The following students will be receiving a voucher to attend Electric Wonderland in Bendigo these school holidays for their 100% attendance this term! Well Done:

Matt 5/6 BF, Sally 5/6 F, Angel 5/6 GW, Eli 5/6 GW, Charles 1/2 F & Forrest PB.

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support

This week, as we come to the end of a big first semester, our focus is on finishing off the term positively. We know it has been cold and we are all feeling tired, so it's important we remember to keep being friendly to each other and resilient when things don't go our way.

Mini Blitz: Be Friendly

After a busy term, we are all feeling tired and sometimes things don’t go our way.
Let’s finish off the term by being friendly and resilient every day.

Each week, we count up our pebbles across the whole school. Pebbles are earned by students who are following the school expectations! These pebbles are tallied up into house team and class totals. We announce these results at assembly.

With only one week to go, it's getting close on our Term Two pebble tally! Which house team will take out Term Two and win the pizza and hot chip lunch?

End of Semester Celebration

We have been so impressed by all of our students striving to be safe, friendly and a learner throughout the first semester! To celebrate everyone's huge effort in earning pebbles each week, we are holding a fun activity for students next Friday (last day of term). Watch this space for more announcements early next week!

Courage and Crowns

Our Year 5&6 girls were fortunate to work with Megan from Courage and Crowns earlier this week. They spent some special time together, with the interactive session covering:

Kindness to self
Kindness to others
Understanding our feelings, and knowing what to do with them
Connecting with each other when things feel tricky

Later that night we filled the library for the mother/carer and daughter session. To everyone that braved the wet and wild weather and attended, we hope you got something out of the evening and we thank you for coming along to share in the experience. Megan was glowing in her praise of her time with us, and she will remain in partnership with our school willing to support us going forward.

If you would like to find out more or connect with Megan directly, click on this link: https://courageandcrowns.com/

Attendance

Each edition of the newsletter we will share the attendance percentage from the previous two weeks. Below is a break down of the previous fortnight. The aim is 95% attendance.

Unfortunately, we had no year levels that reached this goal over the past two weeks. Once again, there have been a number of colds and bugs going around recently. Let's hope we can finish off the term strong in our final week.

Year Level	School Attendance Percentage
Foundation	90.93%
Year 1	92.35%
Year 2	90.79%
Year 3	91.57%
Year 4	86.13%
Year 5	89.59%
Year 6	85.61%
School Average	89.56%

TRP Webinar Opportunity

We are excited to announce the opportunity for our St Monica's community to join the team at the Resilience Project for an online webinar on how to build resilience at home. Please refer to the flyer below.

Click the button below to register :

Fresh Fruit Friday

Thanks to The Mckern Foundation for donating fresh fruit to our school weekly.

This is a great initiative but please make sure children are still bringing a piece of fruit in their lunchbox for fruit break as fruit is not available all week.

Season’s for Growth

A grief and loss program

Change and loss are issues that affect all of us at some stage in our lives. At St Monica’s we recognise that when changes occur in families through death, separation, divorce or related circumstances, children and young people may benefit from learning how to manage these changes effectively. We are therefore offering a very successful education program called Seasons for Growth. This program is facilitated in small groups and is based on research that highlights the importance of social support and the need to practise new skills to cope effectively with change and loss. The program focuses on issues such as self-esteem, managing feelings, problem-solving, decision-making, effective communication and support networks. Seasons for Growth runs for eight weeks and each weekly session is 40-50 minutes during school hours. The program concludes with a 'Celebration' session. Later in the year each group will have the opportunity to meet for a re-connector session to build on their earlier learning and to follow up how each child is going.

Seasons for Growth will commence in term 2 and will be facilitated by Carina Johns(5/6 Teacher) and Bronwyn Fieldew ( Family Liaison Officer) who has received special training in the use of this program.

For more information please contact Bronwyn at the school and/or express your interest in this program by filling out the email form below which will be sent to Bronwyn Fieldew. St Monica’s is pleased to be able to offer this important program and we are confident that it will be a valuable learning experience for those who request to be involved.

Please send an email below letting us know if your child would like your child/children to participate in this program. Please include the following information:

Student name, class and whether they have experienced separation or loss.

Helpful Parent resources:

rch.org.au
earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au
parentingideas.com.au
australia.gov.au
kidsafe.com.au
betterhealth.vic.gov.au
kidsmatter.edu.au
youtube.com - Centre on the Developing Child at Harvard University

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