Bump Up Day Last week our school students experienced “Bump Up” day to the Max! What a day full of laughter and joy. We also welcomed our new and current families whose children will be commencing Prep next year. Thank you to all our staff, your dedication and commitment to making everyone feel welcomed and […]

Principal Visit to Prep During my weekly visits to classrooms, I am proud to see the achievements of our students. This week, I visited the mighty prep students who were busy putting their editing skills to the test.  The students were given a text with a number of spelling mistakes on the page.  The students […]

Reggio Emilia: Nature Play Ground The expanding development of our Nature Playground is beginning to take shape. We began planning for this “environmental outdoor play precinct” nearly 12 months ago. Our educational philosophy for our nature playground is based on one of our school’s four cornerstones being Reggio Emilia. We believe that our students should […]

Go NOAH!  This year we celebrated the Arts with our school musical “Go Noah”. I wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to all the staff, parents and not to forget the students for putting on an amazing production! The Arts is an important aspect of our curriculum at St Therese’s. The benefits for the students […]

Behaviour Sprints Throughout the term, the school has been explicit in teaching and modelling expected behaviours that we all want to see in our students. The school has a Focus Group which is working through a simple step process that supports everyone’s expectations at St Therese’s School.  To establish our expectations, the focus group has […]

Prep Buddies  During my walk through of the school, I came across some prep students and their Year Five Buddies in the library.  In hearing all the chatter and laughter between the students, I decided to take a closer look at what was happening. WOW! Our Year Five buddies were teamed up with the prep […]

Students Learning using ‘Spheros’! This week our clever Year Five students used sphero Robots to teach computer science. As you can see from the photos the students are finding Sphero to be incredibly versatile and easily integrated into a variety of learning initiatives such as personalized learning and project-based learning. The students are using the […]

Celebrating St Therese’s Day  This week our school community gathered to celebrate our patron Saint, Therese’s of Lisieux, who was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ. St Therese’s was born in 1873 and entered the convent at the age of fifteen so that she could become closer to God. She believed that a heart is […]

Celebrating 90 Years  What a fabulous three days our celebration was!  One of our parents summed up the celebration beautifully and I have included it below. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed and supported our 90th Anniversary. Thank you to everyone who has worked tirelessly for the last few (I’d say weeks but […]

Calanna Public Speaking Competition  Last week I along with other staff from St Therese’s visit St Mary’s College to support our Year Five and Year Six students in the Annual Calanna Public Speaking Competition. What an amazing night of speeches at the Calanna Speaking Competition. All the St Therese’s students were excellent ambassadors for our […]