From the Wellbeing Leader

We are now a Happy Families School

As part of a partnership with our Connected Schools community, St Paul is now subscribed to the Happy Families School Membership. Owned and run by Dr Justin Coulson, one of Australia’s leading parenting experts, the membership offers a wealth of parenting education and resources.

We will regularly share resources available through our membership with you, including Insight Articles and Webinars. You can also access your resources at any time using the below URL (unique to our school) and password.

UNIQUE SCHOOL URL & PASSWORD

St Paul URL: https://schools.happyfamilies.com.au/login/spls

 Password: happyspls

We recommend bookmarking this link. You should only need to put the password in once and the site will remember you.

INSIGHTS ARTICLES 

A new Insights article is released weekly during the term and we will include these with the school newsletter. Insights articles are written by Dr Justin Coulson, and other leading experts, and provide parenting education and support for a wide variety of traditional and contemporary parenting challenges. You can also access 300+ previous Insights articles on our school’s URL.

PARENT WEBINARS

You have access to 10 webinars a year on our school’s membership page via our school’s unique URL. From there, you’ll also be able to access to the Video Library which is the full back catalogue of all of Dr Justin Coulson’s and Parenting Idea’s previous webinars.

Webinars take place once a month. We will announce upcoming webinar details in our school newsletter or other preferred method of communication.

We hope you enjoy the Insights and Webinars!

Welcome Natalie Whalan

We welcome Natalie to our teaching team at St Paul as our Inclusive Education Leader. Natalie has shared the following with our community: 

I’m a mum of two lovely children, Amelia who’s in Year 2 and Maddie who’s in Reception here at St Paul. Our family recently relocated to Adelaide after spending several years in Singapore. My husband, Nick, has a great passion for food, making Adelaide an ideal place for us to indulge in local produce and spend weekends cooking, relaxing at the beach, or exploring the local sites. We're thoroughly enjoying our time back in Australia.

I am deeply committed to inclusive education, aiming to create a neuro-affirming and strength-based approach for our children. I like to ensure that each child's unique abilities are not only recognised but also celebrated and nurtured. 

Chapels in Term 1

This term in Chapel, we will be sharing the Story of Easter while also exploring the different feelings we may experience as we unpack this important story. Gal 5:22-23A “But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” This passage will support us as we think about how God has gifted us all with a wonderful range of feelings. Each week, we will share a part of the Easter Story and a Kimochi Feeling will help us unpack and connect to the story.

Thank you to everyone who came along this morning to worship and to welcome our new school leaders during their installation. It was lovely to have Mrs Sabel here for her farewell too.

Please feel welcome to join us for worship each Wednesday morning this term at 9am in the Church.

The hosts for our Chapels this term will be:

Week 6: Mrs Whalan with The Thankful Leper. Kimochi Feeling: Grateful 

Week 7: Mr Mayer with Lazarus. Kimochi Feeling: Sad

Week 8: 5 Woodward with Palm Sunday and Kimochi Feeling: Optimistic

Week 9: 4 Burgan with Good Friday. Kimochi Feeling: Scared

Week 10: Miss Mattner with The Resurrection. Kimochi Feeling: Loved

Week 11: Vicar Sean with Closing Chapel. Kimochi Feeling: Sensitive

Chapel and Assembly Livestreaming

Chapels and Assemblies will continue to be livestreamed on our closed group on Facebook each week for anyone wanting to view this from home. You can find this by searching ‘St Paul Lutheran School Blair Athol Live Streaming’ on Facebook. 

Assemblies in Term 1

Our Assemblies will begin in Week 6. Please note the upcoming Assembly schedule and feel welcome to join us in the hall at 9am as the following hosts share their learning.

Assembly Hosts this term will be:

Week 6: Seniors (6 Bakewell)

Week 7: 2 Huxtable

Week 8: 5 Harris

Week 9: No Assembly- Good Friday

Week 10: 4 Maglio

Week 11: No Assembly- Pupil Free Day

2024 Class Carers 

We are looking for parents/caregivers who would like to be a Class Carer for 2024. 

A Class Carer is someone who supports their child’s classroom teacher along with the other Class Carer to support classes, families and events. They help to connect families, provide a listening ear and sometimes gifts to celebrate special occasions or organise stay and play afternoons for children or family or parent social events.

If you are interested in being a Class Carer this year, or wish to find out further information, please email jrobinson@stpaulba.sa.edu.au 

Ideally, we would love to have at least two Class Carers per class (the more the merrier). Our Class Carer Volunteers so far are: