Spring has arrived and with one week of school to go you can certainly feel the change in the sun’s intensity. This is a timely reminder that school hats (broad brimmed) are compulsory for outside play in Term 4. So dive in to the cupboards and dig out those school hats, or if you can’t locate them, come into the school office for a new one.

Last newsletter I talked about our school’s journey in utilising the Science of Reading. Further media releases and departmental initiatives currently being rolled out further strengthen our commitment to our current approach. When you read or hear about the development and teaching of Oral Language, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency and Comprehension you will be able to proudly say that “at South George Town Primary, where my kids go, they do all of those things already!” We have specific targets in our school improvement plan on improving our students fluency, vocabulary and comprehension and detailed steps of how to improve our teaching practice to achieve these goals. Our decodable readers and Tier 2 and 3 supports are targeted ways in which we support the development of our student’s phonological development among the specific structured synthetic phonics programs and explicit teaching that occurs in our Prep to grade 2 classes.

We wish our Country Gold participants the best of luck for next week's carnival. We know they will represent the school, association, their families and themselves with great pride and skill. South is the base for all representative training and it has been fantastic to see the commitment and dedication of all the participants as they ready themselves for competition.

A big thank you to the School Association for their work in raising money for our school sporting uniforms. Our school has a proud history of participation and achievement on the sporting field and it will be fantastic for us to “look the part” once more when we take to the field.

As this is the last newsletter of term, I would like to wish you all a fantastic  and safe break, and look forward to seeing everyone back refreshed for Term 4.