Hello Badger Families and Friends,

Wow! Who would have thought we would be trying remote learning again!?! But, in true Badger style, our community has managed to make learning happen for our kids. I have watched teachers learn before my own eyes. To see the changes that our team have made to the blog and the learning activities has made me feel very proud to work at Badger. I have also noticed the wonderful support, and incredible ideas that our parents have offered to help make learning better. This is such a unique situation that offers all of us a chance to see how we can help our kids learn. Please keep suggesting ideas that you have used to help your child learn better, and always know that we will be glad to help you in any way we can help. We are a team, and teams support each other.

2021 “Step into Prep” Information Session

On Wednesday the 29^th of July from 4pm-5pm we will be have a 2021 Prep information session on WebEx (Invite to the WebEx meeting room will be available on our schools website from Wednesday). We ask you to spread the word to any families who are looking for a school for their prep in 2021. Emma Griffiths, Stephanie Eagleton and myself will be hosting, look out on Facebook for details, and flyers will be sent to our local Early Childhood Learning centres today.

Be Safe

You’ll find that this is my mantra for this semester. As you may be aware our school motto is “A Sanctuary for Learning”, and of course our school values are respect, responsibility, pride, integrity, care and support. In addition to these we now have 3 expectations of behaviour “Be Safe, Be Respectful and Be Responsible”. I had some time to think over the holidays, and with so many things that I have to learn to be a principal I decided to break things down into smaller chunks. This semester “Be Safe” is what I am focusing on… so…

Areas that we will be working on with the team are our OHS processes, emergency management plans, understanding how to best look after our buildings and grounds, our student engagement policy (We will need your help with this one!) and whole school language around being safe and supportive. We all know that when we are feeling safe we can be ready for learning. This is why I felt that this one was the most important one to start with. I will keep you posted with how I am travelling with this goal.

Building repairs are coming

Mel and I have been busy in meetings to help organise our building repairs. Last year the state government gave us a significant amount of money to fix our aging buildings. This means that over the next year you will see some repair works happening around the place. They have even offered additional money to fix our roof on our original buildings. Once the roof is fixed we will be able to get our plaster fixed and get our walls freshened with some new paint. It will be nice to have some attention given to our buildings so they will last more decades to come.

Planning for 2021

Currently I am using our computer program called the Student Resource Package to work out different models for our classes for 2021. This gives me the opportunity to predict what will happen to our budget by trying different models for our school. Scott kindly left us in a really good position and it is my goal to make sure that we maintain this the best that I can. There is lots of planning and thinking to be done, but I am excited about this learning.

That’s about it for this week. Stay safe by staying at home.

Nerae Preece (Principal)