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Our PB4L focus for next week (Week 3) is Respect for Adults
In the explicit teaching lessons the expected behaviours taught will be:
1. Greeting adults with their name
2. Looking at adults when they speak to you.
3. Holding the door open for an adult
4. Offering to assist adults
5. Speaking politely to adults eg: asking, ‘May I’ and saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’.
6. Cooperating with adults
Examples of behaviours that negatively impact on Respectful, Responsible and Safe Respect for Adults to be taught include:
1. Ignoring adults
2. Pushing past adults
3. Interrupting adults that are talking
4. Playing ball games when adults are walking through a game
Our PB4L focus for next week (Week 4) is Respect for Learning and Teaching
In the explicit teaching lessons the expected behaviours taught will be:
1. Following directions
2. Sitting still during learning and teaching
3. Looking and listening during learning and teaching
4. Speaking courteously to all
5. Raising hands to ask or answer a question.
6. Staying on task
Examples of behaviours that negatively impact on Respectful, Responsible and Safe Respect for Learning and Teaching to be taught include:
1. Calling Out
2. Talking over the top of someone else
3. Distracting self or others
4. Fidgeting
5. Speaking rudely to others
We would very much appreciate you discussing this weekly focus 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 since Term Two has begun 20 students were given Citizenship, Merit or Library Awards whilst there were 4 incidents of Inappropriate behaviour recorded. Please strive to act respectfully, responsibly and safely girls and boys.
Mr Gavan Hoctor
Assistant Principal
On Sunday, 12 May 2024, at the 9am Mass, Bishop Brian Mascord will be coming to our Parish to install Fr Mark as the new Parish Priest of St Patrick’s Parish. This will be the first installation of a Parish Priest in our Parish in decades and from what can be ascertained in the entire 87-year history of the Parish (1937). It will be a great occasion for everyone involved and for the Parish as a whole.
On the same day Bishop Brian will also confer the sacrament of Confirmation on Leena Carolan Please pray for Leena and her family as she prepares herself for a new
outpouring of the Holy Spirit to complete the grace she received at her baptism. May 12 will also coincide with Mother’s Day, so it will be a trifecta of celebrations and liturgically it will be the celebration of the Ascension of the Lord into Heaven.
For those who are not able to attend in person but would like to watch, please click link here to watch the event through live stream.
Following the Mass there will be a substantial morning tea in the Parish Hall to continue our liturgical celebration with food and friendly conversation If you would like to offer your services and if you would like to bring a plate, please do so, as many hands make light work.
Everyone is warmly invited!!
St. Teresa of Ávila …. Hearts to Love, Hands to Serve. It embodies the gift that you are to your children and grandchildren each day! Many blessings!
Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
Amen
A mother who watches over her child with tenderness and compassion helps him or her to grow in confidence and to experience that the world is a good and welcoming place.
(Pope Francis,Amoris Laetitia, 175)
From the time that we take our first breath, we rely on the care of those around us in order that we may live and grow. More deeply than that, we rely on the love, nurturing, and guidance of our families to blossom and flourish into loving, compassionate and wise children of God.
Mother’s Day is a time for us to pause, to say thank you, and to honor all of those who fill the role of Mother in our lives. They are the gentle guides who, through their love, help us to experience God’s love in our lives.
Due to unforseen circumstances, the dates for our Year 3 and 6 assemblies have been changed to the dates below:
Year 6 Assembly will now be held on 21 June , in Week 8.
Library
Thank you to our P&F for the beautiful Mother's Day Stall. Thank you to the volunteers who helped the children purchase something beautiful for their mum"s and loved ones. There was a wonderful selection for the children to choose from.
We would also like to acknowledge and thank Mrs Kapsimallis who created some wonderful plant gifts in her own time and donated them to the school. Appreciation also to Myla's (Kinder) and Mia's (Yr1) grandmother for her very kind donation of plants.
