Sam as a writer 2 weeks into ALL project

Sam's super student voice.

Hadlee talks about his learning

Hadlee's learning as a writer.

St Dominics supports the Philippines

It was great to have Father Linus from the Philippines to help us understand the issues and concerns facing the Fillipino people.
Great learning and St Dominics reaching out to others in need.

Caritas challenge 2015

We spent a lesson under the tarp so Thatbthe children could a little insight into what it might be like to survive after a cyclone like the ones they experience in The Philippines
They also made a water filter which was great learning for them.

Year 1 artists

Thanks St Marys for sharing your gifts with us

CHANGE

Change is good as long as it is purposeful!

Arts at school Love it!!!!!

St Patricks Day St Dominics Style!

The Annual 'Jig off' with Mr Fahey doing his thing with his class.
Room 12 took out the competition with some great 'reels' and leg movements!

Maths PD in action

What a great Maths Staff Meeting we had tonight. Loads of great discussion and all based around what we as teacher need to be doing in order to meet the needs of our students.

Maths activities and modelling books were the focus and making sure all teachers are getting these right.

Do the Maths activities match the stage and are Modelling books child centred and being used as evidence gathering for the OTJ.

Indian Community Evening. What a great evening this was!

Parents mingling at the Indian community evening

Our little ones waiting for their dinner!

What a great evening this was. Our school has a  25% Indian and Sri Lanka make up. We are blessed to have these cultured in the school and the idea id the get together was to discuss some possible ways forward to bring out these two cultures int he school. All parents that came, 19 families, came with so many great ideas and were all really keen to get things going.
We shared ideas on what we could do to support our little ones and three of these ideas will happen this year.
We are having a Bollywood disco where we can showcase some of the great dancing that the children love to do. We will get going HINDI language after school for those children that would like to learn this language and it was decided that we will meet regularly each term so that more families can come and strong ties are made between families.

A great result with some great parents.

Hazards in the playground

This week I have been looking into what the hazards in our school are. It is so important that we are constantly looking at making sure our children are safe and free from possible hazards that are often overlooked in the school grounds.

Children will just rush onto a playground and not see what possibility could go wrong so it is our job as a whole staff to make sure that we are looking and constantly checking that our equipment and classrooms are free from possible hazards.

Our caretaker checks the schools ground every morning and ticks off the areas that are free from hazards. He also deals with any issues that he sees straight away before he starts his day of school maintenance. Our teacher also inform him through a daily contact book if they see anything aswell.

A school cant guarantee that children wont hurt them selves however it can guarantee that it will do it’s best to try and limit that number of accidents by having a proactive approach to Health and Safety in the school where all staff are on the lookout.

Some snapshots from school

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