School News
PB4L (Positive Behaviour for Learning)
Whole School Expectation- Weekly Focus for Students
Be responsible: Complete your learning tasks to the best of your ability.
Year 3 2022 School Managed iPad Program
Information will be made available early in Term 4 to Year 2 parents regarding the school iPad program for 2022.
Term 4 Week 1 Remote Learning Information
Term 4 Week 1 Home Learning Schedules will beavailable from 5:00pm Monday 4 October on Seesaw and the SJB Remote Learning website
Some children have alternate Home Learning Schedules to meet their particular learning needs and these will be sent directly to those families who receive them.
Term 4 Week 1 Home Learning Packs
Collect your child/ren's Home Learning Pack at the Rowan Street office entry gate on Friday 17 September - 8:30am to 10:00am and 2:00pm to 4:00pm.
- Packs are for ALL grades - Kinder, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 & Year 6
Please drive up and staff will deliver to your car by staff wearing gloves and masks.
Please ensure you display your CAR LINE SIGN (Yellow) on your dashboard (passenger side) when picking up learning packs this week
OR
You may also opt to collect early on Tuesday 5 October if needed by phoning or emailing the school office.
Look out for the Week 10 School Assembly
We are really excited about this week's online school assembly on Friday. The link to the school assembly will be located on Seesaw or on the SJB Home Learning website.
Please join us and watch with your children at a time that is convenient for your family.
2021 NAPLAN Year 3 and Year 5
Today your child’s NAPLAN results were sent home through the post.
The NSW Education Standards Authority administers NAPLAN for the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) in NSW.
NAPLAN assesses aspects of literacy including reading, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and writing, as well as numeracy.
NAPLAN tests are designed to provide you, your child and their teachers with information about how your child’s learning is progressing, and if they need support to improve their literacy and numeracy skills.
NAPLAN results provide information to teachers and parents on what students know and can do. NAPLAN is a point in time diagnostic test. Teachers are best placed to provide insight into students’ educational progress.
For information to assist in understanding your child’s test results visit http://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/k-10/understanding-the-curriculum/naplan
Kindergarten Virtual Excursion - Under the Sea
Kindergarten students attended a virtual excursion to the ocean presented by Questacon. Children helped to build a virtual submarine that took them to the bottom of the ocean. Children learned about different animals at the surface of the ocean and animals that live in deep, dark depths of the ocean.
Fruit & Veg Month 2021
Our school is participating in Fruit & Veg Month 2021.
The theme for this year’s event is ‘Festival Fruit & Veg!’
The United Nations has declared 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables. This year the world will be celebrating the amazing contribution fruits and vegetables make to our health, our planet’s health and our livelihoods – and our school is joining the party!
As part of Fruit & Veg Month, students will be involved in various activities which encourage them to eat more fruit and vegetables.
We need your help with our 2021 Yearbook
We would be very grateful if each family could please send in one photo from remote learning for the 2021 Yearbook. The photo can be any image from your family's remote learning experience that you are happy to have published in the yearbook.
How?
The photo needs to be sent to the school office and should be a JPEG image in high resolution (that means it can’t be compressed or made smaller when it is sent) to info@sjbdow.catholic.edu.au
When can I send my child to school for supervision?
The current Public Health Order makes it clear that it is only acceptable to “leave home for education if it is not possible to do it at home”.
In line with this government directive, families are only able to send their children to school at this time if there is absolutely no option for them to learn from home. There are reasons this may be the case:
- Every responsible person in your household, besides children, is an essential worker e.g.
- frontline health worker or
- in another occupation that requires you to physically attend a work location during school hours, parents who work at home should always consider the responsibility to keep children at home
- Your child has pastoral care needs, discussed with the principal
- There are other extenuating circumstances, discussed with the principal
Students have access to the same learning materials and experience whether they are at school or at home, and there is no advantage for students who are supervised at school.
Happy Birthday
16 September: Zane N Yr1
18 September: Leila V Yr6
20 September: Flynn W Yr4
21 September: Zoe R Yr4
22 September: Ethan A Yr 4 & Kayd H Yr5