St Leonards Primary School

Welcome back to Term 4.  Buckle up as it's going to be a busy one. 

100 Year Celebration

We are moving very quickly towards our 100th year celebration on Saturday 30th of October. This is a significant milestone in the school's history and we look forward to sharing the day with our wonderful community, old scholars and staff.

We have an absolutely amazing organising committee who have done an unbelievable amount of work behind the scenes to make this event happen. We welcome any support you can offer.

This coming Sunday we have a working bee commencing at 9:00am. We are aiming to spruce up the school in preparation for the big day. We would love to see as many people there as possible. 

Parent Perspective Survey

Thank you to our school community for taking part in our parent perspective survey, organised and distributed by the Department for Education. 

Most of the feedback we received was overwhelmingly positive, however we had a couple of themes emerge which we shall work on during 2022. 

The first is reducing the number of communication channels we currently use. We will be working with our parent community and staff on this matter over the upcoming term to streamline our processes. 

The second theme was about feedback on learning for your children. Whilst we acknowledge that COVID has had an impact on parents coming on to school grounds and meeting with teachers to discuss learning, it is an area that we will strive to improve moving forward.  

Again, thank you for your participation and we look forward to continue working with our community. 

2022 

We are about to commence the class placement process for 2022. To help us with this, if you have any placement considerations, which does not include asking for specific teachers, please email Mel Worden  Melanie.Worden673@schools.sa.edu.au  with class placement in the subject box. 

Staffing

I would also like to announce that Corey Mudie from Glenelg Primary School has accepted the Position of Assistant Principal for 2022-2025.  Corey will work with our Junior Primary Team with a focus on whole school literacy development. Corey comes to us with a wealth of experience in previous positions and will be a valuable fit for our school. 

Have a wonderful Term 4 and we look forward to celebrating a terrific end to the year. 

Dave Henty-Smith - Principal

Kathy Baker - Deputy Principal

Heidi Bevan - Wellbeing Leader

Class structures for the 2022 school year are now being developed. The number and structure of those classes depends on accurate enrolment information.

If your child/ren are currently in Reception - Year 5 and they are not returning to St Leonards, please email Mel Worden, Office Manager, melanie.worden673@schools.s.edu.au as soon as possible with your child's name, current year level and destination school.

Hats on for Term 4

Week 2

• Visit from Minister Spiers - Tuesday 19 October
• Move and Groove - Wednesday 20 October

Week 3

• Governing Council 7pm - Tuesday 26 October
• Move and Grove - Wednesday 27 October
• Holdfast Minifest, Junior Choir - Thursday 28 October
• World Teachers Day - Friday 29 October
• Assembly - Friday 29 October
• 100 Years Dress Up Day - Friday 29 October

Special Event

100 Years Celebration Day - Saturday 30 October

Upcoming 

School Closure Day - Monday 1 November

2021 BEACH VOLLEYBALL FESTIVAL - Years 4-7 

The Volleyball SA Schools Beach Volleyball Festival is on again at Glenelg.

This event gives every child in Years 4-7 the opportunity to ‘come and try’ the great sport of beach volleyball as there is something to suit all abilities.

PLEASE USE THE SKOOLBAG e-FORM to nominate -  strictly before Friday 15th October. 

All student details will be collected electronically - no paper nomination form will be sent out in class.

Mel Barnes, PE Teacher