What a busy two weeks we have had! Our students (and staff) have been getting very active with four days of Bike Education and Safety last week followed by our Cross Country Carnival.

We are very lucky in Swansea to have Mr McGregor so close to us and be able to spend a lot of time with each of our classes for four days straight teaching them how to be safe cyclists in our community. Our students thoroughly enjoyed the challenges thrown at them from Mr Mac and it was so wonderful to see the connection between our students being increased with teamwork and watching out for others.

How great is it to be able to hold our Cross Country at such a wonderful and close location. To have our school out in the community for such a fun and active event, demonstrating respect for each other, courage in their participation and connection to our community makes me really proud. It was wonderful to have so many families come to watch and support the students too. We even attracted the attention of many tourists, with some giving us amazing and positive feedback. Congratulations everyone!

Wednesday we were involved in National Simultaneous Storytime. We decided to have our lunch together as a whole school and watch the online stream of Bowerbird Blues, which was read by author Aura Parker. The lyrical story follows the journey of a bowerbird on his quest for all things blue, all the while feeling something is amiss in his life, until he finds love and connection through friendship. The students were really engaged with the story, with some remaining behind to watch Aura Parker shown her artistic creation of a bowerbird.

This morning alongside our Brekky & A Book program we held our Volunteer and Community Thank You Breakfast. We have many wonderful volunteers who come into our school and also within our community, and as a school we love spending time with them. Thank you to each and everyone of you for giving up your time to help others, you are greatly appreciated. 

Very soon students will start to bring home Evidence of Learning completed this term. Students will bring home two pieces of work each that has been assessed and given feedback by their teachers. Keep an eye out for these in communication pouches. Later this term we will hold our reporting (three-way) conversations – more details will be available soon.

As we enter the cooler terms at SPS, I need to remind families that students still need to be always wearing their full school uniform. This shows connection and pride, plus belonging. If necessary, students should be layering up underneath their school shirts eg. singlets, extra top, not over their uniforms. Our spaces all have heat pumps and are kept at a nice temperature to ensure we have comfortable learning spaces. If you need assistance with uniform, please reach out.

Thanks for your continued support,

Kendal King

Principal

What a fabulous turn out we had last week for our Play & Learn session! We had so much fun with the ball pit, tunnel, train set, scissor skills and more!

See you next week at Lady Gowrie, Tuesday 9:30am!

PREP MATHS...Measurement.

In Prep, we have been finding out about the language and uses of measurement. We have been ordering objects according to size and shape, using words like shortest, short, long, and longest or smallest, small, big, and bigger. By comparing and creating objects with different attributes we are learning to communicate our understanding of measurement.

Here are some photos of Prep students ordering and comparing different sized balls. We also went on a hunt for the narrowest and widest tree in the playground which we measured with our arms. we needed all the Prep students and Mr Green to find out how long the dragon on the fence was!

"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may learn, involve me and I learn."

Benjamin Franklin

We have been involved in such a huge variety of learning experiences this fortnight, that there are almost too many to write about, so I'll let the pictures do the talking this time!  What a wonderful time of learning we have had, filled with joy and excitement.

See you next fortnight, 

Mrs Sparshott

AIS Problem Solvers Program

"Students in Grade 3-6 were very excited to welcome Zana Evans  a Professional Australian Cross Country Skiier back to Swansea Primary School. Students have been eagerly working on creating high performance sport centre for our community using Minecraft Education."

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We want to hear from you. You can take part in an online survey, share or vote for suggestions, or join an online drop-in session via the 3P website. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete.

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Training in the form of an animated video is available for our volunteers and service providers. They must complete this before working with any children or young people this year.

The training for volunteers and service providers can be found at Safeguarding Training on the DECYP website.