Principal News

Dear Parents and Carers,

BLESSING AND OPENING - Thursday October 23

Next Thursday, Bishop Ken Howell and Dr Patrick Coughlan (Executive Director: Catholic Schools) will be visiting to officially bless and open our new facilties.

I ask that on this day, all students (apart from Prep) wear their formal uniform as we will be celebrating with a liturgy in the Mercy Centre at 9am.

This will be a great opportunity to celebrate the new facilities as a community.

FEEDBACK ON 2025

As promised at the end of Term 3, you are now able to send through feedback on the 2025 priorities at St Saviour's Primary School.  

Please click on the link below which will take you to a 7 question survey that will take less than 5 minutes to complete.  The questions are relating to the newsletter, parent/teacher interviews and the behaviour expectation/consequence process that we have been undertaking.

This feedback will be used to guide our future direction and formation of our Annual Action Plan for 2026.  Thanks for taking the time to complete.

CLASS PLACEMENTS 2026

Teachers have begun planning carefully for class groupings in 2026. I would like to provide the following information for the parent community to assist you in understanding how important we regard the task of class groupings and the many aspects that the staff take into consideration when working on these for the year ahead.

Staff consult with each other extensively on this undertaking. When completing class allocations, we reflect on the following points:

• What are the best learning combinations (What we know about the students this year/ last year/ previous years) for each class?
• How to ensure there is a balance of the learning needs in a class? Consideration is given to students with learning difficulties, difficulties with a learning area and students who are achieving above the expected level in a learning area
• The balance of learning styles, including those who are fast, independent learners and those who require additional time to grasp concepts
• Boy and girl ratios
• Friendships between students that impact both positively and negatively on their ability to achieve the best possible learning outcomes
• Social/emotional considerations
• Family considerations such as keeping twins together or in separate classes, as well as the number of children who have siblings already at the school (particularly relevant in Prep class groupings).

The process of class allocation takes many weeks. Parental input has and is always welcomed and considered seriously by the staff. However, it should be obvious that friendships cannot always be catered for, especially if staff know that some friendships may inhibit classroom learning. Chidren are given the opportunity to write down some friends that they would like to be with and these are certainly considered. Additionally, although we do our best, parent requests for specific teachers cannot always be guaranteed, with some of the reasons in the dot points above.

Parents are asked to send an email directly to the Principal: Sam Hannant sam.hannant@twb.catholic.edu.au for any considerations for class placements in 2025 by Friday 7 November 2025.

Warm Regards,

Sam Hannant