From the Principal

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

I welcome you to Term 2. 

I do hope you had a wonderful and Holy Easter celebration and were able to spend time with family and friends during this period of the school holidays.

We have had a very busy start to the school term. Our Year 12 students attended a VCE and Careers Expo and our Year 9 students have this week, been to camp Jungai. I have no doubt that our Year 12 and Year 9 students have enjoyed these experiences.

At St Augustine’s, we are committed to providing opportunities for our staff, students and parents to participate in liturgical celebrations alongside members of the St Augustine’s Parish Community. It was lovely to see our Year 12 and Foundation students come together last week, to celebrate a liturgy at St Augustine’s Parish. With COVID restrictions easing, our year group liturgies will continue throughout the term.

I would also like to take this opportunity to remind parents of our Wonder Woman's Breakfast. The Wonder Woman’s Breakfast will be held on the College grounds on Monday 9th May, outside St Augustine’s Church beginning at 8:00am. In addition to breakfast, I would also like to invite our Foundation to Year 4 parents and grandparents to join their child(ren) for a Mother’s Day Liturgy in St Augustine’s Church beginning at 9:10am followed by the opportunity to visit your child(ren)’s classroom. 

Next Tuesday, 10th May, we begin our NAPLAN testing for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students. NAPLAN results can support St Augustine’s improvement by enabling teachers to monitor their students’ progress over time against the national measure to identify strengths and areas to improve in teaching programs. It provides additional information to support teacher judgement about progress in a child’s level of literacy and numeracy attainment. NAPLAN also allows parents to see how their child is progressing against national standards in literacy and numeracy and over time. As students progress through their school years, it is important that checks are made along the way to see how well they are learning the essential skills of reading, writing and mathematics – skills that will set them upon the path to success as adults.

Jay Sutton

Principal