Parents in Partnership

Learning Walks 

St Mary’s, as of this term, is hosting learning walks. A learning walk is a purposeful experience with an explicit focus that an audience can observe, learn from, question, and wonder about. A learning walks, is very different to a school tour. As St Mary’s has embarked on such significant changes in its learning programs, we would like to provide our parents with the opportunity to come, learn about, observe, and raise questions regarding the learning that is occurring in our classrooms so we can better partner in the learning trajectory. 

These walks are in small, intimate groups and will focus on one key curriculum area at a time. The groups will be no larger than ten people and will be hosted by key leaders with exceptional knowledge and understanding of what is happening in the learning environment. 

Each learning walk will begin with an introduction, expectations, and focus to ensure it is explicit and beneficial. Once the walk has concluded, the group will reconvene to debrief, question, and provide any feedback that may be helpful or affirming to our teaching staff. 

Dates of learning walks will be set each term, with a different curriculum area being the focus each time, so that our parent community can be well informed about what is happening in our learning environments. This term we will conduct a learning walk around Literacy which will be hosted by Mrs Ryan, Mrs Lloyd and Miss Adelia.  

If this is of interest to you, please watch out on Compass next week to register. Learning walk registrations will close once full, or 24 hours prior.  

We hope to see many of you come along and learn more about our learning!

St Mary’s School Advisory Council  

St. Mary’s School Advisory Council is composed of active and committed members of our school community who are eager to learn and support the school as a system. Our SAC consists of 11 members, all participating in dialogue to problem-solve and advocate positively for St. Mary’s. The SAC meets approximately every six weeks to discuss priorities and challenges experienced in our community. Please feel free to chat with our SAC members if you see them! 

2025 School Advisory Council Members  

Inece Bray  

Fth Novie Lim  

Jacki Madgwick  

Bridget Curran  

Jemma Beer  

Rick Sellars  

Kimmie Cashin  

Tom Hunt  

Jasmine Ryan  

Brent Anstee 

CESL: Ben Fitzpatrick  

Meeting Summary 

St Mary’s SAC recently met and discussed;  

• Gratitude and appreciation of SAC members from CESL  
• Child Safeguarding; policies, education, legislation and procedure  
• Enrolment & Marketing for St Mary’s 
• Capital Works progress: exploring partnerships with Campaspe Council for future works to serve the community  

St Mary’s advisory council will next meet on 20th August 2025