Principal Reflections
From the Principal - Alison
Dear Parents, Carers and Friends,
Welcome to St Edward's School for 2024! To all current families, welcome back. We trust you have enjoyed a wonderful Christmas and summer holiday with your children. To all our new families, we welcome you to the St Edward's school community and hope the start of your journey here at St Edward's is a happy and prosperous one. We look forward to working with all our beautiful children to improve our focus on student-centred learning, in a fun and safe environment.
We have made a great start in spite of the heat. Teachers have spent considerable time today talking to their students about our expectations in alignment with the Living Well Learning Well Framework. Quite simply, we have high standards in manners, conduct and the way we interact with others and always working in class to the very best of their potential and allowing our teachers and staff to do their job - which is quality teaching.
Our Vision for the year is simple:
With Christ as our guide, we aspire for our staff and students to be the best versions of themselves as we develop the capacity to make a positive difference in our world.
We ask for your support in helping us to maintain these standards across our school community by ensuring your child presents each day in their St Edward's school uniform, with a healthy lunchbox and water bottle and that good manners are consistently reinforced at home.
It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the wonderful staff who will care for and educate your child throughout 2024.
| Principal | Mrs Alison Hatton |
| Assistant Principal / Curriculum (Primary) | Mr Peter Flynn |
| Assistant Principal / Inclusion (Infants) | Mrs Amanda Sheridan |
| REC/ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leader | Mrs Sally Clarke |
| Leader of Inclusion | Mrs Belinda Barry-Cupples |
| Head of Curriculum and Pedagogy | Mr Andrew Millman |
| Literacy Support Teacher (Infants) | Mrs Rachel Kay |
| Inclusion Support Teacher | Mrs Rebecca Chapman |
| Inclusion Support Teacher/ Year 6 Teacher | Miss Kayla Urquhart |
| Instructional Coach and Sports Coordinator | Mrs Tash Gippel |
| Instructional Coach and RFF | Mrs Denikah Shields |
| Librarian (EA) | Mrs Carla Michell |
| RFF Team | Mrs Victoria Vlasoff |
| Mrs Jo Munro | |
| Mrs Natasha Marshman | |
| Mrs Adrianna Williams | |
| Mrs Amanda Thompson | |
| Full Time Casual | Mr Karl Short |
| Infants Teaching Staff | |
| Kindergarten | Mrs Marisa Cartan |
| Mrs Alex Brownsmith | |
| Mrs Lesley Ashton | |
| Year 1 | Mrs Stephanie Crouch |
| Miss Bridget Little | |
| Miss Carly Wilkes | |
| Year 2 | Miss Moira Watts |
| Mrs Cec Hankin | |
| Mrs Alicen Ward | |
| Mrs Rochelle Popplewell | |
| Primary Teaching Staff | |
| Year 3 | Mrs Emily Press |
| Mrs Taylor Mavin | |
| Mrs Kizzy Pearson | |
| Year 4 | Mrs Deb Rafferty |
| Mrs Emily Marshall | |
| Ms Renee Macguire | |
| Year 5 | Mrs Belinda Quayle |
| Ms Kaitlyn Cunningham | |
| Ms Caitlin Holman | |
| Year 6 | Mr Nick O'Neill |
| Mrs Stacey Smith/Miss Kayla Urquhart | |
| Mr Sam Casson |
Also our Education Assistants for 2024: Jen Maloney, Priscilla Collins, Rachel McRae, Sarah Irwin, Emily Blundell, Tara Wilson, Amanda Gwalter, Kat Ashford, Mackinlye Hodson, Toni McIlveen, Beth Barratt, Mei Gan, Kathryn Duffy, Jayden Scott, Jarrod Peachey and Brittany Cloake. James Craswell will continue to work part-time as an EA with a CAPA focus.
ICT Support: Eddy Williams
Our lovely office staff: Mel Salvestrin, Amanda Allen, Hannah Barnes, Ange Sauer, Sue Kellett, Robin Wilson, Monika Joubert and Kylie Fairlamb (Volunteer), as well as our canteen ladies: Emma Noad and Nikki Bridge. Last but certainly not least, the most important member of our team, our grounds and maintenance caretaker: Chris Cartan.
Finally, I would like to thank all the parents/carers and students for their support of our Meet and Greet Session yesterday. It was wonderful to see everyone arrive with a smile on their face ready to embrace the year ahead.
Thank you for choosing St Edward's School and we look forward to working with you throughout the 2024 Academic Year.
Our St Ed's Leadership Team for 2024....
Keep smiling,
Alison Hatton