22 May 2019
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School Uniform
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MJR, SOJ and Spirit of Jesus with Marty Ogle
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SPC Fundraising Committee
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Get Setup for Success with our Learning Treasures program!
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MYTERN
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Hockey Report
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Cross Country
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40th Anniversary Celebration Raffle
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Kinder Excursion
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National Simultaneous Story Time
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Walk Safely to School Day
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Kinder Woolworths Earn and Learn Tour
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PASTORAL CARE
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Parenting Tweens: 10 Tips for Parenting Preteens
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Lego Competition
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SPC Parish Community Mini Market
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HIPPY Program
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SCF Movie Night
Included in this week’s newsletter is a copy of our School Uniform Policy. This term we have had several students wearing a mixture of summer uniform and winter uniform. Please be reminded that an explanatory note to the teacher is required if a child is unable to wear the correct uniform. Uniform infringement letters will be sent home for unexplained uniform changes. Hair accessories need to be consistent with the colours of the school uniform. Ear rings need to be plain studs or sleeper. Thank you for ensuring that St Peter Chanel students are adhering to the School Uniform Policy where practicable.
On Thursday, 23rd May, Marty Ogle, who is the Catholic Identity and Values Education Officer from the TCEO, will be working with classes from Prep-Gr. 6.
Marty will engage our students by inviting students to participate in activities which promote the values, qualities and attitudes necessary for a faith filled, positive life.
Despite being a die hard Richmond supporter, Marty is a captivating and inspiring role model for all and is dedicated to helping young people recognise how they can be the best person they can be and reach their destiny. Don’t forget to ask your child/children what they did with Marty on Thursday.
Guaranteed they will explain their interactions with a huge smile!
On Tuesday, 21st May, our school Fundraising Committee met and discussed a variety of events to help raise money for our school. As mentioned in the Cross Country communication, the money students raise by being involved in the Fun Run, will help reduce the swimming costs for each student in Term 3. The money raised from the sale of food items offered to our parents/carers and families on the day of Cross Country, will also contribute to cutting the costs of students’ swimming lessons in Term 3.
A milkshake and saveloy day will be held on Thursday, 4th July and this will be communicated again, closer to the date, with families being able to order these items on the Qkr! App.
Our SPC Fundraising Committee welcome anyone in our community to help with any fundraising events. It is not required that you be a member of the committee and we would be very happy for any assistance you could provide :)
Our Learning Treasures program is scheduled each Monday morning 9am - 10:30am. Everyone is welcome!
Quality early years programs should focus on working with families to support their children to become engaged with their learning
Catholic Education Tasmania has worked closely with schools and their local communities to develop the early years program Setup for Success to promote learning for life for both young children and their families. This program is open to all families within the community who have a child aged between birth and five years.
Our qualified Setup for Success coordinators develop programs inspired by Christian values to meet the needs of children and families within their local community.
Caring and supportive environments that promote early childhood development greatly increase a child’s chances of a successful transition to school.
Successful transitions into school help children achieve better learning outcomes whilst at school and lead to a better education, employment prospects, and health after they have finished school.
Parents attend Setup for Success alongside their children in a welcoming and inspiring environment designed to promote development across all learning areas.
Each week the Setup for Success program coordinators will work with families to:
- support parental understanding of child development,
- respond to learners’ interests, strengths and needs,
- communicate the learning that is on offer, and why this learning is important to their child, and provide resources to assist families to continue to support their children’s learning in their home settings
Has your child mentioned MYTERN? Perhaps they have talked about being on a red road or a green road?
MYTERN stands for:
MY – how I respond is MY responsibility
TERN - Take Emotional Responsibility Now
MYTERN creates a common language for teachers, students and parents when communicating about, and managing our own emotions and feelings. Its aim is to create emotional intelligence, health and resilience by not blaming others and taking responsibility for how we feel.
MYTERN is based on the familiar metaphor of driving, making it easily adaptable for all ages. You are in control of your steering wheel (how you respond and feel) which may lead you onto either a red road (rough) or green road (smooth).
As a family you may like to explore and adopt this language further by embedding a MYTERN Family fridge magnet at your house. These are available for all families through our school office. You may like to download one of the MYTERN Apps, some of which provide a daily message about how to embed this new language with your family.
The ideal location for your MYTERN City Family Magnet is on the door of the fridge, where every member of the family will see it every day and can move their car on to the appropriate road. The map creates an objective way of showing how you are feeling, and is a wonderful tool to use when a family member experiences conflict in the home, at school or at work.
What a great start to the hockey season all teams have had. Under 8's are improving each week and both teams are playing well. Best players have been given to Jake Moore, Dawson Armstrong, Eliza Cornish and Tayla Ollington.
Our annual Cross Country event is happening next Wednesday, 29th May. Students are to wear their PE uniform with a house colour top. Please ensure that a spare set of shoes and socks, along with a water bottle are brought along on the day. Morning tea, including soup, savouries and banana bread, will be available for purchase for $2 per item. Money raised will go towards swimming costs in Term 3. The backup day will be Wednesday, 5th of June.
The timetable for the day is as follows. These times are approximate only so please ensure that you arrive earlier than the specified time slot.
