Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal  After Wednesday night it really got me thinking about how important community and music are for humans. After 2 years without live music performances and being able to come together I could sense that it was something missing from my life. A few months ago I went to my first gig in the city (Sidenote I went to see Something for Kate, they were amazing!) and to be honest it felt really strange to be in a venue with lots of strangers. Wednesday night was something different for me. I looked around [...]

Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal Next week is a super time for our school community. Please make sure you come and join us for Open evening from 3:30-6:30 on Wednesday the 25th of May. See how we do things a little bit different at Badger. We also have our special lunch on Friday the 27th with our Pants for Plants day, where you can wear crazy pants for a gold coin donation. All money raised goes towards buying plants for our school. A big thank you goes out to all of our volunteers who have been organising Reading to [...]

Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal  A big thank you to all of our families for accommodating our pupil free day last Friday. As some of you may have been aware we were doing Berry Street Training. For those of you in the mental health field, you may be aware of Berry Street and the work that they do with schools to help educators understand trauma and how it affects our students. The statistics are really eye opening. Within our classrooms at least 2/3 of our students have experienced at least 1 traumatic incident and within that group [...]