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A message from Principal, Anthony O’Leary.
St John’s Primary School (SJP) is an integral part of St Brigid’s Parish. Catholic values and traditions are embedded in all aspects of our school life. Enrolment for 2016 exceeded 420 students with over 40 full time and part-time staff.
Our school should be justly proud of providing a unique holistic and spiritual education for our children – A Quality Catholic Education.
Our Vision is to foster a community of faith that is centred on the teaching of Christ, where love and concern develops the whole child, empowering each individual with the opportunity to realise their full potential. The 2016 school year also so SJP continue its journey as a PLC or Professional Learning Community school.
The PLC culture is an ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve.
Professional learning communities operate under the assumption that the key to improved learning for students is continuous job-embedded learning for educators. At SJP there are two dedicated staff who work with teachers and students to ensure the essential learnings are understood.
During 2016 our school had many highlights from the sporting fields to the creative arts. This year SJP performed the outstanding musical ‘Aladdin in Trouble’. All 420 students were involved with 11 amazingly catchy songs and a captivating script resulting in 3 sell out shows. Mrs Maggie Dunn, the schools specialist music teacher directed the musical and it was a success.
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The NAPLAN results for 2016 also showed areas to celebrate. In reading skills the Year 3 cohort performed at a higher rate than the state in the skill of identifying and interpreting information in texts. This skill was evident when identifying the method of persuasion in a letter and Interpreting detail in a narrative. In reading skills the Year 5 cohort displayed strengths in reading information reports.
The cohort scored 10% higher than the state when identifying the main purpose of the information text and Identifies effect of information on text.
The students of SJP continue to be provided with excellent opportunities within ICT and STEM. A specialist IT teacher works with all grades, with opportunities for coding and robotics providing fun and interesting engineering challenges. The Year 6 students were also involved in an exciting STEM project with Year 9 students from St Johns Colleges around the topic of robotics.
SJP looks forward to the future with excitement and enthusiasm.