Teaching and Learning at SSPS

It has been a busy start to the term and year for staff at St Saviour's Primary School in terms of teaching and learning.

The teachers have been busy getting to know your children and how they learn in the classrooms as well as attending several professional development opportunities.

This week Mrs Conway and Mrs Fuller have attended training on the use of the Diocesan Learning Profile, which is an online tool used by all Toowoomba Catholic Schools for assessment and reporting.  Also this week, Mrs Jarrett, Mrs Conway and Mrs McHugh have attended professional development around the Toowoomba Catholic Schools' Reading Improvement Strategy (RIS).  All other staff at SSPS have already received this training in the last couple of years.

Mrs Smith, Mrs Poulton and myself have also been to training this week as Middle Leaders and Learning Support.  On Monday, we studied the best way to use student results from testing and assessment to improve academic acheivement.  On Tuesday, Mrs Smith and I attended a teaching and learning day based around our roles and also several updates of the Reading Improvement Strategy.  We look forward to putting all of this learning into practice at St Saviour's. 

Sam Hannant