Principal's News

 Dear Parents,

Congratulations to all the students who competed in the District Swimming Sports last Thursday. Thank you to Lisa Galvin for her excellent organisation and to staff who supported our students on the day. What a team of champions!

All students who competed on the day did so with such great positivity and resilience. What a great community we have, with so many parents attending to cheer the students on and make sure our students know they are part of a wonderful village. 

It was a brilliant day full of  stories of celebration and the outstanding attitude and positive relationships of our students in action. A special mention to Charlotte who has made it to the next level of the swimming program and will swim at the Zone event.

Saturday was a wonderful day at Balnarring's Emu Plains Reserve for the Womin Djeka festival. What a brilliant day of celebration for our first nations people, underpinned by our amazing local community showcasing, supporting and respecting the sacred story of this magnificent land! 

A huge congratulations to Karen and Anne from Balnarring Pre-school for their inspiring leadership in this area. 

A huge shout out to Lucette Talbot, Marissa Egan and Natalie Dullard, who led our stall at the festival and are inspirational in embedding, celebrating and highlighting the importance of ensuring our students and families respect and honour our first nations people. 

Thanks to all staff who attended the day and to so many of our families who were able to attend the festival. It was such a show of support for our beautiful school and our first nations people.

We continue with a high focus on ensuring every student reaches their full potential and achieves excellence and equity in their learning. The new vision for instruction strategy, as part of MACS 2030, focuses on these two important areas. We are very proud of all we are doing in our school as we are very much in line with the new strategy.

We explicitly teach through an instructional approach in regards to our Literacy and Numeracy with a high focus on each individual's learning style and cognitive load capacity. We then provide our students with wonderful opportunities to transfer this knowledge to real life situations where they can retrieve the information stored in their long term memory and flourish and make a difference in the world. 

Our themes below allow our students the opportunity to do this in high quality learning experiences.

I wish our Year 3 and 5 students all the best as they prepare for the upcoming NAPLAN testing period and we look forward to seeing them shine in their learning.

I will be leaving the school in the capable hands of my Vice Principal, Naomi Corfield, who will be acting Principal for the next three weeks, capably supported by our leaders Lisa Galvin, Amanda Strickland and Natalie Dullard. I am taking two weeks long service leave to celebrate the wedding of my daughter, Tahlia, and partner, Jeremy, and will then be attending the Victorian Catholic Principals Conference. I look forward to seeing you all in the last week of term.

Yours in Partnership,

Gab