From the Leadership Team

Reconciliation Week: Bridging Now to Next 

Bridges connect things – either side of a river, a road, or even a cliff if you’re into those scary rope bridges. Bridging courses connect learning, helping adult learners fill in learning towards a new goal. Since my education in the 80s and 90s, I feel like I have been in a huge bridging course regarding Australia’s history. “Bridging Now to Next urges us to look ahead and continue the push forward as past lessons guide us.” (Reconciliation Australia) 

We aim to continue this learning at St Paul through learning in class, events through the year, our Reconciliation Action Plan, and focused work with our Connect group. The more we share about the past and present openly, the stronger a bridge becomes toward a better future. 

(Leila Mattner)

School Crossing 

Thank you to our wonderful school crossing monitors who work with our staff to help make the crossing safer. Our staff and child monitors have noticed a lot of vehicles not following the rules for the crossing, including going past too quickly, or not fully stopping when the stop signs are raised. We are asking for your help to make this even safer by reporting to police if you see vehicles making our crossing unsafe – this helps us to make sure that people outside of our school community are not a danger to us. You can do this by using the online form at: https://www.police.sa.gov.au/online-services/traffic-watch2. 

 We are also asking that all of our school families be sure to follow the rules for an Emu Crossing: 

1. 25km per hour speed limit when children are present. Note, that includes our child crossing monitors. This applies even if the flags are not up. 
2. Drivers must not park within 20 meters of the approach to an emu crossing. Not even to let a child out of the car. This is not safe. Please use our kiss and drop zone. The extra 5 minutes could save a child’s life. 
3. Drivers and pedestrians must follow the instructions of the crossing monitors. 
4. When there are no crossing monitors, drivers must stop for pedestrians when the flags are out. Pedestrians have the right of way. 

Thank you for your help to keep everybody safe.  

Staffing News 

Natalie Whalan has resigned her position and will be finishing with us at the end of this term. Natalie has secured an inclusive education role in a school in Singapore and we congratulate and encourage her in this exciting next step for her and the entire Whalan family.