News from around the school
Book Week Dress Up Day
It was a Super kind of day here at St Mary's for our Book Week dress up day Monday.
Fathers Day Breakfast
We are looking forward to our Father's Day Breakfast next Friday 30th August starting at 7:30am.
All Father's Grandfathers, Father like figures are invited to join us for Brekky and a cuppa.
A note has been sent out via Care Monkey regarding attendance times and numbers, please fill this in as soon as possible.
There will be a "Dad's Joke" competition and a free coffee from Browny.
Laptops For Sale
Secondhand lap tops are still available to purchase - $500, if you are interested please contact the school office.
Specifications listed below -
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)
Storage 128 GB
Processor 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB
New - Chatter Matters
5. Pragmatics and Social skills
Focus: self awareness- identifying personal strengths and skill sets,
Encourage each member of the household to develop an “About Me” book or card to share with each other. This could be on a computer, Ipad or a scrapbook hard copy. Include information on their personal, family and friendship details, likes/dislikes, strengths (what they’re good at), challenges or what they’d like to be good at. Really you can include any information that’s important to you and your child.
Make sure you include pictures and/or photos.
Go through this book on a weekly basis update the details and comment or ask each other questions such as; Why do you like…...? How are you going with this challenge. It’s great for your child to see that everyone has challenges and and are working hard to improve themselves.
# If you don’t have time to make an About Me book, go through the family photo album regularly with your child. Talk about what they were doing in the photo, what they were thinking, feeling. Focus on something in the photo that demonstrates your child’s skills eg; making a sandcastle, painting a picture, going down a slide. Would they like to do it again, why?
6. Pragmatics and Social skills
Focus: Describe the characteristics of respectful relationships and suggest ways that respectful relationships can be achieved.
Practice respectful and non-respectful ways of greeting people:
Encourage these 3 principles when greeting:
1.Look at the person (wait, check they are looking at you),
2. Say your greeting and their name; Hi Peter, Good afternoon Mr Peters
3. Wait for a response or question and respond accordingly.
Role play what it might look like if a person is not respectful when greeting or saying good-bye.
Each day when you pick your child up from school, use a different greeting or farewell e.g. Hi Harry, it’s so great to see you, Good afternoon, Harry, Harry, I’ve missed you so much, etc. Hey Harry it looks like you had a great day.