TERM 2 Week 8

GOOD COUNSEL

PRIMARY SCHOOL

6th June, 2017

takes many forms including physical aggression (or blackmail); intimidation; harassment and exclusion.

Why the distinction? I hear the term bullying misused a great deal in the media and when talking with students and parents. We run the risk of failing to skill our kids up to manage rudeness and teasing if we categorise every awful behaviour that kids experience as bullying.

Our ability to be discerning about bullying is as important as the action we take when we are sure that our child is on the receiving end of bullying behaviour. These actions include: dealing with feelings; providing emotional coping skills; getting others involved; building up a child’s support networks; and building self-confidence.

Bullying needs to be taken seriously. But we also need to be discerning about bullying behaviours. (Adapted from Michael Grose’s Parenting Ideas).

YOUNG PERFORMERS RESULTS Trinity Lee - Piano Solo 2nd, Single Character Portrayal 1st, Set Poem 3rd, Own Choice Poem 3rd and Poems for two VHC. Jack Brunetto - Piano Solo 2nd Ruby Kukulies - Piano Solo 3rd

STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS All the best to our Peninsula Representative Rylee Jones who will compete at the U/12 Netball State Championships on June 19th & 20th.

Congratulations to Logan Lizzio and Juliet Santitto who have both qualified to represent the Peninsula Region at the State Tennis Championships in Toowoomba next term.

GREENWAY DANCE FESTIVAL Best wishes to all our dancers competing this week.

STATE TITLES CROSS COUNTRY Best of luck to Stevi Blennerhassett who will be competing at the State Titles in the Brisbane.

Regards Liam

Dear Parents/Carers,

Much time at school is spent by teachers and leadership dealing with one student not getting along with another. For the most, this can be sorted with a conversation between the two parties and some simple strategies employed so that each person can enjoy their time at school. Many times the word “bullying” comes out from students and parents. “What is bullying?” “Do we mix it up with teasing and other forms of mean behaviour?” It is a word used often and it needs some clarification. Bullying is a term that’s wrapped in emotion. For many people it’s associated with bad childhood memories. It’s been estimated that around 40 per cent of people have experienced bullying in the past. It’s something that we don’t want to happen to our children. Today the term is being overused and is confused with teasing and rudeness.

Rudeness refers to thoughtless behaviours and thoughtless words. Kids often do rude things to each other without thinking their actions through. Examples include joking about the colour of a child’s hair in front of others; failing to share possessions and neglecting to acknowledge someone. Rudeness is usually about selfishness and thoughtlessness. Taken on their own, many rude behaviours can be seen as an element of bullying, but when looked at in context they are more about thoughtlessness, lack of consideration and poor manners rather than a deliberate attempt to hurt someone.

Teasing refers to annoying, hurtful behaviour that is used to get a reaction from someone else. Teasing can be persistent in nature, but not always. It’s generally an attempt to get under a person’s skin. It can involve name-calling; it can be personal and hurtful in nature. It can also infringe on another person’s rights. But generally teasing doesn’t have the key ingredients that make up bullying.

Bullying is the selective, uninvited repetitive oppression of one person or group by another. It involves three elements - intent to hurt or harm; power imbalance; and repetition over time. It

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Page 2—Religious Life of the School

DIARY DATES TERM 2

Tuesday 18th April—Friday 23rd June

TUE 6 JUN P&F MEETING

7.30PM THEATRETTE

WED 7 JUN CHOIR PRACTICE

8:40AM—9:20AM

TUE 13 JUN ICAS WRITING

WED 14 JUN ICAS SPELLING

MATH OLYMPIAD #2

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TUCKSHOP ROSTER:

WED 07 JUN KATHY DUFFILL FRI 09 JUN CATHY HITCHINGS VICKY KIPPIN-O’CONNOR MON 12 JUN KATHY DUFFILL

Regular times for sale of uniforms are:

MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY

8:00—8:30am and 11:00am—12:30pm

TUCKSHOP

TERM FEES

Term 2 fees were issued last

week. Please be mindful and

check your emails to ensure

delivery of your fee statement.

