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At Tenison Woods College we appreciate the importance of parents and carers as the first educators of their children, realising, that all we do supports their efforts or assists them to exercise their influence with greater confidence. We are also seeing the importance of grandparents in the evolving family paradigm of our society and how they are impacting on the learning, wellbeing and faith formation of our students. 

I have said on many occasions that the greatest determinant of student success at Tenison Woods College is parent involvement in their child’s learning and our learning community. The literature in the area of improving student achievement repeatedly indicates that parental attitudes and behaviors are the most significant variables. Interestingly, improving student achievement, according to the data, is not dependent on more money or smaller classes, but in the hands of parents, carers and school staff who play a critical role in their children’s physical, social, moral and academic development.  

With this in mind, I am delighted to see parents and carers becoming involved in a variety of opportunities in our learning community, such as literacy and numeracy information sessions, as well as parent class representatives. I am also thrilled to see staff teams across the School planning opportunities for parents to become increasingly involved in the learning of their young this year through some creative experiences and events. I encourage parents, grandparents and carers to accept the invitations that will be extended to them. Furthermore I invite you to contact me should you have ideas of how we could better involve these groups in our community or support them as the first educators of our young.

David Mezinec | Principal

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