Dear Eumundi Families,

As we continue our journey of excellence in education, we are excited to share with you our two key school priorities for 2025. These focus areas are designed to enhance student learning and ensure every child at Eumundi Primary thrives in a supportive, high-quality learning environment.

1. Advancing Our Reading and Writing

This year, we are refining our approaches to the teaching of reading and writing across all year levels. Our goal is to ensure that every student becomes a confident, capable communicator.

We are aligning our signature teaching practices with Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum, ensuring consistency and clarity in what we teach and how we teach it.

Teachers are engaging in professional learning to deepen their understanding of effective literacy instruction, with a focus on explicit teaching, rich text engagement, and purposeful writing tasks.

We are also strengthening our use of data to inform instruction, so that every student receives the support and challenge they need to grow as readers and writers. An example of data we use are reading records.

2. Sharpening Our Visible Learning

Our second priority is about making learning more visible and meaningful for students, teachers, and families.

We are implementing a line-of-sight model that connects curriculum planning, teaching, and assessment in a clear and consistent way.

Through learning walks and talks, school leaders and teachers are working together to observe, reflect, and refine classroom practices.

This approach ensures that the curriculum is enacted with integrity, and that students are actively engaged in their learning, with a clear understanding of what they are learning, why it matters, and how to improve.

Dobbing vs Reporting

On assembly on Monday, I spoke to all classes about the differences between Dobbing and Reporting. You can also use this language at home.

Dobbing is when:

• You're trying to get someone in trouble.
• The problem is small and could be solved by talking it out.
• You’re telling on someone for something accidental or minor.
• It’s done to gain attention or get revenge.

Example: “Miss, Sam looked at me funny!”

Reporting is when:

• You’re trying to keep someone safe.
• The problem is serious or dangerous.
• Someone is being hurt, bullied, or is in real trouble.
• You’re telling because you care and want to help.

Example: “Miss, I saw someone being pushed and they’re crying.”

A Helpful Rhyme to share with your family is:

“If you’re telling to be mean, that’s a dob.

If you’re telling to keep safe, that’s your job!”

Best regards,

Rob