Pastoral Care 

I am pleased to report that our flexible online learning and pastoral care for the wellbeing of our community, continue to interactively support our students and families. A feature of our community is the encouragement of all to have the efficacy to reach out on behalf of themselves and others when in need. So please do your best to keep communication channels open with all those around you, both physically and online. Please also support one another through action, prayer, thought, communication, and empathy.

Thank you to the parents who have given constructive feedback to support the evolution of our online teaching and learning. 

As we advance into our third week of online learning please encourage your son to keep his studies focused, but in perspective. A balanced pattern of activity and study, respectful regard for others around him, and gratitude for the many good things we have, should be valued. Target quality deep learning of subject matter by balancing study with sufficient exercise, sleep and a healthy diet to keep the mind body and spirit in good order.

While the Olympics provide a welcome point of interest for many, we must be wary of too much screen time. Reading for interest from a good book is a skill which enhances boys’ education, and a welcome counter to the online classes, along with bike riding, bush runs or even ocean swimming or whatever forms of exercise we have the opportunity to access.

Attendance Recording

Students are asked to be proactive in supporting the learning process, and their record of attendance at flexible online learning in the following ways:

1. Be on time to your lessons and communicate your attendance to your teachers in the most appropriate manner.
2. If you are missing from Roll Call you will be marked A (Absent). If you arrive to any subsequent lesson you must ask the teacher to email studentmanagement@stpiusx,nsw.edu.au  so that you can be marked arrived Late.
3. NESA have requested us to record where students are on Flexible Learning remotely - F. Rest assured the F code will not detract from your attendance records. This is particularly important for Year 12 students who are pursuing a perfect HSC attendance record! Please communicate with Mr Brannan via the Administration Office if you have any questions, concerns with the way your attendance has been recorded.

As always please don’t hesitate to reach out.

Fide et Labore

St Pius X College acknowledges our First Nations, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and particularly the Cammeraygal people, 

whose interconnection with this land sustained and 

fulfilled them mentally, physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually, 

over thousands of years. 

May we learn from their wisdom.

Mr Sean Brannan - Acting Deputy Principal