Principal's Message
Dear Friends, Family and Community Members,
The last month has just flown by! So many things have been happening and we find ourselves just a few weeks away from the school holidays already.
Let's list some of the things that we have been involved with since our last newsletter.
- Teachers and Educational Assistants have all been away on professional learning to make sure we are up to date with best practice and kids here at Pia get the best education!
- We started thinking about a school vision board and what sorts of things we want to achieve in our school
- The office got a new photocopier.
- We went to the Murchison Settlement to have tennis lessons again
- We had a fire drill
- Food Sensations came out and made us some yummy food
- The Speech therapist came out
- We had the Trachoma clinic come and visit
- Mr Brad and Mrs Fiona both qualified as (LR) bus drivers when the licensing centre came out
- We celebrated Science week with the theme 'Deep Blue' and learnt about sea animals and the way pollution affects sea life
- The School Psychologist, Miss Alana, came to visit us and so did Ms Sonia
- We went on an excursion to The Morawa Agricultural College which was absolutely fabulous. There we picked up our new sheep and pigs and stayed over at the Residential college accomodation which was really good
- Disco Night at Yalgoo. We slept over at Yalgoo Railway station and joined in activities with the Yalgoo PS which was really fun!
- Our Picasso Cow arrived and we are in the midst of designing and painting it for the Picasso Cow competition
- We had 3 competitions to name things
- Our Picasso Cow - Milky Way, (A Dairy Industry initiative)
- Our two sheep
- Our two pigs
On top of all this, we also had assembly and worked so hard!!!
Who says living out in the middle of the bush is boring? Not true!!!!
I just want to remind everyone that we celebrate attendance at Pia with a present!!! If you attend more than 80% of the time, you get a present to say thankyou for coming to school!
I really want to give away more presents, so make sure you come to school every day because I can't wait to see your face when your name is called out and I give you a present!
Don't forget, If your cool, you'll be at School!
Dates coming up to remember:
Wednesday 16 September: we are going to have a Parents night and sausage sizzle
Thursday 17 September: we will have a Tidy Towns visit, so remember to "Keep our school and community clean, and keep all the rubbish off the scene!!"
Thursday 24 September: Assemby
Friday 25 September: last day of term and we will do some fun things on that day to celebrate.
Mr Ted Cousens is currently on sick leave until the end of term. We hope that he feels better soon and has a good recovery. His contract finishes at the end of term so we will be restructuring the classrooms next term. We would like to thank Mr Ted for his efforts in the senior class and in the school as classroom teacher and as previous principal. We wish him all the very best for the future.
We would like to welcome Mr Bernie Simpson to the senior class, and thank him for coming up at short notice to relieve Mr Ted over the next 2 weeks (until the school holidays).
Next term we will see a reshuffle of the school with Mr Sean moving up into the senior room and a new junior classroom teacher coming in to the K-3 classroom position. I will announce who this is in our next newsletter. So watch this space.
Meanwhile have fun, be good and keep safe!
Kind regards
Fiona Tamminga
Principal