Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to the first school newsletter for term 3, 2020. It was wonderful to return to school after the Winter Holidays with all of our students back at school following the disruption of Covid-19 during Terms 1 and 2.  Welcome to our new families whose children have commenced this term. From next Monday, we have 68 students enrolled at our fantastic school. 

It has been pleasing to see how our students have settled back into routine, working hard with their learning and behaviour. Our Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Team has worked hard with staff to target behavior outside of the classroom over the past few weeks, both before and since the holidays, resulting in a clear reduction of reported behaviours. Well done to our students and staff!

Thank you to all parents who have been so supportive of the staffing changes we have had to make due to our increased enrolments. Everyone would have received an information letter yesterday detailing the classes and staff across our school effective next Monday 27^th July.

The formation of our fourth Junior Secondary class ensures that the number of students in each class remains small and assists with the delivery of quality, individualised teaching and learning for your child. All Junior Secondary parents have received information over the past week regarding these changes detailing if their child is moving rooms or changing teachers or aides. Mr Andrew Stokes has moved from Primary 1 to become our Technologies teacher for the rest of this year as Ms Jodie Sargeant commences full time in Junior Secondary.  Miss Libby Bowness and Jan MacAlister are now the Primary 1 class teachers.

Report Cards for Semester 1, 2020 are currently being completed by our teachers and your child’s report card will be emailed to you on Friday 31 July. Please contact our office if you would like a printed copy of your child’s report card. Your child’s teacher will be contacting you shortly to discuss the Semester 2 ICP goals for your child.

Part of our Annual Implementation Plan is to build staff capacity, in line with the North Coast Region Operational Plan. Our staff have engaged in an additional full day planning day with our Head of Department- Curriculum, Shellie Pursey, over the past 2 weeks. These days support our staff to deepen their knowledge of the Australian Curriculum, gain a clear understanding of the targeted achievement standards for the curriculum levels within their classes, develop quality assessment tasks and develop engaging learning sequences, differentiated for individual students within their classrooms. We will continue to work with our dedicated staff to increase their capabilities to ensure we have ongoing development of quality teachers at our school.

We recently purchased 25 computers for our classrooms! We also purchased 2 computer charging trolleys to ensure the laptops are charged and ready for classroom use at all times. These will be a valuable resource for our students’ learning. Staff and students are busily anticipating using the new computers in their learning experiences.

If any of our families have not yet engaged in NDIS or require some support with NDIS please give Carolyn Weldon a call. Carolyn is the Team Leader for our area and her contact details are below:

Carolyn Weldon   Team Leader (A)

Community Development Team, NDIS LAC PITC Program

Carers Queensland

Level 2, 43 Plaza Road, Maroochydore QLD 4558

National Disability Insurance Scheme Partner delivering Local Area Coordination services

P 07 5409 3300  E carolyn.weldon@ndis.gov.au

Parents are welcome to join us at Parade from Week 4. Please advise our office if you would like to attend as we can only comfortably have about 5 adults due to Covid-19 safe distancing practices.    

Best wishes always!

Sarah