Dear St Anne's Community,

Welcome

A warm welcome to our new students and their families that have joined us recently. Erin in Yr 2, Bayley in Yr 3, Ryan in Yr 5 and Elora in Yr 7. 

Enrolments

We are fielding a high number of enquiries across most year groups at present. If you have a child that is starting with us next year and you are yet to fill in the enrolment form, please action this one as soon as possible. Additionally, if you know that your child is leaving at the end of the year, please let the school know as well. Students often tell their friends in class, but we need to know for official purposes. We need to know as soon as possible to assist with 2024 staffing and classroom space. 

School Master Plan

Recently, Catholic Education employed an Architect to visit our school to gather information for our School Master Plan. What is a Master Plan?

A well-considered Master Plan allows your school to demonstrate it has a clear vision, strategy and plan in place for the future and will add significant strength to grant or funding applications. Far more than a set of drawings, a Master Plan details where the school is at now, where it plans to be in the future and how it will get there – aligning the school’s strategy and vision with its built environment. The Master Plan development process provides a school with the opportunity to review its current pedagogical approach and explore emerging teaching and learning trends, to ensure the relevance and effectiveness of the school in the future. 

As a governance document, the completed Master Plan guides a school’s development over the next ten to fifteen years, ensuring a long-term approach that aligns with the school’s vision for learning is applied and maintained.

Based on the school’s vision, education and business plans, the Master Plan:

• Details existing land uses, buildings and facilities and proposed future uses and building projects.
• Sets out development phases, with likely timeframes and costs.
• Provides the logic and reasoning that underpins the plan and need for development.
• Includes drawings, schedules, explanatory diagrams, surveys and other materials to support grant applications and inform future decision makers. 
• Ensures sound decision-making and ultimately improved learning outcomes from the use of school resources and funds.
• Provides external authorities and financiers with added confidence in funding a school’s building projects. 

We are calling for your input on this Master Plan. If you would like to respond to the questions below, we would appreciate this feedback by Wednesday 6 September please. Send through your feedback to my email address. 

1. What do you consider to be the most important aspect of a school’s design?
2. Can you think of anything related to the physical setting of a school that would enhance student learning?
3. What in your opinion should be avoided in future school design?
4. What do you believe are the building and site issues at St Anne's?
5. Do you have any other comments about improving the functionality of St Anne's, and in particular the learning spaces?

The Resilience Project

The Resilience Project (TRP) delivers emotionally engaging programs to schools, sports clubs and businesses, providing practical, evidence-based mental health strategies to build resilience and happiness.

Through presentations, school curriculum, events, the TRP App, and Wellbeing Journals, they share the benefits of Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness, and easy ways to practise these in everyday life. They also incorporate Emotional Literacy, Connection and Physical Health education and activities as they are foundational contributors to positive mental health.

Next year, St Anne's will be implementing TRP across K-12. Temora Public and Temora High School have already implemented the program and they are carrying out some great work in their respective communities with this program. They are also launching the program in the wider Temora community next Tuesday night at 6pm in the Town Hall. If you would like more information about this program please go to this link: The Resilience Project

School Supervision Times

We kindly request that students do not enter school grounds before 8:30am of a morning. Students are not allowed on school grounds unless they are supervised by a teacher. Thank you in advance for your support.

Student Pick up and Drop off

It is important that students are dropped off and picked up at Joey's Hall on Loftus St of a morning and afternoon. It is too dangerous to have students leaving via DeBoos St, due to the buses arriving and departing.

Father's Day BBQ & Touch Football

It was a great day for our fathers to joins us. After a sausage on the BBQ, the school made its way over to Fr. Hannan where our secondary boys played a game of Touch Football against some of the dads. It was a great spirited game, with the students winning 1-0. Thank you to everyone that joined us. 

Take care,

Grant Haigh

Principal