This term has just seemed to fly by. We have achieved so many activities and the students have completed so much work. 

Teachers are now in the process of finalising assessments for the term and preparing Semester One reports. These reports will reflect how your children are going in their learning journey. There should be no surprises on these documents if open communication has been occurring. Classroom teachers have spent hours collating and ensuring the report reflects accurately how your children have achieved.

Remember that these achievements are a year long process, and we are only approaching halfway. Also remember that a "C" is not equivalent to "average". This mark means that your child is achieving at the level they should be for their age. It takes a great deal of effort to achieve this.

Please don't compare to when you nor I were at school. Academic assessing and reporting has changed significantly over the years, through extensive research and analysis by professionals around the world. Our Leader of Learning and teaching Amanda Rowe has explained the current process for assessment and reporting further in the newsletter.

Our leadership team would like to acknowledge our quality teaching team for their significant efforts in demonstrating just how well they know each of their students! A huge congratulations to all students and teachers for their efforts in learning and assessment this semester!

Semester reports will be available from Monday of Week 10 and accessed through your parent portal. If you have any questions in regards to logging in please see the office staff. 

One of the main ways Covid restrictions has impacted on our school has been our inability to engage fully as a community with many of our key events cancelled or limited. Over the next term we will hold a number of events that will enable the St Joseph’s community to gather & celebrate together. Our Semester 2 calendar will be published in next weeks end of term newsletter and on both website and parent portal.

This semester we trialled newsletters coming out monthly and then fortnightly. Feedback has been that weekly is preferred so from term 3 we will go back to weekly.

Over the holidays our parent portal and school website will be updated. This should improve access and keep up everyone update with happenings at the school. Communication and organisation are key aspects to successfully managing the many events and requirements in a school. At St Joseph’s we are committed to doing our very best to keep the lines of communication open to parents and we ask that parents do the same.

God Bless

Megan