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Extra-Curricula Activities
Gardening Club
All students can participate in the Gardening Club on Mondays at lunchtime. These children participate in planting, mulching, watering, weeding, worm farming and other environmental activities.
Chess
Students in Years 2-6 participate in before school chess lessons in Semester 1. Students can also choose to participate in an inter-school chess competition.
Lunchtime activities
During lunch time, children can choose to play outside or participate in indoor passive play activities. Outside options include soccer, handball, skipping, tag games or just chatting and imaginative play with friends. Passive play inside includes board games, reading , drawing, computer games and other quiet activities.
Instrumental Programs
Students in Years 2-6 can participate in the school's Orchestra, drumming group, guitar group or keyboard group. Students receive in-school performance and tuition as well as before or after school lessons. Additional, reasonable fees are required for these excellent opportunities. The school also has a lunchtime Recorder Consort in which students can play descant, tenor, treble, bass and sopranino recorders. These students perform at the Opera House each year.
Knitting Club
All students can participate in the Knitting Club on Wednesdays at lunchtime. Some "Grandparents" from Concord Community Hostel at Rhodes help our students to learn knitting. Lauraene Edmundson, one of our community members, coordinates the activities. The children have helped to knit blankets for sick animals at the Concord Vet Hospital, teddy bears for sick children at Westmead Childrens Hospital and blankets for the Exodus Foundation and "Wraps with Love".