End of Term 3 is here, and it is great that life is returning to normal, we must however continue to be cautious and remember to implement good hygiene, social distancing and staying home when sick.

I would like to formally welcome Mrs Tammy Fenton and Ms Jenni Maartensz to our School Community both have commenced work as part of our leadership team this Term.

Thank you to all staff and the wider school community for their work in continuing to develop our inclusive practices, the most visible of which has been the refinement of our Behaviour Support Process flowchart and our Whole School Agreed Inclusive Practices I look forward to sharing more of our work around inclusive practices next term.

Thank you staff for their work in our writing inquiries, this is part of our work to improve student learning out comes through collaborative inquiry. Some of the student work shared in our End of Term assembly demonstrated the success of this inquiry. I look forward to this work continuing next Term as we continue to improve student learning outcomes.

A big thank you to all our students for working with staff to learn about and implement the Zones of Regulation, also learning about and demonstrating the DoE values and our school expectations. With the opportunity to have excursions outside our school again it has been fantastic to see these values and expectations demonstrated when our students are outside our school. I would also encourage everyone to have a look at the above and beyond stars displayed near the library to see the outstanding efforts that students and staff have been putting in this Term.

A huge thank you to the Parent Group who made soup each week over the last 2 Terms it was certainly appreciated by staff. And to them and the School Association for working with our staff to develop the policies and procedures that sit behind how we work as a school.

Finally, a huge thank you to everyone in our School Community for their patience and flexibility which has seen us as a school cope with the challenge that has been Covid and the ongoing sicknesses that have hit staff and students following Covid. The School Communities ability to cope with these challenges and still strive for improvement has been above and beyond. I hope you all have a good break and look forward to working with you next Term.