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Principals Message

Dear Families

AND SO ENDS TERM 3..... What an interesting and different one it has been. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to the staff and children for all the hard work and commitment that they have shown throughout the term.
To you, our parents thank you for your continued support and partnership. It's been a bit of a difficult one on varied levels for all, but we got there. Now is the time to look after each other and take some time in these coming couple of weeks to refresh and regroup. Onwards and upwards to a wonderful Term 4.

GRATITUDE AND PAY IT FORWARD SRC DAY

Today we held our Student Representative Council fun day. The day was instigated from discussions had with parents throughout the lockdown. The parents spoke to us about some of the positives of lockdown and the need to share those moments with their children. A few comments that stood out to me were:

When my daughter was wishing that she could go back to school, we talked about how lucky we were to have the opportunity to continue to learn even in a pandemic. In some countries, children don't have the opportunity of education at all.
I haven't had the opportunity to spend this much time with my children due to work. It's been wonderful to see how much they know, how they learn and to just be with them.
It's been hard but we decided early on that we would do our learning in the morning and then make the most of the rest of the day, with a walk, a swim, a game or a movie together.

As a reaction to these thoughts, we decided as a school to try the same thing- be positive. The SRC decided that we have much to be grateful for, despite the inconvenience that we have been through. They decided that we need to pay that gratitude forward with acts of kindness that could continue to spread throughout our community and beyond.

Today instead of a gold coin donation, the students and staff had to donate an act of kindness that they will do for someone at school, at home or elsewhere. They have been asked to write their act of kindness on a heart template as a commitment to doing it. When the kindness has been given, they leave a card for the person that they have done the kindness for, inviting them to pay it forward by doing an act of kindness for someone else. What a wonderful world it could be, with acts of kindness rippling out to all.