Our SPB4L focus for this week (Week 2) is Lining up for Assembly Under the Covered Area

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

1. Prompt response to music
2. Please walk but please don’t talk on the way to the Covered Area
3. Do ‘The Five’ from the moment you sit down
4. Wait silently to be dismissed
5. Walk but please don’t talk when moving to class

Examples of behaviours that negatively impact on Lining Up for Assembly Under the Covered Area to be taught include:

1. Continuing to play after the music begins
2. Talking on the way to the Covered Area
3. Going to the toilet/bubbler after the music begins
4. Running, pushing and/or shoving
5. Looking around, talking or moving about
6. Ignoring teacher direction 

Our SPB4L focus for next week (Week 3) 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. Dry hands with one sheet of paper towel
5. Put paper towel in the outside bin
6. Be quiet during toilet visits
7. Walk quickly and quietly back to class

Examples of behaviours that negatively impact Respectful, responsible and safe behaviours in our Toilets to be taught include:

1. Shouting
2. Running and/or playing
3. Wasting paper towels or dropping them on the floor
4. Putting paper towels into the toilet
5. Putting toilet rolls into the toilet    

We would very much appreciate you 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.

SPB4L Data

It is with great pride that I inform you that Last Term (Term 4 2018) students were given 278 Citizenship, Merit, Library or Uniform Awards or Playground Affirmation Awards whilst 36 students were recorded for Inappropriate behavior.

In 2018 in total 1,210 awards were issued and only 112 incidences of inappropriate behaviour were recorded. This is an extraordinary result and a credit to the students. Congratulations boys and girls. Please continue to act respectfully, responsibly and safely so this this trend continues.

WE’RE GOING GREENER - NUDE FOOD EVERYDAY

Last week each student brought home a letter informing you that as of the first day back this term we require all students to bring their food in reusable containers on a daily basis. 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.

PLENARY 2020

The PLENARY COUNCIL 2020 is a gathering of the Church in Australia to make decisions for the future. Your voice is important. All people are invited to contribute to the Plenary Council Agenda by sharing your experience of faith and of the Church.

Under the resources tab is the 'Have your say - respond online’ button.

2019 School Improvement

Each Year the school creates strategic plans for improvement. This year our improvement goals are:

staff will receive professional learning in contemporary perspectives in the teaching of grammar & punctuation so that student data will show an improvement.
staff and students will be taught permaculture principles so to sustain the Permaculture Garden
familiarisation with the new Science and Technology Syllabus component - Digital Technologies
staff will be more proficient in both the teaching and analysis of writing so that students will be more successful in composing written text.
the school will begin the implementation of The National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions
to educate with a mission lens and deepen the mission consciousness and engagement among the entire school community.
 

Mr Gavan Hoctor

Assistant Principal