From the Head of Junior School

From the Head of Junior School

Thank you to all our Kindergarten parents who participated in this week’s Celebrations of Learning along with many Year 5 parents and other family members who attended their assembly this week. Your engagement and support bring much joy to the girls. 

This evening is International Night. This is the highlight of the Junior School community calendar and occurs every second year. It is when our Pre-K to Year 6 community, along with many of our Senior School friends, join to celebrate our wonderful cultural diversity. This event is about coming together, celebrating and making new friends. It is also about enjoying the girls’ performances and good food. The tickets go towards covering the costs. If there is any profit (which is not always the case, nor the purpose) it goes to our school P&F. This loved event would not take place if not for our exceeding dedicated Junior School P&F and many other parents, along with our Marketing and Communications team and Junior School staff. There has been countless hours of preparation, practise and supervision. There are far too many people to individually name but to all of you, our deepest thanks.  

We will include many photos of International Night in next week’s newsletter.

Cross Country

A big congratulations to all the girls who participated in this week’s IPSHA Cross Country at The King’s School. It was great to cheer them on. Many of girls achieved a new personal best time. Well done! Our thanks to our Sports and Facilities teams for all their efforts to make this a successful day for our Junior School long distance runners. 

Click here for the article and photographs in the Sport Section of this newsletter.


Car Park 

A kindly reminder for afternoon pick-up times: 

  • 2.45pm – Pre-Kindergarten 
  • 3.10pm – Kindergarten to Year 2
  • 3.30pm – Year 3 to Year 5
  • 3.30pm – Year 6 may walk across to the Junior School campus for a 3.30pm pick up 

Children in multiple pick-up times are collected together at the latter time. Pick up time concludes at 3.40pm and our Outside School Hours Care concludes at 6pm. Thank you for arriving close to correct time.

Mother’s Day Fundraiser 

All Junior School parents have received communication about purchasing this year’s Mother’s Day Year Group tea towels. This P&F fundraiser may be a gift for someone or multiple people on Mother’s Day.  

Orders close soon! Please place your order by 9am next Monday 7 April 2025.
Click here for Mothers Day Fundraiser.

Thank you to our families who are donating to our Mother’s Day raffle.  

 Crazy Hair Day Pre-Kindergarten to Year 5 

Next week Leawarra will host Crazy Hair Day in support of the Leukemia Foundation. This is for all students in the Junior School Houses (Pre-Kindergarten to Year 5) on the last day Term 1, Friday 11 April 2025. Girls may come to school with ‘crazy hair’ giving gold coin/s donation. Leawarra will also be selling hair accessories for $5.

This week’s photo comes from Year 1 and their ‘no screen’ party, click here for the full story.

– Daniel Sandral
Head of Junior School