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Dear Parents
It has been a busy few weeks at SSPS. It was wonderful to see so many families at the Mother’s Day Movie night, as well as the Prep Mother’s Day liturgy. Students have represented SSPS outside the community at the Darling Down’s Math team challenge, the upcoming UniSQ Science and Engineering Challenge at Brodribb Nursing Home and at the St Saviour’s College Catherine McAuley mass . We welcomed to our school a visiting author and have helped artist Kym Walmsley prepare to create our yarning circle design. Students have been busily preparing for the athletics carnival, learning poetry in drama for the upcoming drama fest and practicing new songs to sing with the whole community when the Bishop visits our school and we lead the singing at Parish Mass on the 2nd of June. Our percussionists, guitarists and recorder players have been busily learning and practicing their parts in the music performance.
All of these experiences are examples of how we strive to create a school environment that encourages young learners to enthusiastically participate in their educational experience. Currently as a staff we are focussed on building our understandings around student engagement. Although these may be experiences outside of the classroom, they are important for students as they encourage exploration of different aspects of themselves, that can contribute to their sense of belonging, so they feel valued, stimulated and inspired to learn. Engaging in learning in the classroom is not as simple as students showing up and teachers teaching. If you have concerns that your child is not fully engaged in their learning, for whatever reason, please reach out to your child’s classroom teacher so we can work collaboratively to identify barriers and support students in building the skills they need to fully engage.
We continue to explore the practices and policies that we have that enable student learning and the barriers we need to address to ensure ALL students are striving in faith, learning and life, looking towards a flourishing future.
Wishing you a restful weekend. These five-day weeks are really kicking in!!
Mrs Katie Hauser