General Notices
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Update
Dear parents, carers and guardians
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a shifting space for us as a global community. Whilst we are in
difficult times, it is encouraging to see so many random acts of kindness and love. We will get through this together and as a Catholic faith community the power of prayer will sustain us. Following is some updated information as well as resources for you.
The State of Victoria recently enacted Stage 3 restrictions in regard to the response to COVD-19. The
link below will take you to the full details of this upgraded situation, but in essence the Government has
mandated only four reasons to be out of your home:
Shopping for what you need – food and essential supplies
Medical, care or compassionate needs
Exercise in compliance with the public gathering requirements
Work and study if you can’t work or learn remotely
https://www.vic.gov.au/coronavirusresponse
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) is aware of a significant increase in Australians being targeted with COVID-19 related scams and phishing emails. In the last three months, the ACSC and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Scamwatch has received over 140 reports from individuals and businesses across Australia. These phishing emails are often sophisticated, preying on people’s desire for information and imitating trusted and well-known organisations or government agencies. Clicking on these malicious links or visiting fake websites may automatically install computer viruses or malware and ransomware onto your device, giving cyber criminals the ability to steal your financial and personal information. These scams are likely to increase over the coming weeks and months and the ACSC strongly encourages organisations and individuals to remain alert. Further information, including examples of related scams and phishing emails, can be accessed on the ACSC website: https://www.cyber.gov.au/news/cyber-security-essential-when-preparing-covid-19
Please be assured that the staff at St Anne's College have continued to work on systems and structures to ensure continuity of learning for the students during this time of distance learning. I hope that you are finding moments of joy with your children, however this can be particularly challenging in
stressful times. Remember that there are organisations to which you can reach out if you feel that you or your family need some extra support. The following are some links to helplines and information:
https://headtohealth.gov.au/covid-19-support/covid-19
- Sue Carroll, Principal
Please find below some helpful resources to support families in communicating with their children about the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak:
- Author: Dr Camilla Rosan DClinPsych CPsychol, Clinical Psychologist
and Programme Lead for Families, Mental Health Foundation
The Fathering Channel Launched
The Fathering Project has launched a new virtual community called The Fathering Channel, to support dads and ultimately help kids and families to stay healthy, happy and connected in these uncertain times and beyond. The Fathering Channel is designed to help families connect to a wealth of resources, advice and a virtual community.
To find out more visit: www.thefatheringproject.org/fathering-channel/
Concerns And Queries Communication Steps
Just a reminder to all parents/carers that if you need to get in contact with your child's Pastoral Group Leader, you can contact them via their work email listed below:
School of Wonder
Roslyn Heathman: rheathman@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Kate McGrath: kmcgrath@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Laurel Baxter-Butts: lbaxter-butts@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Kara McCann: kmccann@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
School of Innovation - Year 7
Marian Segrave: msegrave@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Keshia Dean: kdean@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Sean O'Brien: sobrien@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Stephen Kealy: skealy@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
School of Innovation - Year 8
Christian Steri- csteri@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Sarah Baglin: sbaglin@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Adam Zito: azito@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Nicole Leys: nleys@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Specialist Learning Mentors
Rebekah Watts: rwatts@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Linda Alampi: lalampi@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Ebony Anderson: eanderson@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Kate McGrath: kmcgrath@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Cosimo Rando: crando@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Camps, Sports & Excursions Fund (CSEF)
CSEF is provided by the Victorian Government to assist eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.
Please read the following information to see if you are eligible.
SIMON/PAM
Reminder to parents: Have you verified your email address for PAM/SIMON? Please ensure that you do so that you receive all eCollege mail communications from SIMON. To do this, you will have received a link earlier this year from SIMON that allows you to confirm that the email address that you provided is valid and in use.
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 in to 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 Colleges expectations from all its members are quite simple:
Respect everyone and everything
Do your best
Help others succeed.
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
- Lead by example
- Offer 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?