What a busy start to Term 3.

I hope everyone is staying warm and dry in this sudden burst of Winter weather.

Last Friday we were able to farewell Mr Langford in style. A great reflection from students, the school council and staff on his time at Carrum. It was great for our students to say goodbye and well done to Kai and Meila on their wonderful speech on behalf of the students.

    
            

Our Junior School Council also organised Pyjama Day and chose this year to donate to Guide Dogs Australia. This dress up day is a particular favourite of Carrum staff, and I know many students told me they just came straight to school after getting out of bed. I wonder if it made the morning hustle a bit easier for some families? It was great to see our teachers in their stylish and matching PJs too.

The school has been a bit quieter at the start of the week as our P-2 and Yr 5/6 students have spent the last three days participating in their first week of the swimming program. This program is a government initiative so all students can receive quality swimming and water safety education so primary school students can have the opportunity to learn how to swim and develop lifelong skills in water safety to reduce their risk of drowning and injury. This is an essential skill particularly for Carrum students to have living in a Bayside suburb close to water.

Congratulations to our Prep students as tomorrow they will celebrate 100 days of school. What an achievement and how fast this year has flown for our young students. I know the teachers have been busy planning for this day and have some great activities planned. As parents you must also be feeling very proud!

This week we have had some of our staff participate in Professional Learning to upskill in our whole school programs. We aim to have all staff educated in the Orton-Gillingham (OG) training which is an explicit synthetic phonics program that underpins our literacy programme and the Berry Street Educational Model. Both these courses are quite intensive, and our teachers are trained over four days. Like our students our teachers are continually learning to improve their practise which impacts student outcomes.

We have had our save the date flyer in the newsletter recently for the school performance, as a reminder this is September 8^th and 9^th stay tuned for costume requirements and more communication about official times.

Finally, a huge shout out to our Teamkids educators. Yesterday was Out of School Hours Educators Day and we are so grateful for the wonderful programmes Teamkids provide and the amazing support Renee and Declan give to our school.

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend

Cassie Kennedy

Camp Recount

Camp was super fun with activities like Giant swing, Archery and so much more! First let's talk about what happened in the past 3 days.

DAY 1:

We started off the day by hopping on the bus and getting ready for the big trip ahead. Once we arrived we got introduced to everyone and set off to eat our BYO lunch. The next 2 hours were extremely fun activities. Some of these included, the giant swing, canoeing, archery, camp cooking and much more! We then all had our afternoon tea and had another 2 activities and finished with a delicious spaghetti dinner. The night ended with a cosy campfire and MARSHMELLOWS!!! And we will never forget the bull ants!!

DAY 2:

After we had woken up and had our yummy assorted breakfast we went to our cozy cabins. Our cabins were awesome with 2 bunkbeds and 3 singles and a BIG bathroom. We got changed into appropriate clothes for our activities. We did our activities and had burgers for lunch.  We did two more activities, had chicken tenders for dinner, watched Minions the movie and got settled into bed.

DAY 3:

We woke up, excited to see our families after lunch. We had another assorted breakfast and packed our bags, ready to say goodbye. We went to Smiths beach  and had the most amazing time of our life! We played games and had free time at the beach to do what we wanted. We walked back, had lunch and after lunch in 10 minutes we were already on the bus, bags all packed going on another long trip back to Carrum Primary School. We arrived and all our families were on the basketball court waiting to take us home. We all went home always to remember the best camp that we all enjoyed and had fun at Phillip Island Adventure Resort Thank you!

Sophie and Marley

Carrum Primary are involved in cleaning up our beautiful beach.
We would like to ask for volunteers for our Beach Patrol coming up on Sunday 26th of July at 10am. 

Hope to see you there, Miss Derix and team

Thanks to our amazing volunteers from our previous sessions, we couldn't do it without you!

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