News from the Principal's desk at Auburn Primary School
The opportunity to order your family's Hoops and Loops DVD is closing soon. Please don't miss your chance to remember the great success of the Hoops and Loops event foevrer! We had a brief look at the DVD at assembly this week - it brought back some great memories. Children love seeing themselves on screen - over and over again! To order a DVD of the Hoops and Loops production Click here
The Year 3/4s are returning from Camp Gundiwindi on Friday afternoon, so expect it to be difficult to find a parking spot. We expect the campers to return by 3:15 pm! They've had an amazing time!
Whoops! There was a typo in The Oracle, in the section giving parents the opportunity to make requests around their child's class placement for 2010. On current enrolments and information, we are expecting to run 15 classes - 3 x Preps, 5 x 1/2s, 4 x 3/4s and 3 x 5/6s. If enrolments alter significantly at any level, this structure may change. My apologies for any confusion!
Readers may be interested to know that we have started earning income from sponsors, through web site visits. That's largely due to school community support, so thank you - and please continue to utilise the web site as much as possible.
I'm very pleased to finally report that the plans for our new building have been submitted to the Education Department for approval. The working party members have worked very hard to get to this point. It should be only a matter of weeks before we are able to take the project to tender.
We are looking forward to seeing many parents at the November 10 information session to learn about options in relation to netbooks - a concept which will move the school towards 1:1 computing for Years 3-6 students. Project RELATE will provide parents with the opportunity to lease a netbook (a mini, mobile laptop) for their child (in Years 3-6), giving 24/7 use at a very reasonable cost - much less than an ipod! A full suite of the software that is used at school will be loaded onto these machines, for student use at home and at school, where parents choose to participate. This concept will be explained in detail on November 10, at 7:30pm, so if your child will be in Year 3, 4, 5 or 6 next year (or into the future) you might like to mark this date in your diary and come along.
Check out the added photos of the 5/6s on camp in the PRIVATE section of our web site. No access? Fill in the form you'll find on that page and you'll have access as soon as the approval process is completed.
The term planner has been distributed, but did you know that events are also added to the calendar on the left hand side of this page? It's a very convenient way of checking What's On!
Marcia Lane, principal
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