We are looking forward to seeing our family tonight at our celebration night! Fingers crossed the weather holds up for everyone to enjoy a night of entertainment, BBQ and fun activities for the kids.

Please make your way to the small oval for a 5pm start. All students must be accompanied by a parent or carer.

A few weeks ago we had a fabulous evening with about 40 parents celebrating our schools successes and discussing opportunities and wonderings for further improvement.

Please see the summarised feedback below. We have been evaluating your feedback over the past couple of weeks and working out a short term and long term plan for improvement.

Feedback from parent forum..

Wins

Opportunities

Wonderings

- Various programs/offers to meet student needs

- Healthy Eating and Breakfast Club

- Genuine care and excellent wellbeing support

- Wellbeing Room, access to wellbeing support staff

- Respectful Relationships

- Peaceful Kids

- Zones of regulation

- Well established Nurture Room program

- Nurture room learning brought into the classroom

- Kitchen Garden

- Grounds and Green Space

- Buddy program – reading pairs between older and younger grades

- Merit system

- Children becoming aspirational, working towards goals

- Collective efficacy – belief in school

- Gender education

- Consistent use of language in communication with students

- Developing leadership skills through assemblies, and using the language of values

- Wide range of roles and responsibilities across year levels

- Variety of sports offered, opportunities to try new sports and attend events

- Situations taken seriously, with communication and action being undertaken

- Proactive approach to undesirable behaviours

- Family Events – science fair, book week, art show, pizza and paper planes. Sense of community encouraged.

- Connections between school and home (Mr Boxer related in some way)

- Opportunities for parents to visit classrooms aside from drop off and pick up

- SeeSaw allowing video and photo sharing, which students are aware, and I favour, of.

- Good time variation for parent events

- Humanities connection to culture

- Mini Hands On Learning program for younger students

- Include younger year levels in Kitchen Garden

- More buddy activities

- Succession planning for Wellbeing team and Nurture Program

- Additional staff - allied health professionals, psychologists

- Link with TAFE or likewise in agriculture to help with the school grounds

- Jimmy transition plan

- ChatGPT

- Humanities connection to culture

- Canteen/lunch orders

- Healthy eating learning

- Social activities for kids (school disco, end of year concert)

- Family event Term 1

- Consistent approach to communication via Compass and SeeSaw?

- Condense/streamline communication

- Humanities connection to culture, access to specialist language teachers?

- Consistency in the merit system? Make this a higher priority, given the connection between language and literacy?

- Have 1 person responsible for opportunities and grants regarding philanthropic approach (for literacy resourcing)

- More notice to working families about school events and curriculum days

- Structured literacy 2024?

Over the next week teachers will be preparing students to work in their new class groups on Tuesday 12th December. On the 11th December we will send home your child’s class allocation, a summary of grades and teacher allocations, specialist subjects and additional staff roles. We will also provide instructions on where your child meets their new class on the morning of the 12th and where they will be dismissed from.

Next year we farewell 2 staff members;

Ms Ronnie Couch has accepted a position at Horsham College
Ms Christie Locke will welcome a new addition to their family in January and begin family leave.

Next year we welcome and welcome back;

Ms Georgia Thomas – classroom teacher
Ms Jess Turland Rhook – classroom teacher
Ms Bec Etherton – classroom teacher (2 days per week)

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KINDNESS, RESPECT, INCLUSION, PERSEVERANCE

Issue 38 · 30 Nov 2023

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