Dear Parents and Guardians, 

Welcome to Week 10 and what a busy and interesting Term it has been. The students have all worked extremely hard and know doubt will be looking forward to Easter and the holidays. 

This Term the St. Joey's Service Club was introduced, and it has been a very successful and popular program throughout the school. The Year 5 and 6 students nominated to be part of the club and support Teachers running an extra Lunch time activity. 

Over the Term many students participated in activities such as Kahoots, Painting, Minute to Win and Dance at Wednesday and Friday lunchtimes. We are looking forward to introducing many more new activities such as Chess, Yoga, Dance and Board Games 

NCCD - Nationally Consistent Collection of Data     

The NCCD is an annual collection of information from all Australian schools on the numbers of students with disability and the adjustments they receive. All Teachers at St. Joseph’s School will be expected to understand their obligations to students with disability under the DDA and the Disability Standards for Education 2005 and consistently collect and provide evidence which is recorded on ENGAGE.   

Visitors    

In Week 1 from Wednesday 20th April to Friday 22nd of April we have Vicki Reimann - CES Psychologist and Hannah Chapman – CES Manager of Counselling and Psychologist visiting St. Joseph’s Parish School. 

In week 3 Tosca Grainger - Dee our School Counsellor will be visiting us again in Weipa providing her service to St. Joseph's School from Tuesday 3rd of May to Friday 6th May.  

I will be on Long Service Leave until Week 4 of Term 2 and I look forward to catching up with you all then. 

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.