Jingeri families!

For our new Prep families welcome, and for our returning families welcome back, to Rochedale South State School for 2025! I have thoroughly enjoyed spending some of our early weeks down at Prep getting to know our new students. They have all settled in so well to primary school land – parents and caregivers must be feeling very proud!

We had the pleasure of connecting with many families during our annual online Meet the Teacher event – thank you for jumping online to hear about the term and year ahead. At Rochedale South State School we welcome feedback from families so please don’t hesitate to let us know what you think of the online format and whether this is something we should continue with.

As I shared during the online event, this year our school is focused on two key priorities:

• Pedagogies for Student Agency
• Engagement through Belonging

Despite being only three weeks into the school year we have already launched strategies to support each of these initiatives. Some of our teacher-leaders have shared practices with colleagues for developing students to drive their own learning and develop strong connections through belonging. Students are being greeted by name in fun ways every day across the school and our walking school bus has been received well by the community in it’s first week! Students are also building a common language for what being engaged in their learning looks like and this has had positive impacts on students’ self-awareness during learning.

I look forward to meeting with our P & C on Monday 17 February at 7pm, and hope to see some new parent faces come along to check it out. At our first meeting I will be sharing some of our summarised student outcome data for the 2024 school year and share our short- and long-term targets for continued improvement and growth for student achievement, wellbeing and engagement.

As always, we have many exciting events coming up this year, not to mention that it is a musical year and the school is buzzing with excitement for this event.

Looking forward to partnering with families as the year progresses.

Stacey Wood
Principal