Our Explicit Improvement Agenda

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Planning for improved student learning

CELEBRATIONS OF LEARNING

Junior Swimming Program

Our Junior students have loved attending their intensive Swimming program this week at Paul Sadler Swim School.  The intensive swimming lessons form part of our Foundation to Year 6 progression of learning in swimming towards the Victorian Water Safety Certificate (VWSC).  The VWSC is a Victorian Government initiative, which describes specific competencies that should be achieved by the time students reach the end of primary school.  The competencies include:

• Water Safety knowledge
• Swim (continuously for 50 metres)
• Under Water (surface dive, swim underwater and search to recover an object)
• Lifesaving (respond to an emergency by demonstrating DRSAB and the recovery position)
• Rescue Skills (rescue a person using non-swimming rescue techniques)
• Survival Sequence (perform a survival sequence wearing light clothing)

Middle and Senior students will be attending Paul Sadler Swim School later on this Term.  Dates are includes in the Term 4 School Events and Dates section of the newsletter.    

Grandparents Mass and Morning Tea 

Thank you to all Grandparents, Special people, students and staff for a beautiful Grandparents Mass and Morning Tea last Friday.  It was a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge the very important role grandparents play in our lives and to celebrate the special kind of love only a grandparent can give.  The photos below capture the essence of the a very memorable morning . . .

What’s on in this week’s newsletter 

In this week’s newsletter you will read about our Foundation students’ swimming experiences, Parish Prayer group information, Remembrance Day service on Friday 10 November and World Teacher’s Day this Friday 27 October.

Important Dates and School Events for the remainder of the 2023 School year

& the start of 2024