Although we are in the last term of the year, it is in no way quiet.  School Sports SA events, Book Week, Aquatics, Learn to Swim, end of year preparations, World Teachers' Day, student reports, class placements, transition to 2021, fundraising and Christmas are all on the schedule for the next 8 weeks.

Last week I had the privilege of attending District Athletics with our school team of 32 students who represented Pimpala in Division 1 for Onkaparinga North. Competing in Division 1 is quite hard as the competition is with other much larger schools than ours. It was so impressive to see our students not only being incredibly supportive of their team mates but also encouraging students from other schools and divisions.  A number of our students competed in age divisions which were above their chronological age to ensure we had representation in each event and demonstrated great pride and responsibility. 

As a result of such incredible team work Pimpala came second in the division with many places in first, second and third and this is the best result we have had in close to a decade. Eight of our students (who either won their individual event or placed across a number of events) are invited to represent Onkaparinga North at State Day on November 17th at Santos Stadium: Paige S. and Mahia T. - shotput, Taya M. - discus, Lily B. and Isaac E. - relay, Jada W. and Noah E. - long jump and Zemes H - 800m. Congratulations to the team and thank you to Mr. Henry Carey, Mrs. Deb Kemp and Ms. Elira Dixon for your work in preparing and supporting the team.

It is Book Week and due to COVID-19, it has a slightly different look this year. During the later part of Term 3, the Library began slowly being overtaken by a jungle in preparation for this year's theme of 'Curious Creatures, Wild Minds' and students can be involved in a Book Character Silhouette Hunt' around the school, making clothes pin puppets, curious creatures and a jungle hunt in the library under the leadership of the Library Monitors.