Principal's Report
Dear Parents and Caregivers,
Celebrating our Success
On Monday of this week, St Saviour’s Primary School, played host to our neighbouring Catholic Schools, Holy Name, Our Lady of Lourdes and some from afar, St Monica’s Oakey and St Joseph’s Millmerran. Staff spent the day learning about best practice in the areas of Collective Teacher Efficacy, Building School Culture, the importance of staff and student well-being and Visible Learning. Each school was able to showcase their journey of success in 2018. Our staff was proud to show the collective teaching efficacy that is highly evident and provides excellent learning opportunities for the students here at St Saviour’s. Which is also evident in our NAPLAN and whole school testing data for 2018.
As a staff we were able to take away from the day some great learning and teaching initiatives that we will consider for implementation for 2019. Particularly in the areas of making our learning more visible and raising the awareness of the well-being of staff and students. As we all know happy staff makes for happy students!
Principal for A Day
Excitement is mounting as to who will be the winning student who becomes Principal for A Day! Be sure to return your ‘Fun Day’ multi-raffle tickets to the office to be the winner. I am looking forward to sharing the load even if it is for one day!
Leadership Team
Planning for 2019 is well underway. The Leadership team have been busy meeting to discuss the School Annual Action Plan, staffing, enrolments and resourcing and we hope to have most of these complete to share with parents by Week 8 of this term.
School Fees
With only 6 weeks of Term 4 left it always proves to be an extremely busy term with many school events to organize along with end of year assessment and reporting to complete. As a result, it does not leave much time to chase up overdue fees. Could I ask all families to be mindful of this and to reconcile all fees and levies by early November. This also allows the school to confidently meet all of its financial commitments, purchase new resources and undertake classroom refurbishments over the Christmas holiday. Thank you for your understanding and ongoing support.
Year 5
The Year 5 classes will be heading off to Currimundi on the Sunshine Coast for their 4-day camp from Monday 12th Nov – Thursday 15th Nov. On their return the school will vote for the 2019 School and Sport Captains, and Counsellors. The Year 4, 5 and 6 students along with the staff will be involved in selecting our school representatives for 2019 on Friday 23rd November. Announcements will be made at the Farewell Mass on Wednesday 28th November.
Upcoming Events
Please take the time to peruse your school calendar, newsletter, class notes etc., for the many upcoming events which will be occurring. It is a very busy time of year so be informed to avoid any unnecessary disappointment.
Mayoral Awards 2018
Congratulations to Deegan Beard (Year 6) who was awarded a Mayoral Achievement Award last Thursday evening. Such a special night to hear of the many children who have achieved success in their education despite the difficulties that they have had to endure. Well done Deegan. We were all so very proud of you. A true ambassador of our school.
2019 Prep Orientation Morning
Next Friday 2nd November from 8:45a.m. – 10:30a.m. we will welcome to our school the 2019 Prep Students. They will begin their morning meeting together in the Prep rooms. They will have time to play, explore and meet new friends during this time.
Parents are welcome to drop and go, or, stay and join the leadership team in the Mercy Centre for some light refreshments and hear how parents can get involved in the school. This is a great opportunity to get to know other parents before the school year begins in 2019.
Skooldayz (uniform supplier) will be present on the morning and open for business if parents wish to be super organised and purchase any school uniforms.
I look forward to meeting with you and welcoming you back to our school community.
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend.
Ms Madonna Sleba | Principal
