Dear Parents and Guardians, 

Welcome to Term 1 Week 4 at St. Joseph’s School in 2022. We are all very excited to be back into school to start the year and have thoroughly enjoyed the last 2 weeks learning and re connecting with each other.  

We plan to have a lot of fun while ‘bringing faith and learning to life’. 

This Year as well as being the Middle of Diversity and I am also excited to be teaching in the Year 5 and 6 Senior Learning Hub alongside Ms Edmonds, Ms Hall and Ms Libby and am equally excited to work with the Year 5 and 6 students and families.   

The Position of Middle Leader - Diversity works within whole-school initiatives to address the diverse needs of students through a culture of inclusiveness. This role includes working closely with teachers to plan and implement teaching strategies and programs that identify and respond to the individual needs of students.  

Communicating with parents as key partners in the educational outcomes of students and liaising with visiting specialists, including Therapists to support student learning is also an integral part of this role.  

In Week 6 Ms Tosca Grainger - Dee our School Counsellor will be visiting us in Weipa and providing her service to St. Joseph's School. Please see Tosca’s article below. 

I look forward to meeting you all and working alongside you throughout the year on your child’s journey of learning.  

If you have any questions, please feel free to make contact with myself at a convenient time that suits. My email address is   mturner@cns.catholic.edu.au 

Kind Regards, 

Melanie Turner. 

Bringing Up Great Kids Program – Term 2 

Dear Parents 

It is my pleasure to offer a crafted program for parents called Bringing Up Great Kids in Term 2. 

Bringing Up Great Kids is a reflective, mindful, respectful program that provides parents with an opportunity to reflect on their parenting journey. 

Bringing Up Great Kids provides a friendly and safe environment for parents to learn from each other as they continue their parenting journey. 

As a school community we would like to offer this group program. We envisage this program would be multi-modal including face to face and on-line (zoom) sessions. 

The duration of the program is for 6 weeks. Each lesson will take 90 minutes. 

The program content is detailed below. 

Program Content 

The Bringing Up Great Kids’ program supports parents and carers to: 

•        learn more about the origins of their own parenting style and how it can be more effective;
•        identify the important messages they want to convey to their children and how to achieve this.
•        learn more about brain development in children and its influence on their thoughts, feelings and behaviours;
•        understand the meaning behind children’s behaviours, and how to respond to children’s underlying feelings and needs.
•        explore new ways of communicating with children;
•        discover ways for parents to take care of themselves and to find support when they need it.

If you are interested to participate in the Bringing Up Great Kids Program in Term 2 or have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact me tgraingerd@cns.catholic.edu.au .  

I look forward to connecting with you. 

Warm regards, 

Tosca Grainger – Dee.