Our Explicit Improvement Agenda

Student Voice and Agency

Planning for Improved Student Learning

Celebrations of Learning - Harmony Day and Footsteps Dance Company!

Students have been very busy this week rehearsing their Harmony Day dance with Footsteps Dance Company for their presentation at Assembly on Friday 24 March.  We are also very much looking forward to celebrating our community diversity, encouraging students to wear their cultural dress or the colour orange for our Harmony Day celebrations on Thursday 23 March.  We will begin our Harmony Day celebrations on Thursday with a whole school liturgy at 9.00 am.  More information on Harmony Day celebrations on Thursday 23 and our Assembly on Friday 24 March is included below in the newsletter.

NAPLAN

Our warmest congratulations to our Year 3 and Year 5 students on their approach to NAPLAN Writing test held on Wednesday this week.  The NAPLAN Reading test will be held tomorrow (Friday 17 March) and Conventions of Language (Tuesday 21 March) and Numeracy (Wednesday 22 March) tests will be held next week.  The NAPLAN timetable is attached to the newsletter for your information.

In the newsletter this week, you will find news from our specialist learning areas - Music and Drama Club.  You will also find on display in the Admin foyer are Year 6 students’ samples of learning on 'Health &Wellbeing - Our Identity'.  A big thank you to all our students for their contributions to our displays - it is great to see our students’ voice and agency through work samples around our school..

2024 Foundation Enrolments

Attention current families! If you have a child starting school next year and have not yet returned their enrolment form to the office, please do so as a matter of urgency.  Enrolments for Foundation 2024 are now open to the wider community and are filling fast. 

If you would like a guided tour by our Year 6 Student Leaders, please call the office 8794 5777 to arrange a time.  Our open days are Tuesday 28 March and Thursday 30 March, 2023 - 9.30 am to 10.30 am and 5.00 pm to 6.00 pm.

Program Support Group (PSG) Meetings

PSG Meetings will be held over the next two weeks.  The PSG meeting focus is to review and monitor student plans such as a Personalised Learning Plan [PLP], Student Adjustment and Evaluation Plan [SAEP], Behaviour Support Plan [BSP] and/or Safety Plan.  The PSG also provides an opportunity to work in partnership with parents, the student and other professional agencies for improved student learning outcomes.  We look forward to our PSG meetings beginning next week.

A big thank you to those families who have so kindly donated to our Easter Raffle.  If you still wish to donate, please send donations to the office by next Monday morning 20th March.  Our thanks also to the group of volunteer parents who are collating raffle tickets, putting together the prize baskets and selling tickets.  Your help is most appreciated. 

Raffle tickets will be sent home with the eldest child next Thursday 23rd March ($2 per ticket) and are due back by Tuesday 4th April.  The raffle will be drawn on the last day of term, Thursday 6th April.