Dear Families

Celebrating Catholic Education Week

This week, we, together as a school community, celebrate Catholic Education Week.  A time to Honour the Past, Embrace the Present, and Shape the Future of Catholic Education in Tasmania

Catholic Education Week is an annual event and a special opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the enduring mission, values, and achievements of Catholic education in Tasmania. With a legacy spanning nearly 200 years, Catholic schools continue to faithfully serve Tasmanian families, grounded in a tradition that nurtures both academic excellence and spiritual growth.

Tasmania alone has 38 Catholic schools that continue to bring this mission to life—educating minds, shaping hearts, and forming young people to live lives of faith, purpose, and service. In strong partnership with families, governments, and Church communities, Catholic schools remain committed to the holistic development of every student and to building a brighter future for all Tasmanians.

This year, we as a system celebrate Catholic Education Week under the theme "Pilgrims of Hope," echoing the late Pope Francis' call for the upcoming 2025 Year of Jubilee—a sacred time of prayer, reconciliation, and renewal. This theme invites us to journey together in faith, guided by the hope we find in Christ. As Pope Francis reminded us, “Through our witness, may hope spread to all those who anxiously seek it.”

As a school community, we can embody the spirit of Pilgrims of Hope by:

• Creating spaces of welcome and compassion, where students, staff and families feel seen, valued, and included.
• Engaging in acts of service, reaching out to those in need both within and beyond our school.
• Fostering prayer, reflection, and gratitude, deepening our faith and drawing closer to God.
• Encouraging resilience and optimism, reminding one another that hope endures, even in times of challenge.
• Celebrating our shared journey, recognising the goodness, diversity, and potential in others and within our community.

May this week be a joyful reminder of the light Catholic education and our school community bring to our lives, and a moment to renew our shared commitment to a future built on faith, learning, and hope.

 

Yours in partnership,

Charlene Best
Principal

2025 NAPLAN Results

In our 2025 NAPLAN results, our school demonstrated strong and consistent performance across key areas of literacy and numeracy, reflecting the impact of targeted teaching strategies and student engagement. In Year 3, students achieved particularly strong results in Spelling and Grammar and Punctuation, indicating a solid foundation in language skills, including word knowledge and sentence structure. Numeracy results also showed strength, suggesting that students are developing confidence and competence in mathematical understanding and problem-solving. Writing results in Year 3 were positive, showing that students are building their ability to communicate ideas effectively in written form.

In Year 5, the results continued to reflect growth and achievement, with Grammar and Punctuation emerging as a clear strength. Students also performed well in Reading, demonstrating comprehension skills and the ability to engage with a variety of texts. Spelling results remained strong, further supporting the development of literacy skills. Numeracy scores in Year 5 indicated steady progress, pointing to the successful consolidation of mathematical concepts as students advance through the curriculum.

These results highlight the school’s strengths in literacy—particularly in Spelling and Grammar—across both year levels, and reflect the effectiveness of the school’s teaching programs and the dedication of staff and students. Overall, our data shows a positive trajectory of learning, with clear evidence of skill development and academic achievement.

In 1/2 Wombats we have been learning the structure of procedural texts and recognising all the different procedures we might read from recipes, lego building instructions and many more. To support our learning we followed a procedural text (recipe) and made delicious bread rolls. This activity showed us the importance of clear and detailed instructions when writing a procedure.

New Students to SHU

Playing in the Playground After School:

Please, parents, ensure you supervise your children after school hours while on the school grounds. It is important that we continue to work together to ensure that our expectations for behaviour align with our PBS Matrix and that we model appropriate adult behaviour. 

Medical Condition Updates:

If students have updated Medical conditions could parents please notify the school office by sending an email to shu@catholic.tas.edu.au stating 'Update regarding students Medical Condition' as its imperative that the school is aware of a medical condition that your child may have.

End of Day collection changes:

Please advise the office by phone or by emailing by 2.15pm of any change to pick up arrangements for your child . Thank you for your support.

Have you registered yet?

Our school is undertaking a wellbeing focus on anxiety through the implementation of 'The Anxiety Project' (TAP), a two year journey. Anxiety affects many families and we feel that it is part of our role as the education provider for our students to help equip teachers, students and families to understand anxiety and the role adults can play in reducing its impact on young people.

Students from Prep-Grade 6 have now commenced their TAP lessons. We encourage all parents to engage their children in conversations about their learning in this area and to consider attending one of our TAP Parent Information offerings detailed below.

We look forward to working together during this journey!

For those parents who would like to know more about anxiety, and supports for their families, who are unable to attend the TAP Child Development Course you are invited to register for...

Join eSafety's free 45 minute live webinars for parents and carers. 

For more information and to register visit: https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/webinars 

Our school canteen is requiring volunteers for Term 3 on a Friday from 9am -11.30am.

If you have a current WWVP card and would like to volunteer please contact the school office.