Staffing News

The wonderful Erin Wanganeen has won a position as an Indigenous Education Officer in the Education Directorate. Erin will be commencing in her new role at the beginning of Term 4. We know she will be a great asset to any school lucky enough to have her with them. We welcome Jamilla Solomons to Koori Pre for the rest of 2020. Jamilla brings many strengths to our school including a passion for working with people of all ages, being a Drumbeat coach and artist. Jamilla will be working with Erin for the next two weeks to meet families and learn the role.

Parent Engagement

Last week our school received some exciting news. Our Early Years Engagement Partner, Natalie Munoz, our P and C and Think Place have partnered to develop a grant application for the purpose of improving parent engagement. Our school was successful in receiving considerable funds to support the research into a modern approach to parent engagement. We look forward to many of our families getting involved over the next 12 months to be a pioneers in how successful schools and communities work together to enhance outcomes for all involved.

Our goal is to critically analyse how a modern P&C could operate in collaboration with our school. during the project we will:

• Partner with ThinkPlace who are industry experts in solving complex problems using human centered design processes.  
• Engage in action research to understand our current reality, challenges, barriers, and opportunities in re engaging our community in our students education.
• Use design thinking to codesign recommendations for this change process to be effective.
• Implement the recommendations in our school.
• Capture our model so that it can be scalable to other schools.
  

Year 4 Wax Museum

This week I had the pleasure of attending the Year 4 Wax Museum. It was great to see our students applying their research skills to develop presentations about explorers across the ages. Students could describe the multiple sources of evidence they used to collate their information. The costumes certianly helped with the authenticity of the wax models!

Preschool 2021

We understand many families are waiting on second round offers of placement in preschools for 2021. The sending of offers has been delayed for 1 week. To support transitions with COVID restrictions in mind our school has the following plan:

Further information will be directly emailed to famlies in Term 4.

Kindergarten 2021

Our current preschoolers have already commenced transition visits to the primary school. Families will have an opportunity to meet their child's teacher and see current classroom in week 8 of term 4. A link to book tours will be emailed in Term 4. New students to the school wil be invited to meet with school leaders.

Injection of Technology for Students

In recent weeks our school has been able to improve our ratio of devices to students across the school significantly. The Education Directorate provided us with 65 laptops and 20 tablets. The school has also purchased a further 44 laptops for our younger years. Our students are enjoying the use of the upgraded technology as a tool to enhance learning. We are continuing to implement learnings from remote learning including simplying logins for younger students to improve their independence.