Wellbeing 

Dress up in your colourful self to show your colourful soul for IDAHOBIT on Monday 17th May

Run down of the day: 

International Day Against LGBTQIA+ discriminations (IDAHOBIT) 

Dress Up day on Monday 17th May.

 We are asking all families to donate a Gold Coin: Donations will be given to IDAHOBIT. 

In addition to dressing up on the day, activities will be done in classes. 

 4/5/6 will be doing this by:

Creating ideas for a flag that encapsulates all identities.  

Grade F-3 will be:

Reading stories suggested to us by the 'Safe Schools' team and learning about the IDAHOBIT flag.

Our school has purchased an  IDAHOBIT flag which we will have displayed in the front office.

A huge thankyou to Soli, Jeremy and Bayanne for helping plan this special event.

Resources for your family to discuss IDAHOBIT rights at home can be found at:

Celebrate at Home - IDAHOBIT - May 17

School Dental Program

In the 2019-20 State Budget, the Victorian Government announced $321.9 million in funding over four years for the Smile Squad school dental program.

We have been able to access the Smile Squad School Dental program for our school.

The plan is that the van will be at our school from 2 June 2021 to 11 June 2021.

Information on the program can be found at the link below.

Permission notes for your child to access this program will be sent home within the next two weeks.

School RAP Plan

We will holding an action group meeting in week 9 of this term to create an outline of how we will progress with the creation of our school Reconciliation Plan.

Details of the action group meeting will be in next weeks newsletter. Please contact Sonya if you are interested in joining the RAP action group.

This process began last year but unfortunately had to put it on hold due to the situation we all found ourselves in.

A Reconciliation Action Plan is: 

"RAPs are a powerful tool for advancing reconciliation in Australia. By developing a RAP, your workplace will join a community of over 1,000 dedicated corporate, government, and civil society organisations that have formally committed to reconciliation through the RAP framework since 2006. RAPs provide a structured, nationally recognised, tried and tested model for workplaces to formalise commitments to reconciliation. RAPs help to foster a community of shared value, goals and a common language when it comes to reconciliation. Developing a RAP through Reconciliation Australia’s endorsement process provides your workplace permission to use the nationally recognised RAP logo that demonstrates compliance with the RAP framework and standards." 

reference: FAQs | Reconciliation Australia