February 2025: School Swimming Carnivals and the Starlight Super Swim
This newsletter was originally sent to our families on 17 February 2025. Dates, prices and offers were correct at the time it was sent.
School swimming carnivals
We would like to wish all of our young swimmers who are representing their school in the upcoming District Swim Carnivals the very best of luck. Congratulations on making your school team!
Shawn and some of his team like to attend these carnivals to support our swimmers where possible. If your child is participating in their inter-school carnival, please email Shawn at shawn@shawnsswimschool.com.au to let him know your child's name, the school they represent and the date of their carnival.
Starlight Super Swim fundraiser
This February, a group of our staff are taking part in the Super Swim Challenge to raise funds for the Starlight Children's Foundation.
Did you know that every minute of every day a sick child is admitted to hospital in Australia? Serious childhood illness doesn't just impact a child's health. It can turn their whole life upside down, causing them to miss out on spending time with their family, building friendships, going to school and just living their life.
Australia has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, but sick children and young people need more than the exceptional care that our clinicians can offer. They need the social and emotional support that lets them be a child. Starlight uses play, social connection and creativity to support sick kids in some of their toughest times and positively change their healthcare experience.
It would mean so much to our team of staff (called The Buoys) if you'd support their challenge, because together we can make a real difference for sick kids. Donate to The Buoys here.
Speech pathology vacancies
Clinton, an educational speech-language pathologist with 15+ years' experience, has launched Taking Flight Speech, Language and Literacy! It offers mobile paediatric speech pathology services to home, school and community settings in both Western Melbourne and Inner Melbourne suburbs, plus telehealth for clients including those in regional Victoria and NSW.
Taking Flight Speech, Language and Literacy are:
- Educational Certified Practising Speech Pathologist (CPSP), with clients aged between 4 and 18 years of age
- Highly competent in speech sound production, oral language (receptive and expressive language), literacy (reading, spelling and writing), social skills (pragmatic language), emotional regulation and inclusive education
- Medicare registered, for Medicare rebates (e.g. Chronic Disease Management plans)
- Services eligible for private health rebates with extras cover (rebates vary between private health funds)
- Able to support self-managed and plan-managed NDIS clients
For more info, check out www.takingflightspeech.com.au and follow @takingflightspeech on Instagram.
Staff shoutouts
Each week, we'll be asking our staff to highlight students who have stood out to our teachers through their hard work, kindness or achievements. These shoutouts celebrate their efforts and recognise their contributions to our swim school community. Congratulations to all our Preps who have started school this year and moved to our afterschool programs. You have all handled the transition like champions!
Warm regards,
Shawn & the team at Shawn's Swim School
