Enrolment conversations are in full swing, and we have new students joining us this term, including our new Reception students. I extend a warm welcome to all our new families. The pride our students have in the College was on full display on Friday as they showed their Grandparents and Grandfriends around the Benedict campus. It was wonderful to welcome hundreds of family members into the school. Community, parish and family partnerships are so valuable and an essential part of College life to support learning and wellbeing.
Click here to view our Grandparent's and Grandfriend's Photo Gallery.
NAPLAN Reports
Individual Student NAPLAN Reports have been sent home this week. In each learning domain, Reading, Writing, Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar and Numeracy, students are evaluated as Excelling, Strong, Developing or Needs Intervention. It has been great to see an improvement in Writing levels because of the learning strategies we have been implementing over the past year. Research indicates that reading regularly has a significant impact on learning outcomes, so we encourage students, with the support of parents, to take a break from devices each day and let their imaginations get lost in the pages of a book.
Please remember that NAPLAN results are just a snapshot in time and only one of many measures of students’ learning. Students’ self-worth should not be determined by performance on standardised tests. Each student is unique and valued for all that they are.
I hope you enjoy the new format and the glimpses into daily life and learning at St Mark’s College.
Dr Sandra Hewson, Principal
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