Dear parents,

Last Tuesday we held our final Community Council meeting for the year. Parents were sent the updated school fees which were approved at the meeting, during the week. The meeting also served as the AGM and the members of the Community Council for 2021 are below.

Chair – Damian Kelly

Deputy Chair - Natalie Zanco

Secretary – Jodi George

Treasurer – Lisa Murphy

Parent Rep - Tanya Bolton

Parent Rep - Edwardo Kuminek

Parent Rep – Louise Wilkinson

Parent Rep – Amelia Grace

Parent Rep – Sachin Mehta

Parent Rep - Bruce Parker

I would like to thank Marina Ivancic, our outgoing Chair, for her service both as Chair of the Community Council and as parent representative prior to that.  Thank you also to Maria Worsnop for her service to the Mother Teresa School community via the Community Council.

Pupil Free Days - 2021

To support the rollout of the Catholic Education’s ‘Catalyst’ initiative, Catholic Education has granted all schools an extra two days of professional development for 2021. These days will occur on the first day of term two,  19^th April, and term three, 12^th July.

While schools have three professional development days at the beginning of the year very little time is spent on teaching and learning which is our core business. Compliance requirements linked to WHS, anti-discrimination, bullying and harassment, first aid, National Collection of Data for Students with a Disability are some of the requirements that eat into our professional development days.  Schools have been asking for more time to focus on curriculum for some time and are pleased to be given these two days.

Kidz Biz have confirmed that they will have programs running for both of these days if parents wish to avail themselves of this service.

Good quality professional development is essential to enable us to increase the knowledge and skills of our teachers which in turn leads to better outcomes for our students.

Math’s Problem

Congratulation’s to Selina Li who was last week’s winner. Interestingly Selina submitted an entry early in the week and then thought about her answer and submitted an updated answer several days later.  Well done Selina!

This week’s problem is below.

How many three-digit numbers greater than 900 are there that satisfy the following conditions?

• The sum of the digits is 14.
• The digits are all different.
• The tens digit is an odd number.
  
  
  

God Bless

Peter Hughes