It hasn’t just been kindergarten kids that have started at new schools around the Tweed Coast this month.
Tania Phillips caught up with more of the young kinder students at St Anthony’s, Kingscliff and Pottsville Primary.
However she also caught up with the new teachers at Kingscliff Primary School. This year the school has three new faces in the staffing ranks.
Amongst the new faces are year five-six teacher Schein Bee who has come to the area from Mungindi in the North West of the state while new year four teacher Tracey Aldridge joins Kingscliff Primary from the south – coming all the way up North from Bombaderry near Nowra on the South Coast of NSW.
Ms Aldridge is not only a new face but she has a new class, with the school getting a new demountable classroom to replace the former canteen and music room demountable which was moved at the end of term last year.
The other new face, year five teacher Ellen Williamsky is pretty well known in the Tweed already making the journey south from Centaur to take up her new position at Kingscliff.
The teachers and the new students from kinder and across the grades were officially welcomed on Friday night with the traditional “Welcome to School” barbecue and disco in the Kingscliff Public School hall. It was the first time the disco had been held in the hall.
