A Word From Leadership
Re-enrolment Survey
An email was sent earlier this week to all school families regarding our 2024 re-enrolment survey. This survey requires action from all families.
It is at this time of year, thorough planning and preparation commences in preparation for 2024. The most critical piece of information that informs our planning and assists us to appropriately resource the school in support of student learning, is a clear understanding of our enrolment totals in each year level and Stage of learning.
Parents are reminded of the school's 'term in advance' notification policy. Late withdrawal of enrolment requires the payment of tuition fees for the following term. In the event that there is uncertainty about your child's future enrolment at Good Shepherd, indication now enables our support and administrative processes.
If you would like to discuss your child's enrolment at Good Shepherd, please contact Pauline Gilroy in the office or email here to arrange a conversation.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
Class Allocations 2024
We share the following information / procedure relating to the Class Allocation process for the following year.
In the final weeks of term 3, and over the coming holiday break, we will begin working towards the allocation of students to specific class groupings for 2024.
As our methodology and flexible learning environments continue to develop, in many respects, children’s ‘home classes’ become just one of their day-to-day groupings. Many of you would recognise in our current organisation, that to maximise learning opportunities, children may sometimes be organised in interest groups, even ability groups. We strive to be creative rather than restrictive when it comes to the needs of learners.
We are a school that reflects constantly on practice and approach all we do through a lens of ‘continuous improvement’. We feel the trust of the parent community and I am confident that our class allocation process is thorough and respectful of student needs. Thank you! However, we also recognise that for some parents, the allocation process creates high levels of anxiety.
Again, this year we ask for your respect and trust as we complete the process. Please refrain from requesting a specific teacher for your child(ren) or specific friendship groupings. The reason for this is simply that the broad range of factors we consider for each child, makes for an already detailed and complex process. We are simply unable to broadly and equitably meet such individual requests.
We celebrate the strengths, opportunities and positives provided to students when they are placed with the same cohort/teacher for 2 years. Feedback from students and parents supports our practice that students remain with their current teacher for 2 years e.g. from year 1 to year 2; year 3 to year 4; year 5 to year 6.
As always, if there is any information that you believe the school is not aware of or if there are any specific questions that you as parents have about our process, please get in touch.
New information that needs to be shared should be directed to the Principal (E: principal@gspv.sa.edu.au) in writing, not to classroom teachers or other school leaders.
Many thanks for your understanding and support of our process.
Book Week parade tomorrow!
Please note in your calendar: Friday 25th August
We are very excited to be celebrating Children’s Book Week this year. Our Book Week Parade will be happening tomorrow - Friday 25th August.
8.15am - Coffee van will be available for parents to purchase hot drinks.
8.30am - Parents will move from classrooms to stand behind bunting, near the middle primary playground, to form a guard of honour for our parade.
8.45am – Book Week Parade begins moving through the school and outside areas.
Students are invited to dress up as their favourite book character. If students are dressing up, they should also have a copy of the book that their character appears in, or a copy of the front cover of the book.