Principal's Message

Dear Parent/Carer

‘The man went away, but then started freely proclaiming and telling the story everywhere, so that Jesus could no longer go openly into any town, but stayed outside in deserted places. Even so, people from all around kept coming to him.’
                             Mark 1: 40-45

It is hoped that the Term has started well for you and students are settling into what is set to be a great 2024 Academic year. I thank our staff for the work that took place across last week as we undertook professional development within the differentiation space. We have a continued strong focus on developing our teaching programmes and strategies that accommodate the learning of all our students and we have skilled individuals who delivered excellent training to all our staff. 

Below are our goals for 2024:
  • The Catholic values of the St Paul’s community will underpin a positive trend in student attendance and participation in Mission initiatives and activities measured throughout 2024.
  • Ensure the College pastoral theme of advocacy becomes terminology further used throughout the school and drives positive trends measurable per Term using attendance and pastoral survey data.
  • Writing Data will indicate a positive trend in extended responses through the strategies employed by the College as measured by Term 4 assessment data.
I draw to your attention the Writing Data goal that seeks to further develop within our students strong Literacy, using a number of strategies including extended written responses. To this end, we will be linking in literacy activities at the end of each lesson across the College and will have a designated silent reading time across every week. Research tells us that such initiatives will be instrumental in continuing to improve Literacy for all our students. I would ask that families continue to support us in this initiative through engaging with their child/ren on what was presented and learned across the school day. This initiative is further supported in regular attendance to each and every class and that students are on time. There is strong evidence that indicates high attendance to school will lead to strong educational outcomes. We as a College take this very seriously and will regularly follow up on lateness and absenteeism of our students. 

I wish to commend our students on their return last week. They appeared happy to be back and were dressed well with the majority wearing correct uniform, appropriate jewellery and hair styles. The regulations associated with Mobile Phone usage still apply and I commend our students for aligning to this. 

Finally, we anticipate that all students come to the College ready to learn, with the correct equipment and a fully charged device.  

The College sets high standards for our students and these are expected and reinforced across each and every lesson. The support of all our families in reminding students of these standards continues to be very much appreciated. Learning at St Paul’s continues to be a shared responsibility and two-way communication, student voice and consistency will guarantee that students will learn and grow, personally and academically, each and every day. 

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend. 


Kind regards

Mr David JOHNS   B.Ed., Cert. Gifted Ed., Grad. Cert. Adol. Health and Welfare, M.Ed. (Ed Lead), M.Ed. (Theol) 

Principal

kmps@lism.catholic.edu.au