Dear Families,

This week I have had an opportunity to meet with staff and discuss professional learning goals, debrief following Remote Learning and talk about how the students are settling back into face-to-face learning. It has been wonderful to hear about how settled the students are and how they seem to have jumped straight back into work. Many of us were concerned that despite everyone’s best efforts, students would still fall back in their learning. I am pleased to say that, with a great deal of support from parents and carers, many students have progressed well and some groups are at, or very close to, where we would expect them to be without lockdown. Over these past two years, we have experienced a partnership like never before where parents and teachers were working side-by-side. I want to thank you again for your efforts, particularly during this most recent lockdown.

This year we are revisiting the school’s Mission and Vision. The staff have been looking at what is important to us here at St Thomas Aquinas and what type of a school we aspire to create. When we started this journey, I had thought we would be able to invite groups of parents in to collect your ideas, however due to the current climate we have to do things a little differently. We have taken feedback from our surveys, and conversations with staff and students to help to identify everyone’s hopes and dreams for our school moving forward. We have used this to create a draft vision for St Thomas Aquinas which is now ready for comment. I would appreciate any feedback on this vision and on whether you think we have missed something.

We are a community inspired by St Thomas Aquinas to deepen our faith,
to seek knowledge and thrive.

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We will leave this survey open until next Tuesday.

I hope with ACT and NSW opening up further, everyone is beginning to get back to normal and settle back into routine.

 
Leah Taylor
Principal