Year 7 Camp

The Year 7 Form groups enjoyed a week of fun, water-based activities on their camp including sailing, surfing and kayaking. It was wonderful that the girls were able to spend time forming relationships with their Form, Form teachers and Heads of House. Thank you to the staff and the Outdoor Education team for making the camp such a success.

NAPLAN Year 7 and 9

NAPLAN information for families with daughters in Years 7 and 9 is available on SEQTA Engage. The timetable for testing during Weeks 7 and 8 is as follows:

• Wednesday 13 March: Writing
• Thursday 14 March: Reading
• Friday 15 March: Conventions of Language
• Monday 18 March: Numeracy.

All tests will be at the beginning of the day. Any catch-up testing will be completed by Monday 25 March.

Last week, girls took part in a coordinated practice test. The public demonstrations site has test examples for each year level if you are interested in looking at the format of the tests.

Intercol Ribbon

To show our support for the students participating in Summer Intercol during Week 8, the Intercol Gold Ribbon will be for sale from the Uniform Shop on Flexischools. Girls are encouraged to purchase the ribbon for $1.50 before Friday of Week 7, which will then be distributed on Monday of Week 8. Girls are able to wear the ribbon to school and all fixtures during Intercol week.

International Women’s Day

Week 6 started with the International Women’s Day assembly, with guest speaker, Claire Pocock (2000). Her inspirational and thought-provoking address was connected to this year’s theme, ‘Count her in: Invest in Women. Accelerate Progress’. On Friday 8 March, our SRC attended the International Women’s Day breakfast hosted at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Alongside these events, the SRC are running a donut drive for International Women’s Day on Wednesday in Week 7. Purple donuts can be ordered via Flexischools (preferred) with a small number also available on the day. Funds raised will be used to continue our support of girls’ education in Nepal.

Jewellery

Parents are asked for their support in ensuring that girls are adhering to our uniform policy. The policy, which can be found in the school diary on page 28, states:

• one pair of earrings in each ear lobe (no cartilage earrings) of either plain silver, gold or pearl studs no larger than 5mm in diameter or standard-size sleepers are permitted
• watches are permitted in an unobtrusive design
• no other visible jewellery is permitted.

Security of Personal Property

The girls have been reminded recently by email, in the interest of the protection and security of their personal property, to not leave bags at the Front Gate on Hawkers Road when they are in music rehearsals or at sports training. This is a very accessible area for someone to walk off the street and steal personal items. It is also important that they do not leave their school laptop lying around unattended outside.

Please note that the School’s insurance, as is common with all insurance cover, does not cover personal phones and laptops that are left unattended—whether they are on school grounds or not. Under the current Student ICT Responsible Use Policy, should a school-allocated device be lost, stolen or irreparably damaged, the School reserves the right to pass on the full replacement cost of the device to the parents/caregivers.

Commedia

Our Year 8 and 9 Drama students watched a fringe show at school, 'A Solo Commedia Show', by Andrew Crupi, who will be running Commedia workshops with our Year 9 students this year.