General Notices
Get your votes in for the MacKillop Art Exhibition
Featuring 155 artworks from 28 Catholic schools across the Sandhurst Diocese, the MacKillop Art Exhibition, celebrating its 10th year, is being held online for the first time due to COVID-19 restrictions. Prizes are awarded for outstanding artworks in General Art and Spiritual Art categories across primary and secondary settings. The People’s Choice Award is a new feature this year. You can vote for the Primary and Secondary People’s Choice Award winners by clicking on the voting form in the People’s Choice gallery. Voting closes at 11:59pm on Sunday, November 29, 2020. Winners will be announced on Monday, November 30, on the Catholic Education Sandhurst Facebook page. Here is the link to the exhibition:
https://www.ceosand.catholic.edu.au/mae/
Parents asked to provide feedback
Over the past 10 years, Catholic Education Sandhurst (CES) speech pathologists have developed a series of Children’s Chatter Matters resources. The Children’s Chatter Matters is a collection of family-friendly oral language for literacy/learning activities and strategies designed to promote parent engagement in education. Each practical activity/strategy is closely aligned with current key research outcomes as well as the Victorian curriculum.
Given it has been some time since CES first developed this resource, they would like to obtain some feedback from schools and parents in order to plan their direction with Children's Chatter Matters. Here is the link to the parent survey:
https://forms.gle/7XyjBJqEaJEXRy6j7
Appointments during school hours discouraged
Families are reminded that where possible, medical/dental appointments etc. for students should be made outside of school hours. We understand that this is not always workable but we encourage families to please make appointments before or after school hours when possible. Parents/carers are also urged to avoid collecting their child/children before the school day is over. Please try to make arrangements so that your child can remain at school until 3:15pm.
Munchbox fundraiser supports St Anne's College
Moving on from St Anne's College next year?
As we are finalising 2021 enrolments, families whose child/children will not be returning to St Anne's College next year are asked to please notify the college so that administration can be finalised and arrangements can be made for technology to be returned by the end of the school year. Please call the college office on 4812 2993 or email office@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Helping parents to help their teenagers
Support session for separated parents
This Girl Can events are under way
Managing illness during the COVID-19 pandemic
Additional resources:
https://www.carlyryanfoundation.com
Committed to creating a child-safe environment
The Fathering Channel - support for dads
Visit The Fathering Channel at www.thefatheringproject.org/fathering-channel/
The Fathering Channel is a virtual community designed to support dads and ultimately help kids and families to stay healthy, happy and connected in these uncertain times and beyond. The Fathering Channel also helps families connect to a wealth of resources and advice.
SIMON/PAM
The Parent Access Module (PAM) for our learning management system (SIMON) is an important source of communication between the college and families.PAM is the portal through which parents can check on learning areas, send parent notified absences, access school activity permission forms and check daily messages. It is also the portal through which you will access your child's reports. It is important that you log into PAM daily to check any updates or notices. If you have misplaced or forgotten your login details you can contact administration at office@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Catholic Schools Parents Victoria
To read the current issue of CSPV use the following link:
https://vcspb.schoolzineplus.com/streamnews?nid=6
School Wide Positive Behaviour Support
Schools today are facing intense scrutiny and are under tremendous pressure for improvement compounded by major issues that place significant demands on our schools. Some of the issues are:
- Increasing diversity of student demographics;
- Changing home structures and complex family relationships;
- Decline in students’ social skills, coupled with increased social media issues and cyber safety;
- Antisocial behaviour in schools is on the rise and becoming increasingly more complex;
- Increase in mental health and school attendance concerns;
- Students with special needs and/or complex backgrounds coupled with diminished behaviour management skills of staff and subsequent increased stress levels;
- Stringent academic accountability positioned against low or underperforming student academic achievement;
- Inefficient and ineffective school organisational systems and procedures for the management of student behaviour.
St Anne's College's expectations from all its members are quite simple:
At St Anne's this looks like:
- Calm, quiet and peaceful
- Equipment and materials neatly stored
- Sharing our space
- Returning materials to their place after use
- Waiting for your turn
- Leading by example
- Offering a helping hand
- Being patient, thinking twice, acting once
At St Anne’s College, in faith, wisdom and learning, we:
are wise about what we do, we know our impact.
What does this look like in your home?