Message from the Principal 

MONDAY MADNESS

One of the highlights of our school week is Monday Madness. Every Monday morning, our Principal Team and some of our specialist staff organise an active and fun way to start the week. It is also one of the ways in which we enable our students to build their feeling of connection to Greenhills. The photos show last week where we had skipping ropes and elastic games out for students to use. Of course, there is also some music pumping to add to the vibe and if you have a song for our growing play-list please see Janine, Brad or myself.

JUNGLE BOOK LOGO COMPETITION

Congratulations to Emrys D. one of our Yr. 2 students for winning our Jungle Book Logo Competition. We were blown away with both the number and quality of entries and our office staff who were judges had the very difficult task of deciding on our winner. This logo will now be used to promote our whole school production.

CONTINUOUS REPORTING PROGRAM & SEMESTER 1 REPORTS

Our teachers are currently organising Semester 1 reports, which include a snapshot of each student’s progress across curriculum areas over the past 6 months, a student self-reflection comment and a general teacher comment. These Semester reports are part of our Continuous Reporting Program.

We introduced Continuous Reporting based on your feedback with the aim of providing parents and carers with more frequent communication about your child/ren’s progress in a way that is timely to when the learning task was completed. In this way you can share more insight into the curriculum standard and level your child is working at and more importantly the next steps in their learning. 

One of the benefits of Continuous Reporting is that you do not have to wait until the end of each semester to find out about your child’s progress.

Whilst each work sample that is part of our continuous reporting program is assessed via a set of criteria set out in a grid format (rubric) it is important to know that this assessment is made based on what the student was able to demonstrate on a specific day and through this specific task. It is very hard to replicate the full range of curriculum standards that are assessed in any one work sample. Please remember that whilst a student may be assessed as working above or below a specific level for any individual task, their overall achievement standard as recorded in the Semester reports (Progression points) may be different. These progression points are based on multiple work samples and observations by our teachers over the entire semester.

WHAT’S COMING UP…

Next week is Review Week. This is where our teaching teams spend the day together reviewing student assessment and evaluating the curriculum areas they have taught. This then guides their planning for the start of next term. To facilitate this, a different timetable is run where each year level has all of their specialists on the one day (and possible also a casual relief teacher through the day as well).

REVIEW WEEK TIMETABLE

Monday 3rd June – Year 1 & Year 4 Teams

Tuesday 4th June – Year 5 Team

Wednesday 5th June – Prep Team

Thursday 6th June – Year 3 & Year 6 Teams

Friday 7th June – Year 1 & Year 2 Teams.

Tuesday 18th June - House Athletics Carnival (Years 3-6).

Semester 1 Reports - Wednesday 26th June

Last Day Friday 28th June 2.30pm Finish

James Penson 

Principal