Clean Up Australia Day At St Therese’s School, we believe in engaging in activities locally that impacts our community both inside and outside the school gate. Once again Clean Up Australia Day was conducted within our community. The students have a clear understanding of the importance of this activity in that the primary objectives of […]
Term 1, Week 8
St Patrick’s Day with Prep! Every year our school students engage in the infamous St Patrick’s Day celebration and who better to highlight some of the activities are our amazing Prep students and their parents. This afternoon, Prep’s opened their doors to families to celebrate the learning that they have been during for the past […]
Term 1, Week 7
Shoe Lace Tying Lessons! The Importance of Being Independent ……as parents and teachers we want our students to become more independent every day and more so when they begin their journey at St Therese’s. Getting dress every day is an activity that is taught by our parents before many children start school. As part of […]
Term 1, Week 6
Visual Art with Mrs Ganley One of the principles behind our philosophy of Reggio Emilia is that our students have over 100 different ways of learning. Reggio Emilia calls this “The 100 different languages of children.’ In acknowledging this our school employed a specialist Visual Art Teacher nearly three years ago. Mrs Ganley provides all […]
Term 1, Week 5
Visit our Nature Play Precinct -The Third Teacher! Link into our Reggio Emilia philosophy added with current research clearly shows that natural environments like our outdoor play precinct are hugely beneficial to students in many ways. Playing outdoors is important for developing capacities for creativity, symbolic play, problem solving and intellectual development. Outdoor play has […]
Term 1, Week 4
Parent Engagement As we continue our focus on helping our students become the best version of themselves, we acknowledge that in order to achieve this we need to ensure our ‘First Teachers’ the parents are connected together with us. As our Preps are settling in to new routines and making necessary adjustments our parents are […]
Term 1, Week 3
Unaided Writing Task with Year 5 All our students from Years 1 to Year 6 are engaging in a writing task so that we can see our student’s knowledge and skills in writing. The hallmarks of an excellent St Therese’s school are focused on collaboration and reflection on practice to ensure the best outcomes for […]
Term 1, Week 2
Welcoming Mass On Friday 5 February our school community gathered in our hall to celebrate our ‘Welcome Mass’ with Fr Michael. The focus of the Mass was centred around welcoming everyone! Our role at St Therese’s is to be stewards of creation- to look after not only our school but our local community. Now that […]
Term 1, Week 1
Welcome Back to School!! 2021 Welcome back to 2021 all our current and new families! St Therese’s continues the journey celebrates its 92nd year as the community stands on the shoulders of its long history in Catholic Education in Far North Queensland! The many smiles along with the continuing strong enrolment of 630 students is […]
Term 4, Week 8
Christmas Carols O what a week! A huge thank you to all our staff behind the scenes for bringing our Christmas spirit to life! Our school gathered in these unusual circumstances of Covid to celebrate Christmas Carols in our amazing Hall. All our classes sang beautifully and danced along to the famous Christmas Carols that […]
