Dear Parents and Carers,

Congratulations to David Greening on his outstanding Athletics achievements. Over the break, David competed in the National Master Championships and won a silver medal in high jump and triple jump, along with bronze in 60m and 100m. He has now been asked to represent Australia and attend the Oceania Masters Championships held every 2 years in June. Fiji here he comes, ready to bring home another medal. We are all so very proud of your achievements.

​This Wednesday, students in Years 5 and 6 represented our school at the Summer Lightning Premierships in several different sports.

• In basketball, our girls A team, and boys B team, both finished runners up after reaching the grand final.
• In cricket, our boys B team won every single game winning the B team competition.
• In softball, our boys A team won the competition and will go through to represent our school and the District in Term 4 at the Division finals.
• In Volley star, our A team girls reached the grand final, finishing runners up.
• In Ultimate Frisbee, our girls A team were crowned District Champions winning their event.

 Following our Boneo Cross Country this week, sixty students will represent Boneo at District Cross Country next Wednesday. We know the children will represent the school by demonstrating our RED values and we wish them all the very best.

Year 3 McCrae Homestead Trip

On Wednesday 1st of May Year 3 went to McCrae Homestead to learn about the History of European settlement.

We learnt that in the 1980’s Georgeanna and Andrew McCrae lived in Gordon’s castle in Scotland. Andrew was a lawyer but he decided that he wanted to be a farmer and he wanted to do that in Australia. Georgeanna said she would move to Australia after Andrew had built her a house. It took him six months to get to Australia, when he got to Melbourne he only grabbed the wood that he needed as he made his way to Boonwurrang country.
Andrew started to feel lonely when he was building the house so he told Georgeanna that the house was done so she would start her journey to Australia. Georgeanna came with two cows, two pigs and two chickens. She also brought wheat seeds and berries and when she sailed along the sea she also got food from other countries.
The McCrae family became friends with the aboriginal people and the first peoples taught them how to live from the land that was so unfamiliar to them.

We will be performing at assembly next week where we will share more of what we learnt and now what we are curious about learning.