On Friday, Week One our Middle Years Student Voice Representatives where presented with their rep badges and had a morning tea to celebrate all the great work they have been doing so far.

By Jo Heward

The ILC was lucky enough to be chosen as a site to host a mural as part of the Wall to Wall Street Art Festival, from 12-14th April. The Festival was presented by The Rural City of Murray Bridge, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, Australian Government RISE fund and Juddy Roller. The mural was one of 5 completed in Murray Bridge during this time and adds to another existing 5 already in the town.

NSW based artist Stephanie Cartledge designed The Paint-by-Numbers mural titled "Current Connections", which celebrates local flora and fauna, highlighting underwater river life.  It was great to watch Stephanie go through the whole process of adding her design to the wall and then seeing it come to life through painting.  ILC students and staff had the opportunity to contribute to the painting of the mural as did many community members. 

By Andrew Bermingham

This past Sunday MBHS hosted a scrimmage for FTC Robotics. In addition to our four teams, we also welcomed teams from community robotics groups, the RoboRoos from Tonsley and the Pop Ups from North-Eastern Adelaide.

One of our teams (the Bunyips) was part of the winning alliance and achieved several high scores, thanks to the incredible autonomous coding and driving skills. However, all of our robotics students deserve a shout out for their efforts leading up to and on the day.

Quite a few members of the local community came out to support our school, and help raise money via the sausage sizzle, which was run by some amazing volunteers. We hope to keep hosting scrimmages here at least once per year so, if you missed this one, there will be more opportunities in the future.

Finally, I want to give an extra thanks to the students who gave up their Saturday afternoon to make sure that everything was ready on time.

By Shana Weston

Murray Bridge High School has made some exciting updates to this year's extra-curricular school sports program. 

Here's what we have on offer this year:

• Club Sports: We're offering Volleyball, Soccer, and Pedal Prix. These sports involve regular training sessions where students refine their techniques, enhance their fitness levels, and build lasting friendships with teammates.
• Knockout Sports: The Knockout Sports on offer are AFL, Basketball, Cricket and Netball. Knockout Sports entail competitions where teams compete against other schools in a knockout style of competition.

To ensure everyone gets a chance to participate, and we can provide adequate school supervision and support, this year's school sport will follow the following structures: 

Knockout Sports on Offer:

	Term 1 Summer	Term 2 Winter	Term 3  Winter	Term 4 Summer
AFL		Year 9 & 10 boys  Year 11 and 12 boys	Year 7 & 8      boys
Basketball		Year 7 and 8 boys Year 11 and 12 boys		Year 9 and 10 boys
Cricket				Year 7 and 8 boys Year 9 and 10 boys
Netball		Year 7 and 8 girls Year 9 and 10 girls Year 11 and 12 girls

Club Sports on Offer:

Volleyball Club

Soccer Club

Pedal Prix

One off Sports:
SANTOS Athletics

To actively engage in these extra-curricular School Sports opportunities, students must meet the following success criteria. This success criteria apply over a 5-week cycle:

• Achievement: No Red Traffic Lights and No E Grades in school reports
• Attendance: Unapproved absence is less than 10%
• Behaviour: No Suspensions 

Any questions regarding our School Sports offerings, please contact Shana Weston, Healthy Lifestyles Senior Leader.
 

The Year 12 PE and Sports Studies class’ recently immersed themselves in a three-day aquatic program focusing on windsurfing and sailing. This experience enabled students to develop and refine essential skills for their assessment tasks whilst encouraging them to embrace new challenges, building teamwork skills and resilience along the way. 

Congratulations to MBHS student  Ava, who recently played in the South Australia 17U State Netball Team. The SA team brought home the gold after defeating WA in the National Netball Championships Final. Congratulations to Ava for this impressive achievement.

By Helen Peake

At the start of term 3 (last week in July and week one of August) the school is again expecting to host a group of students from Funabashi High School in Japan. At this stage we are unsure of how many students will be coming but, at this stage, we are looking for people to express an interest in hosting one of these students.

The students have varying ability in speaking English but that is the prime focus of their coming to stay in our homes for 2 weeks and to study here at Murray Bridge High School. Our host families generally see a vast improvement both in the students' speaking ability as well as their confidence in those two weeks. The students do not have to have their own room - they are able to share.

We receive profiles about the students enabling host families to choose a student who they think will fit in with their family. The school provides the students with a number of excursions while they are here (to which host buddies are often invited). There is no expectation for special meals to be cooked or special treats - the Japanese students are just treated like one of the family.

There is some money paid to host families in order to assist with covering costs while the student is in the home.

If you are at all interested in becoming a host family please do not hesitate to contact me at the school. Should you require any further information again please contact me via email and I will be happy to answer any questions you may have. helen.peake92@schools.sa.edu.au.

Please note this is an expression of interest only. We understand that circumstances change and families may not be able to host even though they have expressed an interest. At times we also have the situation where we cannot place a student in a home but we will work through that once we know how many students are coming.

2025 Introduction to High School and Tour evenings are being held on Wednesday 15th May and Monday 20th May at 5:30pm, for families of current year 6 students in both government and non-government schools. No booking required and all are welcome to attend. 

Thurs 2/5 - Tues 7/5	Caregiver-Teacher Meetings 3.45-5.30pm
Tues 7/5	10 English Excursion
Thur 9/5 Fri 10/5	Year 11 Outdoor Ed - Aquatic Camp
Fri 10/5	Year 10 Adelaide Career Expo - Adelaide SG
Tues 14/5	School Tour - 4.00pm
Tues 14/5	Finance Committee - 5pm
Wed 15/5	Year 11 VET Engineering Bowhill excursion
Thurs 16/5	Immunisation Catch Ups
Fri 17/5	Yr 10 CA - Media & Photography Excursion
Mon 20/5	Introduction to High School Night & School Tour 5:30pm
Tues 21/5	Governing Council  - 6pm
Wed 22/5 - Fri 24/5	Year 12 Outdoor Ed - Mambray Camp
Mon 27/5 - Fri 31/5	Reconciliation Week
Mon 27/5	German Excursion to Hahndorf Year 9-10
Mon 27/5 - Thurs 30/5	SAASTA Power Cup
Thurs 30/5	Student Free Day
Fri 31/5	Student Free Day
Mon 3/6 - Wed 5/6	Year 11 Outdoor Ed - Deep Creek Camp
Thurs 6/6	School of Rock Musical - Opening night 7pm
Fri 7/6	School of Rock Musical - 7pm
Sat 8/6	School of Rock Musical - 12pm & 7pm
Mon 10/6	King Birthday Public Holiday
Tues 11/6	School Tour - 4.00pm
Mon 17/6 - Fri 21/6	10 Career Immersion Week
Tues 25/6	Governing Council  - 6pm
Thurs 27/6 - Fri 28/6	Year 12 Outdoor Ed - Camp
Mon 1/7	Year 11/12 career expo Tertiary options & Defence Force
Tues 2/7	School Tour - 4.00pm
Fri 5/7	Last Day of Term 2, 2pm dismissal

Students and families who have inadequate or no access to internet at home are eligible to apply for a free internet connection to support learning. 
There are 2 options available to eligible families:
•    wireless internet access from the Department for Education through the student home internet program
•    NBN broadband internet access until December 2025 from the Australian Government through the School Student Broadband Initiative.
You might be eligible if you:
•    have a school aged child
•    don’t have reliable home internet access or have no active NBN broadband connection.
Find out more about what options are available and how parents and carers can apply by visiting the department’s website

here