As we return from the mid-year break, we would like to thank everyone in our school community for your ongoing support and engagement throughout the first half of the 2025 school year.

We hope you had a safe and restful holiday with your children and are feeling refreshed for the second half of the year. A special thank you to the many families who continue to support our school through volunteering—your time and contributions are greatly appreciated.

We’re excited for the term ahead and the many opportunities it brings for our students to learn and grow. With a range of events, activities, and learning experiences planned, Term 3 promises to be a busy and rewarding time.

We look forward to sharing a positive and productive Term 3 with you all.

Welcome – new reception students, families and Mrs Taylor

A very special welcome to our 21 new Reception students and families who began their school journey with us on Tuesday.

A warm welcome back, too, to Adele Taylor, who joins our team, working with the new students, as well as our existing reception team.

Welcome – International Students

This week we also welcomed seven new students who are visiting from China and will be attending our school for five weeks.

We have one family with two siblings who are from China’s capital, Beijing. The other three families are from Chongqing, a large city in southwestern China.

We extend a special welcome to these families and hope they enjoy their time in our community.

Good Luck Penelope

Over the next week, one of our Year 6 students, Penelope Blackwell, will be competing in the World BMX Championships in Denmark. Penny is the current Australian & world champion for her age group, and we wish her all the very best in the upcoming events.

Thank you to everyone who supported our casual day at the end of last term. We raised approximately $600, with the proceeds supporting Penny’s participation at the championships.

Year 3 & 5 NAPLAN

NAPLAN reports will be sent home within the next two weeks. NAPLAN reports show how children are tracking against four achievement levels known as proficiency levels. 

The proficiency levels are:

• Exceeding: the student’s result exceeds expectations at the time of testing. 
• Strong: the student’s result meets challenging but reasonable expectations at the time of testing.
• Developing: the student’s result indicates that they are working towards expectations at the time of testing.
• Needs additional support: the student’s result indicates that they are not achieving the learning outcomes expected at the time of testing. They are likely to need additional support to progress satisfactorily.

Therefore, “If your child is in the Strong or Exceeding category, it means they have demonstrated proficiency and that their literacy or numeracy skills are where they should be at this stage of their schooling. If your child has not yet achieved proficiency, then they will either be in the Developing category or the Needs additional support category.” (ACARA CEO, David de Carvalho)

Below are some of the ways that our teachers provide additional support through quality teaching practice to meet learner’s diverse needs:

• intentional teaching – building on strengths, interests, ideas and needs
• explicit teaching
• gradual release of responsibility
• modelling: I do it
• guided instruction: we do it
  • collaborative learning: you do it together
  • independent learning: you do it alone
  • graduated tasks: easy tasks to hard tasks
• inquiry based learning
• cooperative learning – working with others
• thinking routines – strategies that can be used repeatedly to promote and support thinking
• scaffolding
• providing materials that reflect a variety of cultures, environments and settings such as those experienced by students from non-English-speaking environments.
• stocking the classroom with a range of quality resources to engage learners of different abilities
• providing alternative representations of resources
• visual and technological supports.

Finance Update – $200 discount on Material & Services Fees

As part of the 2025-26 State Budget, eligible families with school-aged children will continue to receive a $200 discount per child on their public school’s materials and services charge for the next four years. Please refer to the attached letter.  Materials_and_Services_Charge_Minister_Letter.pdf