W A L A W A A N I N J I N D I W A A N Principal Report Term 1 Week 2 2021 WELCOME BACK TO THE NEW YEAR We hope that everyone had a lovely break and enjoyed the Christmas and New Year celebraons. We have had a great start to the new school year. Our teachers spent the first 2 days of the school year expanding their professional knowledge, working with Simon from Real Schools on restorave pracces. We began working with Real Schools last year but things were a lile interrupted with COVID, so we are back on track for 2021. Our teachers will be connuing to embed restorave pracces across the school as a way of working with students and helping them to make great choices in all situaons. CLASSES FOR 2021 This year we were able to have students start on the first day in their 2020 classrooms, at the end of the day we placed them in their classes for 2021. This process seemed to work well for all students as they had the familiarity of the students they knew from their class last year and were able to find out who their teacher was for 2021 ready to start on Monday. This year we have welcomed some new and some familiar faces into our school. Mr Browne has returned to us for a 1 year contract working as an Instruconal Leader K-2. Ms Dove has returned aſter some me away and will be supporng student learning as a learning and support teacher and release from face to face teaching on a number of classes. Mr Kennedy is now a permanent teacher at our school and he will be teaching kindergarten . Mrs Buckley is new to our school and will be here on Tuesday ’s, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s teaching a number of classes during release from face to face. She will also be running dance/hip hop classes during lunchme for students 3-6, with a possibility of extending that to K-2 later in the year.