Author: Admin

Last Friday, 21^st March, was Harmony Day.  What a lovely day we had with so many families coming along to have a picnic lunch with their children.  There were many delicious lunches that families were eating and had brought to share on their very fancy picnic rugs.  This year, there was fantastic students dressing in orange or their cultural or heritage country clothing again.   Many children enjoyed playing out the front of the school for a change.  Others went to the oval and courts to play, and some parents filled the teams.

The students in years 1-6 have been participating in Softball Clinics with coaches from Softball WA, for the past 4 weeks. They have been working on their skills of throwing and catching whilst wearing a glove, and hitting a ball from a Tee with the new component of wearing a safety helmet.
The coaches were very impressed with all the student’s behaviour and skill levels. Everyone had a great time during the sessions.

At the beginning of 2024, Our Cultural committee was looking for ideas for our school and Ms Julie and I thought it would be a great idea for the whole school to get involved with the creation of a huge Rainbow Serpent on the boring wall near the office door.

We used the colours of the Seasons that are around the school as our inspiration and our amazing Serpent started to take shape.  Every student from Kindy to Year 6 had the opportunity to work on the artwork.  While we painted, we explored the cultural significance of the Serpent and the different painting techniques of our First Nation People.

It took a while to get the Serpent installed on the wall, and then we added three circles to fill in the gaps.  The three circles are designed around the hand of Ms Rotondella, Miss Sudholz and Mrs Dowding, using the same colour set as the Serpent and includes a different range of lines and patterns inspired by our cultural history.

The huge art installation not only enhanced the boring brick wall but gave us the opportunity to create lasting memories around our school, that reflect on our national history.

Glorious weather allowed for a special morning for the children in Kindergarten, Pre-primary and Year 1and 2 on Tuesday 5 November when the Swan Valley Cuddly Animal Farm  came to visit.

Squeals of delight were heard from the children as they got up close and personal to a variety of farm animals including, ducks, goats, sheep, chickens and guinea pigs. The children loved holding, patting and feeding the creatures – many of which the younger children had never seen before.

Thank you Mrs Dowding and Mrs Griffiths for organising this treat for us all.

On Tuesday 5 November, students from Years 3 to 6  attended the Barking Gecko Excursion to watch the play “The House”.   This is a contemporary fairy-tale and is a mad-cap adventure story of loneliness, belonging and flying houses.  It was held at the Octagon Theatre at the UWA.

Some of the Year 3 to 6 students  represented our school at the Cockburn District Interschool Athletics Carnival last week on Tuesday 22 and Thursday 24 October.  They participated in a variety of events including: jumps, throws, races, relays, and team games.

Our small school performed extremely well, gaining places in almost all the team games and placing 4th.  The students displayed great sportsmanship and supported each other throughout the day.

We presented very well with our beautiful red and white uniforms, school banner and marquee, all funded by our fabulous P&C.

The weather was perfect and our small team of supporters cheered us on from their wonderful position under the shady trees.

A huge thank you to everyone for your support, especially to the teachers when I required some students to squish in some training.

The carnival was held on Thursday 12 September and started with the championship races, followed by the Pre Primary students and then for the first time, Kindy children participated in our carnival.
Running races, team games, relays and an event including parents rounded out an action packed day.  Thank you to all the early morning helpers who set up the oval ready for the day, it looked fabulous.
A huge thank you to our wonderful P&C for all their support and effort on the day, including funding for all the ribbons and trophies. Well done to all the students for their amazing participation
and sportsmanship.

Congratulations to Green Faction – Spirit Shield Winners! This year at various times every faction was cheering well and the scoring tent was struggling to choose.  In the end the faction with students stepping out on their own and cheering impressed us most.

Congratulations to Gold for winning its tenth consecutive title.

The final score was: Gold 443, Blue 408 and Green 375.

Cockburn Basketball and Kennedy Baptist College came to visit on Friday 30 August, bringing students to present training and drills sessions for Years One to Six.  Each session went for an hour with students rotating around with different Kennedy Year Nine Students instructing them on different skills.

It was so amazing seeing how well our students were focussed and listening to learn from these budding coaches.  We thank them immensely for this opportunity.  They then gave us a gift of a bag of basketballs.  So generous and kind.

Thursday 29 August was our Father’s Day Stall.  Thank you to the P & C for working so hard on purchasing items, sorting and pricing and then on the day setting up and selling.

The following day we had our Family Day Lunch and Play.  It was our biggest yet and so many with picnic style foods and rugs.   It was a delight to see everyone having fun and playing the games.  Thank you yet again to our P & C for the preparation and paying for lunches for the adults who ordered curries.

Our Book Character Parade was held on Thursday 22 August and as always, we had a fantastic participation of students and turn out of parents.  People had been very creative and put a lot of time and thought into their costumes.

Congratulations to our winners:

We gave three awards per class at the event and several more were given in the classrooms, but everyone deserves a congratulations on such an amazing effort.

This year our staff dressed up as Fairies from the Rainbow Magic series by Daisy Meadows.