A Good Start to the Year

 Off to a Good Start

This year the LNPS staff agreed to spend the first 3 weeks of school focussing on  Q,V,K.

Q,V,K stands for the School Qualities, the School Values and the Keys to Success.

You may have seen the School Qualities around the school, or you may have heard our senior students talking about them in their graduate speeches! These are the 18 qualities that we aspire our students to achieve by the time they graduate from primary school. These student qualities were developed by the school community a few years ago.

Our 4 School Values are Care & Concern,

Pursuit of Excellence, Respect  and Honesty.

Your child may have received an assembly certificate  for demonstrating these values.

To become independent and successful learners in Torrens, children need to use the Program Achieve 5 Keys to Success.

These keys are Confidence, Organisation, Getting Along, Persistence and Resilience.

In our classes your children may be collecting Keys to success or discussing them,  you may even want to use these terms when talking to your children.

We encourage families to use these terms when talking about school.

  Acquaintance  

             Meetings

It was most pleasing to meet so many Torrens families in week 2. The majority of parents registered online and  took up the

opportunity to attend acquaintance interviews during that time.

Thank you for this opportunity to connect with families. Conversations early in the school year enable class teachers to hear more about current issues and concerns;  this helps us plan and facilitate appropriate curriculum learning for your child. In addition, the attendance by the majority of families is a very positive indicator of the home-school partnership supporting our students and the community support for our school.

Many families were represented at the 'Becoming More Independent' meeting in week 3. We were pleased to speak about some of our routines and ways of helping your student 'step up'.  Parents attending were able to view our learning spaces and meet and welcome some new families to our school community.