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Curriculum Term 2 Outlines
An outline of what your child will be learning this term, along with important dates will be sent home to parents this week. Teachers prepare and send home these documents each term to ensure parents are aware of the curriculum for the term. Please see your child’s teacher if you have any queries or questions.
Naplan
Naplan online assessments will take place next week for year 3 and year 5 students. The students have been well prepared, practising the assessment format online and completing tasks in certain timeframes. While Naplan gives both parents and school an indication of student achievement, this is only one form of assessment. Teachers use multiple assessments, student work samples, observations to make a balanced judgement of student achievement.
Rapid Antigen Test Kits
Additional test kits have been delivered to the school. Kits will be available to be picked up afterschool on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 May from out the front of the school office. Please ensure that students continue to test twice a week.
Professional Learning- Lynda offsite
Next week I will be offsite engaging in professional learning with the South East Principal Network Zone. Our work will focus on school culture and the aspects of this that are important to our local context. In my absence Carmel Donlon will be delegated authority., supported by Maree Hills and Megan Moore. Please do hesitate to contact Carmel. carmel.donlon@scmoorabbin.catholic.edu.au
Sacraments and Family Faith Nights
Now that restrictions have been lifted we are excited to welcome back our families to engage face to face with Confirmation Sacrament Workshop and year 1CG& 2TC Family Faith Night.
Wednesday 4 May Confirmation Family Workshop - St Catherine’s Library/Learning Hub
Wednesday 11 May year 1CG & year 2 TC Family Faith Night
School Disco
Many thanks to Julia Runci and our Parent and Friends for organising the school disco. Hard copy forms with all the disco information went home with the eldest in the family today. Please return to school as soon as possible. An Operoo will be sent out this week to ask for parent volunteers to support this event for our children.
Disco- Friday 13 May @ 5:30pm
Happy Mother’s Day
Wishing all our mums, grandmothers, special friends a very happy day on Sunday 8 May. It is important to acknowledge those who we love and care for us. We pray for our mums, grandmothers and motherly figures who are no longer with us or unable to be with us, that God will keep them in his tender care.
A Mother's Love
There are times when only a mother's love
Can understand our tears,
Can soothe our disappoints
And calm all of our fears.
There are times when only a mother's love
Can share the joy we feel
When something we've dreamed about
Quite suddenly is real.
There are times when only a mother's faith
Can help us on life's way
And inspire in us the confidence
We need from day to day.
For a mother's heart and a mother's faith
And a mother's steadfast love
Were fashioned by the angels
And sent from God above.
Confirmation- Year 6 students
Presentation to the Parish Community- Sunday 1st May
Last Sunday, the Confirmation candidates and their families attended the 10.30am Parish Mass. They were recognised and presented to the Parish Community. Family, relatives and friends publicly acknowledged their Confirmation year.
Family Sacramental Workshop 7pm Wednesday, 4th May
Face-to Face- ONSITE
Due to the easing of COVID Restrictions this Workshop will now take place at 7.00pm in the Learning Hub.
Families will attend the Confirmation Workshop with their child. As part of the preparation your child will also receive a Confirmation workbook. Some of these activities will be completed on Wednesday night as part of the workshop. Other activities from this book are to be completed at home.
Confirmation Reflection Day- Wednesday 25th May
All Confirmation Candidates & Year 6 students (even those not making their confirmation) will participate in a Reflection Day. More details to follow over the next few weeks.
Celebration of the Sacrament- 7pm Thursday 2nd June
Celebration of Confirmation at St Catherine’s Church
Reconciliation- Year 3 Students
Congratulations to Liana Yalda and Cooper Currie who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time yesterday before the 10.30am Parish Mass. Next term they will prepare with their classmates to receive the Eucharist for the first time.
2022 Caritas Project Compassion
Congratulations to our wonderful school community for raising over $250 towards project Compassion. The school donations have been passed onto St Catherine’s Church to add to the Parish Donations. These contributions will make a real difference to the lives of many children and families. For more information visit the Caritas website.
https://www.caritas.org.au
ANZAC Day Prayer Service
Last Tuesday 26th April, the students and staff met to reflect and pray together. We acknowledged all the soldiers, doctors, nurses and support people that sacrificed so much so that we can enjoy peace. We also acknowledged and prayed for all the people in countries such as Ukraine that are currently living through and experiencing the atrocities of war.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Welcome back to Term 2
I hope everyone had a chance to rest and celebrate the Easter season with family and friends. This term each class will begin their weekly ‘Wellbeing Check-ins’ using the Pivot surveys discussed in our newsletters last term. Using data collected from our initial survey completed last term by our Yr 3-6 classes we will have a whole school focus on developing resilience skills with our students.
