From The Principal's Desk
Dear St Clare's Community,
Welcome to Week 4, this term is certainly moving on quickly. It was great to see so many families enjoying the sunny weather at the show last Friday. Hoping you all enjoyed the long weekend and had a chance to spend time with families.
Individual student reports for NAPLAN 2024 were sent home with Year 3 & 5 students last week. If you did not see yours, or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your class teacher.
Further on in this newsletter, you will see flyers for sessions led by Maggie Dent. Good Counsel College, Innisfail is hosting Maggie Dent over two nights, 15th & 16th August. Maggie is a very highly regarded parenting and resilience educator, I strongly encourage you to attend these sessions as they are very worthwhile. You must register your attendance, details on how to do this and further information can be found on the flyers attached to this newsletter.
Work on our new student toilets and flexible learning space is on track. The completion date is still set for 18th August. There will be a lot of activity on the building site as the internal fit out and finishing occurs over the next few weeks.
- Toilet doors & partitions have been installed
- Flexible Learning Area – all cabling in, painted & lighting and aircons fitted
- Friday 28th – electricity connected
- August 3rd - cabinets & joinery installed and internal fit out begins
- August 7th – flooring installed
- August 14th – services consultant and certifier inspect
ABSENCES
Attendance data year to date - 76.5% of students have attended 90% (or more). Our goal is 90% of students attending 90% of the time. 16.7% of student absences are unexplained. Our goal is 0 unexplained absences. If your child is away - please notify the office.
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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Week 2 |
16 3 unexplained |
11 1 unexplained |
10 1 unexplained |
8 3 unexplained |
10 3 unexplained |
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Week 3 |
9 2 unexplained |
7 1 unexplained |
8 0 unexplained |
23 9 unexplained |
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FEEDBACK SURVEYS
This year's Feedback Surveys (previously known as Satisfaction Surveys) will be conducted during the first four weeks of Term 3.
All parents and staff are invited to take part in the survey, as well as all students in Years 5, 6, 8 and 11. You will receive an email with a link to the survey. We estimate that it will take around 30 minutes to complete.
The Feedback Surveys are an important tool in providing information and opinions - both positive and negative - which we can use to further develop and refine all aspects of our operations and offerings, at both the school and system levels. This process plays an important role in helping us gauge the wellbeing of our students, parents, and staff and to determine strategies to improve this. We are also required to report the results (in broad terms) in our annual reporting to the government.
The greater the number of participants, the greater the breadth of opinion we will be able to consider and analyse.
We look forward to receiving much useful data from the surveys and will report the broad results in due course.
This is a great opportunity to have your voice heard and I urge you to take advantage of this.
Our next P&F meeting is Wednesday 2nd August @ 5:30pm for anyone wishing to attend. We will meet in the staffroom.
Blessings for the week ahead
Karran Burzacott
Principal