Principal's Message
Dear parents, students and the wider community,
Tomorrow is Walk to School Day. Thanks to Mrs Brooking and the staff for making this an important part of the school term. I hope many of you can join in with the walk as a way of maybe establishing healthier patterns of behaviour and have a morning of fun before your work day commences..
Congratulations to our Year 3-6 students who competed last Friday at Ballam Park representing our school in the District Track events. Tomorrow some of our Year 3-6 students will have the opportunity to represent our school in the District Field Events. Thanks to Mrs Ary for overseeing the events, staff who assisted on the day and the many parents who were able to find some time to get to the event and support our students. Our students were a credit to their families and school in the way they did their best and supported one another. It made me very proud to spend some time with them.
With our weekly Mass schedule underway it was a great pleasure to attend Mass last Friday. Our Foundation students with their teachers helped create a very prayerful and reflective time of prayer assisting Fr Martin for the wider community, including parents and grandparents. Please find time, as you can, to support our students in their faith journey at occasions such as this. Father Martin also was very encouraging of the students returning at the weekend and bringing their families with them. After all, our school is simply one part of our Parish!
Congratulations to Fr Martin who celebrated with the Parish last weekend his one year anniversary as our Parish Priest. We hope he has many, many more!!
Our student teachers Kellie Fitzpatrick FW, Erica Brooks 1/2C and Hanna Uehara 3/4C have joined us and are all very excited to complete their final teacher rounds before becoming qualified. Please help the staff to make them feel welcome in our beautiful school.
Next week some of our Year 3-6 students will be representing the school at the District Cross Country on Tuesday 24th May. Next Friday 27th we will have our Year 5 students working with visitors on the "Play" initiative that helps them to learn how to set up and run playground activities for the younger students in the yard.
As I informed you last week Mrs Thomas will be in charge of the school over the next 2 weeks assisted by our leadership team of Mr Sullivan, Mrs Winduss and Mrs Chiodo. I will be on two separate study tours and will return on Monday 6 June. I look forward to seeing everyone then.
God Bless and have a great week.
Rod Shaw
Principal
School Attendance and Unexplained Absence
Please contact the school if your child is going to be absent by leaving a message on 9786 4736 and press 1. Please give details of your child’s name and class with areason for their absence such as: unwell, appointment, holiday or family reasons. Alternatively an email can be sent to office@saseaford.catholic.edu.au with cc to the child’s teacher.
If you are running late, (after 9:00 am) please attend the office to sign your child into school and collect a late pass.
If you are picking up your child early you will need to collect them and sign them out from the office.
As per our policy this will be our morning routine for absences:
Parents will be contacted as soon as practicable on the morning a student is absent via a text message.
If parent does not contact the school after receiving the text message, the school will contact the parent by phone. If the parent is unreachable the emergency contacts will be contacted by the school.
If there is still no response, and the school feels that the child is in danger, the police will be contacted.
Ongoing unexplained absences or lack of cooperation regarding student attendance will result in a formal conference being organized. Unresolved attendance issues will be referred to D.H.H.S.
This is a legal requirement.
Democratic Principles
The six (6) principles of Australian democracy include:
(a) elected government; and
(b) the rule of law; and
(c) equal rights for all before the law; and
(d) freedom of religion; and
(e) freedom of speech and association; and
(f) the values of openness and tolerance