What is it like to be part of the Primary campus each day?  What do the children get up to?   
Who do they play with?
How do they learn?   

This week I have decided to share a few insights into life on the Primary campus where life is always very busy. 

Sometimes there are tears but often laughter.  Classrooms can be filled with the noise of collaboration but sometimes they are places of quiet contemplation and independent, focused learning. Handball, footy and soccer are a familiar feature of play times and handball is fiercely contested before school.  The sand from the sandpit can often be found on the carpet in the P - 2 classrooms and the loose parts play area provides opportunities for the imagination to run wild.

Interactions between children and adults are affirming, supportive, comforting, challenging and respectful. Each day there is a time to be quiet and thankful for all that we have and to show through our actions, the Gospel values upon which this school was built. The corridors are hollow to start, then echo with chatter before falling silent at the end of the day. 

Just another day on the Primary campus at St Joseph's School.

Heard in the corridor...

Year 5 student to Mr Coman (one member of the SRIP panel), 'I am going to my piano lesson but I am torn.  I really love my music but my learning team need me back in the classroom!'   This is a student who values learning and is motivated by it. He also values the collaboration of learning teams and the opportunities he is afforded to learn from others as well as helps others to develop their own understanding.  There are many more like this student at our school.

With God's blessings.

Sarah Yates
Assistant to the Principal Primary