School Services

BOOKCLUB due 6th August

ITALIAN

BENVENUTI (welcome) to welcome back the children and families please.

Australia v Italy Quiz:

What's the capital city of Australia and the capital city of Italy?

Can you name a famous tourist attraction in Australia and in Italy that are similar?

BOOK WEEK - BLURBS

This year's Book week parade is Tuesday 19th August @ 9.00am. The Theme is Book an Adventure. Student parade at 9.00am followed by the performance at 9.30am in the Liborius Centre. All welcome to come and join in the fun.

ATTENDANCE

UNIFORM SHOP

HOURS OF OPERATION

Tuesday 8.45am - 10am

Wednesday 8.45-10am

As families are purchasing items and preparing for the new school year the following information is a reminder about school uniforms! We take great pride in our uniform and would like to remind our families of expectations. Our uniform shop has all requirements and is very well priced with good quality materials! We ask that students do not wear branded clothes (this includes sports shorts and socks.) The sport shorts from the uniform shop are recommended as they are longer in style (as per our SunSmart policy!) Shoes are so important as they work hard! We ask that shoes are fully black (no white soles) and that canvas shoes are not worn (either for formal or sport) Please if you need support with uniforms or have any questions, message us or make contact when we are back at school. We are here to help! Below is the uniform requirements and remember to label all clothing especially jumpers and hats! We will let you know Uniform Shop arrangements. Orders can also be made online.

TUCKSHOP VOLUNTEERS

We need your help. If you can spare some time each week on a Friday, please consider volunteering. We will be unable to run the tuckshop if we do not have your support. Please message us if you can!

If anyone has time available on Fridays to be a volunteer in the tuckshop, please contact Kim on 0419 349 363.

Times:

9 - 10.30am

10.30 - 12pm

12 - 2pm

PLAYGROUP

World Wellbeing Week at Playgroup!

Thank you to everyone who came and celebrated World Wellbeing Week with us today! We had a lot of fun playing in new areas, or with new equipment, singing, dancing and making Moon Dough. We read a beautiful story about being ourselves and were joined by some special visitors for craft time. A big thank you to the Spiritual Wellbeing Leaders who came and helped us to make some Moon Dough to take home and play with or use when we need something sensory.

CHILDREN CHATTER MATTERS

Pragmatics and Social skills - (From Vic Curriculum Personal & Social Capabilities.)

Developing resilience; Self-awareness: Identifying personal Strengths and skill sets, their likes and dislikes, needs and wants.
Identifying Strengths & skills in others, acknowledging, giving praise.
Emotions – identify these & how they impact on others

Extend their vocabulary through which to recognise and describe emotions and when, how and with whom it is appropriate to share emotions

Conflict resolution
Working effectively in a team
Describe the characteristics of respectful relationships and suggest ways that respectful relationships can be achieved. Look at diversity in gender, sex, culture etc.
Strategies for coping with difficult situations. They persist with tasks when faced with challenges and adapt their approach when first attempts are not successful.
Students recognise and appreciate the uniqueness of all people. They are able to explain how individual, social and cultural differences may increase vulnerability to stereotypes.
Describe ways of making and keeping friends, including how actions and words can help or hurt others, and the effects of modifying their behaviour

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 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?

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:

Look at the person (wait, check they are looking at you),
Say your greeting and their name; Hi Peter, Good afternoon, Mr Peters
Wait for a response or question and respond accordingly.

Role plays 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.