Dear Parents and Carers,

What better week to host the school swimming carnival that the week of the February hot weather. We have survived the mini heat wave with a few red faces, lots of water and a little splash of 'half a hat of water' on the hottest days. 

Thank you to Mrs Harnett and the Year 3-6 teachers and support staff for a fabulous swimming carnival! I am so proud of our students, and in particular those who took up the challenge and participated in an event where they had to push themselves to achieve something they didn't know they could do. One fabulous effort to celebrate was Will entering a race he had never achieved before - the individual medley - and proudly finishing the race! A little fun on the side was Mark (Philipzen) encouraging Will with a promise to get wet, clothes and all, if Will completed the race. Needless to say Mark was happily wet at the end.

CONGRATULATIONS to the winning house Tenison and to the swimming age champions: Nate, Lily, Drew, Eva, Sienna, Henry and Arly. Good luck to all our swimmers going to Narooma for the Southern Region Carnival.

Gardening

Yesterday we had some harvesting joy with one bunch of bananas finally being ready to pick and eat! What a feast we had of delicious lady fingers!

  

COVID UPDATE

This week has ended with a few changes to covid protocols for schools. We are following the CECG Safe Return to School NSW Roadmap 2022. For safety for our students and staff, schools continue to operate with reasonable restrictions.

• We continue to have cohorting for eating and play time.
• We can have short whole school outdoor assemblies (no parents) with students sitting in cohorts.
• We can have dancing / drama / singing at school in well ventilated or outdoor venues. 
• Class or cohort excursions are permitted - with specific covid restrictions eg. no sharing of facilities or mixing with other groups. A special clause is to be added to permission notes for excursions regarding covid expectations. 
• Non-essential visitors are not permitted on school site.
• Parents attendance at school is for the following reasons: to collect sick children, attend the front office, attend the uniform shop, attend critical meetings with myself of school staff at school request.

Thank you for your continued support of the covid safe practices for schools. We all await the first opportunity to have you all back on site and engaging in your child's learning and our school community.

Have a great weekend. If you get to the Bega Show take a look in the art section, many of our students have artworks entered in the show. Thanks to Mrs Lightly for her organisation!

Blessings,

Jo