Our Explicit Improvement Agenda

Student Voice and Agency

Planning for Improved Student Learning - key focus in Mathematics

Celebrations of Community

Thank you to all our mums, grandmothers, aunts and special people who came to celebrate our Mother’s Day breakfast and morning tea last Friday.  We had over 450 guests to mark this very special occasion.  A very big thank you to our ‘dad’ helpers - David (Emilia and Elijah’s dad), Greg (Layla and Zac’s dad), Peter (Alexandra’s dad), Christian (Harry’s dad), Luke (Alyssia’s dad) and Sam (Mrs Knight’s husband) - it was fantastic to have the support of our dads for the cooking of our bacon and egg rolls.  Also a very thank you to our staff for their tireless work to ensure our mums felt very special and loved.  

Celebrations of Learning

Congratulations to our Senior students on participating in the Winter Lightning Premiership yesterday.  Our students are to be commended on their sportspersonship and the way they respectfully engaged in the competition.  Thank you to Mr Tim, our Senior Teachers and ESO Support Staff for their efforts to ensure all students had an amazing day.  Next week we have a number of students participating in District Cross Country.  More information on this event will be included in Mr Tim’s section of the newsletter.

Student feedback

Each week as a school community, we stop to reflect on the amazing things our students are collectively doing in their classroom and on the playground.  Here is this week’s feedback . . .

One morning last week I had the pleasure of visiting 3-CN. It was amazing to see so many learning qualities automatically taking place. Students were experts in creating valid success criteria to support their learning, and utilised these to work independently. Thanks 3-CN - it was fantastic to see! From Mrs Lane

At dismissal time, a huge number of students can be seen walking to their pick-up areas. These students are fantastic role models for others. Their choices improves our safety practices and fosters a peaceful environment at our school. Congratulations to the students who consistently model excellent behaviour.

Increased sickness in our Community and critical Teacher shortage

Unfortunately we have had a number of staff and students away sick and there seems to be a spike in the past few weeks of a range of illnesses.  If your child is sick and/or suffering from fever or an upset stomach, please keep them home to minimise any spread of infection or virus.  The Health Department also cautioned of increased COVID-19 cases in our area and we ask families to ensure they are putting into place measures to minimise contact/spread of the virus. 

As you are aware from media reports there is a significant teacher shortage across all schools in our State.  When our teachers are sick they are replaced with Casual Relief Teachers from Teacher agencies.  In the event that the Teacher Agencies are unable to fill the vacancy every attempt is made to ensure classes are not displanned into other grades/levels.  

A big thank you to our staff for their adaptability and flexibility and for our specialist teachers for being so accommodating in stepping into classes for the day, our ESO staff for working extra hours/days to support students and our part-time teaching staff for working extra days.  Where possible, we strive to ensure our students have familiar teachers. A big thank you to Lize Privitera for her expert organisation in the busyness of our school days most of which is done at 6.30 am in the morning and late into the evenings. Thank you also, to our parent community for their understanding in these very trying times of increased illnesses and significant teacher shortage.

School Advisory Committee (SAC) Meeting

Next Tuesday 21 May at 7.00 pm we will be holding our second SAC meeting for the 2024 school year.  The SAC comprises of nominated parent representatives and provides an opportunity for school staff and parents to work in partnership, share and discuss the many events happening in the life of our school.  Thank you to Lize Privitera (Deputy Principal) and Helen Fourna (Staff Representative) for their contributions to our SAC meetings and to our parent representatives Danielle (Imogen and Jenson’s mum), Stephanie (Charlotte and Amelie’s mum), Marina (Ava and Matteo’s mum), Louise (Emma’s mum) and Yogesh (Maya’s dad) for giving of their time, talents, insights and for working in partnership with us.