16 Nov 2017
It is hard to believe that the end of the year is fast approaching. Our school takes great care to ensure the placement of each and every student into the most appropriate classroom setting. To ensure this the school considers the following issues: academic, social, emotional & behavioural needs, the dynamics of students working together, the teaching team working with each grade and students who are funded for additional support.
Students are asked about people they consider to be ‘good learning buddies' as opposed to a ‘good friend' who may not be a good support for learning. As you can see this is a huge task when you consider all of these considerations are made for over 560 students. This care is taken because as a school we believe that each student's placement is exceptionally important.
I remind families the placement of a child into a class is a very very detailed process that is undertaken with enormous care and professionalism. Your child is important, very important. But so too is every other child.
If you would like to make an appointment to discuss your child's needs in preparation for their 2018 class placement, the Senior Executive Team (Greg Wells, Natalie Marshall and Lisa Dewhurst) will be available over the next few weeks. If it is important, you will make contact with the office to book an interview. A central register of all information obtained in these meetings will be kept and will be considered in the formation of 2018 classes.
I appreciate your involvement in the process and urge families to make contact on or before Friday 24th November. Please do not leave it until too late as the end of year is an exceptionally busy time for everyone and I do not want to disappoint anyone because they did not get organised.