Learning Support
& Enrichment
New location for the LSE Department
- Letter from the Principal: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data
- Welcome Back Mrs Barrett
- Welcome to the LSE Department Mrs Fileman
- Free Vocabulary Skill-Builder
- Maths Drop In Centre
- After School Study Program: Please note that After-School Study will not run on Tuesday 25th July due to a Staff Meeting
- After School OT Courses
Letter from the Principal
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data
Please click below to see the letter from the Principal to Parents and Caregivers regarding the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD) 2017.
Welcome back Mrs Barrett, we missed you!
Staff and students alike are very happy that Mrs Barrett has returned to us after her year of maternity leave. We are pleased that Mrs Barrett’s family, with the newest addition – Little Miss Violet Barrett, is healthy and growing. We look forward to working again with Mrs Barrett each Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Mrs Barrett specialises in the primary years, and so will resume her role as our Year 5 and 6 LSE teacher and IP (Individualised Planning) Convenor, working closely with identified students and collaboratively with classroom teachers across Years 5 and 6. Junior School parents are invited to contact Mrs Barrett as needed on BBarrett@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au
Welcome to the LSE Department Mrs Fileman
It is with pleasure that the LSE team welcomes Mrs Amanda Fileman, who begins working full-time with the LSE Department at St Pius X College from the start of Term 3 2017. Mrs Fileman has many years’ experience teaching the middle school years and most recently at Our Lady of The Rosary, Waitara. Mrs Fileman has taught in three different CEO dioceses: Parramatta, Bathurst and Broken Bay. Here at St Pius X College, Mrs Fileman will be involved in teaching classes and providing in-class support to identified students across Years 5-8. She will work closely with students and collaboratively with teachers to help improve and support their learning and academic achievement across these years. Mrs Fileman will have a special role as the Year 7 and 8 Learning Support and Enrichment Teacher, and the IP (Individualised Planning) Convenor for Year 7 and 8. We are so pleased to have you on board Mrs Fileman! For the particular interest of parents and carers of Years 7 and 8, Mrs Fileman is available Monday to Friday, and can be contacted via school phone, or email at AFileman@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au
FREE VOCABULARY SKILL-BUILDER
To improve vocabulary and spelling skills for students in Years 5 - 12
This is a useful website program and set of resources, called Wordly Wise 3000®. It provides an engaging and graded literacy intervention program that aims to help students learn new vocabulary which they will encounter in school tasks across the curriculum. As a sequential program, it is essentially a companion site for a series of workbooks which target vocabulary mastery, in graded components, from Year 2 (Click on ‘Book 2’) right through to Year 12 (Click on ‘Book 12’). The program contains hundreds of words, definitions (including audio), and games which present and reinforce new vocabulary and correct spelling (allowing for a few unavoidable American spellings). This online program is being offered free of charge, but only until the end of 2017, so the LSE team suggests that interested parents and carers take a look at the program and encourage your boys to make use of this practical resource to boost their writing, speaking and reading skills this semester. Here’s the link:
http://resources.wordlywise3000.com/#continue (click into the ‘students’ section)
Maths Drop-In Centre
Monday Lunchtime and Thursday Mornings - Starts Week 2
A place to get some extra maths help with difficult concepts, topics or homework. You can also come along for some extension work, so you can revise or get ahead. This is an ideal place where students can come and feel comfortable to ask questions. Students are encouraged to bring along specific queries, tasks, assessments, homework, general revision and problems to work on, with teachers on hand ready to help: Ms Pence, and other members of the Maths Department on an occasional basis, and Mrs Fileman. The teachers will have resources on hand to help students consolidate their numeracy and mathematics skills.
Please note: Regular attendance will be rewarded.
WHEN – Monday lunch time 12.50 -1.05pm (bring your lunch) and Thursday morning 8.00 - 8.30am each week.
WHO FOR - Open to all students in Years 7 – 9
WHERE - Maths Classroom C1
Queries? Please see or email Ms Pence at: SPence@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au or Mrs Fileman at: AFileman@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au
After-School Study Program
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday Afternoons - Starts Week 2
*** Please note that After-School Study will not run on Tuesday 25th July due to a Staff Meeting***
What is it? A quiet time and space where you can get a headstart on your homework and assessments, catch up on missed work, read or study or do research with a friend, or get some one-to-one reading, writing, or other assistance for all subjects. Enjoy the benefits of having supervising teachers on hand to assist if and as needed, namely Ms Raheb-Mol or Ms Leonardi. Note: Regular attendance will be rewarded.
WHEN - Each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday afternoon, from 3.15 - 4.30pm
WHO FOR - Open to all students in Years 5 – 10
WHERE - Senior Library, top of A Block (SRC). Library seminar rooms are also available
Queries? Please email Ms Raheb-Mol at: JRahebMol@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au, or Ms Leonardi at: CLeonardi@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au
OT AFTER-SCHOOL COURSES START IN WEEK 2
Start in Week 2 - Limited places available
Thank you to all families who have registered their sons in the after-school onsite courses at the College: Touch Typing Skills and Handwriting Skills. These are intensive small group courses, open to all students in Years 5-10 who are interested in improving vital writing and typing skills. Each course involves one afternoon per week for a block of 8 weeks, and is run by our experienced occupational therapist and registered provider, Anna Orchard. For those still interested in enrolling, Anna has advised that there are limited places still available on various days:
Monday - Senior School Handwriting (Years 7-10)
Tuesday - Touch Typing (Class full)
Wednesday - Junior School Handwriting (Years 5-6)
Thursday - Touch Typing
Friday - Touch Typing
See the flyers below for details and alert Anna directly if you are interested, via email at anna.louise.orchard@gmail.com
Ms J Raheb-Mol - Learning Support & Enrichment Coordinator