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Welcome back to our new families and welcome back to the community - Transition to the New School Year

  Hi there to everyone in the school community and welcome back to the new school year. I am trying a new form of communication to you, the school community, in 2026 and I hope it will alleviate the need for copious amounts of information within the current newsletter format, and I am also hoping this new blog series will give families some insight into topics of interest and my view and opinion about such topics, as your child's school leader. As we start the new year, I thought my first topic would be about transition to a new school year. This could mean starting school, as a new Kindergarten student, it could be starting at a new school, in a new community, and it is also a relevant topic for all students starting a new school year, in a new class, with new teachers, and new classmates. Transitions and Continuity of Learning The NSW Department of Education School Excellence Framework states that in a school that is excelling in its Learning Culture they will have a 'systema...