Message from our
Campus Principal
Dan Swallow
Dan Swallow
Term 3
SCHOOL REVIEW
This week, our school has begun its four-yearly review of our Strategic Plan. This is a rigorous process that sees independent reviewers from outside the College investigate our work. The Reviewer has been talking with students, parents and staff, observing teaching taking place and looking over our data to identify our successes and help us establish the goals for the school to focus on for improvement. We look forward to hearing the conclusions of the Review Panel and sharing our new goals with you all as we continue to drive Kurnai College forward positively and further enhance the great work that has been done here in the last plan cycle.
PARENT TEACHER CONVERSATIONS
Parent Teacher (and student) Conversations are scheduled to operate on the last two days of term. This is a really important part of the partnership between schools and families and we strongly encourage you to participate. We will be scheduling appointment times slightly longer (10 minutes each) to enable you to have a greater opportunity to explore your child’s successes in depth. We strongly encourage the participation of students in this process; they should be present to take responsibility for their successes and help develop plans to address any concerns in their learning. Please bring them along. School will finish at normal time on Thursday, 14th September, but we are not operating any classes on the Friday, 15th September to enable the conversations to take place.
STUDENT FREE DAY – 4th SEPTEMBER
We have one of our scheduled student free days on 4th September for staff to undertake professional learning. This day will be spent on our ongoing learning and implementation of the Berry Street Education Model which aligns us better with our feeder primary schools and helps us to support the needs of our students to engage with learning more readily every day. Staff will be engaging with this off-site and so our school site will be closed.
YEAR 10 CAMP
4th September is also the date our Year 10 Camp leaves for Tasmania. This is a big trip and we wish them well. While this camp is out, classes will continue from Tuesday to Friday for all Year 10s not participating. Please ensure that if your child is not on camp that they are attending school.
Mr Dan Swallow
Morwell Campus Principal