Dear Parents and Carers,

This weekend we celebrate the Ascension of Jesus. We learn about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and our commissioning to share the good news of Jesus.

Confidentiality

Confidentiality is an essential aspect of creating a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and families. By upholding confidentiality, we can foster an atmosphere of trust and respect, allowing for open communication and effective collaboration.

To support this culture of confidentiality, please adhere to the following guidelines:

1. Respect Privacy: Please refrain from discussing personal and confidential matters of other students, families, or staff members within the school premises, as well as outside of school. Protecting the privacy of others is crucial in maintaining a positive and inclusive community.

2. Secure Information: Safeguard any documents or communications provided by the school. Avoid sharing such information on public platforms, including social media.

3. Follow Protocol: If you have concerns or inquiries regarding your child's education or any school-related matters, please communicate directly with your class teacher. This ensures that information is shared in a confidential and appropriate manner.

4. Reporting Concerns: If you become aware of any potential breach of confidentiality within our school community, please promptly notify the leadership team.

Junior Community Mass

The Junior Community Mass was a lovely celebration as a parish community. The Mass was dedicated to mothers and grandmothers in the school and parish community. Congratulations to Micaela (Kindy) and Aiden (Year 1) who were awarded the Faith in Action Awards for demonstrating our motto “To Give is to Receive” in daily school life.

First Holy Communion

Last weekend’s Masses were also the start of the sacramental journey for our Year 4 students who are preparing to receive their First Holy Communion. Last night, the Parent and Child Workshops were held at the parish. Thank-you to the sacramental team at the parish and the Year 4 staff.

Numero Workshop

Over the last fortnight, Year 4 to 6 students and staff have participated in Numero workshops. Numero is a mental maths card game for primary and secondary students. Benefits of playing Numero include increasing fluency, problem solving and reasoning. Numero® is ideal for introducing and reinforcing both simple and complex maths concepts within a game situation. Ask your child about Numero.

Fair Game Sport Free Dress Day

Today, students enjoyed wearing their sport attire to raise money for Fair Game. Fair Game is an organisation that takes donations and recycles your old and loved sporting equipment to some of the most remote and under-serviced communities in Australia. Thank-you to all that supported this worthy cause. We raised $348.25 and collected a variety of equipment. Re-using and recycling reduces landfill and supports our school’s sustainability efforts.

Road Safety Week

This week is Road Safety Week. The theme is ‘No one plans a crash – make every journey safe’ campaign Peak times in and around schools are extremely busy and young children need assistance to navigate moving to and from cars safely. Please drive slowly, park correctly and have heightened awareness for our children.

2024 and 2025 Kindy Places

Enrolment interviews for 2024 Kindergarten and Pre-kindergarten are now underway. To be in line with the processes of other schools in our region, we will now process 2025 enrolments applications for Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten. If you have a child who is not yet enrolled, please contact the office or refer to the enrolment tab on our website for more information.

Term Planner

The latest Term 2 planner can be found on our website. Any changes or updates will be added to the dates section below in the newsletter and the Events Calendar, also on our website.

Athletics Carnival - Change of Date

The School Athletics Carnival will now be held on Wednesday, 13th September.

Best wishes and God bless.

Dee Johnston

PRINCIPAL

Over the coming weeks, we will be collecting information from staff, parents and students to help us make informed decisions about how we can improve our school. The aim of this process is to build and maintain a positive school climate in which your child/children will flourish. To help us in our efforts, we will be inviting you to respond to the Parent and Caregiver Survey (PaCS), developed at Curtin University. Your response will provide us with information and foundational focus points to assist us in planning our school improvement efforts.

Your confidentiality

To protect your confidentiality, the survey is completely anonymous, there are no names attached to the data and there is no way for us to access your individual response. All responses go directly to NSI, where the results are analysed and aggregated into feedback reports. NSI is bound by a Code of Ethics and follows strict professional conduct.

Use of the data

NSI will aggregate all responses and provide us with a comprehensive feedback report. To enable us to target our decision- making, we may be provided with information based on your background information (e.g. are you the mother, father or caregiver). To protect your anonymity, we will only be provided with this information when responses from four or more people fall within any given category.

Please click on the below link to complete the survey. Your time and consideration are appreciated, and we look forward to working with you to improve our school.

http://www.NSIPartnerships.com.au

Code: OCPSPACS

Erin Blight, one of our parents, is taking a huge jump out of a plane, later on this year in June to help support Breast Cancer Care WA. Here is the link if people wish to donate for this remarkable cause and her bravery!

Breast Cancer Care WA caters to the unique needs and challenges faced by each individual, and are available for the whole family – husbands, wives, children and carers.

https://www.jumpforjane.com.au/erin-blight

Monday 22nd May - Young Engineers Club

Tuesday 23rd May - Homelessness We Care

Wednesday 24th May - National Simultaneous Storytime

Thursday 25th May - Pre-Primary Liturgy - 9.30am

Thursday 25th May - Advisory Council Meeting - 6pm

Friday 26th May - Senior Assembly - 2.30pm

HOMELESS SERVICE

Please see attached flyers. We ask that hot food donations be dropped off between 4 and 4.30pm. Thank you.

P & F MEETING

The next P & F meeting will be held on Monday the 29th of May at 6:00 PM in the Library.

We look forward to your participation and support in our upcoming projects.

P & F NOTICE BOARD

We would greatly appreciate it if a Parent/s could assist us in managing the P & F Notice board at the front of the school (opposite Y6B) from Term 2. This will be a commitment of no more than an hour a month. If interested, please email Shehan on oranapandf@gmail.com or text on 0468711412.