Over the past few weeks, a significant amount of time has been spent on building and embedding school culture. You may have noticed values stickers coming home with your child and we are very pleased to see the message filtering home to families and have seen the positive impact of these behaviours already.  There really has been a noticable change in just a few short weeks.

If you missed it, we are (staff and students collectively) working really hard to change from a reactive approach to behaviour management to the visionary – what is it that we want to see here at Swansea Primary School?  And so, we have worked for several weeks on developing our vision and mission statements. From the moment students walk through the front door we hope and expect them to uphold the values of aspiration, growth, courage and respect.

SPS Vision (who we are/want to be)

Working together to grow through quality teaching and learning. 

Our Mission: (how will we achieve our vision?)

Promote aspiration by setting high expectations and encouraging life- long learning.

Nurture growth by reflecting on the progress of our learning and planning for improvement.

Develop courage by building resilience and embracing a growth mindset.

Show respect by fostering positive relationships and valuing differences.

I'm really looking forward to seeing these values being embedded further at SPS and your support at home would be very much appreciated. 

Planning is well underway for Learn to Swim for Term 4 – this will be occuring in Monday 30th November - Thursday 10th Decmeber in Weeks 8 and 9.  Friday 11th will be the deep water testing in Cambpell Town for the Grade 3-6 students.  Due to COVID-19, unfortunately there will be no parent viewing at any of these events.

Staff / Parent satisfaction surveys have now been completed but the turn around of data will not be available to mid Term 4. This year the student wellbeing survey has superseded the student satisfaction survey from previous years.

The Pump Track – wonderful achievement of $15811 in revenue (less expenses) and we are still needing to raise $35K for this initiative.  So any ideas would be very much appreciated.

I would like to thank all of the staff for their contribution to learning this term – and I would like to welcome back Mrs Diana Nunn 2 days per week next term. Mrs Nunn will remain on KP on Mondays while Miss Pearce facilitates our Music program and on Tuesdays for extension and enrichment group work.

I'm excited to be planning and looking forward to our End of Year Celebration Assembly scheduled for Monday 14th December from 11am.  Kinder and Grade 6 families are invited to remain afterwards for a tree and time capsule planting.  The class of 2020 Kinders will open it at the end of Grade 6 in 2027.  We are hoping for fine weather for the event and I hope to see you all there.  Thank you all for a wonderful term and happy holidays!