Principal’s Message
Dear Parents & Friends
To continue following on from our Resilience Project Presentation I thought I would take this opportunity to reflect on one aspect of mindfulness Hugh spoke about, and that is the importance of Gratitude in our lives.
Gratitude is when we feel thankful, or grateful about something.
An excellent way of developing gratitude is to purposely remember things during the day that we have been grateful for. Nothing is too small for us to be grateful for. It may be as simple as remembering a friend saying a nice word, the smell of some perfume or soap or even a fun game your child played. We can be grateful for anything.
An activity you may like to include as part of your child’s daily routine is ‘Bedtime Gratitude’.
Before bedtime children think of three things from that day they are grateful for. They can record these in a special diary, talk to you about them or just remember them in their head. When they have completed this they smile to themselves and prepare themselves for sleep.
REMEMBER: Nothing is too small to be grateful about.
I would like to conclude by sharing my personal gratitude list for this term with you:
- The support that Father Joel and the Parish supply to the school
- For the work that the teachers do in preparing, teaching and assessing the lessons for the students.
- To all the students for the welcoming way that greet everyone who comes into the school.
- To Administration staff of the school, without them, the school would surely grind to halt.
- For the contributions that parents make to the school, many of these are unseen but not appreciated.
Reminder of Protocols
If you come into the school, for anything more than just quick pick up of your children, could you please ensure that you call at the office and sign in to the visitors book and again sign out when you leave. This is a safety requirement. In the event that we have to evacuate the buildings, we need know who is on the premises.
Parent Teacher Interviews
Thanks to the parents and teachers for the time you spent on the interviews this week. If you weren’t able to make the interview or you need some extra time please contact the class teacher to make a suitable time.
Online Video Games
Parents I need to raise with a concern with an online video game called “Fortnite”. I understand that this is a very popular game at the moment, the content is very graphic and a number of experts are raising concerns over children playing this game. My understanding is that the game has the potential to become highly addictive.
You may care to check out this report online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErX53mnZ0ds
Change to Bell Times
We have added additional supervision in the morning so that the bus that arrives at 8.55 has a member of the Leadership Team on duty. What we have observed is that we still have a number of students travelling by private car arriving after school start time. Can I request that from Term 3 onwards a slight adjustment is made to allow students who travel with parents to be on site by 8.45 please.
Long Service Leave
I will be on LSL for the first 5 weeks of Term 3. Please contact Mrs Liz Johnston who will be Acting Principal.
Children return to school on Monday 23rd July for the start of Term 3. A reminder that Friday 10th August is a Staff Development Day and children do not attend school. OOSH is available for students on that day.
God Bless
Rob