With only 9 days of school left and this being the last edition of our 2020 SchoolZine newsletter I wanted to honour our leaders, our Grade 6 Class of 2020. This year has flown (for me anyway!) and together as a community of learners, we have achieved so much. Last night, we formally farewelled the Grade 6's at their Celebration Dinner, held at Mel's Kitchen where we enjoyed a wonderful night together. You could truly feel the connection and genuine bond of this very special group of young people. It really has been an absolute pleasure getting to know each of them. Last night, I thanked them for their contribution to SPS and for supporting and leading their peers this year - in what was a an "extraordinary" and "unprecedented" year.
I'd like to take this opportunity to once again thank Ms Calder and Mrs Wilson for their preparations leading up to the Celebration Dinner and for the work, they put in to make the night special and making memories for them to cherish.
A special thank you to Springvale - to Kellie and Tim Lyne for hosting us, preparing and providing a wonderfully decorated space for us to celebrate the end of Primary School for the Class of 2020 and a special evening to farewell to the Pearce, Greenhill and Rigg-Fox families.
Mrs Wilson asked me to share a poem and so I got thinking about this lovely bunch of students, my first year of Grade 6's, and thinking about the year behind us and the comradery and healthy competition that exists between this talented group, our Swan and Oyster reps. I pondered, Swans, Oysters hmmmm... not much to write about Swans or Oysters and then it dawned on me. When I left high school, the Leaver's song was 'Like an eagle' and so it was - an eagle, seemed close enough to a Swan! Here is the poem I wrote for the Grade 6's of 2020 which has been adapted from the lyrics of that song, Fly Like an Eagle.

Kristy Hay

Principal