Newsletter 10 - 27th June 2024

Winter Uniforms

The cold weather has certainly set in, with the recent winter mornings being below 0 degrees with heavy frosts. Many students are coming to school in jumpers or jackets that are not part of the winter uniform or have no jacket or jumper at all. The Midford shop at Devonport stocks a long sleeve PE shirt, rugby jumpers, as well as our soft shell jackets and school jumper. Uniforms can also be ordered online and delivered to your home address. Please ensure your child has the correct winter uniform each day and is warm enough for the cold days. 

We also have a lot of jackets and jumpers in our lost property bin. Many of these are without names. Please check our lost property for any missing jackets and jumpers. Please name your child’s/ uniform pieces so if they are misplaced they are easily identified. 

What We Do In Our School

Mrs Catherine Dunn - Instructional Leader Religious Education (ILRE)

Instructional Leader in Religious Education (ILRE), Mrs Catherine Dunn, provides in school formation support for teachers in Catholic belief and practice. Catherine works with teachers to build knowledge in Religious Education. Teachers explore what it means to be human through a combination of religion, ethics, and personal development opportunities. They bring faith and culture together in a way that is meaningful and practical to students. They develop a range of skills to promote imagination, creativity, and the ability to take on responsibilities, to love the world and cherish justice and compassion. Catherine works towards teachers being strong in understanding in Christian traditions and the theological background of units of work; exploring the scriptures to encompass in their teaching and the delivery of Religious Education curriculum. Catherine also models highly effective religion teaching practice in each classroom.

Mrs Megan Meech - Literacy Practice Leader

Literacy Practice Leader, Mrs Megan Meech, manages our English programs and supports teachers to engage resources for effective student learning in reading, writing, grammar and spelling. Megan manages the Multilit suite of programs and the home reading program. In addition, she supports teachers in their planning, pedagogy and practice in English to ensure the students build essential skills to become literate. Megan oversees assessment practices in our English programs necessary to evaluate your child’s literacy skills.

Mrs Megan Meech & Ms Jane Stuart - Instructional Leader Teacher Practice (ILTP)

Megan also works as Instructional Leader Teacher Practice (ILTP) for our Insight Project. She works alongside Deputy Principal Mr Kurt Atkins and ILTP Ms Jane Stuart to deliver the Catholic Education System initiative, which was designed for optimal and sustained student learning and achievement. The Insight Project is founded on a knowledge rich curriculum, the Science of Learning and high impact teaching practice. Megan, Kurt and Jane work with teachers to improve teacher - student instructional skills and implement daily explicit teaching in active face to face interactive lessons. Lessons are purposeful, explicit and structured according to Rosenshine’s 10 Principles of Instruction, containing numerous frequent reviews and assessments. Increase in knowledge and ability is the ultimate goal. Lessons focus on students’ acquisition of knowledge, with the goal of permanent memory imprint and accurate long term recall. The aim is to achieve surface to deep transfer and the retrievability of knowledge.

Have a great week

Carmen Aylott

Principal