This Week's Updates
Dear Families,
This week’s updates contain a few pieces of important information
ECSI Surveys
Thank you to the two families who have completed the surveys so far. We only have 98 families to go to reach 100. Ideally all families would complete the surveys which take approximately 40 minutes to complete.
This year, our St.James community is scheduled to undertake the Enhancing Catholic School Identity (ECSI) survey. These surveys were developed by the Catholic University of Leuven and are administered across all Catholic schools in our Archdiocese. The survey is completed online by Year 5 and 6 students, parents, staff and school leaders. These surveys enable us to better understand how our Catholic identity is expressed in work and practice and how we can support and further develop this in the future.
We are requesting your assistance in completing the survey online. It will take approximately 40 minutes to 1 hour to complete and you are asked to answer intuitively, trying not to get caught up in the answers. Your answers to this survey are kept anonymous and by keeping a record of your individual user code and password, you will be able to complete the survey in more than one session. It is crucial that we have parents complete this survey so that we can collate a wider range of data to assist us in future planning.
Instructions for survey completion:
1.Access the survey at: www.ecsi.site/au/user
2. Enter the case sensitive password Ghj654 and click login
3. If you are a new user: Click the New User button
If you wish to continue a previous session: Enter your User-ID and Password
4. Enter our school's Survey Access Code - F46648 - so that your input will be linked to our school.
5. You are now logged in. Displayed on the screen is your unique User-ID and Password (case sensitive). Save this information (write, print or email it) to access the website at a later time.
6. From this point forward, please follow the on-screen instructions to complete the surveys.
We sincerely thank you for your time and assistance with the survey completion. Please ensure that it is completed by Friday 21st May.
If you would like to complete the survey with some company and a cuppa, you are welcome to meet Mrs.D (Cathy) in the library at 9.00am on a Wednesday morning after school drop off. Plus, if you email Dave to let him know that you have completed the survey, your child will receive a ‘treat’ as a token of our appreciation!
Grandparents Day
We are very excited about this Friday's Grandparents Day. Please remember and understand that we need to follow some COVID safe practices. The main issue here is restricting the number of people (adults and children) in each room.
Here is all of the info:
- Park in the surrounding streets - all three gates will be open
- Disabled parking will be available near the top of the driveway. Disabled drop off on the basketball court will be available (max 5 km/hr) Please book these requirements in with the school office
- Due to the overwhelming number of grandparents attending we cannot fit parent numbers into the morning (sorry parents but we will take many photos)
- We will have occupant restrictions listed at each doorway entrance to each room. Please be patient if you are required to wait until others exit the room. Please also be mindful of sharing the time if others are waiting to enter the room.
- We will have Mothers Day raffle tickets available for sale.
- 9.30am onwards - arrival and sign in
- 9.40am "Nonna's Cafe" opens in Community Centre for a cuppa and morning tea
- 9.45am Prep Prayer Service commences playing in Multi Purpose Room on the screen and will be repeated every 15 minutes all morning
- 9.40 - 10.20am Prep, Grade One, Grade Two classrooms open for visitors
- 10.20 - 11.00am Grade Three, Four, Five and Six classrooms open for visitors
- 11.00am - 11.30am BYO Shared Lunch with Grandchildren
- 11.30am Depart after raffle draw and farewell!
Dates to Note
Monday 3 May 3pm: Bookings open for About Real Life Child/Parent Night (13 May)
Tuesday 4 May School Advisory Council Meeting 6.30pm in Multi Purpose Room
Thursday 6 May Food Day
Mothers' Day Stall
Saturday 8 May Bunnings BBQ
Sunday 9 May Happy Mothers Day to all mums!!
Tuesday 11 May NAPLAN commences Yr 3 & Yr 5
Friday 14 May Book Fair sales commence