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.  We welcome all parents and friends to our school assemblies which are held every fortnight on a Friday afternoon at 2.30pm in the hall (McCarthy Centre). Our wonderful Year 6 leaders will be facilitating these assemblies throughout the year. This year we are exploring other ways to showcase our learning through our assemblies.

Please see below dates for our Term 1 assemblies.

Week 6-  Friday 6 March 

Week 8- Friday 20 March 

Week 10- Friday 3 April 

The Leader In Me 

This fortnight's focus will be reviewing the habit ‘Be proactive.’ During this time we will revisit this important habit and celebrate the many ways it is applied in our school community. Be Proactive is about taking responsibility for one’s own life. Proactive people don’t blame parents, circumstances, or conditions for their behavior. Instead, they choose to focus on areas of life that lie within their circle of influence. This is evident in the Gospel of Matthew below, where Jesus preaches the importance of becoming like children. The message behind this reminds us to review the attitudes and ways in which we look at the world. The gospel calls us to view it through the lens of a child removing all prejudice and complications that we commonly put in the way as adults. These gifts that children display, such as honesty, humility and innocence need to be reflected upon and become key values in our lives.  

Matthew 18:1-5
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

Professional learning update 

This fortnight we have continued our professional learning in writing to continue to build consistent evidenced based practices that fosters growth in learning for all students. During this professional learning we have collaboratively used writing assessment data to review student learning and assist us in the process of designing whole class and small group learning based on student needs. In week 6 and 7 all staff will engage in a collaborative process to design teaching and learning experiences to meet the specific needs of their students. 

Below is one sample of  a component of the stage based writing assessment criteria that staff have collaboratively developed. This assessment criteria was one of the pieces of evidence that staff have used to identify student needs and next steps in instruction in writing. 

PB4L update 

Last year we had a very successful year with the implementation of our PB4L (Positive Behaviours for Learning) action plan. This week our new PB4L team had their first meeting to review last year's progress and use our school data to drive our action plan for 2020. We look forward to building on last year's work to continue to create safe and supportive learning environments for all students. We look forward to sharing our progress throughout the year. 

Mr James Bryce - Assistant Principal