Principal's Message
Dear parents, students and families,
I trust everyone has had a positive week!
Yesterday Mrs Thomas and I met with the Architects, Builders and MACS personnel who will now be our building team for our new project. The project will now commence on-site on Monday 7 July with an expectation that it will largely be completed by Christmas. This is an outstanding result for our school to now have certainty around it. Over the next 2 and a bit weeks we will be making the internal movements of classroom spaces to facilitate this and will try and keep the disruption around this to the absolute minimum.
Today some of our Year 5-6 students represented our school at a local basketball gala day. I know they had an enjoyable day and thank Mrs Ary for organising this. Well done to both teams with one of the teams going through to the next level and both teams having wins on the day. Thank you to the parents who attended and Ms Marks for her support. Next Thursday many of our Year 3- 6 students will be representing the school at the District Athletics at Ballam Park. Good luck to them all!
Next Friday we will have our end of term Whole School Mass as we join together for the Feast of the Sacred Heart though the term actually concludes on Friday 4 July. Wider members of the community are of course very welcome to join us in the Church.
Thanks again for a wonderful week, and we look forward to what’s ahead!
God Bless
Rod Shaw
Principal
School Attendance and Unexplained Absence
Please contact the school if your child is going to be absent by leaving a message on
9786 4736 and press 1. Please give details of your child’s name and class with areason for their absence such as: unwell, appointment, holiday or family reasons. Alternatively an email can be sent to office@saseaford.catholic.edu.au with cc to the child’s teacher.
If you are running late, (after 9:00 am) please attend the office to sign your child into school and collect a late pass.
If you are picking up your child early you will need to collect them and sign them out from the office.
As per our policy this will be our morning routine for absences:
Parents will be contacted as soon as practicable on the morning a student is absent via a text message.
If parent does not contact the school after receiving the text message, the school will contact the parent by phone. If the parent is unreachable the emergency contacts will be contacted by the school.
If there is still no response, and the school feels that the child is in danger, the police will be contacted.
Ongoing unexplained absences or lack of cooperation regarding student attendance will result in a formal conference being organized. Unresolved attendance issues will be referred to D.H.H.S.
This is a legal requirement.
Democratic Principles
The six (6) principles of Australian democracy include:
(a) elected government; and
(b) the rule of law; and
(c) equal rights for all before the law; and
(d) freedom of religion; and
(e) freedom of speech and association; and
(f) the values of openness and tolerance