Dress Code

As the weather cools down, it is a good time to remind parents that students are required to either wear a school jacket available at the uniform shop (open Tuesday morning from 8am); or a plain jumper in a school blue colour. Students are not permitted to wear hoodies or jumpers with any printing or designs on them. Girls are permitted to wear blue stockings (or black if blue is unavailable). All students can also wear plain school blue tracksuit pants.

This Dress Code was developed collaboratively with the school community and supports the wearing of a school uniform to promote a sense of belonging and school pride. It also promotes a supportive environment fostering mutual respect among individuals at school by minimising visible evidence of economic, class or social difference.

Thank you for your support of our School Dress Code.

HATS! HATS! HATS!

Please remind your children to continue to bring their hats to school every day! Mr Woodrick’s dream would be to have every child in each class wearing their hat to their HPE lesson on the oval, as he doesn’t want to see anyone missing out on the fun!   Although it is cooler, we still need to wear our hats in the sun!  If your child is missing their hat, please ensure that they check lost property outside the Uniform Shop as there are often numerous hats with names waiting to be claimed.

Facebook

Our school has a very active Facebook page with daily posts to keep our school community informed of what is happening in our school. Our events are posted throughout the term to allow parents time to be prepared for the term ahead. We encourage all of our parents to follow our page so you can enjoy the wonderful experiences our school has to offer. The more you interact with the page by liking and commenting on posts, the more our page will appear in your newsfeed.  

A reminder that Facebook is not the best platform to ask questions that you need immediate or urgent replies to, as we don’t always see questions in the comment sections of a post. This is best done by emailing the teacher/admin or calling the office. Facebook is also not a site for posting complaints or negative comments about staff or school processes. If you have some constructive feedback for the school or an issue that you would like to raise, we would respectfully ask that you make an appointment to speak with the Principal to discuss your concerns. Any inappropriate or derogatory comments will be removed from the platform.

Pillar Practice

Our three school pillars including Safety (Be Safe); Relationships (Be Respectful); and Learning (Be a Responsible Learner). Each fortnight at Assembly, a Pillar Practice is shared with staff and students that becomes our focus behaviour improvement. This fortnight, our Pillar Practice is around safety – focusing on being in the right place at the right time. We are also reminding students of what areas are out of bounds for their safety during the breaks and before/after school.

All class teachers are provided with a poster for their classroom and will explicitly teach our school expectations around the relevant pillar and behaviour. Students are reminded daily about our focus behaviour with the goal of improving this behaviour across the school.

The Student Engagement and Behaviour committee reviews behaviour data across the school at their meetings to discuss future focus areas for identified behaviours of concern. This process is documented in our Student Code of Conduct and is part of our explicit teaching of behaviour in our school. You can support us by being aware of the current Pillar Practice and discussing the expectations with your children at home.

STUDENT COUNCIL

The Student Council held an excellent meeting last week with Mrs Robinson and Mrs Burrows. They will be holding a fundraising Meal Deal on the last week of term – hopefully on the Senior Athletics Carnival Day. The students voted to have another Subway Meal Deal. Information will be sent home to parents in the coming weeks.

This Friday is the Student Council’s Random Acts of Kindness Day in which students will be given special Kindness Gotchas for any acts of kindness that they show, and throughout the following week. These gotchas will be drawn on the Assembly in Week 8.

Finally, the Student Council supports the Sustainability Club’s Wrapper Free Wednesday initiative and ask that parents consider how they can reduce waste in lunch boxes on Wednesday.

SLIME RUN

Students are encouraged to continue fundraising for the upcoming Slime Run for School Chaplaincy! The Slime Spectacular School Fun Run is creeping up and is just over 4 weeks away!

Students will be given free sunglasses and a rainbow headband for the event. The students will be covered in non-toxic water-based slime from head to toe! (Safety data sheet is available upon request for the Slime).

Fundraising for our Slime Spectacular School Fun Run is entirely online. Follow the instructions in your child’s sponsorship booklet to create a cybersafe, online profile page at www.australianfundraising.com.au. At the end of our fundraiser students can order up to a total of 5 prizes based on their donations received. They can even mix and match!

The highest fundraising class in the school will win a Pizza Party!

Did you hear that Mrs Robinson will be slimed by the highest fundraiser in the school? 

If we reach the goal of $10 thousand dollars raised, Mrs Burrows will be slimed!

So don’t forget to ask your family, friends and relatives to help your raise money for the Slime Run!

For further information, please contact Chappy Twinkee on twinkee.polius@suchaplaincy.org.au or 07 3550 1333