Dear parents, students and families,

On Monday Mrs Ward and the Fire Carrier Leaders led our whole school Reconciliation Assembly. It provided a time to focus on the uniqueness of Australia and the part that our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders have played, are playing and may play in the future of our wonderful country.

I love this song and pray for the unity it helps to describe. As we are reminded from Pentecost, the spirit is now with us to work to a better world.

I Am Australian

I came from the dreamtime from the dusty red soil plains I am the ancient heart, the keeper of the flame I stood upon the rocky shore I watched the tall ships come For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.

I came upon the prison ship bowed down by iron chains. I cleared the land, endured the lash and waited for the rains. I'm a settler. I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run A convict then a free man I became Australian.

I'm the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road I'm a child of the depression I saw the good times come I'm a bushy, I'm a battler I am Australian

We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We share a dream and sing with one voice: I am, you are, we are Australian I am, you are, we are Australian.

I'm a teller of stories I'm a singer of songs I am Albert Namatjira I paint the ghostly gums I am Clancy on his horse I'm Ned Kelly on the run I'm the one who waltzed Matilda I am Australian

I'm the hot wind from the desert I'm the black soil of the plains I'm the mountains and the valleys I'm the drought and flooding rains I am the rock, I am the sky The rivers when they run The spirit of this great land I am Australian

We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We share a dream and sing with one voice: I am, you are, we are Australian I am, you are, we are Australian.

On Wednesday our Year 5 students attended John Paul College to have a practice run at being secondary students. Parents are required to make these important decisions well in advance of transition actually occuring and opportunities such as these can both support a family's decision and help ease anxiety a little for the students. Also on Wednesday we had some of our top runners represent our school and local district in the Division Cross Country at Hastings.

In the next fortnight:-

District Field Events, Tuesday 4th June at Ballam Park

School Closure Day RE (Catholic Social Teaching) with staff from the MACS Religious Education leaders for the Southern Region, Thursday 6th June- School is closed, staff not on-site.

School Closure Day Student Wellbeing (Supporting students to be an upstander rather than a bystander)with staff from", Friday 7th June- School is closed, staff not on-site.

Kings Birthday- Monday 10th June- Public Holiday

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

Local Information & Out of School Activities

Lion Bushido Karate Academy

MyTime Frankston

Buses Replacing Trains

Glad Movement

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Out of School Activities