Our return home

Can I take this opportunity as the newly appointed Principal to Bowen State School to share how happy my family and I are to receive this amazing opportunity to be part of this great school and community.

I previously taught at Proserpine State School for 7 years and then moved into a Teaching Principal role at Collinsville SS. For the last two years I was the substantive principal at Barkly Highway State School in Mount Isa. My family and I have longed to put our roots down and settle permanently back on the coast and patiently waited for the right opportunity, with family in Mackay and Proserpine we feel we are well positioned and know that Bowen is such a special place to make our permanent home for the future. We are looking forward to becoming involved in the community and all it has to offer. Two of our children are attending the school and one in the local high school. I am looking forward to when my daughter Harriet (2 yr. old) will be attending her first day of prep here in the near future.

So far I have been very impressed with the positive culture in the school and friendly students and staff. Bowen State School is a great school and I am looking forward to working with the school community and P&C to continue to drive the best outcomes and opportunities for all of our students. I am looking forward to catching up on the footpath for a chat around the school. Thank you to all for a warm welcome and friendly the faces. Our family certainly have appreciated this immensely.

Parent Teacher evenings

Can I take this opportunity to share the success of the two last evenings and new approach to the parent teacher evenings being held in the school hall. Thank you to the parents who made the time to attend. To hear the strengths of your child’s learning and areas to improve is a powerful opportunity and great way to support and improve learning outcomes. We welcome feedback from families who attended this week on how we can improve the evening and make this event an even more successful whole school approach. Next year we will be accessing the SOBS School online booking system to support a smoother booking system. I certainly enjoyed talking to families and meeting parents. A great initiative and positive way to communicate the great learning happening in our school.

Looking forward to sharing more great things happening in our school next fortnight.

Christien Payne

Principal