and Maths. Years 4/5/6 have built the robotics ready to be programmed and used by all of our students. Students absolutely LOVE these sessions and can’t wait for more times working with Jaren who, may I add LOVES his technology and also working within the classrooms with the teacher, ES and kids. Technology is going really well. Congratulations to our basketball teams – they played so well in the competition against other schools. The practise every day has really supported them to be a terrific team who try really hard and they have all improved their skills. Thanks to Sommer for training everyone – it’s been a great recess and lunchtime activity and will continue to be I’m sure. It’s great that we have all of our Aides outside during recess and lunch – there’s so much for our students to do and our Aides support them all to have some fun playing. Footy day colours are on the last day of the term – there will also be a special lunch [thanks P&F] that everyone can order – more info soon. The raffle of the VERY LARGE Tobleone will be over the next two weeks – the draw will be on the last day of the term – good luck everyone. Our Therapy puppy - Milli is such a hit – you should see the children with her – so gentle and yes – they ALL want her! Have a great week everyone, Julie