Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal’s Seat I hope you are all travelling well. There are not too many things to add today, please note the email that was sent out yesterday. I hope you are all well and taking good care of yourselves. So let’s get started… 3 way interviews We are in the process of getting our 3 way interview schedules prepared on Sentral, we will send a link home on Tuesday so you can fit in your 3 way interview time. In next week’s newsletter we will be offering some information on how you and [...]

Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal’s seat This week we will jump right into the things you need to know! 3 Way Interviews/discussions Many of you may be feeling a little bit concerned about your child’s learning progress over the year. That’s why we have been completing Common Assessment Tasks and upload tasks. We want to use the opportunity in the last 2 weeks of term to make space for you to have a chat with your child’s teacher about the learning that has been happening in term 3. We will be organising times to meet with you [...]

Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal I have been super lucky this week, I was able to listen to Michael Carr-Gregg speak at the Principal’s Forum on Wednesday and I finished reading The Resilience Project by Hugh Van Cuylenburg. There were some really interesting takeaways and I felt would only be fair to share with you in this space. So here goes… Lesson from Michael Carr-Gregg… Don’t marinate in the negativity. What a pearl of wisdom! At the moment it is so easy for us to listen to social media, the 24 hour news cycle and our fears [...]

Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal… Well, I think all I can say is “That wasn’t the week I was expecting!” Stage 4 restrictions have added a whole new dimension to things now, and for many of us it has made us feel further isolated. I would like to introduce you to an educators most referred to pyramid, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. He had a theory that in order to be creative and amazing you needed to have a few things… We have seen it within school, through behaviour. For instance, if a child hasn’t had breakfast, or [...]