School Events
What's happening around the school this term?
| Important Dates | Term Three |
|---|---|
| Mon, 11th August | Student Free Day - Staff Professional Development Village OSHC available |
| Tues 12th August | Catch up school photos for any children absent Sibling Photos - only prepaid (bookings now closed) |
| Mon, 18th August | Book Week Dress Up and Parade 9:00am |
| Wed, 20th August | First Communion - Parent/Child Workshop |
| Thu, 21st August | First Communion - Parent/Child Workshop |
| Fri, 5th September | Father's Day Celebration 8:30am - 9:30am |
| Fri, 19th September | Last Day of Term 3 - Wear your favourite sports team clothing! |
Friday 5th September - Dancing Dads!!
Father's Day at St Thomas 8.30 - 9.30am details to follow. Nibbles, activities and fun!
2025 Term Dates
Term 3
First Day - Monday 21st July
Last Day - Friday 19th September
Term 4
First Day - Monday 6th October
Last Day of Formal Classes - Friday 12th December
Clean up Day - Monday 15th December
National Action Against Bullying Week
At St Thomas the Apostle, we have a whole school preventative approach to bullying called 'Upstanding U have the POWER.' This preventative approach has been designed specifically for our context as the evidence tells us the best way to prevent bullying is to build proactive behaviours in our children, specifically skills to be an upstander.
We review our upstanding strategies each term in our classrooms and each semester in our specialists subjects. In week 2 of Term 4 we will have an additional focus on our Upstanding framework approach given the busy nature of Term 3. We look forward to sharing more of our student's learning with you and our understanding of the role they play in preventing bullying next term.
To recognise 'National Action Week- Bullying No Way' our Student Voice Group will be interviewing some of our other students about what they understand about upstanding and why it mattters. Look out for their responses in next week's assembly video!
Please see below some quotes from our Student Voice Group regarding their throughts on 'Upstanding U have the POWER.'
'If we don’t have upstanding how will we help other people'
'In STSS we learnt that upstanding is trying to help someone.'
'The reason we have upstanding is when someone is being bulled or being mean, that person who is being bulled if they don’t’ have courage, someone can upstand for them and help them out.'
'I think the posters should be around the school, because bullying can happen anywhere and there should always be people who upstand and when they look at the poster they’ll know how.'
'In the beyblade area we could put a sign up there.'
Please get in contact if you have any questions,
Kind regards, Emily Robertson (Mental Health & Wellbeing Leader)