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Dear Families,
Here we are in week 8, already.
This semester’s reports will be reporting against the Mathematics 2.0 in the Victorian Curriculum. As previously stated, the language in the curriculum has changed and the standards have raised, meaning that your child’s mathematics report may look like there has been no growth but they have in fact made some progress. This will be addressed in Term 3 Family Learning Conversations (FLCs), but if this is of concern to you please reach out to your child’s classroom for clarity. The mathematics score is also now only one score which is an amalgamation of the Mathematics curriculum areas and scored in revelation to the achievement standards for each level. This will also be explained in more detail during FLCs. There will also be a letter coming out at the time of reports to assist with this clarification.
Victoria Donlan will be presenting to parents via a Google meet this week to assist with the understanding of our reporting process and system and portfolios.
Unfortunately as we head into the colder months, we continue as a school community, to be impacted by a range of bugs and viruses. We ask that any student presenting with any symptoms, be kept home to assist with reducing the risk of infection to other students and staff. We have had a number of staff and levels affected, leading to staff absences. We acknowledge that this can be disruptive and is not our preferred option, as well as increasing the workload of teachers who are onsite working, we will always ensure appropriate student supervision and a duty of care to all our students.
Our new process for students who are heard swearing or speaking disrespectfully being required to spend 5 minutes of their playtime reflecting on these interactions whilst walking with a yard duty teacher. This has started and some children have been asked to walk with staff members to think about how their behaviour affects others and how they can turn this behaviour around when resuming play.
At St Catherine’s we are promoting Respect, Safety and Resilience as part of our Whole School Approach to Positive Behaviour (WSAPB). This latest initiative was implemented to assist with the promotion of respect and psychological safety. Our student Leaders have visited classrooms to assist with the education around this process.
The whole school will be taking part in the program “KIds Roar”. This program covers off the protective behaviours and social and emotional safety which is part of our curriculum.
We have just employed a teacher to take over the Auslan TCL release role which was being taught by Mrs Jessica Milosevic- Scalzo(better known to students as Mrs Scalzo). Jess is moving across to the Grade 5 team and Shakira Van Der Lee will be taking up the TCL release and a day in 4S5 as of week 9.
We welcome Shakira to the St Catherine’s community.
Warm regards
Anna
Deputy Principal
Welcome back after the long weekend, made longer by our school closure. It is always great seeing students come through the front gate in the morning. It’s an excellent way to start the day seeing their smiles.
School Operations
You may have seen some big gardening works going on at the school. With a new gardener, we are hitting some areas of the school very hard to clean it up and prepare for spring. During this time, things will look a little different. We are closing Tim’s Garden for a bit while we get some work done inside and around it. Teachers will have spoken to their students about this. It is currently the best season to have this work done and more rigorous works are planned over the holidays.
Religious Education
We had Pentecost on the weekend which means we are back into Ordinary Time in the Liturgical Calendar. Each class has a prayer table with prayer cloths for red, green, and purple, and then their white calico they decorate. Teachers are also provided liturgical colours calendar to help them. You can view this here. Each day, they are asked to rotate these cloths to represent the liturgical colour. This helps students identify that there are different colours throughout the year, and they represent different things.
We do have our last two level Masses for the year this term. Our Year 1 Mass will run next Friday 20 June from 9:30am - 10:30am. Everyone is welcome, not just parents of students in that level. Then we will have our Prep and Year 6 combined mass on Thursday 3 July, also at 9:30am - 10:30am. We will then have a break until December when we hold our whole school mass in the stadium next door. We hope anyone who is available makes their way down over the next two occasions, and we see as many faces as possible at our end of year mass.
Our Year 6 students have their Confirmation workshops this week. Ms Bentley and Mrs Balnionis participated in the workshop on Tuesday 10. Here, students and families go through information pertaining to the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit, and Confirmation itself. It’s a great experience, and having done many of these workshops, you learn something every time you attend. We are excited for those students who are completing their initiation into the Catholic Church.
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CAMP, SPORTS & EXCURSION FUNDS (CSEF)
Families who hold an eligible Health Care Concession Card, may be eligible for Camp, Sports and Excursion Funding (CSEF).
The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund provides payments for eligible students to attend school camps, excursions, and sports and outdoor education programs.
Please follow the link below to get more information and download the application form. If eligible, this would also entitle families to make an application for a fee remission, which effectively would see a significant reduction of fees to be paid for the year.
