Our award winners for this week are pictured below, also included are our ICAS award winners Asha and Andrew.  Plus some pictures of the technology in the classrooms.

  

  

  

 

Our St Mary’s staff are always learning. On Monday the teachers gathered for the Staff Development day. They spent the first half of the day analysing various forms of school data from school grades, NAPLAN, PAT testing and running records with Dr Phil Pettit from the Catholic Education Office. This was an extremely fruitful session as teachers could look at trends, compare to state and national data with certain diagnostics and more importantly give us all direction as to where to go to from here to continue to improve student outcomes. It was very affirming to see how our data in PAT testing in particular is very promising when compared to other students around Australia in the same grades who complete the same testing. A huge thank you to Dr Phil Pettit for all of his help and preparation of the presentation.

For the second half of the day, the staff completed their annual CPR update with Angus Westaway. Thank you Angus for your time and good humour that helped us all get through the afternoon.

On Tuesday, Mrs McGee our REC, worked with individual teachers on Programming RE using the new curriculum and Conceptual Inquiry. This will continue through the term and a new RE Scope and Sequence will be developed integrating RE into other subject areas.

Finally, on Tuesday and Wednesday Mrs Scott was in Canberra working with a team of 24 other leaders from across the Archdiocese which was led by Dr Stephen Brown, CEO of the Brown Collective. Dr Brown has been contracted to run a Leadership Pathways course. This is a two year course which involves Mrs Scott attending seminars and webinars, personal coaching and completing a project by the end of next year which aims to improve student outcomes in an area that is pinpointed in our school Annual Improvement Plan.