It has been a little quieter this week. We've not had any major school or Year level events. We've had the opportunity to breathe a little in our classes which has been very welcome.

I had the wonderful opportunity to teach in 4 Blue yesterday morning and 3 Maroon in the afternoon. What beautiful classes they are; full of enthusiasm, humour and curiosity. I loved being with them.

Community Council Meeting

Our Community Council met on Wednesday evening. A lengthy discussion was held about the vision for the use of ICT by students at school, i.e. ipads, laptops, Chromebooks and how they can transform the teaching and learning opportunities for our students. Each parent representative shared their experiences, thoughts and understandings and contributed some valuable insight into the school vision.

We also celebrated the success of the school fete, congratulated Heather Rattenbury on her amazing resourcefulness in obtaining a new drinks fridge for our canteen and finalised the fundraising plans for 2019. It's a great team!

Rotary Club Belconnen - Thank you

We would like to thank the Rotary Club of Belconnen for their kind donation of $400.

Every year the Rotary Club supports our school by giving a generous donation to assist families in our community that need a bit of extra help with school payments.

Feedback requested – Active Streets

The Active Streets for Schools program is an infrastructure program – supported by educational resources – to make it safer and easier for children to walk or ride to school. Our school will be supported by the program over the next four years.

Active Streets helps to make school environments safer and more accessible by providing a range of tailored solutions depending on the school and local environment. Improvements may include new or improved footpath connections, more dedicated crossings or traffic calming (e.g. speed humps) to ensure the trip is safe and easy for children to navigate.  

To commence the program, Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) would like to discover how children currently travel to and from school and find out where you think improvements can be made around the suburb and the school.

TCCS have set up a survey to gather this information. All the information collected will be de-identified and confidential. The final survey question asks about the type of infrastructure improvements our community would like considered through the program. To complete this question you can either:

• Provide an explanation in the text field in the survey, or
• Drop a pin on our Ride or Walk to School map and provide a comment

To drop a pin on the map, you will need to be signed in to a Google account, which is as simple as signing up if you don’t already have one. More information about setting up an account and dropping a pin on the map is available in these instructions.

TCCS will also welcome feedback about our Ride or Walk to School map, so please use the drop pin feature to comment on the highlighted routes. Alternatively you can print our map, write on the map and return it to TCCS.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to complete the survey. Your response will

Have a lovely weekend.

Matthew Garton (Principal)