This week, Pat Ellis is attending the Annual CE Principal's Retreat in Bowral. Any issues or concerns, please contact me directly. 

Keys for Learning – Explore

This week, the students at St Michael’s will be breaking open the final of our five Keys for Learning: Explore. The ‘Explore’ key focuses on having our students develop a strong understanding of their sense of self, in order to help form deep connections with Jesus, their spirituality and special people at home and at school. The 'Explore' key will also break open the importance of prayer and look at different types of prayer and how we can live more prayerful lives.

Once this week has concluded, the five keys will be embedded into all classroom practice and students will be encouraged to use the keys to unlock their learning and acquire new skills and knowledge. 

Book Fair - next week

Next week, beginning on Tuesday 10 March, St Michael’s will have its annual Book Fair. All students will be taken through the Book Fair as a part of their library lessons and the fair will be open to students and families to purchase new books and stationery. The Book Fair will be open Tuesday-Friday every morning between 8.20-8.50am and afternoons between 3-4pm. 

The more support that is shown to our school, the more credit that we receive to buy new and exciting recourses. Please come and support our wonderful school.

Sustainability Update 

The Sustainability Action Team, along with Mia and Alan Taylor have had a busy and productive summer in Miss Jordan’s Garden. New plants are starting to flourish and the greenhouse is clean and ready for learning. All classes will begin to timetable in lessons in which students will be able to germinate new seeds, feed the fish, check temperatures and log on to solar panels to see how much energy has been saved.

We are continued to be blessed with this magnificent resource in our school and are able to provide our students with very unique and hands on learning experiences. St Michael’s continued push to be a sustainable and environmentally friendly school is alive and well and with new initiatives being planned by staff and students, we are very excited about the future.  

Thank you for all of the support that has been shown with the greenhouse and our mission of sustainability.

PRNs

Below is a link to a survey regarding our parent representative network. We are seeking information about the most effective way to run this in the future and to see if there are changes that can be made in order to be more effective with the delivering of information from classes to parents and families. Please fill out the survey below, to enable us to gather as much information as possible in order to make an informed decision about the best way to move forward. More information will follow about PRNs in the future and the best structure for our school. 

Kind regards, 

Damien Webb

Assistant Principal