Dear parents, students and families,

It has been a great week at school as we see the signs of Spring on the way. I'm sure warmer days and flowers out lift everyone's spirits.

The weekend Masses of the 26th and 27th of August will be times when our students intending to be Confirmed in the faith are able to continue their enrolment for this. Confirmation is on Sunday 22nd October at 4pm for our students.

Tomorrow our senior students play a Lightning Premiership against our local schools at Mahogany Rise PS in the Pines. This concludes our local sport and I would like to congratulate the students on their efforts and for the pride with which they represented our school. Again, thanks to the parents who assisted and supported the teams.

This week we have celebrated Book Week which commenced with our Celebration Day and Book character parade Monday morning. What a great day everyone seemed to have. Our Foundation- Year 2 students will be going to an excursion to the Library as part of their celebration of Book Week tomorrow.

A reminder that this Saturday we will be holding our Trivia Night at 7pm. With a Studio 54 theme we expect it will be the glamour event of the year and the staff are already working on their costumes. Hope to see as many of you there, and your friends, as can join us. Thanks to the hard working P and F team for their work in putting this event together.

Last Friday we held a casual clothes day to raise funds to support a social justice program. This day was organised by our 1/2 classes and they will now vote on where they will allocate the $260 raised to. I believe the students will be voting as to whether the funds go to our local JPC food van or a specified project through World Vision or Caritas. It is great to see such an important gospel teaching being lived out by our students.

Next week is an incredibly busy one for the school. Our Community Engagement Leader, Mrs Winduss, has organised for a variety of organisations to attend the school to speak to the students during Health and Safety Week. On Tuesday we will hold our annual Fathers Day Celebration Morning which is always well attended. Wednesday the students might be able to pick up a surprise for dad with our Fathers Day Stall being held. On Thursday our Fire Carrier Leaders will be attending McLelland Gallery with other leaders from our cluster of schools for a day of learning. Thanks to Miss O'Donnell for organising this. Thursday evening our Foundation teachers will be leading the 2024 Foundation Information evening and on Friday musician Drew Lane will be returning to our school to work with the Year 4, 5 and 6 students on composing a school song.

Hope you have a great weekend and 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 a reason 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

Wellbeing

National Day of Action: Bully No Way day!

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