Volume 30 Issue 12 Tues 23 April 2024

Deputy Principal's Message

Ms Carolyn Liddy

ANZAC Day

This Thursday marks a solemn and important day in our national calendar as we pause to honour our Defence personnel, past and present, and express our gratitude to them for their selflessness and courage. In addition to being prepared to fight for their country, our Defence Forces often work on peacekeeping and providing urgent humanitarian aid, either in Australia or overseas. The freedoms and privileges we enjoy in Australia today have only been made possible through the service and compassion of so many.

This year, one of our AHSisters, Year 12 Gorry student Bronte Fleming (Y12 GO1), is the recipient of the 2024 Premier’s ANZAC Prize – one of only eight students in Queensland to receive this prestigious award. Bronte is currently on a two-week tour to visit important war memorial sites in the United Kingdom and on the Western Front in France and Belgium. We are also very honoured this year to have one of our dedicated staff members, Ms Walls, taking part in the tour as a supervising teacher.

Bronte and Ms Walls have recently visited the Belgian city of Ypres, where 5,533 Australian soldiers lost their lives in the Battle of Fromelles. Ms Walls has kindly sent through a few photos of their time in Ypres where they have toured the memorials and cemeteries in the Flanders region. A highlight of the tour was a visit to Talbot House in Poperinge, which was a place of respite for many of our soldiers during the war. Bronte put her piano skills to good use and played some songs for the tour group during lunch. We pray for Bronte and Ms Walls as they prepare for the solemn dawn service at Villers-Bretonneux.

Prayer for ANZAC Day

God of Mercy,

We remember and give thanks for the women and men who served in the Defence forces

and all who have given their lives in the service of our country.

Bless them for their service and help us to honour the freedoms that their sacrifices have secured.

Grant us the wisdom to learn from their spirit of resilience and comradeship.

As we seek to embody these virtues in our lives, guide us to be people of peace and respect for the dignity of all.

May we honour their memory not only through our words but through our actions in the service of others and our community.

We ask this in Your Holy Name,

Amen.

Parent-Student-Teacher Feedback Meetings

Thank you to the many parents and caregivers who have made appointments for our forthcoming Parent-Student-Teacher Feedback meetings. Bookings for these meetings are still open and will close this Friday, 26 April, at 10am. Please ensure you have completed your bookings before this cut-off period.

Our teaching staff has commenced preparations for these meetings, which provide a valuable opportunity to discuss your daughter’s academic progress and identify areas for development.

As the name suggests, we encourage students to attend these meetings with their parents and caregivers. This enables our students to receive feedback firsthand from their teachers and encourages them to take responsibility for their own learning engagement and growth, as well as their academic achievements.

Winter Sport

As cooler weather sets in, our students eagerly embrace the diverse opportunities offered in our Winter Sports program, including cross country, track and field, athletics, netball, hockey, rowing, touch football, tennis, fencing, and water polo.

While training sessions are focused on skill development and fostering an active lifestyle, engaging in our comprehensive sports program also helps develop character traits such as teamwork, camaraderie, and fair play. These are valuable life skills that will benefit our AHSisters both now and in the future, and we encourage all students to explore the wide range of sports available at All Hallows’.

I extend my gratitude to our dedicated staff and Parent Support Groups who contribute to the success of our AHS Winter Sports program. Whether assisting with Catholic Secondary Schoolgirls’ Sports Association (CaSSSA) meets and fixtures, or ensuring the smooth management and operation of our club sports program, your service and enthusiasm are truly appreciated.

Performing Arts and Culture Program

Meanwhile, Term 2 shines a spotlight on our Performing Arts and Culture program.

Our talented students will have an opportunity to showcase their creativity and skills later in the term during Culture Week, the Instrumental Arts Festival, and our always-popular School Production, presented in conjunction with St Joseph’s College Gregory Terrace. This year we are looking forward to a trip down the yellow brick road as we enjoy The Wiz. Forget the return of Wicked to Brisbane later this year; tickets to The Wiz will be in high demand!

Our next networking event organised by our Past Pupils’ Association promises to be particularly entertaining. All Hallows’ has a rich history in the performing arts, and I am very excited to hear firsthand from AHSisters who have successfully pursued a career in the Performing Arts at our Sisters in the Spotlight Career Networking Event, presented by our wonderful Past Pupils’ Association.

This is an outstanding opportunity to hear from inspirational AHSisters now enjoying a career in the performing arts and will explore topics such as career paths, education and training, and advice for aspiring artists.

We are blessed with a panel of guest speakers with a range of professional experiences, including Priscilla Jackman (Class of 1995), Genevieve Trace (Class of 2003), Sophie Perkins (Class of 2012), Sophie Bannister (Class of 2012), and Ada Lukin (Class of 2020). This informative panel discussion will be moderated by Katrina Riveros (Class of 1993), Head of Drama at Brisbane Girls Grammar School.

We thank our Past Pupils’ Liaison, Ms Maree Nugent, and all members of our passionate Past Pupils’ Association for their organisation of this inspirational event.

