With the challenging unknowns that Covid brings it, classrooms have been relatively quiet in school over the last few weeks. Thankyou to those parents and carers who continue to send their children to school. I would like to reassure families that school is doing everything to keep safe. We have extra cleaning each day, high school students and adults are all wearing masks, and no one can come into classrooms.

This Wednesday the Covid Vaccination team came out to community and started the 5-12 year old covid vaccinations and boosters for many community members. All our students were extremely brave and lined up for their turn.

Student attendance has been very low since the commencement of the year. It is very important that families send their children to school every day and on time.

As indicated, over 72% of our students are not attending school - a reminder that if you will be in another town for a period of time we can arrange a Section 24 so that your children can still attend school.

Did you know that if a child misses one day a week for their school life, they will have missed over a year of schooling!

 For those children that have been coming to school  we have been having a great time- Miss Marika held an old fashioned tea party, Miss Susan and Mr Brad have been enjoying a variety of morning fitness activities each day, and Miss Kylie has recommenced her weekly Wadjarri lessons.

The senior girls and boys have been making big plans for their Thursday clubs, and they have started to go out and explore a variety of personal interests.

As part of our whole school writing programme,’’ Talk for Writing’’ lessons have commenced, and this week the junior students loved working in Mr Sean’s senior class to learn about “Little Charlie”. Our youngest students practiced their writing skills retelling the introduction to the story in their own words.  

    

Up coming events:

Next Wednesday 2^nd March, Term 1’s School Council meeting is scheduled for 9 am. Please remember to wear your mask when coming onto the school grounds.

On Monday 28^th March, the ‘Work shed Mosaics’ company are coming to Murchison Shire for a week to work with students in the region to create two mosaics that represent the flora and fauna in the Murchison. Students have been working to design art works that may be created into mosaic pieces. The two mosaics will be on display at Pia.

The Senior class has been pretty quiet this year with just one student coming. So far we have been working a lot on Spelling Mastery lessons. We have also started a Talk4Writing unit on Goblins and Report Writing. The two SIDE students have been working hard with their teachers in Perth and are on track with their year level work.   

Sean Firth

Classroom Teacher

Pia Wadjarri RCS is fully vaccinated with little 5-11 year olds getting vaxxed on Wednesday with nurses from Geraldton and their teacher Ms Marika.

The new look uniform has arrived and can be purchased from the office. See Ms Kylie for assistance in applying for funding or contact Ms Sonia on 9923 5204 for bank details.