It’s a Masters for Mr Shannon!
Stalwart teacher of the Maths department, Mr Allan Shannon, recently added a few extra letters after his name!
Were they born successful?
Mozart clocked up 3,500 hours of practice before his first birthday. Tiger Woods was given a golf club before his first birthday and was coached by a professional when he was four.
Top 3 new fiction books in the Senior Library
Looking for something new to read? Why not check out these new titles, especially recommended by our Library team?
How are we going at improving student writing?
In February 2017, we took on the challenge to improve our students’ writing. NAPLAN showed us that our students were already above state average with their writing skills, but we knew they could do better.
Easy ways to get kids reading at home
Did you know that May is National Family Reading Month?
Is there anything good about NAPLAN?
You’ve very likely seen recent media reports on Dr Perelman’s review of the NAPLAN writing test. Dr Perelman was commissioned by the NSW Teachers’ Federation to review this test, and he has some highly critical things to say – bizarre, severely defective in its design and execution, by far the most absurd and the least…