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Term 4 Week 9 2022

  • Principal's Message
  • Assistant Principal's News - Mission
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  • Student of the Month & Learner Achievement Awards ~ 9 December 2022

Principal's Message

Dear families and friends,

‘We do whatever it takes to lead the way in Love, Learning, Faith, School Spirit, Sport & Community’

Christmas Mass Times

St Mary’s Casino  - Christmas Vigil 6.00pm and Christmas Day 8.00am

Mallanganee Church to be advised

Thank you 
It has been such a great year again of Love, Learning, Faith, School Spirit, Sport and Community.  I am truly blessed to be the principal of such a great school in such a great community.  I often pinch myself as to how I ended up here.  Some highlights for me of the year thus far:

  • Our recovery, resilience and persistence after the floods, we got stuck in and just got on with it
  • Our gratitude to the community due to this through our Beef Week Walk of Flame
  • Student learning, behaviour and wellbeing has never been better
  • Teacher learning, confidence and support has never been better

2023 School Improvement Plan 
We have been constructing a 2023 School Improvement Plan from many different sources of data including:

  • Student, Parent & Staff Tell Them From Me Surveys
  • NAPLAN
  • Other school assessments such as PAT
  • Fullness of Life Framework Reflection Tools
  • Communication had with families, staff and students

We will have a pretty sharp focus to ensure we are Deeply Improving.  Our initial draft goals look a little like this:

  • Improve student writing for all students
  • Improve staff knowledge and practice of Catholic values, beliefs and traditions
  • Students are deeply loved, empowered and responsible 


    Farewell Staff 
    Anne Ross:  Anne is retiring after 40 years of Catholic education in our Diocese as an Educator, mostly at St Carthage’s in Lismore.  Thank you for all you have done in these 40 years, Anne.  You should be proud of the commitment you have given to so many over this time.
    Kandis Hoffman:  We are really going to miss your bright, bubbly nature. You are an amazing educator.  Best wishes at St Joseph’s, Wauchope.
    Jacinda Summers:  Thank you for all you have contributed over the last few years.  I wish you all the best in moving up to 'God's Country' and working in the Queensland system.
    Lisa Transton:  Thank you also for your time and commitment to us at SMP over the years.  We wish you all the best at Our Lady Help of Christians, South Lismore in 2023.
    Carissa Pursey:  Thank you for this year and we wish you all the best at St Joseph’s, South Grafton.

    Farewell Families
    I would very much like to thank and farewell the following families who have finished their children’s education journey with us:

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    Take care
    John O’Brien
    Principal

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    Assistant Principal's News - Mission


    School Jackets
    All school jackets have been ordered and will hopefully arrive mid-Term 1, 2023. 

    Basketball Hoops
    Thank you Liam Convine for giving up his own time to put together some portable basketball hoops for our students. We really appreciate you volunteering to help us with this!

    Edward Shields - Rep Softball
    On the weekend Edward attended the NSW softball Under 12 State Championships as part of the Southern Districts representative team. The Championships were held over two days in Orange. This tournament drew children from associations all over NSW.  On Saturday Edward played four games and then played three games on Sunday. The team played well and managed to win three of the six games, drawing one game and narrowly missing two. This had them placed in fourth position at the end of the tournament. Edward played many positions.  Catcher is his favourite. His strength was definitely with the bat over the weekend.  Although only being 10, Edward was able to be a major contributor to his team.  Well done, Edward!

    Swimming Carnival Results
    Last Thursday, 41 students attended Evans Head Pool to compete in the School Competitive Swimming Carnival. Congratulations to each and every one of the competitors and a special thank you to all parents and helpers who volunteered their time to help run the carnival. 

    A huge congratulations to Tom McCormack, Laura Lockwood and Emma Green for breaking 8 records between them!  What an effort!

    Tom Mc Cormack: 8 new school records

    • Junior 100m Freestyle 1:13.39
    • Junior 50m Butterfly 40.45
    • Junior 4x50m IM 3:05.26
    • 10yo 50m Freestyle 33.21
    • 10yo 50m Breaststroke 45.41
    • 10yo 50m Backstroke 42.70

    Emma Green: 1 new school record

    • 11yo 50m Freestyle 33.11

    Laura Lockwood: 1 new school record

    • 13yo 50m Freestyle 37.21

    Age Champions

    Boy Champion

    Girl Champion

    8 years

    Harry Myers - 24 points

    Chelsea Rose - 36 points

    9 years

    Finnan Martin - 22 points

    Ruby Thompson - 24 points

    10 years

    Tom McCormack - 48 points

    Allora Gould - 36 points

    11 years

    Kieran Grant - 48 points

    Emma Green - 40 points

    12 years 

    Harper Gould - 24 points

    Harper Myers - 48 points

    13 years

    Laura Lockwood - 24 points

    Divisional Champions

    Boy Champion

    Girl Champion

    Junior

    Tom McCormack - 48 points

    Chelsea Rose & Allora Gould - 36 points

    Senior

    Kieran Grant - 48 points

    Harper Myers - 48 points 

    House Champions

    House

    Total points

    1st place

    Champagnat

    332

    2nd place

    de Paul

    174

    3rd place

    MacKillop

    140

    4th place

    McAuley

    40

    Sam Irvine
    Assistant Principal - Mission

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    Assistant Principal's News Teaching & Learning


    Celebrating our Academic Achievers for 2022

    At SMP we lead the way in learning and we have had a number of students experience great success in their academic pursuits this year. We would like to acknowledge and celebrate these students this week and encourage all students to continue their positive attitude toward learning in 2023.                                       

                            NAPLAN 2022

    These students were successful in scoring the highest possible band for their year, or above. 

