Principal's Message
Dear parents, students and the wider community,
We have had another wonderful week at St Anne's.
This week we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus so I would like to begin with a prayer for this solemn occasion.
Lord Jesus, you became man and came to live among us. For love of us, you suffered and died for us. Because you are God, you conquered death and rose on the third day. Today you return to your Father and our Father, but you promised to remain with us till the end of time, and to send us the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
With our weekly Mass schedule underway it was a great pleasure to attend Mass last Friday. Our 1/2 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. Fr 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!
This week, some Year 3-6 students represented the school at the District Cross Country on Tuesday 24 May. 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.
On Friday 27 May our Year 5 and 6 are 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.
A gentle reminder to make sure you have contacts that can pick up your children from school in a timely manner, listed at the office. With the Winter season upon us and the nasty things going around at the moment, we are needing to send children home due to illness. It is important that we can contact someone quickly and the kids can be picked up instead of feeling miserable at school. You can check your contacts any time with Debbie in the office.
Mr Shaw sends us his best wishes for the coming week. The 3-6 students are at swimming every day next week and we hope they have a wonderful time in the pool. Some of our students will be representing us at the Division Cross Country meeting in Hastings and we wish them all the best and congratulate them for representing our school at this level.
I want to let you all know, that the wonderful work the students did on the Stations of the Cross video is being used as an exemplar work for the Southern Region Religious Education Network next week. Well done to all the students and staff who worked so hard on this piece.
God Bless and have a great week.
Sally Thomas
Deputy 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