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Celebrating the Feast Day of St Anthony of Padua. St Anthony was a teacher who preached the Word of God. He lived his life with courage, love, forgiveness, concern for others and trust.
His values are reflected at St Anthony's Primary where our school community is committed to inspiring passionate learners.
On Thursday and Friday this week, we look forward to celebrating our school feast day. My thanks to our incredible staff for their preparation and organisation of these days.
Today our staff met together and participated in a professional learning day. The focus of the day was inline with our Annual Improvement Plan and our Catalyst journey using high impact teaching practices. My thanks to our STA community for your understanding in Catholic Education providing this pupil free day so that our staff were able to participate in this very valuable professional learning.
School reports will go home next Friday (week 9).
The reports will include grading scales across Key Learning Areas from K-6. No comments are provided on these reports. Instead an opportunity to meet with your child’s teacher will be available in Week 10.
Parent/teacher interviews will be facilitated both in person and online via TEAMs. Bookings will open next Friday. Please keep your eye out in COMPASS.
Week 10- Parent Teacher Inteviews
Options:
Monday 27 June- option of online interview via Microsoft TEAMS
Tuesday 28 June- face to face inline with COVID safe practices (please do not attend face to face if you are isolating or feeling unwell).
Bookings for Parent/Teacher interviews will open on Wednesday 22 June and close on Friday 24 June, 5pm.
We would like to invite you to complete the Tell Them From Me (TTFM) Partners in Learning survey. As we value the role of parents and carers within our school community we would greatly appreciate your feedback. The information you provide will be used to maintain our commitment to working together in partnership to further improve student learning and wellbeing at St Anthony’s Parish Primary School.
Please find the link below to access the survey which closes this Friday 17 June 2022.
http://tellthemfromme.com/ykz3v
As mentioned in previous correspondence our Year 6 leaders have been working hard to create initiatives across our school. The media team has created the “Good News, Newsletter” which accompanies our school newsletter each fortnight. If you have some good news that you would like to share with our STA community, please email details directly our office email: office.stanthonyswanniassa@cg.catholic.edu.au.
Our media team are looking forward to sharing more Good news with you in the coming weeks. My thanks to the wonderful involvement of our students.
Congratulations to Mrs Sally Gibson who has been appointed Director of Holy Family ELC from Term 3. Sally has worked as teacher at St Anthony’s Early Learning Centre for a number of years and will be greatly missed by our staff, students and parent community.
Mrs Michelle Woodward who has been Acting Director at Holy Family ELC whilst CE were undergoing a recruitment campaign, will return to St Anthony’s ELC in her substantive position in Term 3.
May I take this opportunity to thank Sally for the tremendous work she has done working at our ELC and the care and support she has provided to our many students and families over the years.
We will miss you Sally and wish you all the very best for your future endeavours as Director at Holy Family.
Our Annual Improvement Plan continues to guide our school supported by our system goals:
- Every child is a competent reader
- HITP visible in every classroom
The following goals are shared in our Annual Improvement Plan and align with the programming and practices across our school:
Goal 1: Improve student achievement in Literacy through the implementation of explicit teaching using evidence based practices
Goal 2: Improve student achievement in Mathematics through the implementation of explicit teaching using evidence based practices
Goal 3: Establish an authentic P - 6 transition and pathway to enhance student learning across all stages of development
Targets, Key Improvement Strategies, Actions and Success Indicators continue to be monitored to assess the development and effectiveness of these goals across the year.
Next Friday, our Director Ross Fox will be visiting our school. We look forward to the opportunity of showcasing our school and the wonderful teaching and learning happening at STA. All parents and carers are warmly welcome to join us in greeting Mr Fox at morning assembly next Friday from 9.00am.
Have a wonderful week,
Erin