    Year 3 2022Year 3 2022Year 5 2022
    Campbell HardwickAlice BruggyThomas Zeller
    Kobie MooreWillow HaleDominic Castle
    Ruby BennAurora SilverAngelina Nuccio
    Adrian CampbellGracyn IndNatalie Marsden
    Oliver ChristensenDrew LudlowOliver Lamont
    Nicholas MarshallNash StevensAbby Gray
    Indigo McClellandLexi VidlerAlayna Johnston
    Levi Fepuleai-BaranOlivia GrayLewis Bunney
    Charli Quinnell-BilletArcher ChelmanPopi McLennan
    Kobee HammondZoe FormagginElla McIntyre
    Sophie RobinsonMackinly WalkerCharlotte Evans


    Charlotte Evans


    Ella Rippon

    Progressive Achievement Tests

    All students in Years 2-6 take part in Progressive Achievement Tests (PAT) in Reading and Numeracy, twice a year. These students achieved the highest score for their year level in these assessments. 

    Year LevelReadingNumeracy
    2

    Leah Macintyre
    Logan Hollis

    Samantha Zhou
    3

    Kobie Moore
    Gracyn Ind
    Campbell Hardwick
    Kobee Hammond

    Archer Chelman
    4Matthew Brenan

    Ada Presbury
    Lachlan Allen-Preece

    5Abby GrayPopi McLennan
    6Indie BonnerJoshua Borello

    ICAS Achievers

    ICAS assessments are run every year across Australia to recognise and reward academic excellence. This year we had a number of students take part in these assessments and they did SMP very proud with their results.

    Myles Elwell

    Lilly Mulqueen

    Popi McLennan
    Jay Urquhart-PurdonElla McIntryeJosie Ryan

    Maths Extension Groups

    These were our top achievers in our Maths Extension activites for 2022.

    Maths Olympiad

    Campbell Stuart
    William Macdonald

    Maths Games Competition

    Laura Lockwood
    Alexah Adam

    Maths Explorer Competition

    Brianna Macdonald
    Ruby Seed

    Bebras CSIRO Logical Thinking Challenge

    Bebras is an international initiative aiming to promote Informatics and Computational Thinking among students. These students were the highest scorers for SMP this year. 

    Popi McLennanCampbell Stuart
    Brianna McDonaldDrew Ludlow

    Prime Minister's Spelling Bee

    Oliver Christensen

    Gold Award- Premier's Reading Challenge

    Willow Honey

    I wish you all a happy, holy and safe Christmas break and I look forward to continuing to learn alongside you all again in 2023. 

    Felicity Wilde
    AP Teaching & Learning

    SMP Academic Acheivers 2022

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    Leader of Pedgaogy

    Writing Success
    Congratulations to Sophia Derrig in Year 4 who entered the Unleashed Short Story Competition with her story called The Greatest Grubber. Sophia's story has been selected to be published in the 2022 Unleashed Book alongside other young authors from across the country. Well done, Sophia!

    PAT Testing

    Every student from Years 2 to 6 complete the online PAT Maths and Reading Assessment twice each year. This test assesses the skills that each student has in reading comprehension and a range of areas in Mathematics. This data is analysed and used to track student growth across the year, to identify areas of strength and to plan what is needed for each student in their learning. 

    Congratulations to the following students in each grade who have shown the most growth  from their previous assessment in Term 2 up to their current results from this term:

    GradeMathematicsReading Comprehension
    Year 2Leah McIntyreThomas Shelton
    Year 3Ruby BennGracyn Ind
    Year 4Charlotte HoggCole Ruane-Taylor

    Michelle Bratti
    Leader of Pedagogy

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    Leader of Love and Community

    Hi Everyone!

    Week 7 saw us celebrate our whole school Christmas Concert. It was a beautiful late spring afternoon that saw many of our family and friends come out to watch the kids perform Christmas songs and hear the Nativity story.  We even had a visit from Santa!

    Many thanks to all who came out and made it a special evening and to Casino Rotary and students from Woodlawn for providing us with delicious food! 

    .

    Thank you all for your support in our Community events this year.  Looking forward to many more in 2023!  Wishing you all a very safe and blessed Christmas and New Year!

    Kristie Irvine 
    Leader of Love and Community 

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    Birthdays

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    Student of the Month & Learner Achievement Awards ~ 9 December 2022

    CLASS

    Student of the Month

    Learner Achievement

    KRG

    Heidi Handford

    Hunter Ryan

    KEY

    Elodie LlewellynLewis Creighton

    KCS

    Stella Bahadori

    Rhys Benn

    1MB

    Chloe Clark

    Amaya Ind

    1CP

    Felix Makejev 

    Ashton Presbury

    1JS

    Arlia Bultitude

    Anna Auckram

    2KH

    Colby Randall

    Van Johnston

    2KF

    Flynn Zaiko


    2SS

    Marcus Lickiss

    Archie Moss

    3RO

    Nash Stephens

    Addilyn Reilly

    3HB

    Cadence Farrelly

    Ameah Stringer

    3TL

    Skylah Wells

    Kobie Moore

    4JF

    Mia Trustum

    Sonny McInnes

    4BF

    Dallas MurphyChelsea Cruickshank

    4KM

    Sophia DerrigLachlan Allen-Preece

    5HD

    Teanu MacMahonAlayna Johnston

    5SA

    Angelina NuccioSienna Moss

    5KF

    Bonnie LlewellynDimity Smith

    6LI

    Xavier OpryszkoIndy Stubbin

    6JG

    Jazmin HendersonCallin Loy

    6BM

    Keegan KingEllie-Jayne Johns


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