St Bede's Primary School Newsletter

Bienvenue à notre école - Welcome to our school

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Issue 38 · 04 Dec 2025

Vision for Engagement -our over arching expectations and engagement practices Part 5 of 6.

Enabling Motivation

Research shows that motivation predicts school achievement and positive test results. Student motivation changes based on factors such as the task the student is undertaking and their motivational state. The things we teach in school are often not what we are naturally motivated to learn. This is because school focuses on knowledge that most students cannot learn without being formally taught. Academic struggle can be highly demotivating, so effective teaching is an important link in the engagement chain.Teachers pay a pivotal role in motivating students by ensuring that they are teaching explicitly and progressively, and cumulatively building student's knowledge and skills.

At St Bede's we strive to:

Establish norms focused on learning excellence.
Provide explicit instruction for all.
Create ways for students to track their own progress.
Build a learning culture where it is ok to make mistakes.
Assist students to develop self-regulation and executive functioning skills.

Academic Competition Results

Next week (Monday 8th December) the following students will be receiving an award for their achievement in one of the following competitions:

ICAS Maths and

The Australian Mathematics Competition

Please note only Credit, Distinction and High Distinction certificates are handed out at an assembly. All other certificates would have come home in an envelope with your child recently.

Amanda Martin

Deputy Principal/Learning Diversity Leader

Oscar Menea Noah Lim Piper Koetsier Bernice Lau

Lachlan Curtis Son Ba Nguyen Joelle Whelan
Lucas Chew Liam Chew Rhen Chan
Liam Vassilacos

Giuliano Zuccarelli Jayden Aggarwal Albert Tran

Benjamin Curtis Noa Tyler Henry Le