Dear Parents and Carers,

Student reports.

With only three weeks left of term, teachers are busying writing end of semester reports. These reports will be emailed out from Monday 30 June 2025.

Please remember these reports are based on teacher’s professional judgement of how students have been tracking up to this halfway point in the year.

Grades can change for the end of year reports because student’s demonstrated work is then judged against the end of year WA Curriculum standards.

If your teacher has requested a parent interview on your child’s report. Please ring the school or email the teacher directly to make an appointment. (if you have not already had a teacher/parent meeting recently).

Year 6 Transition 2025.

Yesterday we welcomed back Stella and Ocean (Year 7 students) as part of the first of many Year 6 transition experiences to High School next year. This is part of an extensive transition process involving meetings, talks, visits to NASHS and parent information nights. It was great to see them doing so well, along with so many of our ex Little Grove students.

New Leadership.

At the end of this term, after working for the Department of Education for over 30 years and leading this fantastic school for the past 13, I am taking accrued leave of 18 months.  It has been an absolute privilege to work with our past and present students, great staff and School Board to create the learning conditions so our students can thrive.  Along with a very supportive parent community, that makes this school so well regarded in the Albany community.  

A rigorous merit selection process is well underway to find a great Principal for the next 18 months.   When this has been completed, I will let you know who has been selected to lead this awesome and very special school.

Have a great weekend.

Mr Martin

Principal

CRAZY HAIR & RAINBOW BAKE SALE

Thursday 19th June - Get ready for some fun!

Kids, go WILD with your hair for a crazy hair day - the crazier the better!

Then grab something delicious from our Rainbow Bake Stall at recess (undercover area) - treats will be just $1-$2!

All proceeds are going to support AYSA (Albany Youth Support Association) - helping young people aged 12-25 and their families across the Great Southern for nearly 40 years!

Organised by our amazing Student Leaders!

This week we have had a few of our very talented students taking part in the Albany Eisteddfod. I believe they have been doing an absolutely sterling job, it takes such courage to get up on stage so well done! What lovely well-rounded students we have here at Little Grove

The 45th Albany Eisteddfod has been held at the Albany Entertainment Centre from Mon 9 – Thu 12 June, with the Showcase Concert this Fri 13 June at the Albany Entertainment Centre, if anyone is interested in going to watch. A couple of our students received 2nd and third places and Isla-May and Florence came first in their singing and will be performing in the final concert! Definitely something to be proud of, amazing work!

This week we are learning about times of day, focusing on simple links to a school day.

Our signs of the week are:

These simple opposite signs can be done with one or two hands. 

On Tuesdays, 3rd and 10th of June, students from Rooms 4, 7, and 8 participated in Bike Education sessions. These lessons were proudly funded by the Department of Transport’s Your Move – Connecting Schools grant.

A big thank you to AusCycling for organising two Albany-based bike instructors, Jamie (aka “Jamie the Clown”) and Ted, to deliver Bike Education at Little Grove Primary School.

During the first session, students were lucky to enjoy fabulous weather and made the most of it by learning new skills such as controlled slow riding and shifting their weight forwards and backwards — all practised on the basketball courts.

Unfortunately, Albany’s weather wasn’t as kind for the second session. Rooms 7 and 8 showed great resilience and a positive attitude, adapting to modified activities in the rain on the basketball court and within a small space in the undercover area — true champions! Miss Pine took the opportunity to spend the entire day focusing on Bike Education and related health and safety topics with Room 8. After the morning session, students were asked to reflect on their bike riding skills in response to the following question:

Reflection Questions – Bike Education

1. What was the most important thing you learned in Bike Ed, and why?

2. How did your riding improve over the course of the program?

3. What part of Bike Ed did you enjoy the most?

4. What challenged you?

5. How confident do you feel riding your bike now compared to the start?

Followed by a Recount including the 5 W's (When, Where, What, Why & Who) and 5 Senses (Smell, Touch, Taste, Listen & See)

As we are a Your Move school, later in the year Miss Upchurch will apply for a Super Boost grant to fund Bike Education lessons for Year 1–3 students. The Little Grove P&C is also looking into Bike Month grants. So, fingers crossed that we are successful later in the year in securing more Bike Education opportunities for our students!

Lunch orders continue, please keep in mind that this is organised by a very small group of volunteers, please take into consideration helping with these lunches, in order for us to continue to provide this service. If you have a spare hour or two to help collect and distribute the lunches through the canteen, please place your name on our volunteer roster https://volunteersignup.org/EH7XW

If you haven't helped with lunches before, we have a really awesome guide to help you or we can have one of our wonderful P&C ladies come and show you the ropes. Please make sure orders are placed by 12pm TUESDAY via www.quickcliq.com.au. Please send us a message or email at [email protected] if you want to know more.

For further events or detailed information about upcoming events, please view the schools event calendar on Compass.