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Dear Parents and Carers,
On Monday the teaching and support staff at St Patrick’s engaged in a full day of professional learning led by the internationally renowned James Nottingham. The learning was from James’ Challenging Learning work and was specifically on the theme of Feedback for learning. We looked at a 7 steps of Feedback process and the role of feedback as advice that supports learners to progress. We looked at the purpose and place of teachers giving praise v’s giving advice. It was a very productive day from which members of our staff have already taken next steps by immediately focussing on using the language of advice to help students be successful.
Thank you for
- Using the lights to cross Gipps Street when collecting your children
- Not standing on the road whilst waiting for your child
- Choosing your pick up time in support of flowing traffic. I recommend parents considering approaching pick up in a staggered way. Parents who choose to arrive 5-10min after the school bell have a very quick turn around to collect their children.
Communicating with Staff at St Patrick’s: Thank you for understanding that along with student wellbeing and welfare, teacher wellbeing and welfare is of great importance for our school. To support work / life balance we will be taking steps to manage email expectations between home and school. We will ask you to respect that your child’s teacher will work hard to reply to your email within 24 hours. We are also managing the times that are reasonable for email communication. We believe that it is very reasonable to expect emails between the hours of 8am and 5pm. There may be an occasional exception to this at the discretion of the teacher and the urgency of any particular situation.
Next week you will see this email disclaimer on St Patrick’s Staff emails:
In recognising work-life balance for our teachers, St Patrick’s staff may not respond to emails between 5.00 pm and 8 am during the week and not at all on weekends. Our aim is to reply to parent emails within 24hours. We thank you for your support of our endeavour to promote a healthy work-life balance for our staff.
Community Council Open Meeting: In week 3 on Term 4 - Wednesday 28th October there will be an open meeting of the Community Council. The meeting will be held by ZOOM as we are not permitted to host meetings at school at present. The ZOOM link will be sent out in the days prior to the meeting.
Two topics around which we would like parent feedback are:
- Class Parent Contacts and Parent Engagement in school life
- Sharing learning between home and school to celebrate learning at St Pat’s
Please put the date in your calendar if you would like to contribute your ideas to the discussion.
In our indigenous garden the flowers are out!
Blessings
Jo
BEING A ST PAT’S KID
A significant focus for this term is BEING A ST PAT’S KID and what that means. Put very simply to be a St Pat’s Kid, students
These are our three school rules. It is unashamedly our goal for all students to follow these three rules every day. We do know that our students are learning how to demonstrate these behaviours and therefore explicit teaching, positive reinforcement and modelling are important features of our action towards this goal.
Although there is no end point to this goal, celebrating success is important. In Week Six we hope to take all students to Tathra for:
a walk from Lions Park, Mogareeka to the playground,
a play on the equipment,
a frolic in the sand and of course
an ice block.
Please talk to your child each day about how they demonstrated being a St Pat’s Kid at school. The ability to attend the day will be significantly compromised if students engage in any physical violence, any swearing and any provocation of other students. These behaviours are considered very serious and do not demonstrat
e being a St Pat’s Kid.
I look forward to talking with each student throughout the term to ask them to articulate the demonstration of Being a St Pat’s Kid.
Caz Perryman
St Pat's is celebrating 2020 Book Week!
There will be a covid safe parade that morning in the hall, giving those who are fancy dressed the chance to share with their peers.
Students are encouraged to bring along uniform items to change into, should their costume prove difficult or impractical to wear all day.
Year 5/6K reflections on ‘Saltwater’ Julian Lennon
What is the message Julian Lennon is promoting through his song ‘Saltwater?’
- To tell people no to disrespect the earth and not to pollute. Deakin, Lexie
- The message is that we have such a beautiful world but people keep deliberately lighting fires and ruining the world. Georgina
- To take care of the one and only earth. Brodie, Oliver
- That we should be more kind to the earth. Ruby, Hannah
- Enjoy the world while you still can, stop killing the world. Daniel, Jay
- Respect the earth or there will be consequences big or small. Maddie, Sienna.
- The message is to take care of the planet. Kendrick, Riley
What are some of the images that were used that were powerful to you?
- Pictures of the earth like waterfalls and people picking up rubbish to help protect the earth. Tiah, Kirra
- The mask and the trees and the dumping around the world. Mitch, Cooper, Amelie.
- People looking at nature and a man with a mask on. Falyn, Devlin.
Why do people write songs?
- They enjoy singing, passion. Jaxson, Kai
- To stop pollution and havoc. Sean, Braydan, Jeremy
- Because they enjoy it or because they want money or popularity. Tiah, Kirra
- Because they enjoy it or want to get a message out. Ruby, Hannah
ORIENTATION DAYS FOR LUMEN CHRISTI
A REMINDER to all students who have enrolled at
Lumen Christi Catholic College for 2021.
YEAR 7 2021
Wednesday, 18 November 2020 – 9:00am to 3:25pm
Students wear their primary sports uniform and runners. Bring pencil case, recess, lunch, drink & hat.
