Stories and highlights

Over the past year, our Year 6 students have been working hard to fundraise for a special gift to leave behind for our school community: five new shaded picnic benches.

A huge thank you to our families and community for supporting Year 6’s fundraising efforts. When you’re next dropping off or picking up your children, take a moment to check them out!

It's a yearly tradition for our Year 6 students to make the trek to Canberra to visit our nation's capital. The students of John Palmer Public School always represent our school with pride as they visit important monuments and make memories together.

We are delighted to share that on 4th September, Siddharth in Year 3, received a Highly Commended Award for Community Language at a ceremony organised by the NSW Department of Education.

This annual ceremony recognises students who demonstrate significant growth and achievement in different community languages. Siddharth was selected from among hundreds of students studying the Nepalese language across NSW, which made the recognition even more special. Congratulations Siddharth!

The Stage 3 Debating team has had a very busy start to Term 3. Both teams debated against Barnier P.S and won. Our last debate in the rounds was JPPS versus JPPS, with the Dragons coming out victorious. John Palmer was successful in becoming Zone Champions! All of the students have made amazing contributions to the debating team and their skills have improved. We look forward to building on this success next year.

In July, our students competed in the Sydney West Orienteering Championship. The individual results were as follows: Blake 1st, Toby 3rd and Hudson 8th, Abigail (Year 5) 3rd and Isabelle (Year 6) 3rd.

In the teams event, the boys team came first, narrowly edging out the girls team (who came second), by just 2 seconds. They competed against 400 other students so these were excellent results! Congratulations!

5 JPPS cross country superstars competed at the STATE carnival in July! They have trained tirelessly for this event, and each of them ran with grit and determination. Congratulations, Jalen (27th), Abbey (39th), Abigail (19th), Bailey (43rd) and April (29th).