With only one week to go until the end of term, our final preparations for Semester One reports are being made. These will include information about your child’s academic achievements as well as attitude, behaviour, and effort. The teachers will also comment about their strengths and some learning goals for Semester Two.

Reports will be released via Connect in the last week of term. We recommend downloading and saving a copy in case you leave the public education system or are asked for a copy when changing schools / enrolling for high school.

Should you have any questions about the comments and grades received in your child’s report, please feel free to make an appointment to speak with classroom teachers.

Reports are a great way to start a conversation about your child’s learning. Here is a useful link with five tips to get you started.

https://www.teachstarter.com/au/blog/how-to-talk-to-your-child-about-their-report-card/

Story Dogs

Story Dogs is a reading support program and can help children to develop literacy skills and reading confidence. It is a program that has had many success stories, and it is the dog that makes all the difference. Story Dogs enables a child and a dog with their volunteer handler a weekly one-on-one reading session held at the child’s reading level throughout the course of a school year. The literacy program is based on the Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.) model.

Each week we are fortunate to have a visit from Audrey and her lovely dog Joy as part of the Story Dogs program.

In week 7 our early childhood students were visited by some animals from West Oz Wildlife.  It was such a fun, informative experience with student getting to pat a koala, snake, gecko and even baby sugar gliders.  Have a look later in the newsletter for some fabulous pictures.  A huge thank you to Mrs Reichle for organising this opportunity for our students. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday break and look forward to seeing you all back for term 3.

Kind regards,