Hi all
Winter has arrived!! As much as I love my shorts and jandals, seeing snow in tube hills is exciting.
Over the holidays, we asked for feedback from our parent community. Thank you to those parents who took the time to give us feedback on Term 1. We got valuable feedback and also confirmed we are on the right track with achieving our school goals for 2022:
Like our students, we are ever-improving and have created the following next steps in response to the feedback.
Q1. Have you been informed in a consistent and timely manner?
Next steps:
Action: Our adverse weather strategy needs to be consistently used for all whole school events. Email, School app and Facebook.
Action: The parent/community calendar embedded in the website and school app is not widely used. A system has been created where all school activities are duplicated onto this calendar. A big push is needed on parents tagging themselves to the different groups set up on the app.
Q2. Has the relationship between home and school been positive?
Next steps:
Action: In the school office, we are working on a new system of how we generate bus lists. This should streamline the whole process. We have already created email groups and will be advising parents to attach themselves to the correct bus group on the app.
Action: Ensure that team leaders and classroom teachers are sending an email at least fortnightly to keep them informed of what is happening in the class.
Action: Continue to regularly update our community as the Ministry of Education shares legislative changes.
Q3. Do you feel valued as an important stakeholder in our school community?
Next steps:
Action: With the country moving into orange and the relaxing of government covid guidelines we look forward to welcoming our community back on site for sporting events. DOTs this term, we have a number of parents running workshops. Thank you for the support we received at the Rippa tournament.
Action: Offer parent tours of the school across the term to allow parents to view the inner workings of the school and gain a better understanding of what happens during the day-to-day. Tour the school and have time for Q + A.
We welcome parents into school on Friday 3 June between 11.30-12.30pm. You will have the opportunity to talk to Matt, tour the classes in action and ask questions.
We will be looking to repeat this survey later in the year, and fingers crossed if all of our actions work should show a measure of school improvement. As always, I encourage parents to contact their child's classroom teacher or team leader if there are concerns about their schooling. Members of the senior leadership are available too, please make contact with Justine or myself.
Have a great weekend- rug up, chuck a log on the fire (or as Mr Whitley showed me - get a lovely image of the fire and cast it on the tv).
Matt Leach
Acting Principal
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