Following on from Acquaintance Night, we were joined by many new parents in the Library for our Annual General Meeting. This included the presentation of our 2018 Annual Report outlining school improvements and reports from our Governing Council sub- committees. Thanks to Sue Matthews for compiling this information. The annual report will be uploaded to our website for community members to view.

An overview of the Site Improvement Plan for 2019 was shared with parents.

Site Improvement Plan 2019

This year we have three key areas on our site improvement plan:

• Writing - If we explicitly teach children how to use conscious language choices for specific purposes and audiences, with a focus on vocabulary and structure, we will increase student achievement in writing. 
• Numeracy - If we use a common, evidence based approach to extend number sense through multi step problem solving, we will increase high band achievement and retention in numeracy.
• Thinking - If we adopt a common approach to teaching critical and creative thinking we will increase the number of students achieving at, or above, their Yr level standard according to the critical and creative learning continuum.

It was great to see new parents nominate to join Governing Council to support the growth of our school community. 

We would like to welcome and thank the following parents who will join our 2019 Governing Council:

Daniel Zervaas

Andrew Wright

Louise Gardner

Jayne Webster

Amanda Moore

Kate Merritt

Matthew Robinson

Dominic Kleinig

Leigh Powell

Naomi Hargrave

Julia Jones

Justine Budge

Andrew Webster

Ben Sanderson, Janita Bentley and Heidi Hillier will commence their second year of Governing Council membership.

Staff representatives will be Dan Johnson and Emma Niland.

Our first meeting will be held on the 26th February when we will establish the committee structure for 2019. We will have the following committees:

Grounds: working with the school to support the maintenance and development of our grounds.

Finance: school budget and expenditure overview and support

Sport: collaborating with the sports coordinators to discuss issues relating to the facilitation of after school sports.

Parents and Friends: supporting the school with the organisation of social events and fundraising.

Canteen: supporting the school to review canteen spending, processes and develop the canteen menu.

ICT: providing feedback and support for the development of ICT structures within the school.

Liz Pelling