St Patrick’s Primary School - Bega
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55 Belmore Street
Bega NSW 2550
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Email: office.bega@cg.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 02 6492 5500

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dear Parents and Carers,

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On Monday the teaching and support staff at St Patrick’s engaged in a full day of professional learning led by the internationally renowned James Nottingham. The learning was from James’ Challenging Learning work and was specifically on the theme of Feedback for learning. We looked at a 7 steps of Feedback process and the role of feedback as advice that supports learners to progress. We looked at the purpose and place of teachers giving praise v’s giving advice. It was a very productive day from which members of our staff have already taken next steps by immediately focussing on using the language of advice to help students be successful.

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New pick up routines: Thank you for the immediate positive steps in using the Gipps Street gate for afternoon pick up of your children. We are thankful to the police from Traffic and Highway Patrol Command for their review to support our school. The changes that have been made are for the priority of student safety. 

Thank you for

  • Using the lights to cross Gipps Street when collecting your children
  • Not standing on the road whilst waiting for your child
  • Choosing your pick up time in support of flowing traffic. I recommend parents considering approaching pick up in a staggered way. Parents who choose to arrive 5-10min after the school bell have a very quick turn around to collect their children.
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    Communicating with Staff at St Patrick’s: Thank you for understanding that along with student wellbeing and welfare, teacher wellbeing and welfare is of great importance for our school. To support work / life balance we will be taking steps to manage email expectations between home and school. We will ask you to respect that your child’s teacher will work hard to reply to your email within 24 hours. We are also managing the times that are reasonable for email communication. We believe that it is very reasonable to expect emails between the hours of 8am and 5pm. There may be an occasional exception to this at the discretion of the teacher and the urgency of any particular situation. 

    Next week you will see this email disclaimer on St Patrick’s Staff emails:

    In recognising work-life balance for our teachers, St Patrick’s staff may not respond to emails between 5.00 pm and 8 am during the week and not at all on weekends. Our aim is to reply to parent emails within 24hours. We thank you for your support of our endeavour to promote a healthy work-life balance for our staff.

    Community Council Open Meeting: In week 3 on Term 4 - Wednesday 28th October there will be an open meeting of the Community Council. The meeting will be held by ZOOM as we are not permitted to host meetings at school at present. The ZOOM link will be sent out in the days prior to the meeting. 

    Two topics around which we would like parent feedback are:

    1. Class Parent Contacts and Parent Engagement in school life
    2. Sharing learning between home and school to celebrate learning at St Pat’s

    Please put the date in your calendar if you would like to contribute your ideas to the discussion.

    In our indigenous garden the flowers are out!

    Blessings

    Jo