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Dear Parents and Carers
At St Pat's, every minute counts and learning is the work. On my daily classroom walk around it is always great to see our students fully engaged in their learning and responding quickly to the instructions of their teacher. Each day the teachers commend students for their demonstration of the attributes of learning and engagement that we are teaching and expect of each student. Please ask your child what they have been recognised for this week.
Tell Them From Me Survey
Thank you if you have been able to help us by completing the TTFM survey about teaching, learning, wellbeing and other themes at our school. We really appreciate your feedback, thinking and support to help us continue to improve our great school. If you haven't responded yet, the link is here:
http://tellthemfromme.com/nvn7m
The survey closes on Friday 10th June.
This week has been Reconciliation Week. National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. It is an opportunity for all of us to continue the dialogue toward reconciliation. Information and resources can be found at https://nrw.reconciliation.org.au/about-nrw/ Please take some time to talk about reconciliation with your children.
Blessings
Jo
Assessment and Reporting
At St Patrick's School, assessment and reporting about student progress and achievement occurs regularly throughout the school year. Assessment and reporting processes play a strategic role in moving student learning forward.
Assessing Learning
Why do we assess learning?
Assessing student learning is an integral part of the school classroom. It improves learning and informs teaching. It is the process through which teachers identify, gather and interpret information about student achievement and learning in order to improve, enhance and plan for further learning.
What learning do we assess?
The New South Wales curriculum defines the knowledge, understanding and skills that students are entitled to learn each academic year for each learning area. This in turn determines the learning intentions and the success criteria that teachers plan for their students. Teachers monitor student progress for both formative and summative assessment purposes and look for opportunities to provide and receive feedback to move learning forward.
Formative assessment (Assessment for learning)
Formative assessment allows students and teachers regular opportunities to monitor learning. Students engage in a variety of embedded formative assessment tasks so teachers can ‘check in’ on student progress regularly throughout a lesson or series of lessons. Teachers use formative assessment information to provide clear and specific feedback to each student to assist them to understand what they need to do to move their learning forward.
Summative assessment (Assessment of learning)
Teachers must also make judgements about student learning against the achievement standard for summative reporting purposes. The purpose of summative assessment, or assessment of learning, is to judge the extent and quality of student learning at a point in time. Teachers use a range of assessment tools to make summative judgements about student learning including student/teacher consultation, focused analysis of work samples and teacher observation
Reporting Learning
Twice Yearly Reporting
The purpose of twice yearly reporting is to provide parents/caregivers and students with a summary overview of achievement and progress for the current reporting period. This report summarises evidence of student learning about how the student is achieving, provides feedback about the quality of this achievement and provides direction about where to next.
Reporting involves a professional judgement made on a body of evidence about a student’s progress and achievement against the curriculum. The Year 1-6 report uses a Commonwealth Government mandated A-E reporting framework.
Our Semester 1 report will contain a General Comment written by teachers. This comment is framed around our 3 pillars;
Looking after each other
- To live and witness our faith
- To build positive relationships
- To develop a culture of value and respect for the individual
- To promote students self confidence and willingness to accept challenges
Looking into thinking
- To apply knowledge and skills at many levels
- To develop adventurous, creative and reflective learners
- To question and reflect, investigate and problem solve
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Looking ahead to the future
- To take responsibility for our learning
- To develop independence, interdependence, collaboration and self motivation.
- To promote local and global perspectives
Parents/carers will have access to Semester 1 reports on Friday June 25th. Parents/carers are welcome to email their child's teacher for a Parent Teacher Interview during Week 10; June 27th to June 30th
Religious Education
Classes have been attending Chapel Mass on a Friday at 9:15am in the Church. If parents would like to attend here is the roster for Term 2:
Week 7 3/4G
Week 8 3/4R
Week 9 4/5Y
Sacramental Program
Notes with further information about the Sacramental Program went home to all Year 3 & 4 families this week.
First Reconciliation Family Session & Liturgy - 22nd June at 6pm St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Bega.
If you are yet to complete the online enrolment process to enable your child to participate, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/gYR63DPrdTytBm3LA
If you have any questions please email emma.grant@cg.catholic.edu.au
Altar Servers
Fr Adrian is seeking Altar Servers for the first Sunday of every month. If your child/children are interested please email emma.grant@cg.catholic.edu.au so they can receive the induction and be added to the schedule.
Biggest Morning Tea
Thank you to all of the families that supported our St Pat's Biggest Morning Tea. In total we rasied $452!
Students will shop during their library lessons
This coming week two of our budding athletes will be travelling to compete for places in NSW teams. Arly Schrader will be in Sydney competing for the Canberra Goulburn team for Cross Country. Arly won this event in Canberra and we are excited to see how she will go at this next level.
Drew Duncan is travelling to Parkes to compete for the MacKillop under 11 rugby league team. This is very high level of competition that continues for 3 days. A combined NSW team will be selected from this carnival.
We are very proud of Arly and Drew and wish them good luck in their endeavours this week. They are cousins so it must be in the genes.
Thank you to the families who have paid their Term 2 fees.
Term 2 fees are due next Wednesday 8 June 2022, except those with direct debit arrangements.
If at any time your family is experiencing financial hardship due to Covid-19 or any other reason or your family is in need of other support, please contact the school to make a time for a confidential meeting with our Principal, Jo Scott-Pegum to discuss how the school can help support your family.
Uniform Shop Winter Update
Get snuggly for Winter with our New Winter Jacket for $40! This jacket is polar fleece lined, water resistant, embroidered with the school logo, has lots of handy pockets and is made from a quiet and comfortable fabric. We stock sizes 4-16, Adult Small, Medium and Large.
The Spray Jacket is still part of our uniform and your child may continue to wear this until they grow out of it. If your child is a fan of this jacket we have some final stock left.
Don't forget to have a look at our second hand store. We currently have a good number of girls winter pants in stock in sizes 6,14 and 16.
If you would like to make an appointment for your child for a winter fitting, please email us at stpats.uniform@gmail.com to arrange a time.
