Primary Article Opening of the new Primary School building for the first day of school in 2017 The new Primary School building opened for the start of the school year amidst excited children who are enjoying their new classrooms and interactive projectors. The new building means students can now find space to play outside even when it rains. We are enjoying new table tennis tables and regular lunch times in the Multi-purpose Hall. The children can now eat outside with friends from different classes and year levels. Collaborative art work at lunch times has also been popular as the children worked with some Middle School students to create 2D timber figures which are almost ready to be glued to the wall surrounding the front grass. Students from all classes will then be invited in the coming weeks (weather permitting) to add to the painted figures in different ways to complete the Primary Mural.
Next term, we will open more space to play with the addition of a grassed area on the other side of the walkway from the Primary Office to the main teaching block. This in conjunction with the planned re-opening of the sandpit and playground area will be welcome additions to the Primary space next term. Inaugural Primary Fun Sports January 27 th, 2017 To round off an exciting start to the school year, we had our first Primary Fun Sports event on Friday 27 th January. We used the different spaces available in Primary to introduce students to most of the different parts of the new Primary area. Students rotated through six activities with their group to participate in the dress-up relay, island hop, relay race, rock scissors paper game, pencil dip, musical statues, bean bag toss challenge, chalk drawing and bowling. Although no one did every activity, it was a great chance to use the space creatively, meet students, teachers and teacher assistants, do some exercise and have lots of fun. I think we will be repeating something similar again in the future!