Dear Parents and Guardians,   

Welcome to Week 9 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 with students from Aurukun State School last Friday. 

Social Emotional Learning 

This Semester in SEL in the Seconds Steps Program we have focused on Emotion Management. The Year 5 and 6 students also participated in 3 Sessions with Ms Tosca on the topic of Bullying from the Bullying No Way Framework:  

• Understanding Bullying  
• Responding to Bullying  
• Preventing Bullying

To celebrate the students hard work in Year 5 and 6 we are having a SEL Celebration. On Friday the 25th June we will be watching The Ant Bully a PG rated Movie that focuses on these topics.  

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.    

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.