Principal's Message

Dear Students, Parents, Carers and Families,

Keep On On-line Learning!

With the return to school for our F- 2s students only a week away and our 3 - 6s three weeks away, I respectfully request parents and carers ensure that your child/ children continue with their online learning. Each task and day of learning is exceptionally important and makes a difference in ensuring all children continue to progress towards achieving personal academic success.

Families and staff have worked very hard to ensure our children get to where they have while working online. It is important that we remain resilient to ensure all gains achieved are maintained until school resumes.

Student Semester 1 Reports

We are still providing Semester 1 Student Reports at the end of this term. However, given the combination of at school and online learning, which we have engaged in this semester the reports will look a little bit different.

As a statutory requirement, teachers will be reporting on both modes of learning and engagement. While a specific assessment of a student’s online learning will not be provided, teachers will report on elements of the student’s learning, which may for example include areas such as submission of learning tasks, quality and standard of work submitted and the level of the student’s engagement online.

We will also provide an opportunity for parents or carers and students who may like to discuss the school report with their child’s teacher. How these meetings will take place is still to be confirmed, although online is highly likely.

Wellbeing Wednesday

Next Wednesday 20th May, we have planned for all students and families to have a fun and innovative day filled with challenge and excitement. The day will enable all of us as a community to celebrate the immense success students and our community have had with learning and working online; provide an opportunity for us to reconnect and recharge with some exciting challenges; spend the day with significantly less screen time and need for devices.

But please don’t be lulled into thinking that because the challenges will be fun that they will be easy! Oh no, no, no… they will test your problem solving skills, thinking outside the box, working as a team and your resilience to keep trying until you succeed. Next week, all teachers will provide more details.

The question is, are you up for the challenge?

Staged Return to School

This morning I sent out a more detailed letter of the staged return to school plan on Konnective to all families. Below is just a basic summary of the main dates to be aware of.

SUMMARY OF DATES

Monday 25 May – Curriculum Day: school is closed and no online learning

Tuesday 26 May – Stage 1: Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 return to school

Tuesday 9 June – Stage 2: Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 return to school

Friday 26 June – Last day of Term 2, early finish 2pm – school holidays

For further information about the planned staged return to school, please refer to the letter provided by the DET attached to the Konnective message.

Your continued support and patience is greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Year 6 Graduation Jackets

Every year to acknowledge and celebrate the Year 6 students’ final year of primary school, a commemorative polo shirt and jacket are created. This year we decided to do something a bit different so at the end of Term 4 in 2019, our then Year 5 students, voted on the designs for what would be their Year 6 commemorative polo shirt and jacket in 2020. With their feedback this is the very first year we have had a very unique design with the students an integral part of the process.

While the polo shirts arrived in Term 1, last Friday our Year 6 Jackets arrived and they look absolutely awesome! The first jacket was collected within 10 minutes of the Konnective message going out to families and almost all of them have now been collected.

Kind regards,

Darren Wallace

Principal