Lawley Languages: Car Rally - Languages Parent Support Group

Thank you so much to Sondra Tate and the LPSG parents who planned, organised and coordinated the inaugural LawleyLanguage Car Rally. Congratulations to the Shilkin family (Lily Year 8 GATE Italian) who were the winners for 2010 ! Merci beaucoup to our Languages Assistant, Joelle who placed photos on Picasa. I have placed the links below. We have a wonderful school community that provides our students and families with fantastic opportunities to explore, share and enrich their lives with language and culture. Thank you again to Sondra for organising t-shirts for the GATE Language students, the P&C for financing them, Nic Beames for the logo and Michael Camilleri for allowing the students to wear them during Languages Week. As you can see below, they look fantastic, Languages for Life !

On Sunday 1^st August the MLSHS Languages Parent Support Group held their first Car Rally Fundraiser Event. We perhaps should have checked to see if anyone had a fear of popping balloons before we started but we weren’t to know. The weather was perfect as

our excited crowd set out with their list of instructions (which they should have read first) and collection bag (one handful of sand would have been plenty!). They struggled with ominous directions and overly enthusiastic family members to answer questions along the way such as “what is the colour of the slide in the next playground” or “what is the colour of the letterbox at No. 72?”. One Mintie in the bag either caused an argument or was silently eaten to avoid one. (The argument started later). There was an out of car excursion or two to stretch the legs and collect various items (a piece of limestone for example) and afterwards we enjoyed a picnic on the lawn in Kings Park overlooking our beautiful city. The cars all finished well within the two hours we anticipated with the exception of a few who either ended up in Quinns or the City or somewhere that is still in question as this is written. They were given up for lost until we received a call (as we were all starting to depart) announcing their arrival. (They couldn’t stay for lunch anyway…whew! ). Ten out of ten for finishing you two (you know who you are!). Many thanks to all who participated and we look forward to seeing you and other enthusiasts again next year.