Dear Parents & Guardians,

What a busy couple of weeks we have had…things certainly ramp up in Term Four! It is exciting for the many opportunities provided to our students and the joy they get from participating.

Congratulations to the seven students - Harriet, Rebekah, Poppy, James, Ben, Ethan & Anna, who are members of our Robotics Club, for their high level of participation and results in the recent First Lego League Challenge that was held at Sacred Heart College on Saturday 12th November. Dubbed the ‘HRSunlight Savers’ they did an amazing job working as a team and this was acknowledged by being awarded the trophy for  ‘Core Values’ Winner. Finishing in the top four schools in the south also resulted in an invitation to the National Challenge in Melbourne next weekend. There are a number of school-based fundraisers that are being held to support our students in the journey to Melbourne  - Guess the Lolly Jar each morning outside Kinder, $1 = 1 guess, $2 = 3 guesses. We are also holding a ‘Crazy Sock Day’ this Friday for a gold coin donation.

We had so much fun

Our Early Year's students who participated in the 40th Myer Christmas Pageant last Saturday felt like superstars on a red carpet. They did amazingly well walking around the block of the city as 40 birthday candles, waving to everyone. They were awarded the Best Dressed Christmas Themed entry!

The 'Red' Superstars

We are excited to start the redevelopment of our school oval this week. Following the recent building works the oval needs to be moved around and extended, irrigation replaced and the grass reseeded. The majority of the work should be completed before the end of the year and we then will be able to watch the grass grow!

We were pleased to welcome Alan Mansell this week to work with Culture Club students in Grades 2-6. They completed some fabulous print work designs. Thank you to Mr Ben Johnson for organising this creative opportunity.

On Monday this week, our staff and students participated in our annual lockdown practice. Undertaking this allows students to understand the procedures and what to expect should we ever have to implement a lockdown. The students were excellent, they followed instructions, and sat quietly and calmly for a short period of time.

Kind regards

Susan McGann

We love working outdoors

Some Up and Coming 'Athletes' in the making

The new store will be a one stop shop for all your education supply needs - including stationery, textbooks and teacher resources.

Online orders for booklists will begin on the 7^th December, the link and access code for this will be included on your booklist.

Thank you to the parents/guardians who placed a "Back to School" pre-order.  We encourage those parents/guardians, where possible, to pay and collect their pre-order before the end of the year.  To do this please contact the office to arrange a time to pay and collect from Week 7 (Wednesday 30.11.22).  Once you have arranged to collect it, your order will be prioritised for packing.

If you wish to collect in the New Year, your pre-order can be collected from the office when it opens in 2023, from Tuesday 24 January 2023.  You do not need to contact us if you collect in 2023.

Uniform Shop purchases including QKR online purchases will close for end of year stocktake and pre-order packing on Thursday 24 November 2022. 

We will open the uniform shop for back to school purchases on the following dates and times in 2023:
Friday 27 January 2023 - 9:00am to 12:00 noon
Tuesday 31 January 2023 - 9:00am to 12:00 noon

Please note that every endeavour is being made to have stock on the shelves, but to ensure that all the needs of our school community are met, purchases in the uniform shop on these dates will have a limit of one item off the shelf, further quantities can be put on back order.  We ask that only one family enter the shop at any one time.

QKR will re-open in February once school has returned.

Surfgroms