St Anne's news: Wednesday 11 September 2019

Welcome to the St Anne's newsletter. Here's everything that's happening around our community this week.

• Reflection
• Greg's Message
• Student Wellbeing
• Year 6 Transition
• Kindness Award
• Sports
• Religion
• Footy Colour Day
• Social Justice
• Community News
•  
• Enrolments, uniform and school fees
• Our calendar, advertise here
• School hours
• Out of School Hours Care (OSHC)
• Term Dates

Lord, we know that each of us will experience difficulties of various kinds at different times in our lives. We pray for courage at those times, but we also pray for courage and strength to join others and be of support when they are in difficulty. Amen.

Hello Parents and Friends of St. Anne’s
This Friday NAPLAN student reports will be sent home to parents/carers of Year 3 and 5 students. It is important to remember that these tests are a “one off”, and are based on one assessment. This is far different to student semester reports that are constructed using a variety of assessments. Having said that, the Naplan results for St. Anne’s are very positive. Some key points include:

• Year 3: Our students mean score was well above the state (that is, all schools including catholic, government and independent) in Reading, Writing and Grammar/ Punctuation. Our mean score was above the state in Spelling and Numeracy.
• Year 5: Our students mean score was well above the state in in Grammar/ Punctuation. Our mean score was above the state in Reading, Writing, Spelling and Numeracy.
• Year 3 and 5: Our students in the bottom quartile achieved at a significantly higher level than the state’s bottom quartile across all areas.
• Year 5: Our students in the top quartile achieved at a significantly higher level than the state’s top quartile in Reading, Grammar/Punctuation and Numeracy.

CEMSIS SURVEYS
CEMSIS is an acronym of Catholic Education Melbourne School Improvement Surveys. Surveys will be offered to staff, year 4,5 and 6 students and parents. All surveys will be undertaken online. The surveys will provide feedback in relation to our school’s perceived strengths and areas for improvement, and assist in driving school improvement. The survey period has begun and is open until Friday 20 September. 

Condolences
Our condolences to the Lovrich family (Tilda and Chiara) on the passing of their Grandfather (Anthony) Sam Lovrich's father.

School Fees
We still have a significant amount of school fees outstanding. For those concerned your attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Six tips for self-compassion
Carla Ford (2018) offers us her six tips for self-kindness:

• Carve out time for yourself to do something that feels good – go for a coffee, have a bath, read a good book; do something that brings you joy.
• Notice your self-talk, and cut yourself some slack. Everybody makes mistakes and nobody is perfect. Speak to yourself as you would a friend.
• Discover JOMO (the joy of missing out) and give social media a miss for a while. Everybody posts their best selves and it can make us feel bad that our lives don’t match up. Be kind and have a day free of social comparison.
• Acknowledge your successes. We’re always quick to do that for others, so why not take a few minutes and consider all you’ve achieved?
• Hang out with your cheerleaders. Spend time with the people who uplift you and support you – the ones who fill your tank.
• Take your daily ‘MEDS’ (Mindfulness, Exercise, Diet and Sleep). Looking after your mind and body is a great form of self-kindness.

As part of our Year 6 Transition program the Year 6 students and parents are expected to attend the session on Thursday October 24th from 7-8.30pm in the School Hall.  Mr James Golds is the Facilitator. It is an expectation that students attend with a parent. We will be following up with work in our classes during school time.

Dee McDonnell
Wellbeing Co-ordinator

Congratulations to Lucinda on receiving the Kindness Award this week.

ATHLETICS

Congratulations to our 51 students who competed in the North Balwyn District athletics carnival last Thursday. A special “well done” to Luca T and Harley C. These boys have made it through to the Division Athletics carnival on October 9 at Bill Sewart athletics track, Nunawading, on October 9. Both boys will be involved in shot put (Luca 11 year old) and Harley (10 year old.)

BADMINTON

Our badminton program continues. Children are to wear their sports uniform on each Wednesday until the end of the term.

Year 3/4 Hospitality Mass

On Sunday 15th September we have the Year 3/4 Hospitality Mass at 10.30am.

We would appreciate it if each family could please bring along a plate for morning tea.

If you can help with set up, serving or clean up, please register at volunteersignup.org/9KC7B

Thank you

On Friday the 20th September- LAST DAY OF TERM 3, the whole school is invited to wear their team’s colours to help kids with cancer continue learning.
All are encouraged to wear their favourite footy team’s colours to raise much-needed funds so that education can continue for these children who are sick.
We are asking that each child give a gold coin donation (or more if you wish!) to this very worthy cause.

Thank you to the Social Justice Group -Lucinda, Nathan and Jessica for their tremendous effort in collecting goods for The St Kilda Mum’s group. They met up with Sally Ridden on Friday last week. Sally was thrilled with the quality and quantity of the goods collected. She will now forward them onto the group, who will then distribute them to  mothers in need.

Lucinda, Jessica and Nathan with Sally.

School Fees 2019

Read More

Direct Debit form please download here.

Kew East Primary School Out of School Hours Care can be contacted on           
Ph: 03 98596052

Read more

• Term 1   30/01/2019 to 05/04/2019
   
• Term 2   23/04/2019 to 28/06/2019
   
• Term 3   15/07/2019 to 20/09/2019
   
• Term 4   07/10/2019 to 18/12/2019