Hello Bulimba community, I’m Lisa Price, Acting Deputy Principal for Y3-6 and can I just start by saying thank you for warmly welcoming me into this role. It’s been wonderful to connect with so many students and families over these past couple of weeks and I look forward to meeting many more of you. And can I just say, that so far, one of the best starts to my day has been when I donned a high-vis vest and stepped in to help Bulimba students cross Oxford St safely, when one of our lovely crossing supervisors was absent. Greeting families and seeing students with their bright, fresh faces at the beginning of the school day was so lovely.  We really do have the best school community at Bulimba.

NAPLAN & Wellbeing

This week we wish our Year 3 and 5 students good luck with their NAPLAN tests which begin today and continue into next week. Whilst there is often a lot of discussion around how to prepare for NAPLAN, I thought I’d turn my attention this week to consider how to support your child after NAPLAN, with a focus on their wellbeing.

✅ Celebrate effort, not just results
Regardless of how your child thinks they went, praise their effort and positive attitude. NAPLAN is just one part of their learning journey.

✅ Keep conversations light
Avoid dwelling on how your student performed. Instead, focus on other things they enjoyed about their day and remind them that learning happens every day, not just in tests.

✅ Encourage fun and relaxation
Try and plan some enjoyable activities after school to help your child unwind. Play, creativity, sports and social time are just as important as academics. 

Harmony Day

Next week is Harmony Week and our school is celebrating Harmony Day on Friday 21^st March. Harmony Day is a day where we come together to celebrate the cultural diversity we have in our community and to spread the message that ‘everyone belongs’ at Bulimba.

On Friday, students are invited to wear cultural clothing or the colour orange.

Your child may be curious about Harmony Day or ask questions about why orange is the colour we wear in support of cultural diversity on Harmony Day. Orange was chosen because it represents meaningful communication, freedom of ideas and the encouragement of mutual respect. For us here at Bulimba, these connect strongly with our Bulimba Bee values and are also enacted through classroom circle time practices and restorative conversations.

Classes connect with Harmony Day in a variety of ways. Often this is through sharing stories, reading books that have diversity as a theme, creating individual or collaborative artworks, listening to music or exploring maps. However it’s celebrated, Harmony Day is marked by our school because it’s about coming together to share, learn and appreciate the rich diversity we have right here in our school community.