Parent & Community Engagement 

At St Patrick’s we value the participation of parents and carers in our learning community. We value the engagement of parents/carers and families with their child’s learning. Parent and family engagement in learning is the capacity of families in partnership with schools, to support student learning and achievement. 

This year with the support of the Community Council we are engaging parents from each Stage to support the events that are planned each term. Families will be needed at one or two events during the year to put their hand up to help. As the date for the event comes closer teachers will be in contact about how parents can support.  Here is our draft of the planned events for the year. 

Our first event is the Disco!

Direct Instruction and Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS)

This week I travelled to Canberra for the Classroom Support Teacher network Day.

Our first session was presented by Jess Colleu-Terradas and focused on Literacy and the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) model which was also a focus at my Assistant Principal network Day in Term 4. 

At St Pat’s we have implemented these key features of MTSS:

• Research-based core literacy instruction
• Universal screening (DIBELS)
• Timely intervention for at-risk students
• The use of data to inform instruction - individual/class/cohort/school
• Systematic approach to instruction, intervention and data collection
• Focus on teaming and fidelity