9:00am - 9:30am | Grade 6 |
9:20am - 9:50am | Grade 5 |
9:50am - 10:10am | Grade 4 |
10:10am - 10:30am | Grade 3 |
10:30am - 10:50am | Grade 2 |
11:20am - 11:35am | Grade 1 |
11:35am - 11:45am | Prep |
11:40am - 11:50am | Kinder |
If you are able to assist with marshalling of the course, even for an hour, please contact our PE teacher, Mrs Danielle Hodgetts at danielle.hodgetts@catholic.tas.edu.au.
As a part of our Cross Country this year, we are making it a School Fun Run. This allows students to register and raise money which will go towards a prize at the end. Please be aware money raised will be contributing to each child's swimming cost when swimming lessons commence in Term 3.
As a part of our 40th Anniversary Celebration, we are holding a raffle with 11 prizes up for grabs. These are currently being displayed at the front office. Tickets are available for purchase for $2 each or 3 for $5. Each family will receive a raffle book to sell, with no pressure to sell the whole book, and all profit will come back to the school. Winners will be drawn at the 40th Anniversary Celebration on 9th June.
On Thursday, 9th May our Kinder class was lucky enough to go on an excursion to Smithton Hair Care Studio. During the visit, the students were able to see the various things that happen in a salon. Thanks to the staff at Smithton Hair Care Studio that made this experience possible.
On Wednesday 22nd May, St Peter Chanel Staff and Students took part in and celebrated the 19th year of National Simultaneous Storytime.
Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator is chosen. This year the chosen story was ‘Alpacas with Maracas’, written and illustrated by Matt Cosgrove.
At 11am, this story is read aloud and listened to simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country.
How to stay close as kids move into adolescence:
It’s typically between the ages of nine and twelve that our cute, cuddly little children, once so willing to climb into our laps and share their secrets, suddenly want little or nothing to do with us. A child in preadolescence is not the same person he was just a year or two ago. He has changed—physically, cognitively, emotionally, and socially. He’s developing new independence and may even want to see how far he can push limits set by parents. What he may not know is that he needs you as much as ever, because a strong parent-child relationship now can set the stage for a much less turbulent adolescence. But it won’t be easy, because you as a parent need to respect your child’s need for greater autonomy in order to forge a successful relationship with this “updated” version of your kid.
- Don’t feel rejected by their newfound independence. It’s appropriate for kids this age to start turning away from their parents and relying more and more on friends, but parents can take their pre-teen’s withdrawal as rejection. Beware of trying to force information out of a resistant tween, this is a time when children really start to have secrets from us so being too inquisitive can alienate your child by wanting to know everything.
- Set aside special time with your child. It’s often tough to get pre-teens to open up and talk. Establish a special period of one-on-one time once or twice a week that you spend with your tween, where you’re providing undivided attention, and you’re not working or texting at the same time,
- Try the indirect approach. When they were younger you could ask direct questions. How was school? How did you do on the test? Now, that direct approach doesn’t work. Suddenly that feels overwhelming and intrusive. And it’s going to backfire. Take the opposite approach, just sit down, without questions, and just listen, you’re more likely to get the information about your child’s life that you are wanting. This approach gives kids the message that this is a place where they can come and talk, and they have permission to say anything that they’re thinking or feeling. Sometimes you’ll be able to help and give advice—but don’t try to step in and solve all their problems. Other times you’ll just be there to empathise with how hard it is to deal with whatever they’re going through.
- Don’t be overly judgmental. At this age your children are watching you very astutely to hear how judgmental you are. They are taking their cues on how you talk about other people’s children, especially children that get into trouble — how that girl dresses, or that boy has good manners or bad manners. And they are watching and deciding whether you are harsh or critical or judgmental.
- Watch what they watch with them. Watching the stuff that your child wants to watch with him and being able to laugh at it and talk about it is an important way to connect and to be able to discuss subjects that would otherwise be taboo.
- Don’t be afraid to start conversations about sex and drugs. The unfortunate reality is that kids are starting to experiment with drugs and alcohol as early as 9 or 10. These are key years for us to be building a strong foundation and giving them developmentally appropriate information. They are going to be exposed to this stuff through their peer group, you want to provide them with information that is accurate, but you want to do it in a way that isn’t overwhelming.
- Don’t overreact. The crazy parent amplifies the drama in a bad situation by throwing fuel on the pre-adolescent’s already hyper-reactive flame. They make things worse and their kids more upset.
- Don’t be “clueless” either. At the other extreme, don’t be a parent who just ignores stuff. You risk seeming oblivious or unconcerned to kids.
- Encourage sports for girls. Girls self esteem peaks at the tender age of 9 and then drops off from there, but research shows girls who play on teams have higher self-esteem. Girls on sports teams also tend to do better academically and have fewer body image issues.
- Nurture your boy’s emotional side. One of the really hard things for boys at this age is that the messages from the culture about their capacity for love, real friendships, and relationships are so harmful to them. At the very least parents should do everything they can to encourage boys to be sensitive and vulnerable at home, while at the same time acknowledging the reality that those traits might not go over well at school.
Finding just the right balance with your tween probably won’t be the easiest parenting job you’ve ever had. It will take some trial and error, but keeping the channels of communication open during these years is well worth the work you’ll have to put in. If you develop trust with pre-teens you can offer them a safe place to come back to no matter what happens in the new world they’re inhabiting, and in doing that you’ll also be setting the stage for a smoother adolescence.