Principal's Message
Dear parents, students and the wider community,
What a beautiful week we have had so far. Certainly I appreciate these warm days after what seemed a long, wet Winter.
Today we have had the first of our four Orientations for 2023 Foundation children with our second one scheduled next Tuesday. With 40 students commencing there are three small groups of children, rather than having 40 pre-schoolers here at once who don't know each other or our routines, so our Foundation teachers can get to know them better.
This Friday our school will be holding a Remembrance Liturgy to acknowledge Armistice Day. The sacrifices of those who have gone before us have contributed to the legacy of what it is to be Australian today. I thank our senior classes for leading this and Mrs Thomas for her organisation.
I am reading regularly about staffing shortages in schools and having just met with the Principal of John Paul College who informed me they are particularly struggling in the secondary system with subject specific staff required moreso. Fortunately I have St Anne's fully staffed for 2023 but Mrs Kathleen Ronchi will not be joining us after all. She has had a change of circumstances but fortunately for our school I have been able to employ Mrs Ceri de Veer who has been teaching at St Jude's in Langwarrin for the last 15 years. Having taught alongside Ceri and having been her Deputy Principal I know she will be an asset to our school.
Our staffing for 2023 is:-
Deputy Principal/ Diversity Leader:- Mrs Sally Thomas- Full time
Learning and Teaching Leader/ Literacy Leader/ Sustainability Leader:- Mr Michael Sullivan- Full time
RE Leader/ Wellbeing Leader/ Community Engagement Leader:- Mrs Rikki Winduss- 2.5 days
Numeracy Leader:- Mrs Toni Chiodo 1.5 days
Digital Technologies Leader:- Miss Heather Eagling 0.5 day
Our House Spirit Leaders:- Mrs Lauren Lacey & Mrs Brooke Ary- 1 hour per week
Fire Carriers Leader: Miss Hannah O'Donnell- 1 hour per week
Class Teachers
5/6 Mrs Ceri de Veer
5/6 Miss Hannah O'Donnell
3/4 Mrs Lauren Lacey
3/4 Mrs Gill Brown
1/2 Mrs Toni Chiodo 3.5 days/ Mrs Brooke Ary 1.5 days
1/2 Miss Kaleigh McKenzie
1/2 Mr Michael Bright
F Mrs Rikki Winduss 2.5 days/ Miss Dani Wells 2.5 days
F Miss Heather Eagling 4.5 days/ Miss Dani Wells 0.5 days
Specialists:-
Reading Recovery- Mrs Tracey Di Paolo
PE / Visual Arts- Mrs Brooke Ary
Performing Arts- Mrs Catherine McArthur
Italian- Signoria Maria Morina
Office:-
Mrs Michele Wain/ Mrs Debbie Trower
LSO's (Learning Support Officers)
Mrs Lisa Brooking- Library/ IT Support
Mrs Angela Gough- Literacy Support
Miss Leonie Marks
Mrs Jackie Canavan
Mrs Lea Freeland
Mrs Candice Legge
Our Fees & Levies structure for next year are available for you to see on the final page of the newsletter.
I would like to thank our community for all of the contributions of both goods and time in contributing to our Market Day this Sunday. It is a great opportunity to raise some funds for school improvements but equally gives our families a chance to build connectedness as a community. I look forward to seeing many of you here and particularly thank those parents/families who have gone above and beyond in preparation.
God bless
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