Principal's Report
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
SPELLATHON
Thank you to all who have sent in the money for the Spellathon. Prize winners for fundraising will be announced at the end of term assembly. All your support is greatly appreciated. Our Spelling Bee competition was a very exciting event and great fun. We hope it will be part of our House Points competition every year. Thanks to Mr Angus for all his organisation. The money raised is being used to pay for all the new Chrome Books in the Library.
NORTHERN REGION ATHLETICS
Last Wednesday was our last year of hosting the regional athletics for a while. My thanks to all the helpers on the field and in the canteen. You all did a terrific job. Special thanks to Cathy McCarthy for such terrific organisation over the past 3 years. Your hard work is much appreciated.
DISCO
Our ‘P’ themed disco was a great success. People were very imaginative. I saw a; polygon, punk, penguin, princess, prince, policeman, pizza, pongo, principal, person, pancho, pyjamas, polar bear, panda –Just to name a few. Thanks for all the helpers.
CHALLENGING LEARNING
Our school is part of very important learning project in our diocese. Staff here are building our teaching skills to engage students and challenge them. One of the ways we are doing this is to challenge students to justify why they think in a certain way. A simple example is we ask a child a problem like “I have 2 oranges I buy 6 more –how many do I have?” They might jump in with the answer is “8”. They would then be challenged with "how do you know this" or "show someone else how you worked it out". This is what we call exploratory talk. Research has shown that this approach increases greatly the number of questions students ask and the number of solutions they come up with for problems. Therefore there is far more generated talk in the classroom about learning and this is great preparation for a lot of the ways organisations run these days.
‘In human societies there will always be differences of views and interests. But the reality today is that we are interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue’ (The Dalai Lama,1997)
REPORTS
End of Semester 1 reports are due to go out on the last day of Term – Friday 5th July. Please remember that another Parent/ Teacher interview can be requested in Term 3 if you wish to discuss any of the report.