Welcome to St Mary's Parish Primary School

Last year we were invited by the Catholic Education Office to participate in a Performance and Development Culture Project where the requirement was for us to examine our practices against five performance elements and then action improvement strategies. Following work done over the past twelve months, a survey was completed by. Staff and a Review Report written and submitted to Melbourne University. A Verifier from Melbourne University visited our school in October and interviewed various Teams of teachers. Following this process, the Verifier submitted a Report and recommendation to Melbourne University. Last week, we were notified that we had been granted accreditation as a school that has a strong culture of performance and development. We will now be invited to a presentation ceremony with the Minister of Education and the Director of Catholic Education where we will be presented with our certificate of Accreditation. Following are extracts from the recommendation Report. "The school demonstrated a very strong Performance and Development Culture as measured by the Performance and Development Culture Questionnaire...St Mary’s School has a comprehensive Quality Professional Learning program. The program is informed by a recently developed Professional Learning Policy and reflects the seven principles of Highly Effective Professional Learning. The Staff of St. Mary's is very proud of our growth in professional learning and practice over the past few years and we look forward to the upcoming Review when we will set goals for future learning and improvement. I congratulate all Staff on our achievements. As a Team, we work very hard to "Make a Difference" in supporting the learning of our students.