Welcome back to Term 3. I hope you were able to enjoy some ‘down time’ over this recent break. This term is again a very full one with many exciting learning activities and events to look forward to including our Biannual Art Exhibition, Book Week, an inaugural Wyvern Maths Week and the Stage 3 Musical which this year is ‘The Pirates of Penzance’. A detailed Term 3 calendar is included in this newsletter, plus we will provide regular updates about all events via Spaces.

Parent Teacher Meetings

A quick reminder that there is an opportunity for parents to meet their son’s class teacher and specialist teaching staff on Tuesday 4th August, 3:30pm – 6:30pm or Thursday 6th August, 3:30pm – 6:30pm. This is a good opportunity to review the year so far and reset learning goals for the remainder of the year. This will be available online tomorrow Friday 17th July 2015. Please use the online booking procedure to book your appointment time by following the instructions below:

Booking Parent Teacher Interviews through Community Admin

• Log into SPACES
• Hover over ‘go to’ in the top right-hand corner of the screen
• Click on ‘Community Admin’
• Click on the ‘interview’ tab at the top of the page
• Select appropriate timeslots for Classroom Teacher and Specialist Teachers if you wish
• Siblings will be listed on the right-hand side of the page to allow you to book appointments for each boy

Once selected, you have the option to print your appointments.

Disruption to Parking in Surrounding Streets of Wyvern

Marrickville Council has advised they will commence constructing a replacement retaining wall in Montague Gardens commencing next week for approximately 4-5 weeks.  Parking on Merchant and Cambridge Street will be affected. Please be considerate of our neighbours during this time and ensure you leave adequate time to find alternative parking when delivering and picking up your son from school. Your consideration is greatly appreciated.

Finally, well done to a number of Wyvern boys who competed in the annual Sydney Inter-schools’ Snowsports Championships at Thredbo over the recent break. Special congratulations to Flynn Gannon who achieved gold medals for both of his snowboarding events, Will Rumi who finished 5th in the Snowboard Giant Slalom and also to Toby Phillips who along with these boys has qualified for the NSW State Championships to be held in August.

Ian Holden
Head of Wyvern House