This week was a wonderful example of our school community working together to achieve shared goals. It takes collaboration from a range of people to organise, plan and facilitate an event like the swimming carnival and it was evidenced by this week’s carnival how effective people can be when working together as part of a team. Team work was visible through students who were cheering on their peers, patting a friend on the back who was feeling nervous and passing a drink bottle to someone who had just come back from swimming; from staff who were working together to ensure smooth transitions between races and whose voices were raspy from cheering on their students and from a huge turnout of parent and family supporters, who cheered and assisted with voluntary roles throughout the day. In particular, recognition of the effort and time our physical and education teacher Matt Desmarchilier had put into planning has to be commended, I think everyone would agree that he has done a fabulous job. House Points results areas follows:

                              

Our intention and focus for the swimming carnival is to encourage participation, fun and positive attitudes towards water safety. This is something we were incredibly successful of achieving, as student participation and engagement was very high. While students had pre-planned which races they were going in, on the day we had many students opt into more races because they were enjoying themselves so much and wanted to work together to achieve points for their house. As I looked around the carnival, our school value of ‘Be your best’ was clearly on display and it was a day where you felt proud to belong to the school community here at Lindisfarne Primary.

As the end of term 3 nears closer, it is a great opportunity for students, staff and families to reflect on the learning, growth and success our students have experienced. We have had some fantastic opportunities for our students this term including the Egg performance, the Hurricanes hosting breakfast club, Science week, Book week, the Growing Up program, band and music workshops, the Winter Carnival and many excursions. These opportunities are all positive experiences which enhance and complement the teaching and learning at Lindisfarne Primary. I wish all students, families and staff a safe, restful term 3 break and look forward to seeing everyone return for term 4.