Dear Parents and Carers

Public Speaking

Last term before we entered the school lockdown period, all students in Years 3-6 wrote and delivered speeches on a variety of topics. Students were provided with a set of criteria for what makes a successful speech which included the following elements:

• Delivery
• Suitability for an audience
• Content and creativity
• Organization
• Timing

The students who were selected to represent our school for the Southern Region Public Speaking will finally be able to participate in the rescheduled virtual competition on Tuesday 16 November for Stage 2 and Wednesday 17 November for Stage 3. We congratulate the following students, who will now begin the process of practicing to deliver their speech:

Year 3    Flynn A and Annie F

Year 4    Isla B and Isabella L

Year 5    Erica S and Samuel H

Year 6    Ellie H and Kiarna W

ICAS Digital Technologies

A small number of students from Years 3-6 participated in the Digital Technologies ICAS Competition last term.

Congratulation to Annie F, who was awarded a Credit.

This week the ICAS English Assessment was held on Tuesday. Please note the updated dates for future ICAS competitions in the school calendar.

ESC Environmental Calendar

Congratulations to Mikinley B and Caprice F of Year 4, whose artwork was chosen to be included on the Eurobodalla Shire Council 2022 environment calendar. The theme for next year’s calendar, ‘Estuaries: Where the tide meets the Stream’, was an excellent learning opportunity for all of the Year 4 students earlier this year. Mikinley and Caprice were particularly successful because their art communicated what an estuary is and in addition, met the criteria of including Dhurga words for species and water bodies in the design. What better prize for Minkinley and Caprice than to be presented with their own Dhurga Dictionary written by Trish and donated by her as a prize.