Lynda's News
Parents and Friends
A very big thank you to 12 of our dedicated parent/guardian/grandparent volunteers who attended our first P & F meeting for the year. With so many families joining our committee, we can share the load of organising events. Special thanks to Karen Glancy our coordinator and Juliette Parsons our secretary for keeping the meeting on track and keeping us informed. Our committee members have a number of fundraising and community events planned for this year. Information about these events will be advertised regularly in this newsletter. Please see the Parents and Friends section.
Family Picnic
We are hoping our school family picnic will be back on!! We have set a new date- FRIDAY 12 MARCH from 5:30-8:00pm. Of course this is subject to COVID restrictions. Mark the date in your calendars and we will keep you informed. Fingers crossed.
We urge all families to please complete the community organisation survey as the information we collect will greatly support the work of the Enrolment Maximisation Committee. We are hoping to make stronger connections with organisations in our local community and raise the profile of our school. We are seeking one member from each of our school families to please complete the survey. Please click on the link below to complete a quick survey.
Thank you
Enrolment Maximisation Committee
CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE the Community Organisation- parent survey
Parent/Teacher/Student Meetings
This year our students will be involved reporting back on their learning. All students will participate in parent/teacher/student meetings. The meetings will promote conversation between the student, their parents and their teacher, allowing students to demonstrate their individual growth and any particular achievements that they are proud of.
The meeting structure will follow a simple format. The teacher will talk for 5 minutes, students for 5 minutes and parents for 5 minutes.
The benefits of including students in these meetings are:
- Students are supported to take responsibility for their own learning
- Monitor and share their progress through self and teacher feedback
- Evaluate their progress through teacher directed assessment and self evaluation
- Gives students a chance to show parents direct improvement in their own learning
- Allows parents, students and teachers to celebrate student success together
- Gives students a chance to develop and use real world skills:
*Self-reflection and evaluation
*Organisation and communication
*Self-confidence
This year it is compulsory for all students to attend parent/teacher/student meetings.
Meetings are scheduled for Tuesday 23 March and Wednesday 24 March.
Meetings will be 15 minutes in duration and take place in your child’s classroom.We suggest that parents with more than one child do not book back to back meeting times, to allow time to move to the next meeting.
At this stage, unless restrictions change, wearing of masks is not required as long as social distancing is maintained.
Students must be supervised by parents or wait quietly outside classrooms and are not permitted on the school playground.
2021 Student Residential Address and Other Information
The Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment collects information from schools that is used to inform school funding calculations. It is combined with data held by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to calculate a non-government school community’s anticipated capacity to contribute to the costs of schooling.
I write to inform you that the school is to provide residential addresses and other information as required under the Australian Education Regulation 2013 (Cth).
The school is required to provide the department with the following information about each student at the school:
- Names and residential addresses of students’ parent(s) and/or guardian(s)
- Student residential address (excluding student names)
- Whether the student is a primary or secondary student (education level)
- Whether the student is boarding or a day student (boarding status).
St Peter’s, St Paul’s St Catherine's generates a unique and unidentifiable record number for each student record. The number is only used by the school for this collection. It is not allowed to be used for any other purpose. The number indicates to the department that each record provided is for one student.
Open Day
Our school Open Day is Thursday 11 March. Please let friends and neighbours know our school will be open from 9:30-11:00am on this day. School Tours will be conducted by our informative year 6 students. All are welcome. We kindly thank Sam Hartrick from Hartrick Property for donating two advertising boards, greatly supporting our school in advertising this event in our local community. We also thank the Castrillion family for once again agreeing to us placing one of the advertising boards on their property.
HELP NEEDED!- Letterbox Drop-Open Day Flyers
We are seeking any families who are willing to assist in dropping some flyers into letterboxes in the local area. Please see Carmel Donlon or email her directly. carmel.donlon@scmoorabbin.catholic.edu.au
Google Review
To support us to raise the profile of our school in our local community, we are asking parents, families and friends to complete a google review on our school.
Kindergarten/Child Care Visits
As part of our Community Outreach Program, a number of our year 5 students over the next few weeks will be visiting local pre school centres to support younger children in their learning. Last week we visited Bruthren Street Kindergarten, where the children quickly responded to our students. Our year 5 students demonstrated kindness, understanding and patience, while working and playing with the preschool children. They were excellent ambassadors of our school.
School Closure Days
Each year Catholic Schools allocate 6 school closure days for Professional Learning for staff.
The remaining school closure days for the year are:
Tuesday 15 June
Monday 26 July
Monday 1 November
Friday 26 November
Kingston Woman of the Year Finalist
Our very own Sue Pattinson has made the finalist of the Kingston Women of the Year.
The announcement of this year’s women of the year will be made on Friday 5 March.
Sue has worked at St Catherine’s Primary School since 1982 and has been a committed member of the school community inspiring students to achieve positive learning outcomes. She has taught physical education with continued passion and dedication over many years. Using sport as her tool, she instills a strong sense of self worth and respect for others in every student.
