Newsletter 15/06/2021 Term 2 Week 19

From the Principal

Prayer Reflection

COVID Update

We are still not back to 100% normal here at school & I appreciate your understanding as we continue some restrictions here at school 

• We are still required to limit extra adult numbers here onsite to Essential Visits only. Can parents please ring the school for enquiries. 
• If children are not well, please keep them home. 

Assembly

Online Assembly Friday  10.45am Live streamed

Reports & Learning Conversations

School reports will go home this Friday 18th of June and Learning Conversations will be next week. We are still hoping that these will be face to face, however if anything changes we will still be able to do these via google meets. We will let you know later this week which way we will need to go.  

We will break our Learning Conversations into year level groups over the course of the week:

Monday 21st: Foundation Learning Conversations

Tuesday 22nd: Grade 5/6 Learning Conversations

Wednesday 23rd: Grade 3/4 Learning Conversations

Thursday 24th: Grade 1/2 Learning Conversations

Bookings for these Learning Conversations are now open, so please get on and book your time slot through PAM. 

Winter Sport

We are still working to finalise the change of dates for this event. As you can imagine everything is very uncertain due to the latest ongoing restrictions and trying to find days when so many schools are free is quite a challenge. 

We are hoping for early next term & will send out an update to 5/6 parents as soon as we know. 

School Wide Positive Behaviours Systems (SWPBS)

This year our school is involved in developing the SWPBS framework within our school. From our school review we identified that we would like to have more consistency around our school rules; what they are and how they are followed up.

SWPBS  is a framework for developing and explicitly teaching appropriate and positive behaviours.
Teaching, modelling and reinforcing positive social behaviour is an important part of a student’s educational experience. Teaching behavioural expectations and acknowledging students for meeting them is a much more positive approach than waiting for misbehaviour to occur before responding.
Key components
An agreed upon and common approach 
A matrix of positively stated expectations 
Explicit teaching of expectations 
Regular and frequent opportunities to practice expected behaviours
Incentive/rewards for meeting behavioural expectations
Consistency of language

We had a school closure day working with Ann Ruddell who runs the SWPBS program for Catholic Education Ballarat and from this day we developed a Behaviour Matrix. This matrix is broken down into 3 mantra's: Be Your Best, Be Respectful, Be Safe and each of these mantras also takes into account the behaviours we would like to see in certain areas of the school & surrounds. 

The behaviours this Behaviour Matrix contains will be specifically taught to children and we will also be having whole school foci on certain things. At the moment we are working on walking while inside.

Find attached our behaviour matrix for you to look at. It is a work in progress so if you have any feedback I would like to hear it. 

Parents can help by:

Discussing the behavioural expectations of their child
Encouraging and acknowledging positivedbehaviours
Using the same language to provide consistency between home and school
Keep communication between you and your child’s teacher active throughout the school year

Matific Update

Last week some students took on the Matific challenge to answer as many maths questions as they could in a certain time period. Many thanks to those students who took on the challenge.  Official results are out on Wednesday but unoffcially the school came 5th in Australia.

Congratulations to everyone  who  won their year level:

 Grade 1:  Coby Cummins-Gray

Grade 2:  Liam Pascoe

Grade 3: Pippa Paterson

Grade 4: Daisy Courtney

Grade 5: Connor Seargent

Grade 6: Victoria Buckle

Honorable Mention - Maddi and Leroy Fisher

2022 Enrolments Update: Kinder Visits

Enrolment packages have gone out to Kinders. If you know of anyone who may like a tour remind them they can call the school anytime to arrange a suitable time. 

We will be visiting the Camperdown Kinder & Banana Splits on Thursday 24th for an opportunity for our teaching staff to meet with the Kinder children. They will be involved in a couple of activities with the children. We will also be visiting the other Kinders in our area: Simpson, Cobden, Timboon & Western Plains, hopefully on Thursday 22nd July. 

