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St Peter Chanel School

An Amazing Start for 2023 as St Peter Chanel welcomes all their students back to school, especially our newest students.

What an amazing start to the year! It has been wonderful to see so many happy smiling faces as we settle back in to learning. This year we also welcome many new students to our school.

Paul McGlone - Acting Principal

The Gap State High School

As we begin the 2023 school year, we have the pleasure of welcoming back approx. 1730 students and their families to our school. We would like to offer an especially warm welcome to the families who will be joining our community this year for the first time.

Launching in Term 1 we have a calendar packed full of events and celebrations to share with students, caregivers, parents and the wider community. In the coming weeks we will be promoting social events and various information nights. These events not only allow us the opportunity to connect but offer a chance for you to hear and ask questions about the many important aspects of student and family life at our school.

If you are looking at The Gap State High School as a future school, we encourage you to join us at our upcoming Open day on Thursday 20 April 2023 to learn more about what we can offer you and your young person.

We would also like to take the opportunity to congratulate our class of 2022 on their outstanding ATAR results. We are so proud of the efforts of our hard-working students, inspirational teachers, supportive parents and family members that resulted in such outstanding achievements for our school community in 2022.

We look forward to continued success in 2023 as we forge partnerships with our families to achieve outstanding excellence in education.

Anne McLauchlan –Principal

The Gap State School

Welcome back to another school year. I would like to extend a welcome to all 593 students who started this year at The Gap State School. Along with our returning students we welcome to the school, 69 Prep students and 35 new students in Years 1-6.

During our Pupil Free Days in January, staff participated and contributed looking into the future to three very successful days. Dedicated time was given to introducing the Department of Education’s new Strategic Plan – Equity and Excellence – Realising the potential of every student and revisiting our school’s Strategic Plan. Time was also allocated to outline the priorities for this year in our Explicit Improvement Agenda – English.

My key note message was about attributes required for high performing teams. Our work is complex and operating within high functioning teams supports positive wellbeing and brings energy to each staff member to be able to do their best each day. Teachers who work in high performing teams are also best placed to improve outcomes for students. Messages from our Head of Special Education Services remained focused on all staff being inclusion teachers. Inclusion and equity are everyone’s business and we are all committed to ensuring all students are successful and making progress at school. Student handover meetings from one teacher to the next were also prioritised during the pupil free days and these meetings continue to contribute to the seamless transition into new classes each year.

I am proud of the calm and focused start to 2023, with all children settled and engaged in learning from Day One.

2023 School Captains

It is my pleasure to acknowledge our school captains for 2023. Congratulations to Elsa, Liam, Harry and Sophie who are committed to making a difference in our school community. The presentation of leadership badges to all of our 2023 school leaders will take place at our student investiture ceremony on 21 February this year.

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