Prepared for the future
August 26, 2022
Student Wellbeing – healthy minds, healthy hearts
The development of a whole School wellbeing framework, that addresses the important social and emotional needs of our students from Prep through to Year 12, is an exciting initiative that is currently taking place. Our School is involved in the COMPASS programme that seeks to assist in identifying and implementing evidence-based, whole school, proactive wellbeing that fosters safe, supportive and respectful environments so that wellbeing outcomes are enhanced for our students now and in the future. It has been wonderful to spend time working with experts in this area and wellbeing teams from a number of schools, to review, explore and consider solutions to enhance our School offerings to ensure our students are provided with the best possible opportunities. Parent workshops are currently being organised and will be advertised shortly.
K-2 Mathematics and English curriculum reform-relevant and reflective of best practice
‘To stay engaged, students need challenges that give the appropriate stretch. We are in need of a curriculum that provides flexibility to meet students where they are at with their learning’
(NSW Government response to new curriculum)
Next year will see the compulsory implementation of new syllabus documents designed to ensure the development of numeracy and literacy knowledge and skills for all students. Much time has been invested in reviewing and adjusting programmes to reflect the updated curriculum. Our personalised pathways and evidenced-based practices, reflect the recommendations and goals that these guidelines set out to achieve. We look forward to sharing updates in parent workshops. Further information can be found here
Student Achievement
Congratulations to our Tournament of Minds teams who completed at UOW on Sunday. Under the expert guidance by Mrs Wallace, Mrs Stanis and Mrs Tierney our students performed with outstanding confidence. It is with great pleasure to announce that two of the five teams won their division. They will now move onto the state finals and compete in Sydney next month. We wish them all the best and know they will represent our School with distinction.
| STEM 6 Team:
Rohan Manshani Ideen Hashemi Arya Patil Mahasvin Dev Akilan Kumaresan Arya Mahantesh Pranav Mathiazhagan |
Social Sciences Team:
Thomas Binks Ethan Tierney Evie Rahim Leo Kalsi Luca Attorre Elliot Phelan Harry Coates |
| STEM 5 Team
Jackson Karanfilovski Bailey Kiang Soren Palmisano Victor Tang Shreya Mehan Manha Khan Keerthi Mahesh |
Language Literature Team
Tilly Keft-Kennedy Amelia Murray Wilfred Windsor Madeleine MacKay Elise Cordaro Kikki Leith Elias Ainbinder Satne |
The Arts Team
Josephine Huda Ava Hernandez Sophie Deck Kalika Bugg Eva Grimm Rithanya Jeyachandran Serena Cordaro |
Many of our regular activities will return to campus this term. The following activities will resume. We look forward to your attendance at the many events over the coming weeks.
- Assemblies and Chapels
- Fathers’ Day Breakfast (September 2)
- Celebrations of Learning
- Meetings in person
- Year 6 Exhibition