Term 3 Assembly dates

School Assemblies

Assemblies at St Michael’s are an opportunity for our community  to come together to acknowledge and celebrate the great learning and events that happen in our school. The school assembly allows all students at St Michael’s to be recognised for their efforts. This term we have added an additional component to our assembly which allows one class per fortnight to share some of the brilliant learning that has been happening in their classrooms. 

Week 8- Friday 13 September (Year 3 sharing their learning)

No Assembly Week 10 after the Walkathon.

A huge thankyou to all of the classes that have engaged in the work sharing component of our assembly. It has been wonderful to showcase just some of the wonderful learning that has been occuring in these classrooms.

Professional Learning- Collaborative Inquiry 

Throughout this term staff have engaged in a new collaborative process called collaborative inquiry. This process involves a structure that allows staff to gain an even deeper knowledge of their students by interrogating reading data and setting clear goals for targeted groups of learners. This term our collaborative inquiry has been based around our school priority of literacy (reading). The collaborative work that staff have already done both in formal and informal structures have already had a huge impact on these targeted groups of learners. It has been wonderful to witness the evidence already collected that demonstrates the impact this has had on student learning. 

On Friday of week 6 students and staff were given the opportunity to share their learnings as a result of the collaborative inquiry with our Diocese Head of School Improvement services (Primary). This was a powerful and moving experience that showcased the hard work our teachers have put into this process and the growth in student learning. 

Supporting your children with reading at home 

This term we have developed a new strategy to support our school goal of collaboratively engaging and working with parents to support student learning. This strategy involves providing parents with a digital resource that will assist them to support their children at home. Each term there will be a focus for the digital resource. This term our focus is on providing parents with some simple and easy tips to support their children’s reading at home. 

In the link below you will have access to a short clip developed by Mrs McLeod that gives some very useful strategies to help students ensure they use monitoring strategies as they read. This is a great way to ensure that our students maintain meaning as they read and use strategies to assist them to do this. Thank you to Mrs McLeod for her openness to sharing just one of the brilliant ways that she supports her students reading in her class. We hope these tips will be useful to support reading at home. 

PAT Assessments

In week 8 students form years 1-6 will engage in our annual PAT assessments. This is a Diocesan initiative that aims to support teachers with an additional source of data to evaluate student learning and plan targeted teaching. These assessments have been timetabled across the week. Staff will then utilise collaborative time to analyse this assessment data to review whole class and individual learning growth and utilise this information as one piece of the puzzle to plan targeted student learning experiences. 

SPB4L update 

Classroom & Non-classroom correction sequence with explanation

As a part of the school’s SPB4L procedures there is a Correctional Sequence of Behaviour that is followed by all teachers to assist students in making positive choices. This forms a part of the school’s procedures in living out the school rules and expectations. Please find a copy of the flowchart that is used in classrooms and non-classroom environments.

Mr James Bryce - Assistant Principal