Visiting Teachers

We have had a very positive and busy week hosting teachers from some other TCE primary schools in our Diocese.  This week we hosted teachers from St Patrick’s. Winton in our 5/6 classes; St Francis, Ayr in Prep and St Colman’s, Homehill in Prep, 1 and 2 classes.  We are very proud of the teaching and learning processes, classroom spaces and school officer support approach here at St Benedict’s and welcome the opportunity to showcase and share our approach with other schools.  We have enjoyed hosting teachers from these schools who have come to observe, learn from our teachers, interact with our students and take these insights away to their own schools to implement.  We look forward to more visits from other schools in the future.

Visiting Specialists

The past 2 weeks have seen a number of our Townsville Catholic Education Office (TCEO) Advisory Visiting Specialists (AVS) come and meet with various staff to discuss student needs and support.  We have hosted our Inclusion Specialist Tim Birthisel,  Speech Therapist - Tegan Golding and look forward to hosting our Hearing Specialist - Karyn Parnell and our English as an Additional Language/Dialect Specialist - Rebecca Rowan in the next couple of weeks.  These visits provide us with valuable support and strategies to continue to assist our students have a successful education.

P&F News

Next week on Tuesday Evening will be our P&F meeting.  7pm at school or online via the zoom link.  Watch the Parents Page for the link.  We look forward to having many people join us.

Events
We have decided to cancel our Picnic by the Billabong on Saturday as a result of community illness and various other community events happening that day.  In place of this, we are looking forward to a fun Disco Night evening on Thursday 11th August from 6 - 7.30pm.  There will be a sausage sizzle, steak burgers and we will move our Bake Sale to this night as well.

We will be looking for some volunteers on the night to assist with a few little jobs and some BBQ duties.  If you think you can provide some time, please let us know.