From the Head of Secondary
Congratulations!
It has been an outstanding climax to the end of the winter sports season for Calrossy. Our Open Girls XV won their regular season and last night took out the Jack Cutcliffe Memorial Cup. Our boys had two teams in Grand Finals, with the Open Boys XV team scoring a comprehensive win over Pirates in a fast and skilful performance.
This week saw our girls hockey teams, 3rd and 1st Grade, winning their Grand Finals over Carinya and Oxley in convincing fashion.
It was wonderful to see our students demonstrating fantastic school spirit, wearing their Calrossy uniform with pride and supporting our players as they represented us on the field.
Well done to all our sporting teams over the winter season! Further details are available on the Sport page of the newsletter.
Student Behaviour
This term has seen the introduction of a consolidated and consistent framework for managing student behaviour across our campuses in the Secondary School. The intent of this framework is to support and foster our school values of Selflessness, Integrity, Resilience and Inclusiveness, as well as promoting a learning environment that encourages best learning outcomes for all our students and teachers.
Calrossy Anglican School has a reputation for being a school of high standards and expectations. Our families choose to send their children to Calrossy for the opportunities, the academic outcomes, the Christ values and the high standards and expectations.
Rules for responsible classroom behaviour:
Do the right thing;
Say the right thing;
Bring the right thing.
For our students to achieve all of these goals, it is very important that families support the school in upholding our standards and partner with us to bring about these best outcomes for your children.
The framework that has been put in place this term supports behaviour management around two key principles – “positive choices bring about positive outcomes” and restorative relationship processes.
The framework includes Demerits (warnings for minor misdemeanours and uniform infringements) that encourage behavioural change without penalty, Lunchtime Detentions for classroom misbehaviour, more substantial infractions and some repeated low level infringements; and After School Detentions for more serious infringements and repeated behaviour and presentation infractions. After School Detentions (ASD) will be held on the Brisbane St Campus from 3.30pm on Wednesday afternoon. It is expected that students will attend these detentions on the date given.
Detentions will consist of the opportunity for students to reflect on their behaviour, the choices they have made and how the choices they make in the future might better align with the School Values. Detentions are an opportunity to learn for each and every student and it is the School’s goal to provide students with the opportunity to learn from their poor choices and to support to make better choices in the future.
Final Week of Term 3
Next week brings us to the end of Term 3 and the final week for Year 12 students. It will be a busy week for all with a range of activities going on across the campuses.
Year 7, 8, 9 & 10 will be involved in normal lessons for Monday through to Wednesday, with Year 8 boys out on excursion on Wednesday.
Year 11 are in exams on Monday and Tuesday, with normal lessons scheduled for Wednesday. Year 12 have normal lessons in period 1-4 followed by a Graduation Service rehearsal on WCC in period 5. They will then be out on their retreat for Tuesday and Wednesday, before joining the school for Thursday’s program.
On Thursday there will be campus assemblies for students at Brisbane St (7-11 girls) and the William Cowper Campuses (7-11 boys), with the whole