Wollongong West Public School

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Principal's report - Term 3 Week 5

SAS Staff Recognition Week

Next week, we acknowledge and celebrate the dedication, commitment and hard work of our School Administrative and Support staff. Our SASS team make valuable contributions to our school every day in our office, classrooms and playground areas and I sincerely thank each of them.

Thank you very much:

Mrs Teresa Trigg

Mrs Alison Kirk

Mrs Michelle Greer

Mrs Kylie Beckett

Ms Hayley Smith-Little

Mrs Caroline Kettlewell

Ms Lily Husband 

Mrs Andrew Beattie

Mr John Lochhead 

Support Classes at our school

Over the next six months, it is highly likely that we will be having support classes being established at our school. These classes will cater for smaller groups of students who have additional learning needs or disabilities. This will bring expert teachers to our school with great knowledge and experience in meeting the needs of diverse learners. It will also empower our school to further embrace and celebrate diversity as we welcome new families to our school.

Spirals of Inquiry

It has been a busy fortnight for teachers attending professional learning experiences at our school. Our school executive all attended a two day conference last week to allow us to further refine and develop the spiral of inquiry model at our school. The spiral of inquiry model of professional learning involves teaching determining an inquiry question. This question is informed by analysing student work samples and data analysis and determining the needs of the children in the class. The teachers then participate in learning and action such as lesson observation involving peer feedback to explore the inquiry problem. A review then takes place, before the spiral is repeated. This process occurs every five weeks, enabling each teacher at school to participate in 8 spirals of inquiry each school year.

Choral festival

Last week our school choir performed at Wollongong Town Hall. They sang beautifully and with great pride. A truly memorable evening! Congratulations to our choir and their amazing leaders, Mrs Morrissey and Mrs Bennis.

Pyjama day

Thank you for your support of our SRC at yesterday’s Pyjama Day. Our children had lots of fun dressed in their pyjamas for the day.

Kind regards,

Michelle Barnes

Principal