St Pius X College Newsletter

Pastoral Care 

  • Welcome

  • Peer Support

  • Parent Information Evenings

  • Using the Sentral Portal 

  • School Counselling Team

Welcome!

A warm welcome to all members of our community from our Pastoral Leaders, House Patrons, Counsellors, and Homeroom teams. It is great to see so many smiling faces of students and relieved parents as students both begin and continue their Pastoral Care journey and story through the College.

Every year at school is a busy year that offers challenges and opportunities. I encourage each student to take on the challenges to create opportunities to flourish here at St Pius X College.

Thank you for your engagement at this week’s information evenings. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact your son’s Pastoral leader.

Peer Support for Year 5, 7 and 11 

Our Peer Support program is facilitated by Mr Ticli, Mr Dawson, Mrs Fileman and Mr Carroll.

The Peer Support Program commenced on Tuesday this week to support students' transition into Year 5 and Year 7 at St Pius X. The program runs on a weekly rotation with Year 11 Peer Support Leaders mentoring a group of Year 5 or 7 students to develop the social, emotional and learning skills required for successfully negotiating their commencement learning across the school year. The program will conclude in Term 2, with a session and lunch at Beauchamp Park at the end of Week 1 Term 2.

Parent Information Evenings

Thank you to all members of our community who have supported and engaged with these opportunities for communication in support of your sons' wellbeing, learning and pastoral care journeys through the school. Our Pastoral Leaders, Pastoral Care Teams and Counsellors invest significant time and resources in supporting your sons development, and we appreciate your feedback and communication to this end. The student diary, email and CANVAS provide rich opportunities for communication, listening, goal setting, and learning. All of these are designed to be accessible to all members of our learning community.

School communication between home and school - the Sentral Parent Portal

The school uses Sentral for communications between the school and parents/carers.

Notes, permission slips, the school calendar, booking parent/teacher interviews, advising of your son’s absence, and checking timetable and reports are all done via Sentral. Parents can download the Sentral for Parents app, and search for St Pius X College, Chatswood to register/ log in. To add a student, parents will need their son’s Student Access Key, which has been emailed to parents.  If you need assistance please email the school: SPortalHelp@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au

 

Families are using the Sentral Parent Portal to:

  • Access student reports 

  • Monitor your son’s merits and demerits for academic and behaviour 

  • Book Parent/Teacher Interviews

  • Timetables - View your sons class timetable

  • Excursion and incursion information, permissions and payment

    • Pay Invoices - View your current and past fee invoices (this feature is not currently available)

  • Attendance - Action absence notifications and advise of future absences including leaving early.

PLEASE NOTE: CLIPBOARD is only used for Cocurricular Absences. 

 

All absences from the College must be documented within Sentral.

 

Accessing the Sentral Parent Portal

Families can access this information via the Sentral Parent Portal on their computer or the App on their mobile.

Attendance and the Sentral Parent Portal

All parents are required to record absences and early departures via Parent Sentral App. 

Whole Day Absences

If a student is going to be absent for a day or more, parents must register this via the Sentral Parent app.

  • Click on Absences, then the + button at the top right of the screen

  • Select the student, the reason, and the first and last day he will be absent

  • In the Comments, note the reason for the absence

Late Arrivals

If a student is running late, parents must notify the school via the Sentral Parent app.The student must report to Student Services when he arrives as school to be signed in.

  • Click on Absences, then the + button at the top right of the screen

  • Select the student, the reason, and the date he is running late for as the start and end date

  • In the Comments, note the reason for the absence and estimated time of arrival

Early Leavers

If a student needs to leave early for an unavoidable reason, parents/carers can notify the school in advance via the Sentral Parent app.

  • Click on Absences, then the + button at the top right of the screen

  • Select the student, the reason, the date he will be leaving early for as the start and end date

  • In the Comments, note the reason for the absence, who will be picking him up or if he is able to make his own way home

The student then reports to the Student Services to be signed out.

School Counselling Team

We warmly welcome two new counsellors to our School Counselling Team this year - Ms Sophie Parkes and Ms Marielle Flores.

 

Below are the days of work for the counselling team:

Ms Joe McCarthy - Tuesday to Thursday

Mrs Judy Gill - Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday

Ms Sophie Parkes - Monday to Wednesday

Ms Marielle Flores (Junior School) - Wednesday to Friday.

 

For all counselling contacts, please use the following email:

scounselling@stpiusx.nsw.edu.au 

Mr Martin Gillogly - Assistant Principal, Pastoral Care