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At St Saviour's Primary we want our learners to STRIVE at LEARNING and at LIFE and they can do that through the following learning dispositions:

At last week's staff meeting, the teaching staff took part in professional development around our disposition of 'Be Collaborative'.  Working collaboratively is an important skill for learners to have as it teaches them to be a good team player, to listen carefully to others, to disagree and give feedback and suggestions respectfully and to know when to hold back and listen, and not get carried away with their own brilliant idea.  

At St Saviour's Primary our definition of being collaborative as a learner is, 'I work well will others to achieve a goal'.  Our learners can do this by participating and contributing, constructive sharing and empathising with others' opinions.

Every class teacher in the school has set some success criteria around what collaboration will look like, sound like and feel like in their classroom in the next four to five weeks.  Some examples are below.

In our classrooms, collaborative learners will be able to:

•  Understand the benefits of collaboration and what successful collaboration looks like
• work collaboratively to develop communication skills and respect for other ideas. 
• clarify, build on and develop their learning by discussing ideas with their peers. 
• ask their learning buddies meaningful questions to ensure they understand. 
• listen to their buddies, retrieve that information and explain what they have said

ICAS Assessments

This year St Saviour’s Primary will be participating in the world-renowned ICAS AssessmentsTM.

ICAS is designed to target students’ higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Writing, Spelling Bee and Digital Technologies. This year St Saviour’s Primary students in Years 3 – 6 have the optional opportunity to participate in the English and Mathematics tests only.

For more information on the tests and the registration process, please see the below link.

The St Saviour's Primary and St Patrick's Cathedral Race Day will take place on Saturday the 30th October 2021.

As per attachments to this newsletter, tickets are now on sale.  Please direct deposit into the bank account and your tickets can be sent home with your child.  Family and friends are warmly invited to attend as well.

We are still on the look out for a few more sponsors.  If you own a business or would like to contribute toward the Race Day by sponsoring, please send me an email via sam.hannant@twb.catholic.edu.au

Sam Hannant

APA