Term 4 Week 3 - October 25th, 2018

OCTOBER Friday 26th Day for Daniel—Wear a Touch of Red Monday 29th Last day of Book Fair School Assembly 1/2S presenting—2.50pm O’Connell Building NOVEMBER Friday 2nd Sushi lunch place your order via St Paul’s Online Store by Tuesday 9.00PM https://spcoburg.cdfpay.org.au

Dear Parents And Friends Of St Paul’s, Sacrament of Penance Last Thursday parents gathered for a Family Sacrament Information evening led by Paul Spence. The evening was an opportunity for parents and children to spend some time talking about the sacrament and how it relates to the lives of students and their family. Paul shared many of his wonderful stories to highlight how this sacrament a lived experi-ence. The Sacrament of Penance is on Wednesday 31st October. Please keep the following students in your prayers:

Hamish A, Mia Rose A, Samara A, Sophia A, Jacob B, Sienna C, Marcus C, Ethan D, Dylan F, Max G, Marcus G, Chelsea K, Alyssa K,

Thomas L, Sophia L, Bridget M, Chloe M, Meagan M, Jacques M, Daniel M, Ella M, Sebastian Sa, Sebastian Sc,

A Prayer for our Reconciliation Candidates Loving God help us to teach our children that you love us totally and unconditionally.

Help us to encourage our children to grow in love and to learn how to say sorry, knowing that you always forgive. Give us the courage to pray with our children and to share our faith with them as we journey together.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

Teacher Professional Learning As Professionals it is important that we as teachers see ourselves as learners. The education profession is continually asking that we reflect on our practice and ask ourselves ‘Is what I am doing working’ ‘Are my students Learning?’ St Paul’s has joined a collective of 6 Catholic schools from the Northern suburbs. This collective will explore profes-sional learning in Evidence Based Learning. As a staff we will look at a framework of research based practices which have been proven to improve student outcomes; this framework looks at:

Learner Dispositions-What students need to be successful lifelong learners Teacher Mindframes -What makes an effective teacher, Learning Intentions and Success Criteria -Making learning explicit to students, so they know what success looks like Feedback - Students asking ‘How am I doing in my learning; Teachers asking “Is what I am doing working? This collective will be led by Catholic Education Melbourne Staff.

Positive student feedback Yesterday we hosted out first meeting of our Collective, we had over 30 teachers visit our school. Our School captains demonstrated what it means to be ‘St Paul’s’ they were asked to ‘meet and greet’ our visitors and they did a wonderful job. Our visitors commented on their bright, happy and welcoming personalities, and the manner in which they escort-ed the visitors to the library. Another wonderful story from yesterday was from a teacher who was walking past a group of year 3/4 students on their way to Italian class, they stopped the visitor and said. “Hello, how are you. Are you enjoying your meeting?” What a credit these beautiful children are to you as parents and the teachers here at St Paul’s.

World Teacher Day World Teacher Day is celebrated worldwide on October 5th. However, as we are usually on holidays in Victoria, we celebrate World Teachers Day on Friday 26th October. On Monday we sent home a note asking students to draw/write something special about their teacher. Please return these special drawings to school by tomorow. We will share this with teachers at morning tea. Welcome This week we welcome Izaiah to our senior class. I know you will make Izaiah and his family feel welcome.

Have a great week. Maria Mercuri

DAY FOR DANIEL

Wear a touch of RED Friday 26th of October

A reminder tomorrow, Saint Paul’s Primary School will be holding a Day for Daniel. Day for Daniel is a National Day of Action to raise awareness of

child safety, protection and harm prevention.

The objectives of Day for Daniel are:

To raise awareness about child safety and protection and to promote a safer community for children. To educate children regarding their personal safety and empower them to Recognise, React and Report. Children are to wear their school uniform and a touch of red on this day. This could be a red ribbon, red socks or a red badge.

For more information on Day for Daniel or the Daniel Morcombe Foundation, please visit: http://www.dayfordaniel.com.au/

What can you do at home? Have conversations about personal safety should not be scary for children. Being open and approachable is the most important thing; • Discuss who they could talk to if they felt unsafe and what they could do. • Practice using stories and scenarios to problem solve. Do not always make these about strangers. • Reinforce basic safety messages and ensure children know the phone numbers of people they can call on for help or to talk to. • Explain that it is ok to say no to an adult or child if they are doing something that is not ok or makes the child feel unsafe. Let the child know they will not get into trouble if they tell you about an unsafe secret someone has asked them to keep. • Remind your child that it is always ok to talk to you, no matter what the issue, you care about them and want to help them to stay safe.

Social and Emotional Learning at Saint Paul’s You may have heard your children talk about the RRRR program (Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships). We are using this social and emotional learning program in our school. It provides learning materials that have been de-signed to develop students' emotional and positive relationship skills. Efforts to promote social and emotional skills in children and young people has been shown to improve health related outcomes and subjective wellbeing. This program also aims to reduce antisocial behaviours. The Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships (RRRR) cover eight topics of Social and Emotional Learning across all levels of prima-ry and secondary education:

Emotional Literacy This is the ability to understand ourselves and other people. It includes the ability to understand, express and manage emotions and respond appropriately to the emotions of others.

Personal Strengths Identifying the strengths of individuals and the strengths of others promotes student wellbeing, positive behav-iour and academic achievement.

Positive Coping and Stress Management Identifying and understanding different types of coping strategies. Students are introduced to the concept of us-ing positive self-talk to approach and manage challenging situations. Students learn to recognise their personal signs and symptoms of stress, and to develop strategies that will help them to deal with stress effectively.

Problem-solving and Help-seeking Developing skills to think through, consider options and the possible consequences as a part of making choices. Through these skills, students will have the knowledge to seek help for themselves or others and support them-selves and others in challenging times.

Gender and Identify Knowledge that boys and girls, and men and women are of equal value and should have equal opportunity. This topic promotes respect for diversity and difference.

Positive Gender Relations Understanding that everyone is entitled to respect, regardless of gender diversity and that violence and harass-ment is not acceptable within or between genders.

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CHILD SAFETY POSTERS

You might remember from last term, Saint Paul’s participated in the National Child Protection Week. During this time, students worked through the Saint Paul’s Child Friendly Child Safety Policy and began designing posters that summarised the message of the policy. A huge congratulations to all students on a fantastic effort. Here some examples:

Ella Mannix 3/4K Annika Hudyma 3/4K

Scarlett Tullberg 1/2M Adriana Argiro 3/4B

Daniel Morcombe Rose Ella (3/4K) with a beautiful rose that has been bred es-pecially to commemorate Daniel.

IS HERE! This is a perfect opportunity to stock up on gifts for Christmas as well as pur-

chase the latest releases from Scholastic for your children and family!

Opening Hours for Purchasing:

Thursday, 25/10: 8.30am – 9.15am

1.00pm – 1.30pm

3.15pm – 4.00pm

Friday, 26/10: 8.30am – 9.15am

1.00pm – 1.30pm

3.15pm – 4.00pm

Monday, 29/10: 8.30am – 9.15am

1.00pm – 1.30pm

3.15pm – 4.00pm

All money raised from the Book Fair will be used to purchase library books

and literacy resources for our school.

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