Dear Parents & Community Members,
This edition of our Newsletter will be the final one for 2022. A special "Presentation Assembly" edition will be published next week and include some final, last minute reminders.
Please allow me to take this opportunity to thank all members of our school community for the wonderful support provided throughout the year. Our first term proved problematic as COVID continued to impact our community, although this only helped highlight how resilient we are as a school community.
This thanks extents especially to our super supportive School Board and wonderful P&C for all the support we have enjoyed this year. I look forward to welcoming all members of the community who have supported our school in any way at the 'Thank You Morning Tea" next Thursday. I would also like to acknowledge the wonderful efforts of the entire staff at our school - these people are integral to maintaining the high calibre learning programs we successfully implement.
Student Reports will be distributed on Monday (December 12) via Connect. This is a terrific opportunity to celebrate the successes your children have enjoyed at school this year. Please take the time to read the report with your child, recognising achievement and highlighting those areas identified for further development. Please also keep in mind, a "C" grade means your child has made sound achievement across the year and met all requirements for the relevant learning area.
Finally, at this time of the year, I take great pleasure in sharing the success of our Year 3 to 5 students challenged by the Literacy Pro strategy. Essentially, this entails students reading books (assessed to be at everyone’s reading level) and undertaking online quizzes. For words to be counted in this total, the quiz must be passed, i.e., with a score of 80% obtained. The last time I checked the total to date for 2022, our students had read over 37 000 000 words – congratulations to all these children.
Peter Meston
Principal