Principal's News

Dear Families,

I, like all of you, am extremely disappointed that we still find ourselves in lockdown and our children are still having to work from home. Thank you to all those who have already completed the remote learning survey as this does certainly help us to identify areas for improvement.  We encourage and welcome feedback from parents  and whilst we realize realistically that it might not be possible to address each and every suggestion I can assure that each of these is discussed and reflected on so that we can continually improve our practice in the the remote learning environment. On a positive note, however, our remote learning does create some opportunities that may not have been possible in the classroom. A great example of this was in this weeks Junior science lessons which saw children and parents working together to solve an engineering problem posed by Ms Foley. After reading the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff the children were tasked with the job of building a bridge for the Billy Goats to cross. Some of the bridges designed and built demonstrated amazing problem solving and also enabled children to develop their presentation skills in creating videos to explain their work. Here is just one great example, from Isabel in Prep, of this wonderful work.

First Eucharist 

Ms deKort has now emailed all parents of children who were prepared to make their First Eucharist last Sunday and we will keep you informed about a suitable date once we are able to plan for this important celebration.  

Google Survey

Thank you to all those parents who completed the Remote Learning Survey sent out last week. Here is a snapshot of some of the responses to our Remote Learning Survey which will help guide us in the event of further lockdowns.  You can click on the images to enlarge. 

From the optional comments given it is clear that what parents value, is the time children spend with their class teacher, small group and one on one lessons, explicit teaching sessions which are challenging and engaging, teacher feedback and some parents asking for less screen time. The challenges raised are most certainly in relation to how much time parents are required to support children's learning, especially when they are also working from home.  

From the Library

Dear School Community,

We hope you are all doing well and we also would like to let you know that the Book Club is still running. 

In case you would like to order some books or just look through the catalogue please find the link attached to view issue 6.

https://www.scholastic.com.au/media/6421/bc621web.pdf

Any orders can be made online (please see link) or you can drop them off at school. 

https://www.scholastic.com.au/book-club/book-club-parents/

Happy reading and

Kind regards

Barbara Shaw

Assembly 

Thank you to our hosts from 5/6JC who led a wonderful assembly last week and to all those parents who were able to join us. Please join us once again if you are free from 1:20 on Friday 20th. 

Trinity Art Show 

We have a new date for our Art Show in Term 4 so please Save the Date 

Thursday 21st October at Trinity Primary School.

"It takes a village and our village is Richmond."   

Kind Regards

Mr Nigel Rodrigues 

Principal