Dear St Anne's Community,

If you have a child to enrol in 2022, please go to the school website and complete the online enrolment form. Alternatively, contact the office if you would like to receive an enrolment pack. Our Kinder Orientation program starts tomorrow, Friday 21st May. Any child preparing for kindergarten in 2022 is welcome to come along regardless of which primary school they will be attending.

Intensive Learning Support

The NSW state government has allocated some extra funding to give students a boost who may have missed some learning due to the COVID lockdown. We will be using that funding to employ 2 Classroom Support Assistants, Elizabeth Brabin and Georgie McKelvie, who commenced their roles this week. They will be involved in supporting 2 intervention programs, The Reading Tutor Program and MacqLit, which are both from MultiLit. Your child might be part of one of these programmes for a period of time, but you will be notified formally if this is the case. These children will be identified through our school testing programme as benefitting from some small group work because a concept might have slipped by them during remote learning. Our school returned fairly quickly to face to face learning and we don’t feel students lost a lot of learning time, but we are always happy for some funding to give students extra targeted support.

Naplan

Well done to our Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students for their efforts with Naplan last week. These tests will provide us with information on literacy and numeracy and allow us to identify strengths and weaknesses in the student cohort and broad trends across the school. 

Year 7 Music Teacher

Mrs Sutherland is now teaching Year 7 Music by herself. Martin from the Young Regional School of Music has resigned from his employer. 

Mother's Day liturgy and lunch

Thank you to all the Mothers and Grandmothers that were able to join us at our Lunch and Liturgy. It was a really nice occasion and the Infants did an amazing job hosting the Liturgy. 

Canteen

We are still in search of a Canteen Manager for our school canteen. If you are interested or know of someone who is, please contact the school. Hours and days are flexible. Our school canteen will be closed from Monday 24th May until further notice. 

Annual School Plan "Snapshot 1"

Our first goal in our Annual School Plan is to "Improve Student Achievement". Our two specific target areas are Maths and Reading and we will measure this using Progressive Achievement (PAT) data that we collect at various stages of the year. Some of the key improvement strategies we will use include the utilisation of PAT resources and teaching strategies and to embed direct instruction/daily review across K-10. One of our actions include; holding regular data meetings to review and inform our teaching practice.

Take care,

Grant Haigh