Last Friday Mr Miller, Mr Turner and Miss White took 37 Year 5 and 6 students to Jelbart Park, Lavington to compete in the AFL Paul Kelly Cup. The girls and mixed teams played a variety of schools across the regio  improving with every game. The boys played equally well winning their first three games and progressed to the semi finals. Although they did not win, they all played well and displayed great sportsmanship. All students should be pleased with their team spirit, skills and efforts

Each and every week there are countless examples of people within our community doing things for others. That’s what healthy communities do, they look for ways they can help others, they look for ways they can improve the lives of others, they recognise goodness and celebrate these actions, they put others first and themselves last and they don’t seek recognition for what they do.

“Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.” (Confucius) School holidays are different in all our families. Holidays have always been an opportunity to stop, slow down and reflect. We didn’t do too much in the holidays as I was preparing for the Melanoma March. While doing many kilometres around the streets and tracks of Albury, it gave me a lot of time to reflect on the year so far and the near future

This week we conclude our First term of 2019, A term that started in early February for 337 children’s. What memories will you take away from the last 10 weeks? A quick scan what we achieved includes the following

Often when children find things difficult they don’t have the words to express this feeling. We may hear “I’m bored” or “ This is stupid” or “ I don’t want to”. We need to encourage them to persevere, to help them over the hurdle. As children, we know the hurdles are often small. As adults, however, the hurdles can be at times overwhelming and life-changing. Children need to have learnt the skills and mindset to approach these challenges with a strong, never-ending problem-solving approach before hurdles become larger.