Positive Behaviours for Learning (PB4L)

Our PB4L focus for this week (Week 4) is the Toilets

In the explicit teaching lessons the expected behaviours taught will be:

1. Walk to the toilet
2. Flush the toilet after use
3. Wash hands using one pump of soap
4. Be quiet during toilet visits
5. Walk quickly and quietly back to class

Examples of behaviours that negatively impact on Respectful, Responsible and Safe use of the toilets to be taught include:

1. Shouting
2. Running and/or playing
3. Putting soap on the toilet floor
4. Putting toilet rolls into the toilet

Our PB4L focus for next week (Week 5) is Eating recess Under the Covered Area

In the explicit teaching lessons the expected behaviours taught will be:

1. sit in your class lines
2. stay seated for the 10 minute eating time
3. put your rubbish in your container or invthe bin when you are dismissed
4. put your container in the class tub whenvyou are dismissed
5. stay in your line until your class is dismissed by the teacher

Examples of behaviours that negatively impact Respectful, responsible and safe behaviours when Eating recess Under the Covered Area to be taught include:

1. walking around during eating time
2. visiting the tuckshop during eating time
3. shouting or yelling         
4. leaving rubbish or your container behind     
5. ignoring teacher directions

We would very much appreciate your discussing these weekly focuses with your children and reviewing the expected and non-acceptable behaviours in our endeavour to see that St Patrick’s is a more respectful, responsible and safe learning community for all.

PB4L Data

It is with pride that I inform you that over the last two weeks 62 students were given Citizenship, Merit, Library or Uniform Awards or Playground Affirmation Awards whilst there weren’t any, not one, zero, zilch, niente students recorded for Inappropriate behavior.

Congratulations boys and girls. This is the most extraordinary news to share.

Please continue to act respectfully, responsibly and safely so this this trend continues.

WE’RE GOING GREENER - NUDE FOOD EVERYDAY

We require all students to bring their food in reusable containers of on a daily basis please. Quite simply what we’re asking you to do is to send your children to school with food that is not wrapped in foil, plastic or commercial packaging. Our hope is that all food will come to school in containers that can be brought home rather than wrapping or packaging that ends up as rubbish in our bins. We wish to eliminate single use plastics and food packaging to make a significant impact in reducing rubbish that goes to landfill.

It is our response to instilling in our students an ecological consciousness that aligns itself with the efforts and expectations of the wider community and puts into practice the principles of the Papal encyclical, ‘Laudato Si.”

Requiring students to bring Nude Food empowers students to make conscious choices about what they eat, and encourages them to think about their impact on the environment and their health.

Your support for this would be sincerely appreciated

The GREAT St Patrick’s School and Parish Fete is only 24 Days AWAY

                                 

                                   

You may recall from recent correspondence that we are asking for donation in the weeks leading up the fete.

Last week were requested bottles for the Bottle Lotto Stall – thank you to the families who responded.

This week we are collecting blocks of chocolate for the Chocolate Lotto Stall. These will be laid on a flat surface and all you’ll need to do is toss a coin in the hope that it lands on a block of chocolate which you then keep. How easy is that!! Sounds like good fun to me.

To help we hope that each family will donate a block of chocolate for the stall please

Next week : plants, pots and seedlings

Mr Gavan Hoctor - Assistant Principal