Dear Parents and Carers,

It was lovely welcoming parents for our Harmony Awards last Friday. We will continue to distribute awards each Friday and parents are most welcome to attend, if the weather is inclement, we will gather in the hall. Please keep an eye out for information about Whole School Prayer Times (WSPT) as your child’s class may be involved in presenting these over the coming weeks.  

Assessment and Reporting

There have been many changes to the reporting system over the past 2 years with the CE decision to implement the COMPASS platform. At St Michael’s we have introduced systems and worked with families to ensure we keep up to date with compliance and other schools in the area. We value the time and opportunity to meet with you and have an honest and fruitful discussion around where your child is at and how we can work together to achieve growth and improvement. This Semester reports will be issued to parents via the COMPASS parent portal in Week 10 of this term, individual subjects will be graded and there will be no comments.

To ensure parents feel fully informed teachers will be available for interviews in Week 9. These interviews provide an opportunity to focus on your child’s strengths and then to look at areas of challenge. It is crucial to see these challenges in the lens of a growth mindset. https://www.renaissance.com/edword/growth-mindset/

We need to teach our children the language of growth, they might say, “I can’t do fractions” we might say “you haven’t learnt them yet, but with a little more practice you will get there” and there it is, one of our St Michael’s keys to learning- PERSEVERANCE.

Tell Them From Me

In the coming weeks we will be inviting students, teachers, and parents to provide feedback on their experience of our school using an online survey. The surveys are an important part of our whole school evaluation and planning process.

We would like to invite you to complete the Tell Them From Me (TTFM) Partners in Learning survey. As we value the role of parents and carers within our school community, we would greatly appreciate your feedback. The information you provide will be used to maintain our commitment to working together in partnership to further improve student learning and wellbeing. The survey is anonymous, we will notify you on COMPASS when the survey goes live and provide the links.

Finally, well done to our Year 3 and Year 5 students who completed NAPLAN testing this week. Thank you to Mr. Webb and our staff helpers, what a great bunch!

Good health and safe travels this week,

Many blessings

Judy Egan

Principal