BEFORE SCHOOL PROCESSES – Some Key Reminders

• Parents of Prep and Year One are not expected to remain with their children before school. You are more than welcome to drop them under D Block where they will be supervised by staff.
• If Prep parents choose to wait with their child, they are asked to wait with their own child only under C Block before school. Students should be sitting with their parents at this time – not running around.
• Any Prep students and other students without parents must be seated under D Block.
• Year One parents are encouraged to now drop their children off to under D Block supervision area. If Year One parents choose to
   remain with their children, they must be seated under A Block. 
• Prep and Year One students under their parent supervision are to remain seated and not play in these areas.
• We kindly ask that parents do not wait under E Block as this is the thoroughfare to the boys’ toilets and a handball area, and easier to monitor with no parents and students waiting in this area.
• Parents are asked not to go upstairs with the students as it causes congestion on the stairs and on the veranda which is unsafe.
• When the bell rings at 8:45am, Prep and Year 1 parents are asked to move to the side to allow students to line up independently and without obstruction.
• All students without parent supervision are to sit and wait under D Block.
• From 8:30 these students are permitted to play handball or skip on the AstroTurf if they choose, except on Tuesday when there is breakfast club. There are no running games permitted before school.
• Playgrounds are out of bounds to all children before school even if under supervision of their parents.

Facebook

Our school has a very active Facebook page with frequent 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 Click on the more tab and then the events tab in the dropdown menu to go to our events. 

If you have a Facebook page, we encourage all of our parents to follow our school 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 comments will be removed from the platform.  Please remember to never make comments on the page referencing a child’s name for privacy reasons.

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 focusses on good manners and greetings.

IN particular we are focussing:

• Please and thank-you
• May I
• Excuse Me

To positively reinforce this Pillar Practice, we have a 2-week Special Gotcha that teachers will be handing out across the school and drawn at assembly in Week 8.  

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

Class meetings have been going very well, and the reps are coming to meetings with lots of great ideas and suggestions.  Our wellbeing event of the Kindness Hearts raised $140 for the Student Council.  Thanks to everyone who bought hearts to support us. 

We have booked our first Subway Meal Deal for the year and you can order your subway and drink now.  These will be delivered on Monday 18^th March in Week 9 of this term.  There will be posters around the school and flyers will be sent home this week.

One of the suggestions from the class reps was to have more colouring in competitions.  So, each fortnight, there will be a junior school and senior school colouring in template available that you can enter in the competition.   The winners will be announced on assembly each fortnight and will win a set of felt pens or crayons. Colouring in competition sheets will be available from the library or the office.  You are allowed to take these home to work on them.  Your finished sheet must have your name and class written on the back and be dropped in the box in the office by Monday morning before assembly.

There was also some discussion about behaviour in the toilets.  The student 

council would like to remind everyone to respect each other’s privacy in the toilets by not looking over or under the stalls.  If this happens to you, please report this to the teachers on duty

The student council is also concerned about some student swearing that is being heard around the school.  Our goal is for our school to be a place where we only use kind words – not swearing or using bad words.  So please think before you speak and be polite and respectful of others.