Good News Lutheran School

🎶 CHAMBER CHOIR SHINES AT QYMA FINALS 🎶

Congratulations to our talented Chamber Choir on their outstanding performance at the QYMA Final last night! Their dedication, commitment, and passion for music were on full display as they represented our school with excellence.

Thank you to Mr Sims for his leadership, encouragement, and countless hours of preparation. Your guidance has helped these young vocalists grow in confidence and skill, and we are incredibly proud of all they have achieved.

Well done to every choir member on this wonderful accomplishment! 🌟

THE WEEK AHEAD ✨

GOD'S CREATION IN ALL ITS GLORY

A beautiful reminder of God's creation in all its glory. These corellas certainly made the most of a stunning winter day on our oval. ☀️🦜

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📚✨ AUTHOR VISIT FUN! ✨📚

Prep–Year 2 students were treated to a wonderfully whimsical visit from author Bethany Loveridge, creator of Genie Snail! 🐌💫

With clever rhymes, laugh-out-loud moments, and plenty of magical mayhem, students discovered what happens when an ordinary garden snail transforms into the finicky Genie Snail - a wish-granting character who only grants wishes that rhyme with "snail"!

The engaging workshop had students giggling, imagining, and enjoying every slippery surprise. A big thank you to Bethany for sharing her creativity and inspiring our young readers and writers.

📚 CELEBRATING AUSTRALIAN STORIES & CREATIVITY! 🎨

What a fantastic day for our Years 2 - 4 students as we welcomed Australian author and illustrator Peter Carnavas to our school!

Students enjoyed hearing a chapter from his new book Kid, picked up some brilliant illustration tips during a live drawing workshop, and had the opportunity to have their copies of Kid personally signed. The excitement reached a new level when one clever student correctly answered all five tricky quiz questions and won the special Kid postcard that Peter drew and painted during the session!

A wonderful celebration of storytelling, illustration, imagination, and creativity - with plenty of fun along the way.

MOVING, LEARNING, GROWING! 🏃‍♀️🧠✨

At Good News, our Prep–Year 2 students take part in our Perceptual Motor Program (PMP) - a fun, active and engaging program designed to build the foundational skills needed for success both in and beyond the classroom.

PMP is about so much more than movement! Through purposeful, play-based activities, students are strengthening the important brain-body connections that support learning every day.

You might see students balancing on prickly balls while writing letters of the alphabet in the air - building core strength, balance, coordination and letter formation skills at the same time. Or students moving bean bags from one side of their body to the other, strengthening coordination and crossing the midline - an important skill that supports reading, writing and overall motor development.

Why does this matter? These early movement experiences help develop:

✨ Concentration, memory and attention
✨ Core strength and posture for learning
✨ Coordination and handwriting skills
✨ Confidence, resilience and independence
✨ Foundational skills that transfer into literacy, numeracy and classroom success

At Good News, we love seeing our youngest learners move, explore and grow! 💙

📚 NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORYTIME MAGIC! 🦘✨

What happens when staff bring Luna Roo to life? A whole lot of laughs, storytelling fun, and a school full of imagination! 🎭📖

For this year’s National Simultaneous Storytime, our staff and the Library Captains stepped into the world of Luna Roo, recreating the story in true Good News style - with plenty of fun, creativity, and smiles along the way. A celebration of all things books, imagination, connection, and the joy of storytelling! 💫

Who says reading can’t be a little dramatic? 😉