General Notices

Your trash could be School of Wonder's treasure

The School of Wonder would appreciate the donation of the following items. The holiday break might be a great time to clean out any unwanted items from the cupboards and the shed!

- plates/boxes/trays with compartments in them (like dip platters, cutlery trays)

- wooden trays/chopping boards

- beads/anything threadable

- old lentils, beans, dried legumes

- rocks/pebbles/stones/fish tank stones/gems

- sticks (pencil size and bigger)

- pine cones, gumnuts

- shells/starfish/sea items

- mirrors

- fabric/scarves/felt (earth colours - dirt, grass, rock, sand etc.)

- wooden bits and pieces (curtain rings, knobs etc.)

- photo frames

- bird's nest or something that looks like a bird's nest

- small tables (big enough for a child to sit/kneel at)

- baskets (cane/woven type)

First aid training updated for all St Anne's staff

St Anne's College staff have their finger on the pulse when it comes to administering first aid. All staff recently updated their first aid knowledge with Dawn Ferrier from TalkSmart Training.

Thank you from the Catholic Education Office

Register for July online parenting sessions

Piano lessons available for St Anne's students

Student absence notification process explained

There are times when we will need to contact you, including on the day if your child is absent and you haven’t informed the college as to why. Do we have your most up-to-date contact details? If not, please contact the college at office@sackialla.catholic.edu.au so we can update our records. Please include parent/carer's name, address, phone numbers, email address and emergency contact details. Please remember to contact the college if any of these details or your circumstances change.

Notify the school of your child’s absence

Protecting the safety and wellbeing of children through the reporting and monitoring of absenteeism is the responsibility of both parents/carers and schools. Please remember to call the college on (03) 4812 2993 or log your child’s absence using the Parent Notified Absence function on PAM early in the morning if your child is going to be away or late for school, so your child’s absence can be recorded correctly.

Same-day notification of unexplained student absences

A college staff member will text you as soon as practicable on the day if a student is not at school and you haven’t notified the college as to why. If you are notified by the school that your child is away without a reason, please contact us as soon as possible by calling

(03) 4812 2993 to let us know where your child is. If we cannot reach you because we don’t have your correct contact details (i.e. message notification fail, disconnected number), then we will make contact with any emergency contact/s nominated on your child’s file held by the college, where possible, on the same day of the unexplained absence. Please remember it is your responsibility to contact us to provide an explanation for your child's absence from school, and where possible, please inform us in advance of upcoming absences.

Save this number!

St Anne's College uses SMS to contact parents/carers as soon as practicable on the day of an unexplained student absence. The message will direct you to contact the college on (03) 4812 2993. Please save this number into your phone.

Attendance requirements

If your child is sick or absent, you are required to notify the college as soon as possible on the day of absence, by phone on (03) 4812 2993 or through the PAM portal in the Parent Notified Absence section.

Notifying the college of your child’s absence either prior to, or on the day that they will be away, helps ensure the safety and wellbeing of children and will fulfill your legal responsibility. All Victorian schools are required to contact parents/carers as soon as practicable on the same day of an unexplained student absence. If your child is absent on a particular day and you have not contacted the college to explain why, the absence will be marked as unexplained. This system also promotes daily school attendance. Going to school every day is the single most important part of your child’s education; they learn new things every day – missing school puts them behind.

Please find below the St Anne’s College Attendance Policy and Non-Attendance Policy which outline the college's processes and procedures for monitoring, recording and following-up of student absences.

Attendance Policy.pdf

Non Attendance Policy.pdf

Committed to creating a child-safe environment

The Fathering Channel - support for dads

Visit The Fathering Channel at www.thefatheringproject.org/fathering-channel/ The Fathering Channel is a virtual community designed to support dads and ultimately help kids and families to stay healthy, happy and connected in these uncertain times and beyond. The Fathering Channel also helps families connect to a wealth of resources and advice.

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

SIMON/PAM

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 into 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 College's expectations from all its members are quite simple:

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
Leading by example
Offering 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?