General Notices
Keshia to brave World's Greatest Shave
The St Anne's College community is urged to support Learning Mentor Keshia Dean's fundraising efforts for the Leukaemia Foundation. In the first week of Term 2, Keshia will be selling raffle tickets to students who will go into a draw to have the opportunity to cut Keshia's hair for the World's Greatest Shave. Staff will also participate in a raffle for the opportunity to use the clippers!
My ambitious goal is to raise $2000 through my fundraising for the Leukaemia Foundation and the amazing work they are doing in terms of our research and understanding of blood cancer. I will be raising money through friends and family, but also by selling raffle tickets at St Anne's to students in Years 7-11 to have the opportunity to cut off my hair. Each student will be able to buy a maximum of three tickets at a cost of $2 each or three for $5. These tickets will be sold on the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of the first week after the school holidays at recess. There will be 12 lucky winners drawn on Monday, May 1 before the event on Friday, May 5.
The braids that I will be cutting off if I reach my target of $2000 are being donated to Sustainable Salons to make wigs for those with cancer. Shorter hair that cannot be used for wig making will also be used to make floating Hair Booms to absorb oil spills at sea and be used in compost.
This is the 25th year that the World's Greatest Shave has been held in Australia. Over this time more than 2 million people have taken part. The Leukaemia Foundation offers expert support, funds leading-edge research and campaigns to make change for Australians facing blood cancer. The movement began in the seventies, when a small band of people realised more could be done to save lives from a type of blood cancer called leukaemia. Blood cancer can develop in anyone, anywhere, anytime — from young infants and adolescents to adults of all backgrounds and genders. Today, another 53 Australians will be told the heartbreaking news that they’ve been diagnosed with a blood cancer, joining more than 135,000 people living with the devastating impact of Australia’s second most diagnosed cancer. A range of things affect someone’s chance of surviving blood cancer, and it can be incurable. The Leukaemia Foundation's bold goal is zero lives lost to blood cancer by 2035.
- Keshia Dean, School of Innovation Learning Mentor
We need your newspapers please
Students whose families have newspapers they no longer need are asked to please bring them into the college at the beginning of Term 2 and give them to Art Learning Mentor Mark Almond in the Atelier. The newspapers are needed for a paper mache Art project that will commence in Week 2 of Term 2.
Assistance needed in the library
We have lots of School of Wonder readers that need to be covered in contact. Would you like to come and help out? We will show you how. Please email Library Technician Julie Villani at jvillani@sackialla.catholic.edu.au Thank you in advance.
Procedure for School of Wonder bus travellers
All communication regarding School of Wonder children travelling on the bus after school must be sent by a parent/carer via email to BOTH office@sackialla.catholic.edu.au and the child's Pastoral Group Leader PRIOR to 1.00pm on the day the child is to travel on the bus. If notifying the college after this time, communication MUST BE BEFORE 2.30pm via a phone call from the parent/carer to college reception on (03) 4812 2993. If the above procedure is not followed, the child will remain at school.
- Mardie Guppy, Reception and Community Engagement Officer
Procedure for making contact with the college
No students on site before 8:30am
Students may arrive at school from 8:30am. Students should NOT arrive prior to 8:30am as they cannot be adequately supervised.
St Anne’s College officially opens for all students at 8:30am to allow adequate staff supervision to ensure student safety. Although the doors may be open prior to 8:30am, this does not indicate that students are able to be dropped off or arrive any earlier than 8:30am.
Our primary focus is on safety and students should not be left unattended while there are no staff to supervise. If your child walks, rides or scoots to school please talk to them about the best time to leave home so they arrive after 8:30am. We appreciate your support in keeping all students safe.
- Mel Formica, Wellbeing Officer
College's Mobile Communication Device Policy
Parents/carers and students must familiarise themselves with the college's Mobile Communication Device Policy. Please find it attached here:
Help keep our community safe
Drivers utilising the college facilities and car parks are expected to adhere to our college values: Respect everyone and everything; Always do our best and Help others succeed.
Parents and carers are reminded that:
- The speed limit on adjoining streets to the college is 40km/h as signed.
- It is an offence to block the flow of traffic on a roundabout or pedestrian crossing.
- Five-minute car parking signs must be adhered to. Parents/carers who plan to be on the college grounds for longer than five minutes when dropping off/picking up their child are advised to park elsewhere to ensure a quick turnover of available car parking spaces.
- People reside around the college and we want to support them with being able to safely get in and out of their houses.
- The college has an obligation and courtesy to get the school buses away as promptly as possible and in accordance with their route timetable.
- The speed limit within the college car park area is 5km/h.
- Drivers must obey signage and direction from college staff at all times.
- Independent and capable students are encouraged to safely make their way to a meeting point and pick-up location a bit further away from the college car park.
- No U-turns are permitted in the car park.
- All vehicles entering and using the college car park must then continue to the roundabout within the car park at the western end and then return to exit the car park at the Wendouree Drive roundabout.
- Disability parks are only to be used by those who have an approved label to do so.
- It is a particularly busy time during pick-up and drop-off and more so on wet weather days. Model good behaviour to children and students - an extra five minutes of patience and courtesy ensures everyone gets home safely and with a smile.
- Abuse of any kind is not okay!
The many ways we communicate with families
Parents/carers are reminded that the Parent Access Module (PAM) is the main platform the college uses to communicate with families. Other forms of communication include the St Anne's College Facebook page, the fortnightly college newsletter - il giornale - and email.
Families are asked to ensure that they check PAM daily for important updates and information. PAM is the portal through which parents receive activity permission forms and daily messages. The college does not use printed paper forms/notes to communicate this information. Parents/carers can also use PAM to check on their child's learning areas and to send parent-notified student absences. PAM is also the portal through which students' reports are accessed. If you have misplaced or forgotten your PAM login details please contact administration at office@sackialla.catholic.edu.au
Parents/carers can download the SIMON Everywhere app to get live notifications on everything that happens in PAM. Just search for 'SIMON Everywhere' on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, download the app and sign in with your PAM account.
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Committed to the safety of all children
https://providers.dffh.vic.gov.au/mandatory-reporting-child-protection-victoria-generic-factsheet
Feedback form available on PAM
There is a link in the parent resources section of PAM which gives access to a feedback form for parents/carers to convey any feedback they would like to provide to the college.
Learning session times
8:30am: Learning spaces open
8:55am - 9:05am: Pastoral Group
9:05am - 9:55am: Learning session one
9:55am - 10:45am: Learning session two
10:45am - 11:20am: Recess/supervised eating
11:20am - 12:10pm: Learning session three
12:10pm - 1:00pm: Learning session four
1:00pm - 1:35pm: Lunch/supervised eating/outdoor exploration
1:35pm - 2:25pm: Learning session five
2:25pm - 3:15pm: Learning session six
3:15pm: Dismissal