Dear Parents/Carers,

I am pleased to announce our second Listening Assembly.

Listening Assembly - A date for parents calendar

In 2019, St Paul’s had their first community Listening Assembly.  The outcome from the last Listening Assembly led to a number of focus areas that the St Paul’s community has worked on, even with the many disruptions that COVID brought the school over the past two years:

• Establishing a school choir

• Mathematics - Quicksmart Intervention Program

• Focused identification of gifted students and new strategic response to learning needs

• Buddy Bench

• Parent Meet and Greet by request only

• More regular checks about student progress (goal setting end of term 1)

• Better transition to school - Playgroup

All of the above achievements were a result of the recommendations that came from our last Listening Assembly.

A Listening Assembly is a clear structured process to seek feedback from parents in our school community about Catholic Life and Religious Education ( Prayer life of the school, Religious Education, opportunities to share faith, community service etc), Students and Their Learning ( Teaching and delivery of the curriculum, learning intervention and support, use of technology to support learning etc), Parents and Partnership (Work of the P&F, community events such as Grandparents Day, fete etc) and Respectful Relationships (student to student, teacher to student, teacher to parent).

The process will value everyone’s thoughts and ideas and “funnel” them in a way that we come up with the top three ideas in each of the four areas outlined. These ideas then will become our focus and work as a school community over the next three years and I will report on our progress throughout each year.  This will be our big opportunity to seek feedback from parents that will influence the direction of the school 2024 - 2026

The process will begin with finger food and drinks outside the canteen area for approximately sixty minutes before the Listening Assembly commences to make it a true social gathering to get the balance right between “work” and “fun”.

The process will not require individuals to share their thoughts with the whole school, just a group of 8 - 10 parents which you will be seated with inside the school hall.  The ideas of each table are then funnelled further to become our shared ideas and recommendations.

I have only received positive feedback from our first Listening Assembly and as can be seen from the list of recommendations, as a community, we have largely delivered!  It is time to take on some new challenges.

Please RSVP your attendance to the listening assembly on Wednesday, 26 April 2023 from 6pm via the link below;

2023 Listening Assembly RSVP

Go gently,

Michael Reardon
Principal

Principal Awards

Congratulations to the following students who have recently received a Principal Award. 

Ashton Youkhana, Lucas Muscat, Gavin Wilson, Annabella Starr, Zoey Szabo, Mya Withers, Oliver Melisi, Evelyn Armstrong, Harvey Brooker, Logan Lewit, Sarah Murphy, Kalanee Pierce, Clare McLachlan, Rocco Vecchio, Ava Bruce, Peyton Azzopardi, Jude Geddes, Leo Borg, Ariana Criniti, Patrick Waters, Matilda McLaren, Sebastian Vella, Giovanni Anastasio,Lily Vella, William Griffin.