For our students whose interests lean toward health, allied care and medicine disciplines, stay tuned for information about our upcoming Sisters in Scrubs Career Networking Event occurring in Term 3.

May God bless you and your family in the week ahead.

Ms Carolyn Liddy (Deputy Principal).

Dean of Mission

ANZAC Day

We Pray For

Liturgy Notice

School Events

Parent & Caregiver Events

Dean of Teaching & Learning

Learning Analytics (TrackOne) 2024 and Release of Term 1 Results and Feedback

Our teachers are currently working to enter their marks within the new TASS MarkBooks as well as submitting scripts, ISMGs (Year 11 & 12) and Criteria sheets (Year 5-10) to our Assessment Automator for future surfacing within Learning Analytics (TrackOne). While many of these results have started to be made available in classes, the Learning Analytics (TrackOne) surfacing for staff, students and parents is still being progressed and is not as yet operational while we await the quality assurance and finalisation of this transition. We expect the transition to displaying 2024 Progressive Reporting as well as Interim Reporting data in the coming weeks, and prior to our Parent Student Teacher Feedback Meetings.

We will communicate with families following this successful transition. In the meantime, as student results and feedback are finalised and approved for release across Year 5-12, our Heads of Department and Teachers will continue to provide results, feedback and ISMGs/Criteria sheets within classes and via e-mail distribution directly to their students, as is our usual process. In preparation for their return, our Heads of Department and Teachers communicate with their cohorts and classes the expected release date and method, as well as their request for each student to save their ISMG/Criteria Sheet received into their class OneNote. Parents may refer to their students' OneNotes to review these items as they are returned over the course of this and next week. Please note that this typically occurs within a period of 3-4 weeks since submission, allowing for the marking, moderation and quality assurance processes to occur accurately across our cohorts, though often our teachers are able to return students results within class earlier than this.

Where to access marks, grades, feedback and reports?

Parents may access their students' marks, grades and feedback directly within their students' OneNote, as results and feedback are finalised and approved for release across Year 5-12. This will soon be complemented by our direct access via Learning Analytics (TrackOne) to student Continuous Results. We look forward to sharing this enhanced access with you all shortly. Of course, outside of these formal mechanisms, checks for understanding, checkpoints, drafts, peer assessment and a range of other informal feedback occurs continually within and outside of our classrooms each and every day.

Where to access Student Reports?

All student reports, including the recently published Interim Reports, are accessible from the Parent Lounge. Interim Report analysis will also be visible within Learning Analytics (TrackOne) once available. We will provide further detail once this functionality becomes live.

QCAA Confirmation Processes and Student Data Checking

The first of the QCAA Confirmation processes for our Year 12 cohort begin with reviews of the first piece of summative Internal Assessment (typically IA1) over the coming weekend. These tasks were completed in Term 4 of 2023 and returned to students some ten weeks ago. It is important to recognise that returned results remain Provisional until superseded by the Confirmed result throughout the Confirmation process. Once confirmed, these Internal Assessment results will be made available to Year 12 Students within Learning Analytics (TrackOne) and the QCAA MyQCE portal.

Our students’ responses, and their excellent provisional results, represents the skilled preparation of our collective teachers’ including their attention to assessment design, care in quality assurance of marking processes and provision of effective feedback. Our significant success with supporting confirmed results since the inception of the new QCE demonstrates our great accuracy in the application of marking standards applied by our teachers and our many QCAA Confirmers and Lead Confirmers - this is a wonderful recognition of the expertise of our teaching staff and I thank them for their professional contribution. Our confirmers and Lead Confirmers currently include: Siobhan Lambert (French), Luke Cahill (Legal Studies), Lydia Patterson (Drama), Diane Hanson (Geography), Dan Byrnes (Chemistry), Emma Jackson (Physical Education), Ally Bray (Study of Religion), Tristan Hart (Digital Solutions), Fiona Murphy (Economics), Clair Monnickendam (Modern History), Ornella Roveda (Italian), Anne Taylor (Specialist Mathematics), Mary Childs (Literature), Karen Lewis (Literature), Paul Faughey (Music), Ashlee Chorinsky (General Mathematics), Sophie Rowland (Economics), Ashley Prisk (Study of Religion), Jacinta Goodwin (French), Sue Pearn (Drama), Scott Adamson (Physics), Christine Beckmann (English), Grayson Tyndale (Business) and Linda Wade (Modern History).

My observation in reviewing our school’s confirmation submissions is that they showcase the culmination of many years of student learning and teacher guidance. It really is a pleasure to have viewed so many skilled responses in such a variety of modes or formats; unseen essays, choreography, multimodal responses, technical proposals, dramatic performances, persuasive spoken responses, short and extended examination responses, combination responses in target languages, data tests, problem solving and modelling tasks, analytical responses, musical performances, compositions and investigative reports. Congratulations to our students and teachers on their exacting and determined approaches to learning and assessment.

Newsletter