Hi everyone,

This week we have received an email from a Grandmother of our school expressing her happiness at how her grandaughter has flourished since being at St Benedict’s. She had wonderful accolades for our staff and it was a lovely message to share especially knowing the challenges this young lady faced when she first started here. We have had so many success stories with children here at Benny’s and we only expect to continue that journey. We take our vision for St Benedict’s quite seriously and do aspire to meet the ideals detailed within that vision. It can be quite challenging at times with the very diverse families, learner and behaviours we experience when at school and some progress is quite visible and some is not known so readily.

Over the next few weeks we will be reviewing our Annual School Improvement Plan for 2019 alongside our Mission and Vision in preparation for making our goals for 2020. I am due to receive the data and feedback you have provided as part of the recent RADii survey next week and will use this information to help formulate  our next steps forward to create the learning community we aspire to be. I welcome any feedback you would like to offer especially if it’s constructive. It is always helpful to reflect on what is going well and what could be improved.

Building Progress

Our new classroom blocks and staffroom extension are tracking long nicely and we should see them reaching lockup stage within the next fortnight. Ceiling fitouts have already commenced and we are hopeful that the wall between our current staff area and the extension will be knocked out soon.

Book Week

Next week we have  our Book Week Parade on Tuesday 20 August where the kids can come dressed as their favourite book character. Mrs Whalley has some wonderful interactive things planned for the actual parade and it is an event not to be missed if you can make it. It starts at 9.00am. The kids are able to wear their costume all day if they can function well in it, though they will need school shoes for play.

School Disco

Our P & F have got plans well under way for the upcoming disco on Wednesday 28 August. Please come along and enjoy a fabulous family night getting our groove on.

Have a fabulous week. 

Cheers 

Penny