Important Announcements
Creating a supportive school culture
Schools are increasingly recognising the importance of addressing bullying, building resilience and developing social skills. Social and emotional learning start at birth and are first experienced in the home. This year, our College is taking further steps to foster a friendly and supportive culture by extending the Junior School’s Friendly Schools program into the Senior School.
Since 1999, the Friendly Schools research team has conducted 23 high-quality community-based studies with over 40,000 Australian children, adolescents, their families and school staff. The program’s resource materials are designed to promote positive social behaviour and reduce bullying.
Parents are the first teachers of your child’s social skills and the primary providers of emotional support. As a College we work in collaboration with you to develop a child’s social skills and resiliency factors. We plan to embed social and emotional learning (SEL) strategies into our curriculum in learning areas such as Health, Life Skills and other subject areas to ensure a holistic approach to student wellbeing. Social and emotional learning include self-awareness skills, relationship skills, self-management skills, social decision-making skills and social awareness skills.
Our goals for 2025 are to:
• Provide all students with opportunities to develop and practise getting along with other children through classroom learning activities
• Create a positive social environment within our College which actively discourages bullying, including cyberbullying
• Continue to encourage staff, students and parents to treat all College community members with respect, care and compassion
• Implement a clear and consistent approach to managing bullying incidents
• Provide parents with resources and strategies to help them communicate more effectively with their children about bullying
Mrs Jeanette Sealy
Director of Senior School (Student Wellbeing)
Student Medication
In the interest of the Health Centre providing best practice and ensuring the safety of our students, the following steps will be required prior to medication being accepted and dispensed from there in 2025.
New students will require a letter of consent from the GP or specialist.
The medication should be presented in a Foil sheet (Webster pack) provided from a pharmacy with the product name and expiry date clearly visible on the sheet.
This is preferred procedure for all medications and will be essential for all Outdoor Learning Programs in 2025.
The Nurse on duty will record all medication administered to a student. Students, except for anaphylactic, asthmatic or diabetic students, are not to carry or keep medication on their person or in their bags, due to the risk of tampering or theft.
Prohibit Purchases in Canteen and Wanju
If you wish to manage your child’s access to specific menu choices in the Canteen, a reminder that parents can go into MyASC to prohibit specific product purchases or define a daily transaction limit. In these instances, once a student's card is scanned, a prohibited product will be highlighted on the till and the transaction declined. The same will occur if an item, or multiple items, exceed the daily limit.
To initiate these changes in MyASC please access ‘Canteen Order’ through Quick Links and click on ‘Manage’. You can also ‘Transfer Funds’ here to ensure your child can continue to make purchases in the canteen.
Please help the ASC Rowing Club name a new boat!
At Pasar Malam, the All Saints' Rowing Club launched the search for a name for our new All Saints’ Rowing Club double scull.
To guide us, we continue to honour the tradition started by Jo Boserio: Time spent on the water offers opportunities to appreciate the awe and wonder of our natural environment. Training fosters our commitment, teamwork, and perseverance, while racing allows us to share the fruits of our hard work as we battle down the regatta course against other crews. Our tradition and guidelines at All Saints’ Rowing Club involve finding words from different cultures that embody the spirit of rowing and reflect the fun and diversity of our community.
Here is a list of our current fleet and the meaning of their names:
ILIKAI – mist on the water Hawaiian/Maori
LYS – light [opposite of dark] also speed of light Swedish
NIXIE – water spirit German
ALLEGRA – lively, joyful Italian
GUERRIERE – female warrior French
AKARI – light [opposite of dark] Japanese
MERAKI – done with love and passion Greek
MOOMBAKI – ‘where the river meets the sky’ Noongar
Our rowers create a shortlist from the suggestions, then the rowing leadership team narrows it down further. If necessary, a poll is taken. The final name is submitted to Ms Provis for her approval.
We invite members of our community to suggest a name, along with its meaning and origin, that honours our tradition and would represent our All Saints’ community.
This form will remain open until tomorrow, so get your suggestions in quick! Thank you in advance for your suggestions!
Thanks to the P&F for their contribution to our new boat!