Principal's Message
Dear parents, students and families,
Tomorrow we finalise our District sport program for our Year 5/6 students attending the Seaford District Lightning Premiership at Mahogany Rise PS. The good news for the students who generally greatly enjoy this aspect of school is we have a further Lightning Premiership at John Paul College in 4th Term against all the local 'feeder' Catholic schools to the college.
This Saturday our Parents and Friends have designed an evening of fun for our annual Trivia Night. Please attend if you can to help raise funds to continue the improvement of our school's facilities and take the opportunity to have some fun with other members of our school community. Thank you so much to the team responsible for sourcing auction gifts, prizes, developing the questions, setting up the hall and the myriad of other 'jobs' that make such an event a success. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
A reminder that Fr Martin has taken his annual holiday to return to India to spend time with his family. We trust Jesus keeps him safe and this period of rest and renewal assists him on his return to keep our Parish as vibrant as it is.
Next Monday many of our Year 5/6 students will represent the school at a local "Hoop Time" basketball competition. Thank you Mrs Ary and the staff and parents supporting this to allow the students this opportunity.
Next Thursday is our big celebration of our learning this term through the African Drumming sessions. We will commence with the school open from 5.45pm so families who wish to can have a walk through the foyer outside the Library and have a look at some of the artworks from the students. All students are required by 6.15pm at the latest and need to go to the junior block to wait for their performance. The hall will open from 6.15pm when a call will be made for parents to be seated for the performance. If you are bringing older siblings please remind them to enjoy the show and show their best manners.
Next Friday we will learn a bit more about the RUOK approach to wellbeing as a school with a variety of activities.
Week 10 is our final week of Term commencing on Monday 16 September. We will have our traditional Footy Day on Thursday 19 September with term for the students concluding that afternoon. Staff will be at school on the Friday working on our Maths Curriculum knowledge and the day will be student-free. Thanks for making arrangements for this.
Kind regards 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 areason 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