Welcome to Term 2!

We have hit the ground running this term. On Monday 27th April staff participated in a professional development day which involved some detailed planning for remote learning and an online course on "Effective Feedback". Effective feedback is one of 10 High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS). HITS are instructional practices that reliably increase student learning when they're applied. They have emerged from the findings of tens of thousands of studies on what has worked in classrooms across Australia and the world. International experts often rank HITS at the top of strategies that contribute to student learning. We will continue to explore HITS here at St Anne's, which will complement the great instruction already taking place.

Thank you again for your support and patience with remote learning. We understand that it is not easy to manage this at home and that systems don't always work perfectly at first. We have sent home a lot of email correspondence to you in the past week and we appreciate you taking the time to read it. Thank you to our staff for their efforts over the term break. We welcome back Lia Marin to her Year 2 class and thank Nina Gaynor and Veronica Reichstein for covering Year 2 in Lia's absence.

I do not have a transition to full time student attendance at school plan available to share with you at this point in time, but we are exploring different ways that this could take place. I have a meeting on Monday with the Director of Catholic Education and I am hoping to have a plan for you after that. We already have a number of students returning to school. They are being supervised with their remote learning schedule in 3 classrooms. As I mentioned in my email to you earlier in the week, we are putting in place extra hygiene practices to ensure the safety of all. 

Due to COVID-19, we have been unable to hold our normal Information Nights and Open Days. We are currently working with a marketing company to put together some online events and flyers. If you would like to discuss new enrolments, please do not hesitate to contact the school and we can chat over the phone or via video conference. 

I would like to officially welcome my daughters Amber (Yr 4) and Eloise Haigh (Year 6) and my wife Danielle to the St Anne's Community. Amber and Eloise started remote learning with their respective classes this week and they look forward to the day they can attend in person and get to know their classmates. 

Take care,

Grant Haigh