🌞 Krishna School End of Year Newsletter

Happy Holidays to all our wonderful students, parents and staff!

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Despite the adversity faced this year, we have managed to pull through 2020 with a deeper sense of understanding, compassion and resilience.

The kindness and support everyone has shown each other has been truly uplifting, and I am confident we can start 2021 with renewed optimism and energy, so that we can continue working together on our school’s mission to encourage each and every student to discover and become confident in their spiritual identity, personal nature and contribution to society.

While this year was lacking in opportunities for parental and community involvement, we are hopeful that as COVID restrictions ease, we will be able to return to some sense of normalcy.

The refurbishment program for the Primary Classrooms is well underway, while the long-awaited high-school construction project nears completion. We look forward to sharing sneak peeks of these projects with you towards the end of January.

We hope you have a fabulous festive season, and enjoy this opportunity to spend time with friends and family.

Wishing you all the best for the rest of the year, Hare Krishna and a Happy New Year, full of kindness and peace.

Vinod Bihari Prabhu,

Principal

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Hare Krishna,

The Administration Office will be closed until Monday 11th January 2021.

If you need to purchase uniforms please place your order on or after this date and they will be available to pick up between 9.00am and 3.00pm weekdays.
If you wish to come in to school to personally purchase uniforms, please ring or email before hand and make a time.

Hoping everyone has a safe and restful summer break. Thank you for a wonderful 2020 year and I am looking forward to a great 2021.

- Ratipriya dasi

Any expressions of interest for new enrolments for 2021 can be submitted via this link.

Please be advised that we will be running compulsory 2021 Orientation Sessions for parents and carers on the 4th (Secondary) and 9th (Primary) of February at 4.30 PM - please confirm your attendance via this link.

We will be sending out more information once the office opens up, in the meantime, please see our school calendar via this link.

- Shaka

Our lovely Year 12 Graduates at their Celebration Dinner in Tyalgum.

More photos of the Graduation Dinner here.

Pre-K & Kindergarten Announcement

As shared in our blog post, we will be joining our Pre-K and Kindergarten classes for 2021 in a freshly refurbished and redesigned classroom.

Mother Mahesvari will be the Head Teacher for the Early Learning composite class, with Vrnda Taylor assisting on the days our Pre-K program runs (currentlyTuesday & Thursday).

If you are interested in enrolling your child in our Pre-K program, and your child turns four before August 1st, 2021*, please submit an expression of interest toget on the waitlist, as places are limited.

Submit an expression of interest here.

*please be advised that it is a condition of enrolment that your child be toilet-trained.

Congratulations on a great year, all our beautiful students worked so hard, and now the holidays are here we have a wonderful opportunity to connect and love through the simple moments in being together: self-care is family fun and nurturing our well-being together.

Always grateful for my service 🙏 Your servant Krsna Prema didi

School Chaplain

Kindergarten: Art

Four Seasons & Krishna Book-inspired Art work by some of our talented and creative students.

- Mahesvari

Years 1-2

A variety of eco-system dioramas by our lovely Year 1-2 Students.
They used recycled materials to create a Rainforest, a Desert, the Arctic and the Ocean.

Years 3-4

School Camp Art:
Some of the children with the art and craft frames they worked on during their School Camp in Term Four.

The frames were completed with photos from their trip to a water park.

Free Play Activities:
Building Block Soccer Games, a very exciting event to bring the year to a close!

- Gopi

Wonderful attention to detail with the red card for a suspension!

Years 5-6

Primary Graduates

Last week we celebrated the achievements of our wonderful year 6 students.

We wish our graduating students all the best with the next part of their learning journey and feel very fortunate to have had their lovely association in our class for the last two years.

We are excited for them as they move forward into high school and will miss them here in the primary school.

- Kamalini and Rachel

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Tournament

A big congratulations to Rama Barnett, Caitanya Barnett and Nitai Reciuga for their amazing efforts at a recent Brazilian Jiu Jitsu tournament. Rama achieved a gold and a bronze medal and Nitai won two gold medals.

These students have been training very hard and their dedication has also been reflecting in their engagement inside the classroom. No doubt that Kṛṣṇa and His cowherd boyfriends are looking forward to challenging these students in a Malla-yuddha contest in the near future. Jaya!

- Ivan Prabhu

- Circles of Support: One of the activities in the Workshops -

On Monday, we had a group of wonderful workshops held at the School, facilitated Jay, Tammie, Allan and Marlena from The Family Centre.

The program was delivered by The Family Centre with an understanding of and respect for Hare Krishna values and beliefs.

More Photos and information available via this link.

High School Science

Thank you to all of our students for a wonderful exploratory 2020 Science Class.

- Leonardo Prabhu

Congratulations to all of our Year 11s who have managed the transition into Senior Subjets with grace. The final day of classes began with their first major assessment task in Business Studies.

We then headed into town with Mother Gopa to peruse the HSC support materials at the library, to share lunch, and finally to briefly take in an exhibition of student art work at the local TAFE.

This was just the right note on which to finish the school year and also alerted students to some of the support available to them in the wider community.

I wish all our senior students a restful break and look forward to the amazing things we'll do in 2021.

- Dhara

At the end of this year, our staff participated in workshops on the art of effective and open communication. The workshops were conducted by Marlena Basser, a highly experienced facilitator and trainer from Uplifiting Australia.

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