Principal News

Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you have all had a great week and welcome to our Week 8 newsletter.  This week I would like to cover a few operational matters with regards to staffing and the school building project.

Firstly, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Rachel Kelly to St Saviour’s Primary School. Rachel will teach Year 3K for the remainder of the year.

Rachel comes to St Saviour’s after a short stint at Our Lady of Good Counsel Primary School in Gatton as a Year 1 teacher and prior to that several teaching appointments in the Rockhampton Diocese.  She has taught in primary and secondary schools and has experience as a head of year, head of house and school welfare co-ordinator. Rachel has a passion for music and has taught music in multiple schools during her extensive career.  She looks forward to integrating music into her teaching at SSPS.

I am also pleased to announce that Jodie McLachlan has accepted a promotion to work at Toowoomba Catholic Schools Office as a personal assistant to the Director of Education Services. 

This was an extremely difficult decision for Jodie, however one that I fully support at this point in her career.  

Of course, Jodie will be very much missed at St Saviour’s Primary with her last official working day being Tuesday 19th March (even though she will be back and forth after this date).  As you are all aware, Jodie has made an enormous contribution to the school since taking over the finance role from long serving employee Christine Cosgrove. A recruitment process is currently underway to replace Jodie in the role of Finance Officer.

The school building project is in full swing with the library expected to be completed early in Term 2.  This is very welcome news and will open up more spaces for the children to learn and play. 

Our stop-drop-go area on Lawrence Street is also going to commence next week.  Essentially, this space will be in the 'u' shaped driveway.  This work is expected to commence next week and will not affect the current access to the primary school, however you will see a part of the driveway blocked off.  During the holidays, current access will change and the carparks on the street will be blocked off as well.  It will be fantastic to have this space open early in Term 2 to provide a safer and more efficient way for parents to pick up and drop off their children.  The classrooms, stage 3 of the playground and the lift area will be finished during Term 2.

Finally, a reminder of our school student protection contacts. These four contacts are people that students can trust and people who will listen if a student is feeling unsafe for any reason.  This could be if they feel unsafe with a friend, a relative, staff member or someone they don't know.

Sam Hannant

Principal