Week 7 and 8 have been busy...

It was my absolute pleasure to welcome Her Excellency, The Honourable Barbara Baker AC, The Governor of Tasmania, Professor Don Chalmers AO, Paula Chapwood flight Lieutenant Ade-e-camp, Mr Robert Young - The Mayor of Glamorgan Spring Bay and Mr Greg Ingham – The General Manager of Glamorgan Spring Bay Council to our tree planting ceremony on Tuesday 14th June.  Her Excellency joined us as part of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee Tour of Tasmania and planted the first tree in our Nature Play area.   

On the morning of her arrival, I received a very fitting and exciting email of congratulations.  Our School Association were successful in a national program which aims to raise awareness of the Queen’s Jubilee milestone and improve the nation’s environment by increasing tree canopy’s across Australia.  With thanks to our School Association, I am excited to share that we will receive $20,000 towards planting regionally appropriate trees here onsite as part of our new nature playground.  

This week our staff have participated in two vastly different professional learning (PL) opportunities.  On Monday, all staff attended our second Trauma Informed Practice PL and on Tuesday we learnt about a new Speaking and Listening Assessment being rolled out by the Department to screen all students in K-2 for speech and language intervention.  

Thankyou to all that supported our community fundraising 'Bingo & Curry Bonanza'  held on Friday night, the evening was alot of fun and a great success.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank Melissa Quinn and our School Association for organising this event and our local businesses who have supported the raffle and prizes for the evening.

Thank you - 

• Splendid Gin
• Springvale
• Fay Read (The Bingo Master)
• Entice Hair Studio
• The Waterloo Inn
• Alcuin Hacker & Movenpick
• Artifakt
• Tasman Sea Salt
• Mayfield Estate
• Craigie Knowe
• PCYC
• Gala
• Michael Travalia – Creative Services
• Rach’s Hair Studio
• The Barkmill
• The Swansea Pharmacy
• The Federal Group
• Freycinet Tours