Dear St Anne's Community,

Welcome once again to our fortnightly school newsletter. School newsletters are an important part of communication with the community and we appreciate you taking the time to read and catch up on the latest "St Anne's" news. 

NAPLAN 2021 (WEEK 4)

Once again the NAPLAN testing program will be conducted in our school next Tuesday 11th - Friday 14th. All students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 (unless they are exempt) will complete the literacy and numeracy tests along with their nationwide peers. It essentially provides information for schools on the different literacy and numeracy skills that are demonstrated and allows schools to recognise strengths and weaknesses in the student cohort. We strive to ensure that it is as stress less as possible for the students and hope that the students endeavour to do their best in the different tests. Once again this year, the testing will be online. We ask that all students get a good nights rest before each test and that they eat a solid breakfast. 

Attendance

We continue to highlight attendance as a means to improve student outcomes and for building lifelong skills. Please contact your child's homeroom/classroom teacher if you have any issues or challenges around attendance.

Compass

We are very excited about the introduction of a new School Administration System (Compass) at our school. Compass will let our school manage and automate a range of processes through one platform. Compass will, over time, allow us to manage the following functions in this platform; Attendance, Events, Student Wellbeing, Parent Portal, Student Reporting. To begin with, we will start by marking attendance from the beginning of Term 3 and then work up to using the other functions. I look forward to communicating more information to you as we transition to using Compass.

Professional Development

We continue to have a number of Staff Development courses running in the school. Over the past week, we had our staff work with Catholic Education representatives on developing the new Religous Education curriculum. At times, your child will have various relief teachers, which allows our staff to conduct these development courses. I can assure you that the students continue their normal program with minimal changes. 

Electricity

Last weekend, the electricity upgrade continued. The most exciting part for us as a school, was the removal of the annoying power pole and lines next to the toilet block.

Canteen

We are still in search of a Canteen Manager for our school canteen. If you are interested or know of someone who is, please contact the school. 

Police Liaison Visit

Years 3-10 listened to a presentation from the Police Liaison officers this week, regarding Cyber Safety. Some very important safety tips were passed on. 

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all our wonderful Mothers. I hope you have a great day this Sunday.

Take care,

Grant