Middle/Senior Assistant Principal's Report

This week I want to celebrate the outstanding efforts of our Middle and Senior Students in a variety of forums. 

Our Year 3 and Year 5 students have sat their NAPLAN tests this week - for our Year 3 students, this marks their first experience with this type of assessment.  At Pakenham Springs we take the view that all students should have the opportunity to showcase their best learning at every possible opportunity - therefore we encourage all students to sit NAPLAN tests and to simply do their best. We believe that, through their learning journey at The Springs, all students will master the essential skills and knowledge they require in order to become respectful members of the local and global community.  NAPLAN is one measure of achievement on one day - students and parents are urged to maintain perspective when looking at NAPLAN results.  We are extremely proud of all students for using their confidence and persistence when completing these assessments this week.

This fortnight we also had our senior students showcasing their leadership abilities yet again - their assistance with the Mother's Day Stall (setting up, selling and packing up) was outstanding.  As a school, we are so lucky to have so many parents that come and help us run these events, and so many responsible students to lend a hand as well.  Thank you to everyone who came and helped.

Students at Pakenham Springs often pop up to the office and show off their awesome learning.  At the moment our Year 3 students have been working hard on building mental and written strategies to help with their addition and subtraction.  Toby in M23 loves playing Zapper to help with his tens facts.   Zac in M23 thinks that using skip counting is helpful in finding answers to addition and subtraction problems and Blake in M20 thinks that using concrete materials (like his fingers and counters) helps with making sure he understands the answer.  Thanks boys for your handy hints!

Keep us the awesome learning and have a great week everyone! 

Renee Cotterell

Assistant Principal (Middle & Senior School)