Deputy Principal 

Child Safety

As part of our Child Safety program at St Bede's we talk with the children about 5 people we can go to for help when we are not feeling safe. In the infant school you may see your child has a sheet with a hand and in the 5 fingers they have identified 5 different people. We talk to them that it is great to have a variety of people for example at school, home and perhaps at their sporting club. The strong message is that we are all entitled to feel safe and at St Bede's we use Jesus as our model to treat people with dignity and respect.

 

Below is the poster that hangs in each classroom that was developed a few years ago with the Grade 6 leaders. This is used in our Wellbeing lessons with the children.

 

 

 

 

Evacuation Drill

This week our school had an evacuation drill. This term we had a 'lock down'. It is important that we practice the different types of drills so that if we need to use them the community know what to do. Your child may have spoken to you about their teacher locking the door, putting down the blinds and that they sat together. Please reassure with your children as have their teachers that this is normal and we have practices each term (when not interrupted by covid!)

 

The staff have participated in an evaluation of the drill and made observations / goals to work on in our drills.

 

NAPLAN 

Thursday 24th March is the Coordinated Practice Test for NAPLAN. This is a statewide practice test that not only familiarises the students with the testing format but also tests the state system.

 

Please remember all Grade 3 and Grade 5 students need to bring fully charged laptops and headphones on this day. The test is an omnibus test meaning that is has some reading, conventions of language and numeracy questions in the test.

 

Laptops

Just another reminder all children should be charging their laptops at home and should not be bringing their charging cords to school.

 

Please remember not to put the charging cords in the laptop cover with the laptop as we have had a couple of screens cracked due to this.