Principal's Report
WELCOME TO TERM 3!
A very warm welcome back to our returning students and families and a welcome to the Hampstead PS community to new staff, students and families!
STAFF UPDATE
Congratulations to Matt Cailes who has won the position of Student Wellbeing Leader for the next 3 years.
Staff members who have joined our team for terms 3 & 4:
Marta Cichonski – Intensive English Language program Leader
Thomas Clark – IELP Specialist Teacher
Tursunay Elham – Room 13 class teacher (Fridays)
Specialist Arts Teacher (Wednesdays)
Natalie Delsar – Learning Intervention and EALD teacher
NEW CLASSES
2 new IELP classes have been set up.
Room 2 – Senior Class
Teachers - Maryanne Fletcher and Marta Cichonski
Room 6 -Junior Class
Teachers -Carly Price and Marta Cichonski
These classes are growing steadily with new students enrolling almost daily.
TAKE HOME READING
All students are expected to engage in reading at home every night.
For the early years students it is expected that they read aloud to an adult and the adult records this in the “Reading Log” each night.
Senior students may prefer to read to themselves or aloud to practice their fluency or expression.
Our aim is for all students to move from:
LEARNING TO READ
to
READING TO LEARN
Research suggests that if students do not read at level 24 by the end of Year 2 they are at serious risk of never catching up.
BUILDING UPDATE
Progress continues - we are still anticipating being in our new admin area by term 4.
STUDENT LEADER TEAMS
Our senior class has formed 4 student leader teams, each is facilitated by an educator.
- Wellbeing Team: Matt Cailes
- STEM Team: Graham Wegner
- Whole School Events Team: Hayley Nisbit
- Sustainability Team: Sue Moroney
Teams meet every second Thursday morning.
This is an opportunity for our students to develop leadership skills and to have an authentic voice in making our school an even better place to be and learn.
We look forward to the school improvements our student leader teams can make!