The Kinder children will be here at St Patrick's early next term on Thursday 15th & Thursday 29th July from 9.00-11.00 to do some activities in the school. All children from other local kinders are invited on these days. 

IGA Card as a school fundraiser

Our Fundraising Partner Ritchies IGA, have launched their new Ritchies Card, incorporating the Community Benefit Program and this will not only benefit our organisation, but also all our families.

It is very important that families get one of the new Riches cards and present this when they are shopping at IGA, as we get on average $100 a month and over the years have received over $40,000, which is incredible. It is a really simple way to help contribute to our fundraising. 

The old system finishes at the end of this month, so now is the time to act to make sure you have transferred over your allegiance to the school as the benefactor of your new card. The program also now has an App for both IOS and Android smart devices. For those members who don’t have a smart phone, or would like a physical card, this option is also available and can be linked to the school.
Every month, our school will receive 0.5%* of our members’ spend in Ritchies Stores PLUS our
members will receive special offers and member only specials via the App.
*T&C’s apply see https://www.ritchies.com.au/ritchiescardterms
Featuring monthly promotions, cheaper prices for you, Collect and Win, as well as games and lots
more fun things to do, this is a great opportunity to support our school.
You can  search for Ritchies in the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Webinars for parents and carers

Join one of our free webinars for parents and carers.

These live webinars explore the latest research and they are a great way to learn how you can help your child develop the skills to be safer online. 

All sessions are delivered by eSafety's expert education and training team.

Follow the link and register now

Catholic School Culture

First Holy Eucharist:   Sacrament of First Holy Eucharist

At this stage, we have set August 14th in Cobden & August 15th in Camperdown as our Eucharist celebrations. Please keep the following children in your thoughts and prayers as they continue to prepare for these days. 
Charlie Bourke, Jimmy Cheeseman, Daisy Courtney, Isaac Lawlor, Chase Lee, Grace Magilton,  Riley Spence, Halle Barake, Taylor Cameron, Orson Capizzi, Hannah Cridland, Maddison Fisher, Lachlan Hewitt, Jayden Kleinhenz, Ava Lafferty, Jake Lenssen, Madison Lucas, Zoe Roberts, William Ryan, Scarlett Simmonds & Olive Wills.

Mini Vinnies: Thank-you to families who sent in donations for the Mini Vinnies Winter Appeal and the Food Drive – your kindness is very much appreciated and the donated items will provide much needed support – thank-you!! The Mini Vinnies children presented their donations to the St Vinnies team last Friday at the St Vincent de Paul shop where they got a tour of the facilities. 

Mini Vinnies

School Term 2 Disco: Fancy Formal

Our school disco for this term is set for this Friday the 18th of June and will go from 6.00-7.30. 

Cost will be $5 entry and there will be snacks for sale on the night. All money raised will go towards the grade 6 camp fund. Theme for the night is Fancy Formal, so dig out your dress up, visit your local op shop to see what you can find. Prizes for the best dressed in each grade.

I look forward to seeing lots of the students there. 

Community Meal: Wednesday 23rd June

Grade 5/6W will be hosting the community meal at the Uniting Church on Wednesday 23rd June. This is certainly an activity I know our children enjoy and I know they are appreciated when doing it. Thank you to the parents in the 5/6 area that help ensure this is a worthwhile activity for all by supplying delicious, wholesome food for the occassion. 

Robbie Burns Festival

At this stage these activities have been postponed due to the restrictions imposed. 

The Festival might also be postponing some events- more as we confirm this. 

Students of the Week

Birthdays

From St Patrick's 

To the following students that celebrate their birthdays this week

15th June - Evelyn Barake, Emma Lillie

16th June - Elliot O'Connor

18th June - Henry Bourchier

19th June - Gabriel Wakeling, Gabriel Capizzi, Maisie Cunningham

20th June - Boston Nolan, Cooper Unwin

Community Events