Dear Parents and Guardians,   

Welcome to Week 10 and it has been another busy 2 weeks and the children have been working hard during this time with lessons and end of Term 2 Assessment. Some of the activities that the students are participating in are training for Athletics Carnival, AFL classes and the Year 5 and 6 students participated in a Cricket Gala Day. 

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. (Please insert Fact Sheet here).   

Visitors  

This week we welcomed back Ms. Lillian Miller - Consultant First Nations Education from Cairns Catholic Education to our School. Lillian will continue to provide her service to St. Joseph's School during NAIDOC Week.  

A message from Ms Tosca  

Dear Parents 

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

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. 

This program will be offered in two half workshops. One workshop from 12- 13pm on the 19th July and the second session will be on the 16th August from 12 – 3pm 

In each face-to-face workshop we will be doing of the program we will be doing 3 chapters so that we will complete the entire program. 

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 have any questions or queries please do not hesitate to contact me tgraingerd@cns.catholic.edu.au . If we have a group of parents who are keen, we would like to start this program in week 2 when I will be in Weipa. 

I look forward to connecting with you. 

Warm regards, 

Tosca   

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     

I would like to wish everyone a very relaxing holiday and I look forward to seeing you all in Term 3. 
   

Kind Regards,   

Melanie Turner.