A reminder that every family will receive a fee

statement regardless of payment arrangements

or concessions, to keep you informed of your

current balance.

Please be aware for direct deposits into the

school’s bank account it is imperative to use

your 973……… Reference located at the bot-

tom of your invoice to ensure that monies are

credited against the correct account and not

delay payments. Also, please email remittance

to avoid payments being overlooked.

Year 5 & 6 “Game on Fitness”

Training for “Game on Fitness” continues each Thursday

afternoon until 15 June for years 5 & 6 starting at 3.10pm -

4.14pm in the Blue Covered Area.

Rookies 2 Reds this Wednesday. Book in online. Bring a change of clothes for

training Years 2 - 6.

CANE TRAIN SAFETY MESSAGE The 2017 can crushing season will begin in June.

Please stay safe and remember: Cane trains will be operating 24 hours 24 hours a

day during the crushing season Stay away from locomotives and cane bins

Don’t play around railway lines Never walk between cane bins

Never go on to a cane railway bridge Never walk behind a train—the driver will not see

you If you have to cross the railway tracks, STOP and

look both ways, LISTEN and only cross when it is safe

OBEY Flashing Lights signals and Give Way signage at road crossings.

COMMUNITY SUPPORT CENTRE INNISFAIL

INVITES YOU TO JOIN US FOR OUR JULY

RECREATION DAY -

Learn the Art of Drumming with Olivia

Please phone 4043 8400 to book your place

WHERE: Community Support Centre

13-17 Donald Street Innisfail

WHEN: Monday 17th July 2017

TIME: 9.30am to 11.30am

COST: Free

LIBRARY NEWS—READERS CUP

Students this week will complete in the North Qld Readers

Cup to be held Thursday June 8 at Redlynch College. Well

done to Bailey Worth, Gurshaan Singh, Tess Wilson, Harry

Morrison and Kyanna Pike for representing GCPS in

reading. Thanks to Mrs Farina for coaching these students.

Welcome to the week that was:

Friday’s Pentecost Prayer Assembly...

Congratulations to Year 1 for their well-prepared Pentecost song and

actions to remind us that the 50 days of Easter was over and the

Church celebrated its birthday with tongues of fire.

3WH Liturgy...

Thank you Fr Kerry for presiding over the 3WH Liturgy of the Word this

morning for their Beatitudes celebration. Thank you parents who sup-

ported the children with their presence.

Prep Prayer Assembly…

Please join us for Friday’s Prep Prayer Assembly teaching us about

loving our neighbour. The children enjoy being supported by parents

and grandparents.

Social & Emotional Learning…

At home, at school and at play, Social and Emotional Learning is to be

encouraged in order to enhance students’ capacity to integrate skills,

attitudes and behaviours, to deal effectively and ethically with daily

tasks and challenges.

As with Program Achieve Framework which includes Organisation,

Persistence, Getting Along, Emotional Resilience and Confidence, the

competencies of Self-awareness, Social awareness, Self-management,

Relationship skills, and Responsible decision-making (CASEL 2017),

promote intrapersonal, interpersonal and cognitive competence as life-

long skills.

The first of these this week—Self-awareness

The ability to accurately recognise one’s own emotions, thoughts and

values and how they influence behaviour. The ability to accurately as-

sess one’s strengths and limitations, with a well-grounded sense of

confidence, optimism, and a “growth mindset”.

Identifying emotions

Accurate self-perception

Recognising strengths

Self-confidence

Self-efficacy

www.casel.org More to follow next week.

