Students setting up their own learning intentions and success criteria Students in Year Three are being challenged around questions like ‘Why are we learning this?’ The big ideas drawn out from our students is at the very core of teaching and learning at St Therese’s.   Mr Halliday challenged students in their learning about identifying […]

Flipping our Lunch Times Recently we flipped our two lunch breaks in response to our data on children wanting to play. We noticed that after two hours of learning in their classrooms they wanted to run and play and not sit down and eat their lunch. So we flipped the time! Now at the announcement […]

Cairns goes into Lockdown due to Covid 19 for Three Days What a week! This week all our Catholic Schools went into lockdown and moved to online learning by Wednesday. Our staff were well prepared and ready to go on Wednesday. The online learning at home and school worked a real treat. What an amazing […]

Visiting Aspects of the School Community! Throughout the week I greeted students coming to school, visited classroom, library and listened to students who were busy in their work, observed students in our nature playspace, engaged with students whose learning was happening outside the classroom using their devices, engaged in a few selfies and worked alongside […]

100 Days of Prep At St Therese’s each year we congratulate our Prep students as they reach that magic mark of being Preps for 100 days. We love to see their 100 day maturity and their idea of what 100 years looks like with walking sticks, pipes and frames. Also it was fantastic that someone else was older than […]

The Music Program This week I dropped in on the students who were learning the Ukulele! At St Therese’s we believe that learning how to play a musical instrument boosts one’s IQ by as much as seven points. Research, says that the shape of the brain of musicians is different compared to those who don’t […]