Principal's Message

It was wonderful being able to celebrate Book Week this week. As usual our students demonstrated the great support and enthusiasm from families our young people get for this annual event. It was sad that families could not attend this year but there were lots of photos and videos taken, showing the delight the children had dressing up in their favourite book character costumes. You can see lots of footage in this week’s ECE Virtual Assembly on Facebook or Seesaw.

This week the Year 5 students have been fortunate to have the opportunity to develop bike riding and road safety skills with a week of Bike Education. This culminated today with a ride around the quiet streets of Kingston Beach. It is so wonderful to see the persistence and determination of the less confident riders as they develop throughout the week, being able to achieve the feelings of achievement and success after five days of practice.

Last week the Primary students enjoyed two excellent mornings of Athletics events. Again it was sad not to have families able to be present, however the days were full of excitement and the usual competitive energy but most of all everyone involved had heaps of fun.

After the Show Day holiday teachers came back to work to continue the Inquiry work which we are doing around Writing and in particular looking at our practice to think collaboratively about what makes a great lesson, what should be included, what should teachers be doing and what should students be doing to achieve and develop their individual skills and competencies. We also got started on our Reporting process for End of Year reports and again went through a collaborative thinking process and discussed what makes a good report.

Interestingly the State Government is presently surveying School Associations and families around the State asking for feedback around the Reporting to Parents process. What do parents want from the reporting process and what sorts of changes would they like to see? You can have your say by following the hyperlink in this newsletter or on Konnective or Facebook.

We look forward to welcoming Ms Dyer back next week.