Principal's Report
Dear Families,
I am pleased to welcome in our new Parents and Citizens (P&C) Executive Committee for 2023.
President – Chris Day
Vice Presidents- Anna Rimpau and Cedryck Vaquette
Treasurer – Gulnara Horwell
Secretary – Gerlinda Amor
I encourage all our families to get behind our new executive and play an active support role in seeing Yeronga State School thrive as a community.
I thank outgoing president Hamish Townsend for his many years of service on the PandC Executive and to the students, staff and families at YSS.
Our teaching and learning priority for the remaining six weeks of term is to consolidate schoolwide routines and expectations whilst prioritising literacy and numeracy progression within the Australian Curriculum. In the classroom this looks like;
- Reinforcing school wide behaviour routines and expectations
- Classroom literacy and numeracy routines within the Australian Curriculum learning areas
- Our Conceptual Curriculum- Community: Visible Thinking Routines and questioning to elicit critical and creative thinking and inquiry stance
Our Year 3 and 5 students will commence NAPLAN preparation in the form of practising the test like conditions intermittently over the next few weeks. All of the tests are conducted online now with the exception of Year 3 Writing which is still completed as a paper test. The 2023 NAPLAN Tests will be conducted at YSS over the period of Wednesday March 15-Monday March 20. Tuesday 21 March is designated the last day students will be able to catch up on tests for which they were absent. Parents of students in Year 3 and 5 will receive a letter advising them of the NAPLAN tests details this week.
The scoping for the new school security fence has been completed and now ready for tender. At this stage the fence plan will not impact on any of the heritage trees around the perimeter of the school however some shrubbery will be impacted. The fence location will come onto the school site to avoid extensive tree removal along the perimeter. I will continue to update the community as the works progress.
May I please remind families to exercise safety when bringing bikes, scooters and dogs on the school grounds for the comfort and safety of all.
Have a great week,
Eunice