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Dear Parents and Carers

National Child Protection Week

3 - 9 September 2023

The purpose of Child Protection Week is to engage, educate and empower Australians to understand the complexities of child abuse and neglect and work together to prevent it. 

At St Joseph's we have an unwavering commitment to child safety and it sits at the heart of everything we do.

The theme for 2023 Child Protection Week is 'Where we start matters'. The frequency and complexity of concerns related to child abuse and neglect are increasing. School communities have an important role to play in keeping children safe, educating children for their protection and working together with families to ensure the safety of children.

This is an important week to also highlight what the school does year round for child safety. At St Joseph's students participate in specific units of learning related to Child Protection, Respectful relationships and Sexuality Education. 

Progressively from  Kindergarten to Year 2, this includes:

• Respectful relationships with others
• How people care for each other
• Body parts (private and non-private using the anatomically correct terminology)
• Rights and responsibilities
• Family structures
• Recognising and responding to safe and unsafe situations
• Positive relationships and support networks
• Strategies to stay safe and seek help
• Appropriate and inappropriate touching
• Ways to show respect to others
• Making safe decisions
• Happy and unhappy secrets
• Consent
• Strategies to stay safe and seek help include No-Go-Tell
• Cyber safety education 
• Feelings and body reactions
• Changes in body and abilities since birth
• Groups students belong to
• Bullying
• Communicating and cooperating with others in a respectful way

And building on from this in Year 3 to Year 6

• Rights and responsibilities in relationships
• Emotions and warning signs in different situations
• Power in relationships
• Positive relationships and support networks to manage change
• Gender stereotypes and expectations
• Types of abuse
• Bullying behaviour and strategies to seek help
• Recognising and responding to safe and unsafe situations
• Strategies to stay safe and seek help
• Communicating and cooperating with others in a respectful way
• Making informed and safe decisions
• Male and female body parts and puberty-related changes 
• Emotions related to feeling unsafe and ways to manage these
• Different types of relationships and why they change
• Abuse of power in relationships
• Bribes and threats
• Gender stereotypes and expectations
• Different types of abuse including physical, emotional and sexual abuse
• Bullying behaviour, including harassment
• Support networks to seek advice and support
• Actions and behaviours that show respect and inclusion of others
• Strategies to stay safe and seek help include No-Go-Tell
• Actions and behaviours that show respect to and inclusion of others
• Changes associated with puberty 
• Cyber safety education

Students also participate in:

The National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence

Cyber Safety Week

For Parents and Carers

The newsletter regularly contains information related to child safety from the eSafety commissioner. Families have access to Happy Families via our school subscription, and each year we provide you with an evening workshop which was held earlier this term.

The safety of your child is always our first priority. We have embedded the Child Safe Standards into our culture and practices and we continually seek to inform and involve families in students’ learning and wellbeing. 

Supporting the needs of students and ensuring they can empower themselves to remain safe and protected is the responsibility of the entire community. The attachment below may assist you in opening up conversations with your child/ren. These conversations in families need to begin early and continue right throughout childhood and adolescence.

For all things at St Joseph's, we give thanks.

Mrs Jen Charadia

Principal

Principal Awards - Friday 8 September 2023

The following students will receive their Principal Awards on Friday 8 September 2023 (Term 3 Week 8) at 2pm.  

How does my child receive a Principal's Award?

Class teachers nominate students for Blue Merit Awards which are presented at the weekly assembly.  When five Blue Merit Awards have been received, students send them to the school office to be recorded and are then eligible for a Principal’s Award. When students attain their 4th Principal Award, they are awarded a Principal’s Medallion at an assembly. End of Term awards can be included as part of the 5 awards.

End of Term Awards - Friday 22 September 2023

The following student will be presented their End of Term 3 Achievement Awards on Friday 22 September 2023 (Week 10).

Our Wk 10 Assembly will be held on Friday 22 September from 1:45pm

Academic Achievement Awards

Habits of Mind Awards

Mary of the Cross Awards

Acknowledgement to Country

St Joseph's Bulli acknowledges and pays respect to the Dharawal people past and present, the traditional custodians of the land on which our school is built.