Our Explicit Improvement Agenda

Student Voice and Agency

Planning for improved student learning

As we conclude another Term of learning, we congratulate our students on their efforts, creativity, dedication and commitment to their learning.  During Term 2 our Inquiry focus centred on Design & Technology and Science.  It was wonderful to see the many and varied designs and experiments students created and shared with their peers.

A very big thank you to Mary MacKillop Staff for their teamwork and support throughout the term.  As we continued to learn to live with COVID, a gastro outbreak and the flu, our staff worked together to pick up extra duties and classes, missed release times and specialist classes to ensure we did not end up in Remote Schooling.  Lize Privitera did an outstanding job in covering sick staff each morning so that student learning continuity, on-site at school, remained our number one priority.  These upcoming school holidays will certainly be a welcome break for all in our school community.

Staff Updates

Mrs Claire Giles (F-CG) will be commencing maternity leave from the beginning of Term 3 - Monday 11 July, 2022. We warmly welcomed Ms Gabriella Di Biase to F-CG this week to meet F-CG students and to work with Mrs Giles.   We wish Claire and her husband all the very best as they plan to welcome their little bundle of joy into their family.

Miss Tania Van Dam, our COVID-19 Tutor Teacher will be finishing the Tutor Program at the end of this Term.  Tania has been a valued and important member of staff this Semester, supporting our students through the COVID-19 Tutor Program, in addition to filling in for staff covering sick leave, COVID-19 and close contact leave.  We are most fortunate to have Tania employed in this role throughout Semester One and we wish her all the very best as she continues on her teaching journey.

SIMON Student Semester One Reports

The Semester One Reports were uploaded into PAM on Tuesday 21 June, 2022.  Parents are able to access their child’s digital report via PAM with the option to download and print or to view as a pdf document. Your child’s Term 2 Student Learning Portfolio will be distributed in the first week of Term 3 on Wednesday 13 July.  We ask parents to bring the Student Learning Portfolio to their child’s Student Learning Conversation on either Tuesday 19 July or Wednesday 20 July.  Student Learning Conversations will be held face to face in the Allen Hall.  We hope you find the Semester One Report and Student Learning Portfolio valuable documents to highlight and celebrate your child’s learning journey.

We have again attached instuctions on PAM below - page 7 has details on how to view student assessments.

Each year, schools complete the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability.  Students who received additional adjustments because of a disability (as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1992) are counted in the data.  Students who may require support with their learning such as specific learning disability, reading disability, health problems, physical disability, vision/hearing loss and social-emotional issues are some examples of students with disability.  Teachers use knowledge of the learning progressions, student progress and data, letters and/or diagnostic statements/reports from health professionals, evidence of learning adjustments/support in the classroom and/or on the playground to support whether a student is counted in NCCD.  NCCD data is collected in August each year.  Please find attached the NCCD Information Sheet for parents for further information.

Important Dates and events

Thursday 23 June - last day of Term 2 for students - school finishes at 3.15pm

Friday 24 June - Student free day (Staff Planning Day)

Monday 11 July - Term 3 begins at 8.45 am

Wednesday 13 July - Term 2 Student Learning Portfolios shared with parents

Tuesday 19 July - Student Learning Conversations (Parent Teacher Interviews)

Wednesday 20 July - Student Learning Conversations (Parent Teacher Interviews)