Congratulations to the first ever recipients of our brand-new Early Years Excellence Awards. These awards will be presented whenever we have a specific Early Years Assembly and are in recognition of excellence related to academic learnings, learning dispositions or other parts of the school curriculum. These new awards, by their very nature, do not simply replace the old Student of the Week Awards. The focus is on excellence, and as such, each award will provide targeted, specific feedback to that student. There is not an expectation that every child in every class will receive the award at some time, nor that there is a regular number of awards given on any day.  

Early Years Assembly currently takes place on a monthly basis. As we had our first assembly this week, the next time we will come together will be:-  

Week 8 

Monday March 18 

2.30-3.00pm 

Performing Arts Centre  

(Please enter via side door) 

We would really love to see parents join us regularly for this assembly, to help celebrate the wonderful things that are happening in the Early Years, and to keep up to date with what is happening around the school. I look forward to seeing many of you there for our next assembly! 

Musical  

Unfortunately, due to the developing nature of the demands of the College musical for 2019, a change to the eligibility of student participation has been identified. Students in the Middle and Senior Years will be invited to participate, however after lengthy consideration of the script and the rehearsal schedule it was decided that the level of expectation placed on the Early Years students would be detrimental to their academic progress and wellbeing. As such, Early Years students will be unable to participate in the 2019 College musical. We are hoping that forward planning will allow us to engage in future musicals that would have a greater opportunity for the younger students to participate. 

Please see our Photo Gallery from the Early Years sector.

Captions: Kristen Bennie in a guided reading session, Hard at work in 4C, Snack Attack in 4J and all the Early Years Excellence Awards winners from Week 4.

Katrina Walton

Assistant Principal Early Years