Professional Development

I have been in Melbourne for the past few days with a group of Principals and staff members from the Catholic Education Office visiting some school that have been idenitified as high performing schools in Australia. I was asked to be part of the group to make some comparisons with our own school improvement journey that we are undertaking through the Literacy and Numeracy Action Plan. In Term 4 we are expecting Principals from other schools to be visiting our school to look at some of the changes we have made in pedagogy in our school. Data is showing us that our K-2 students are making great progress in reading and writing. I will report more on my trip in the future.

Retirement of Father Dermid 

Our warmest wishes and thanks go out to Father Dermid our parish priest in his retirement. The school community thanks him for all his support of the school especially his guidance in all spiritual matters. We look forward to our new parish priest (Fr Joshy) who will arrive in term 4. Father Lolesio is moving to Cootamundra parish. We thank him for his work in our school.

Ready Set Go

Our Kinder Readiness programme has finished for the year. It is a whole staff effort supported by our students that makes this programme work. We hope the families involved have enjoyed their visits to our school. We have about 32 students for Kinder next year. We will always welcome more. We look forward to meeting new Kinder families at our Information evening on the 29th of October and orientation visits on the 5th and 12th of November.

Naplan

Results have been sent home.Please remember that this was the first time students have done the test online and we learnt some lessons to support students when using this platform in the future.Please make an appointment with your child's teacher if you want discuss their results or any aspect of their learning. We do not arrange anymore formal interview times this year however staff are more than happy to discuss students progress at any time.