Term 3 Chess Tournament

Congratulations to our Chess Team this term, coming 2^nd place amongst the primary level schools and finishing in 3^rd place across the primary and high schools combined in South Australia.

The Chess tournament was held at The Mawson Centre with eight schools across the state competing against each other. Our top 12 players arrived with optimism and a positive attitude. A special mention to Tyson, Kareem, Jad, Param, and Anthony for receiving a medal for their outstanding performance. Maahi was also presented with a gold medal for Best Girl Player in the tournament.

I was proud to be standing alongside our students, they demonstrated great sportsmanship and teamwork. Great job to everyone on their outstanding achievements and superiority.

Foundation Swimming

In Week 10 of Term 3, the Foundation children enjoyed a wonderful week of swimming. We loved learning about water safety as well as developing our confidence and skills in the water! 

Drop & Go Shelter Update

If you've been through Drop and Go, or driven past the front of the school recently, you would have noticed a few changes. Over the school holidays the frames of our new Shelters were installed. These will soon be completed to provide shelter to students waiting to be picked up at the end of the day. Shelters are also being added along the footpath at the front of the school, meaning that all students can get from the gate to their classrooms under cover. We can't wait to see them finished. Thank you for not entering the fenced off areas while the work is completed. 

National Water Week Nature Play

Water is such an important and valuable resource that we all need and use every day. National Water Week kicked off on Monday, celebrating the stories that we have with water, how we use it, and why it is important to us. It is also a week that focuses on how we can conserve our water, be water-wise, and help to keep our waterways clean.

Water is a very popular resource in our nature play space as well, and this week, the students got to use water in a variety of ways. Some small animals made their way to the nature play space, and needed a water hole for drinking, and the students helped by creating an array of amazing different waterholes out of sand and water. Other students poured, filled, emptied, and created water systems, using our water pipes. What started off as simple pipe and water play, quickly became a group effort to create a damn and river system that took over the sandpit.

It was so great watching a huge group of students all working together, with water, collaborating to create a working river system. This week as National Water Week continues, take a moment to discuss what is the importance of water in your family? How do you use it most, and what are some ways that your family can help to conserve water this week?