PRIMARY NEWS
from the Assistant Principal

Term 3 Class Reps

The following students are Year 3-6 class reps for this term: Sophie Foley, Anakin Dyke, Roxy Pettiford, Lucas Stuart, Pippa Butcher, Lily Foley, George Xavier, Dominic Kenny and Kaden Potter.

K-6 Awards

Congratulations to the following children who received class awards this week: Chloe Worgan, Tamsin Pettiford, Liam Guest, Elanoa Viriki, Carter Cumming, Beau Butcher, Georgie Moore, Lane Hosking, Will Kentwell, Zahli Wemyss-Colley, Harlow Lea, Seth O'Neill-Yee, Jonah Moore, Charlotte Harris, Shelby Coleborn-Duncan, Jordan Frazier, Tyran Dick, Ruby Fitzroy, Harper Swadling, Charlie Mason, Clare Shawyer, Meleah Swadling, Michael Kuhn, Oliver Pilcher, Henry Schiller, Mathew Daniel, Harrison Slee, Jaxon Fishburn, Chloe Shawyer, Hunter Will, Zoe Burdekin, Annie Shawyer, Dustin Taber, Thai Peter Huynh, Digby Roger, Maddison Griffey, Oscar Irwin, Lilly Watts, Millie Maddigan, Leanne Anthony and Steve Joji.

Peer Support

Each Tuesday for the next 4 weeks, students from Year 2 to Year 6 will be participating in the Peer Support program. Peer Support is a program, which provides a fun engaging environment for young people to address social issues. Two trained Year 6 leaders, supervised by a teacher, facilitate structured activities with multi-aged groups (Year 2-5) of approximately 10 students. This week students will share things they enjoy in life and have an opportunity to discuss their favourite activity. The session enables children to recognise what makes them happy. Next week, children will identify their strengths and explore curiosity, kindness and teamwork. Through the activities, children will be able to recognise which strengths they possess and realise how important it is to use their strengths in different situations. We encourage families to talk to your children about Peer Support each week to reinforce the concepts learned in each session.

Collecting Children From School

A reminder that school finishes at 3:20pm. All parents need to wait outside the school gates due to Covid-19 restrictions. It is fine to wait at the front of the school if you are collecting children. Students are supervised at waiting tree and bus lines until 3:45pm. If you are running late to collect your child, can you please contact the office. A number of the children are becoming confused as to whether they should be on the bus or are being collected at the ‘Waiting Tree/Kiss and Drop Zone’. It would be helpful if you could send a note with your child if this changes day-to-day so as they can check where the correct place is if they get confused.

Winter Uniform

Students should be in full school winter uniform. If you have any issues with this or your child is out of uniform for a particular reason, could you please send in a note to their classroom teacher or speak to Mrs Dal Santo. This includes ties. All students must wear black leather/vinyl shoes. Joggers are suitable for sports day.

Monitoring Your child's Use of Internet Safely

Children are spending more time online. When talking with your kids about their time online, try always to be positive and be open. Put healthy boundaries in place immediately. Here are a just few tips:

Talk to your kids about what they are doing online, safe and age-appropriate platforms, and the steps they take to stay safe online.
Make sure they can tell you if anything happens online that makes them feel weird in the tummy, upsets them in any way or they see something confronting.
Agree on how much time your kids spend online in addition to their schoolwork. Include how long they can play games, what group chats they are allowed to use, and how long they spend on them.
Ban devices at dinner for the whole family…parents, including no devices after a particular time.
Encouraging and constantly reinforcing positive social values is extremely important. We all need to be kind, respectful, and responsible online at all times.
Use Safe Search options that most browsers and standard search engines have (usually under the 'Settings' menu) and parental controls on devices, especially for younger children.
Know where to seek help and assistance for both you and your child if you should need it. To report severe Cyber Bullying, Image-Based Abuse, Illegal and Harmful Content, and Adult Online Abuse, visit www.esafety.gov.au; if contact includes threats of harm, suspicion of grooming, and child exploitation, contact your local police or Crimestoppers immediately.