Welcome to 2021, with a very warm welcome to our new families in the community. Spending the first few weeks working with both staff and our returning students has reminded me how blessed we are to be in a wonderful community with committed staff and students.
In our first week back the staff have been very busy preparing programs for our students focused around our Middle Years values of Challenge, Inspire, Act and our Senior Years values of Seek, Shape, Serve.
It is with these values that our staff continue to provide the foundation on which we base all our teaching and learning. Our focus on pastoral care is explicit, implicit and embedded in all learning experiences as we strive to develop our young women into leaders who act justly and lead change in our community.
Over the next few weeks students from Years 7 to 10 will be sitting the PAT (Progressive Achievement Testing) tests. The PAT tests in reading comprehension, mathematics and STEM contexts are completed each year at this time. The students’ are well prepared for these tests as they reflect the learning that happens in class all year. Student’s results are used to determine areas of improvement needed for the rest of the school year and they help us to determine intervention support for students requiring more support either to reach benchmarks or to be extended in their learning. Our students work hard all year and it is always pleasing to map their growth through this form of testing.
Raymond Kropinski
Director of Teaching and Learning
