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Uniform and Appearance

While we are still in our changeover period, we do expect student and parental support in upholding the standard of uniform and appearance. Our Parent and Student Handbook states:

It is expected that students will:

  • Wear the full school or sports uniform in the correct manner
  • Have their hair groomed neatly. Hair that is below the collar is required to be tied back. Hair must not be ridged, undercut, tracked or in a Mohawk style. Rat’s tails are not permitted. Navy or white hair ribbons only or red on sports day
  • Be clean shaven
  • Have their shorts/skirts/tunics of a reasonable length
  • Not wear makeup and nail polish
  • Not wear jewellery - with the exception of one simple ring, a watch and no more than 2 sets of sleepers or sleeper sized ear-rings or small studs per ear (gold, silver, pearl). Bangles and necklaces are not permitted
  • Not have any other nose,  facial or tongue piercing 
  • No exposed body ink  

It is expected that parents will:

  • Encourage their children to fulfil these guidelines by providing the necessary uniform
  • Provide a note of explanation when the correct uniform is not available
  • Ensure that hairstyles are in accordance with these guidelines
  • Ensure that makeup and nail polish is not worn
  • Support the staff of St Philomena’s in any consequences imposed for breaches of guidelines

Primary

Summer – Girls: Blue checked dress with collar or regulated school navy shorts, blue shirt & blue checked blouse. School socks navy with stripes, black lace up or buckled shoes, or riding boots. School broad brimmed hat.  No slip-in style canvas or flimsy casual lace up shoes.  

Summer – Boys: Blue shirt, navy shorts, school socks navy with stripes socks, black shoes/riding boots and school broad brimmed hat. No slip-in style canvas or flimsy casual lace up shoes.  

Winter - Unisex: Navy trousers (not track suits pants), navy fleecy zip jacket with school emblem, navy fleecy pullover with school emblem, Soft Shell zip jacket with school emblem. A long sleeved blue or white t-shirt under the uniform.

Winter – Girls: As in summer with addition of navy stockings. A long sleeved blue or white t-shirt under the uniform .

Sports Uniform: Red polo shirt with school emblem, Canterbury Navy Tactic shorts with navy CCC. School sports socks - white with stripes,  sports shoes. Red, navy or white hair accessories only. No slip-in style canvas or flimsy casual lace up shoes.  

Representative sporting attire (Diocesan /CCC / Polding) sports attire can be worn on Fridays only 

Winter Additions: Canterbury Navy Tactic Tracksuit pants with navy CCC, Navy Zip fleecy jacket with school emblem, navy fleecy pullover with school emblem.

Hat:     Navy wide brimmed hat with school emblem.  No hat, no play.

UNIFORM  YEAR 7 - 10 

Summer - Girls: School check poly/cotton dress or navy shorts, blue shirt & blue checked blouse. School socks navy with stripes, black lace up / buckle college shoes, navy or white hair accessories only

Summer - Boys: Navy shorts, white short sleeve shirt with school emblem, school socks navy with stripes, black shoes.

Winter - Girls: As in summer with addition of navy stockings

Winter -Unisex: Navy trousers (not tracksuit pants)  Soft Shell zip jacket with school emblem. A long sleeved  white t-shirt under the uniform is permitted

Sports Uniform: Red polo shirt with school emblem, Canterbury Navy Tactic shorts with navy CCC, school sports socks (white with navy, gold and red stripes), sports cap, sports shoes. No slip-in style canvas or flimsy casual canvas lace up shoes. 

Representative sporting attire (Diocesan /CCC / Polding) sports attire can be worn on Fridays only 

 Winter Additions: Rugby jersey with school emblem, Canterbury Navy Tactic Tracksuit pants with navy CCC, navy trackpants, Year 10 School Rugby jersey.

Hat: Navy wide brimmed hat with school emblem or navy cap with school emblem.

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Happiness and Gratitude

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Overview of this edition

Happiness is defined as the balance of positive and negative emotions, combined with overall life satisfaction. Happiness and gratitude have been studied in positive psychology for many years and researchers have found that gratitude is always strongly associated with greater happiness. Although everyone has their own definition of happiness, many of us want to feel more positive emotions than negative ones. However, negative emotions are still important. They have a lot to teach us and alert us when things need to change. Practicing gratitude helps people feel more of the positive emotions, enable us to relish good experiences, improve our overall health, deal with adversity and build strong relationships.

 

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ICAS ASSESSMENTS

St Philomena’s Catholic School will again be participating in the ICAS Assessments for 2020.

 

ICAS is designed to target students’ higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills in Science, Digital Technologies, English, Mathematics, Spelling. 

 

The Parent Payment System is a simple and secure online payment service specifically for parents to purchase ICAS Assessments. All orders to be done online only. Online payment closes in August 2020. 

 

Parents can access this service by clicking on this link https://shop.unswglobal.com.au/pages/pps 

 

Parents will require a unique access code to purchase assessments. The school's unique access code is: POJ867

 

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