To become more resilient it is important to recognise your own emotions in different situations. The term ‘Emotional literacy’ is described as the ability to understand ourselves and other people, and in particular, to be aware of, understand, and use information about the emotional states of ourselves and others with competence.
Below is some information about helping children to better understand, and regulate, their emotions from the Kids Helpline website.
What you can do to help your child develop their emotional skills
Here are some of the ways you can help your child learn about and express their feelings:
- Tune into cues - Sometimes feelings can be hard to identify. Tune into your child’s feelings by looking at their body language, listening to what they’re saying and observing their behaviour. Figuring out what they feel and why means you can help them identify, express and manage those feelings better.
- Behind every behaviour is a feeling - Try to understand the meaning and feeling behind your child’s behaviour. You can help your child find other ways to express that feeling once you know what is driving the behaviour.
- Name the feeling - Help your child name their feelings by giving them a label. Naming feelings is the first step in helping kids learn to identify them. It allows your child to develop an emotional vocabulary so they can talk about their feelings.
- Identify feelings in others – Provide lots of opportunities to identify feelings in others. You might ask your child to reflect on what someone else may be feeling. Cartoons or picture books are a great way to discuss feelings and help kids learn how to recognise other people’s feelings through facial expressions.
- Be a role model - Kids learn about feelings and how to express them appropriately by watching others. Show your child how you’re feeling about different situations and how you deal with those feelings
- Encourage with praise - Praise your child when they talk about their feelings or express them in an appropriate way. Not only does it show that feelings are normal and it’s ok to talk about them, it reinforces the behaviour so they are likely to repeat it.
- Listen to your child’s feelings - Stay present and resist the urge to make your child’s bad feelings go away. Support your child to identify and express their feelings so they are heard. When feelings are minimised or dismissed, they will often be expressed in unhealthy ways.
Helping your child identify their feelings is the first step in helping them manage them.
Kids who are able to identify, understand, express and manage a wide range of feelings experience long term benefits to their mental health and wellbeing. Sometimes kids don’t have the words to express how they feel and may act out these feelings in ways that are problematic. Your child might hit or throw toys when angry or frustrated. They might have a hard time settling down after an exciting day. Use this as a learning opportunity to teach your child to express their feelings in a positive way. Teach your child to act on feelings by:
- Taking some deep breaths
- Asking for help or support
- Walking away and taking time out
- Finding a different way to do things
- Taking time to relax before trying again
- Trying to solve the problem with words
- Saying what they feel instead of acting it out
- Talking with a grown-up about what is happening
- Spending time with a loved one or asking for a hug or cuddle
- Describing what they are feeling or reactions in their body
My Ultimate Camp Experience
By Sabine
Raft Building
There were many walks we had to go on , but Raft building was different .
It was the first activity , you got to learn how to tie knots and build rafts.
It was cool and cold. The air was pushing the trees.
Lex , Cristina , Rebecca , Albie and I were racing to build our raft but the other team was struggling.
We set off. I jumped on like there's no tomorrow all was going good till … the raft creeks - splash- “ Ahh! “ “ go, keep going! “ I say, freezing to death. The barrels wobble and the wood planks turn but all was good.
The Ultimate Camp Experience
By Jacob
At camp, I realised that I really like flying foxes. I walked down what seemed like the steepest hill in the world. The sun was beaming down on me. I was really hot, but excited for the flying fox. I was also a little nervous as well. I had never ever been on a flying fox before. This one was really high and went above the lake where people do canoeing.
The flying fox started up on a really high hill with lots of yellow, dry grass. I walked up onto the wooden platform where the metal wire of the flying fox was connected to. I was connected by a harness to the wire and I slowly stepped off the platform into the air.
It felt like I was really flying. It was terrific. I loved feeling the wind blowing against my face. I was going really fast. I landed with a thud on the bark. The best part was that I got to go onto the flying fox another four or five times. The flying fox was the best part of camp.
Scholastic Book Club Issue 3
Scholastic Book Club will be distributed to the children this week.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
