Self-Managers

Self-Managers can learn independently and can make wise decisions about their learning. They know themselves as learners and can set and work towards personal goals. They know they can continually improve as learners. (K. Murdoch ‘Power of Inquiry’ p98)

Self-Managers know that learning takes focus and means taking risks and making mistakes. They learn to manage time and equipment. They can be leaders and resourceful. Examples of times when we may teach the assets of being a self-manager may include:

• Think and talk about how we feel about our learning
• Make connections between what we know and new learning
• Stay focused on a task
• Use our mistakes to help us learn
• Set up and pack up for ourselves
• Think and plan before we start a task
• Think about the effect our thinking and behaviour is having on others
• Set ourselves a goal and work towards it 
• Persist with our learning even when it is challenging
• Listen to other people’s feedback about our learning 
• Take risks and challenge ourselves

Kinder and Stage 1 will focus on being ‘Responsible’. Stage 2 and 3 will develop language about all three – Responsible, Resilient, Reflective

Yours faithfully,

Kerry Wode 

Assistant Principal

• Stage Two and Stage Three will be doing three weeks of OZ Tag clinics (Week 7-9) on a Monday. Therefore, Tuesdays sports day will be changed to Mondays.

• This week two permission notes will come home and need to be returned to school by Friday 20th March. One will be for the Athletics Carnival (week 9) and the other is for the Cross Country (early term Two)

Recycling News

A great opportunity to get involved with the school and help with the recycling of bottles. If you have some time we would love to hear from you.

As a wise man one said, “A community that recycles together, stays together!” (Fox, Aaron. 2020. I had a Sustainable Dream!)

Parenting Ideas    

New articles from Michael Grose ‘Parenting Ideas’. We subscribe to his website as part of our BeYou framework

1. Parenting in the age of disruption – the future will be different Insight insights parenting in the age of disruption 
2. Respectfully breaking the masculinity strait jacket – respectful relationships. Insight   insights respectfully breaking the masculinity strait jacket 
3. Going beyond the fishbowl – preparing kids for the wider world. Insight insights going beyond the fishbowl  and free Webinar due to our subscription.

 

Webinar - In the webinar Nikki Bush teaches parents what to expect and how to support their kids to thrive in a future world of work.

When

18 March 2020 8:00pm AEDT (enrol beforehand to watch at any time after this)

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   The voucher is valid until 18 June 2020.

• Harmony Day will be celebrated on Friday 20th March. Please see the attached letter for more information on this special day.

Harmony Day Parent

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National Ride2School Day

Friday 13^th of March (tomorrow) is National Ride2School Day. This event is organized by the Physical Activity Foundation of Australia. Sacred Heart are regular participants in these great community events and we always have a wonderful turn out on the mornings with people riding, walking and scootering to school.

We are encouraging as many students and parents to again get as involved as they can. We will have our regular walking and riding starting positions ready with teachers and helpers on the morning to meet you and then guide us to school in groups. A copy of our meeting places is below and hard copies will be in the front office.

We will meet at the starting places from 8:15am and then head to school from around 8:25am.

When at school there will be cut fruit for all students to help promote a healthy lifestyle and we will have music pumping to celebrate our arriving students and make the morning fun.

All participating students will go in a draw to win some great prizes at the assembly on Friday afternoon.

This is a fantastic event and we thank you for your continued support in highlighting the importance of physical exercise in all our lives.

Brendan Mitchell

Peer Support Session 3 Including Others

In our session this Friday in Stronger Together - our Peer Support module for our students, considers the relationships that students develop and how they can change over time. It looks at the role they play in contributing to these relationships and how the use of power, trust and honesty can change a relationship. Parents of participating students might like to talk about the different relationships that you have or their relationships with family and other friends outside school.

Welfare News

 I am so pleased to have returned to Sacred Heart as the Welfare Officer for 2020, a role I started in Term 3 of 2019.

While this is my first time working within a school, my studies have been in Community Services, Community Development and Youth Work. I have a passion for contributing positively to my community and care deeply about the emotional wellbeing of others, particularly families.

The Welfare Officer role is funded under the National School Chaplaincy Program 2020-2022. Within this role at Sacred Heart, I assist students with social skills, inclusion, sportsmanship, friendships, self-esteem, empathy, conflict resolution, emotional regulation, community engagement and most importantly the many and varied personal crisis' that children experience.

Additionally, there will be groups facilitated during the year to assist students with specific needs, such as Season’s for Growth, a nationally recognised program for children experiencing grief and loss. Teachers can refer groups of children to me to strengthen and support social interactions. 

Your child’s participation in any of the programs is voluntary. Many times, children come to me to discuss issues with a trusted adult, as I am not a counsellor, I will refer serious issues to the school counsellor under the guidance of Mrs Staines.

I thoroughly enjoy my role at Sacred Heart and hope that the children and their parents seek me out should they require support.

Mrs Tash Barrenger

Stage 3 Art Gallery Of Australia Excursion 

Congratulations to the following students celebrating their Birthday 

Aleria G, Airlie R, Joseph I, Taige M.