A Message from the Principal
Congratulations
Welcome to the end of a wonderful and busy Term 3. Congratulations to all students for your achievements and efforts over this term. I wish you and your families a wonderful break and look forward to a happy, healthy and productive Term 4 for all our staff, students and parents. Please stay safe over the holiday break and we will see you all on Monday 14th October.
Kindergarten 2020 Parent Information Night
Tonight we will be holding our annual Kindergarten parent information night. If you have a child starting school next year, please ensure you come along to gain valuable information about our upcoming orientation program and how you can best prepare your child for school. This will be held in the hall at 7pm. Thank you to our Kindergarten team for your organisation of this night.
NAPLAN
Today all students in Year 3 and Year 5 will be coming home with their NAPLAN results in sealed envelopes. Please take the time to read the information provided in the envelopes. NAPLAN tests the sorts of skills that are essential for every child to progress through school and life, such as reading, writing, spelling, grammar and numeracy. It is important to remember that NAPLAN is not about passing or failing, but about assessing learning progress at a point in time.
Tell them From Me Survey – please complete
This Term, our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.
Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements.
The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will be conducted between 2nd September and 25th October. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.
Information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au.
To access the survey for our school go to: http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/70hm
At present we have had only 27 responses, I urge all families to contribute as the information is invaluable in our school planning process. Thank you in advance for participating in this process.
Regional Athletics
Well done to all our students who participated in the Regional athletics carnival on Friday 13th September. A big congratulations to the following students who will be representing us at the State carnival next term: Miriam Gauld, Kalani Godinet Emily Hartland, Annabelle James and Isabella Muc.
Positive Stars Week 9
I had the lovely opportunity to see many students across the school last week for producing excellent work, demonstrating outstanding work habits and being exceptional learners. Well done to the following students on being Positive Stars in week 9. Levi, Aidan, Charlotte and Maliah in K Blue, Aidan B., Marli and Patrick B. in 3/4 Platinum. Keep up the great work and I can’t wait to see more students this week.
White Ribbon Men’s Morning
Thank you to the White Ribbon committee for your coordination and planning of the men’s morning last week. Despite the rain it was a huge success with a wonderful turnout. We hope you all enjoyed your cookies.
Have a wonderful week of learning!
Mrs Rebekah Murray
Rel. Principal
