APA News

Dear Parents and Carers,

As Ms Sleba has mentioned above, one of the major events taking place this term is NAPLAN.  As you may be aware NAPLAN takes place in primary schools for students in Years 3 and 5.  NAPLAN is a point-in-time assessment that allows parents and carers to see how your child is progressing in literacy and numeracy against the national standard and compared with peers throughout Australia. At the classroom level, NAPLAN provides additional information to support teachers’ professional judgement about student progress and also helps to inform furture learning.

In 2022, NAPLAN will take place in Weeks 4&5 of Term 2.  Please see the exact dates below:

Catch-up tests will take place in the following week for those students who are away on these dates.

All tests will take place online, apart from Year 3 writing which will be paper based.  Year 3 students will use iPads supplied by the school and Year 5 students will use their personal Surface Go device.  It is important that all students have their own headphones (as per the booklist) available to them on these days.

If you have any further questions regarding NAPLAN or you are considering withdrawing your child, feel free to contact your child's teacher or myself for advice.

SCHOOL COUNSELLOR POSITION

Today was the final day for our current school counsellor, Mrs Christina Peak.  I would like to take this opportunity to thank Christina for the knowledge and wisdom she has provided in her time at St Saviour's Primary.  She has made a valuable contribution to our community and I wish her luck in her future endeavours.

We will be welcoming back Miss Anne Woodcroft-Brown on the 18th May.  Miss Anne has been on maternity leave since the arrival of her first child last year.

Thank-you again Christina and welcome back Anne.

IGNITE LEARNING & LEARNING DISPOSITIONS

For the parents and families who are new to St Saviour's Primary, I thought an introduction to the St Saviour's Ignite Learning Project and Learning Dispositions would be a welcome addition. 

The Ignite Learning Project is in its second official year at St Saviour's Primary.  This project is based on quality research into education and school improvement to help develop a culture of learning, a common language of learning and a community of learners.  Within this, we aim to develop expert learners.  Amongst other things, these expert learners know how to learn and have developed the dispositions or capabilitties to become a lifelong learner.

At St Saviour's Primary the dispositions that we have developed are below.  They are based on feedback from parents, students and staff around what our learners need to become experts.

Feel free to discuss these with your child/learner at home and ask what they are learning about at school and how they are using these dispositions in their learning.

Sam Hannant

APA