TERM 2 DATES 2017 Tue 06.06 P & F Meeting 7:30pm

Wed 07.06 School Officers’ Day

Thu 09.06 Prep Prayer Assembly

Mon 12.06 6B Class Mass

Tue 13.06 ICAS Writing

3B Class Liturgy

Wed 14.06 SCHOOL OFFICERS DAY

ICAS Spelling

Math Olympiad #2

Fri 16.06 GCPS Confirmation Pr. Assembly

Rugby Union U12 TAS

Mon 19.06 Sacrament of Confirmation MoGC

Tue 20.06 Sacrament of Confirmation St Rita’s

Wed 21.06 200m & 800m Callendar Park

Ball Games Blue Area

Thu 22.06 Andrew Chinn with Choir 12:00pm

Andrew Chinn Concert 1:40pm

Fri 23.06 Athletics Carnival Castor Park

Sat 25.06 Mini Vinnies at Mass 6:30pm

TERM THREE

Mon 10 July - Fri 15 Sept

Mon 10.07 Reconciliation Week

Fri 14.07 Innisfail Show Holiday

Sun 23.07 Catholic Education Week

TERM FOUR

Mon 02 Oct Queen’s Birthday

Tue 03 Oct - Fri 1 Dec

Tue 03.10 NAIDOC Week

Queensland Day…

Queensland will be celebrating it’s 158th Birthday on June 6. In celebrating Queensland Day, the community can share a sense of pride in being both Australian and a Queenslander. It is a time to reflect on how lucky we are to be part of such a wonderful, diverse state.

Year 6 PCYC Team Up Skills...

Thank you to the PCYC’s Mick Maguire and Michael

Sands for the Friday afternoon skills opportunities

provided to the Year 6 students.

Ditto and Brave Hearts...

Preps, Year 1 and Year 2 students learnt about

Personal Safety with Ditto last week.

State of Origin Raffle Winners... 1st Prize: Jason Schramm 4PD

2nd Prize: Sarah Anderson 2A

Free ticket Origin Raffle—

Qld Football—Tess Wilson 6H

NSW Football—Chayse Briggs

Yours in Catholic Education—

Maria Caltabiano—Mrs C.

Assistant Principal Religious Education,

Administration & Social and Emotional Learning.

Sacrament of Confirmation Ceremony Monday 19 June 7:00pm

Mother of Good Counsel Church Innisfail

Tuesday 20 June 7:00pm St Rita’s Church South Johnstone

We keep in our prayers the children preparing for Confirmation:

Isabella Booth, Karleigh Costa

Ayden Edgerton, Sheri Evans

Anthony Giandomenico

Behnjamin Johnson, Aidan Lo

Mathew Johnson Joshua Lowrey

Ryan Millard Zoey Morales

Oliver Nutting, Aidan Van Bael

Alexis Onaindia Jordan Ozzi

Jason Schramm Callum Scullen

Chelsea Scullen Gavin Shannon

Jared Spinella, Jake Tabone

Mia Terry, Aiden O’Brien

Ashton Vecchio, Stevie-Rose Wallis

Sacrament of Baptism…

Welcome Chelsea Scullen and Callum Scullen into the Innisfail Parish community through Baptism.

Congratulations & Welcome... to Daniel & Bibi Hollywood— A daughter—Imogen Violet to Marnie & Greg Webber— a son Brady, brother for Ellie (Prep C). to Josephine & Erik D’Urso—a daughter Sophia, a sister for Brayen(1S).

ALL KEYS

Alexis Morales PERSISTENCE Amaya Hutchinson Lacey Zieger Tayla Furber Bella Baldwin Brodie Masina Elizabeth Smith Mia McLeish EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE Elizabeth Hudson ORGANISATION Navreet Basra Kaiya Green Cooper Healey Tyson Catelan Claire McDonald Zavier McBride Ziggy Barker Lizzie Wolbers Harlem Mercer Matthew Thao Djay Weldon Belle Gallagher Olivia Laksa CONFIDENCE Elle Gracie Heleana Kuhn Lachlan Elliot Chelsea Scullen Kayani Kawiri Billie Luce Tristan Lee-Hogan GETTING ALONG Seth Sciacca Jake Blundell Olivia Kris

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