Dear Parents and Carers,

What a wonderful start to Semester 2 we have had, as school continues to return to ‘normal’. We had a very successful round of online parent/teacher interviews on Reporting Day last week and we thank you for filling out the survey to give us feedback on the process. If you haven’t done so yet, please feel free to do so, before the end of Friday this week.

Last term, Mr Steven had been creating wonderful worship sessions for us to engage with, via video, but we are happy to be able to have started our worship gatherings again – with a little difference. At the moment, we are alternating fortnightly between Years 3 and 5 one week, and Years 4 and 6 on the following week. The ELC worship dates are Kindy and Pre Primary on 28 August and 25 September, with Years 1 and 2 worship on 14 August and 18 September. We would love to have parents re-join us for the worship mornings. On a similar note, we will be re-starting our class assemblies, with a similar (but different) rotation of which classes do come to the assemblies. With the lower student numbers, we have space for parents of the Year group hosting the assembly to join us for those events too.

The worship assembly this morning at 3-6 was also the first opportunity that our brand new, Semester 2 Primary House Captains had to address the other students.

Our new captains are:

• ALETHEA – Charlotte Caldwell and James Hussey
• CARANA – Beau Turner and Daniel Lynn
• TIMAE – Caitlyn Britton and Tyson Jones

They are a great group of students who have already started making a positive impact on the school. We are looking forward to a great semester with them in their leadership positions. If you see them around, please congratulate them.

This week is Languages Week and we are encouraging all of our students to share the wide variety of language that they bring to our school community. You might see students around the school this week wearing small tags that indicate languages that they are fluent in and those that they only speak a little bit of. There are also other activities throughout the week, so be sure to ask your child about those.

Staff news:

• For those of you who may not be aware, Mrs Blake is only a few weeks away from starting her maternity leave with the birth of her first child. This is very exciting! Through this, we are also welcoming Mrs Sarah McGrath back to the school from her own maternity leave to take over the Year 4 class.
• Also returning from maternity leave is Mrs Jenna Dadley, who will be continuing to work with the Learning Enrichment team, one day per week in Year 5.
• We would like to pass on our congratulations to Madame Penin who recently became and Australian citizen. She was very excited and we were truly happy to be able to share that excitement with her last week.

As we close, we just wanted to reinforce what Mr Steven shared this morning in worship – every single one of us is made beautifully by God. Psalm 139:14 says “How you made me is amazing and wonderful. I praise you for that. What you have done is wonderful. I know that very well.” I encourage you to go and read all of Psalm 139 as it is full of sincere reflection on how much God truly knows you and loves you.

God bless

Jarrod Heglund & Hannah Lockwood-Jones

Deputy Head of Primary

 

 

3 August 2020

Dear Parents,

This is just a timely reminder to please drop off and collect your children at suitable times. In the different parts of the Primary School, staff are on duty at slightly different times, supervising the students.  Please familiarise yourselves with the relevant information below.

ELC

There are no staff on duty before 8:15am.

Please note that OSH Club is available for all Primary students at the ELC, for before school and after school care. Their website is www.oshclub.com.au

YEARS 3-6

There are no staff on duty before 8:10am. Students who arrive between 8am and 8:10am may sit quietly in the Library. If at all possible, we would appreciate students arriving at school after 8:10am as we are unable to offer supervision until then. In the afternoon, staff are on duty from 3:10pm – 3:30pm. To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our children, we ask that students are collected before 3:30, or that parents are present after 3:30pm to provide supervision.

Thank you for your kind consideration in this regard.

Hannah Lockwood-Jones and Jarrod Heglund

 

 

Inter-house Music Festival 

The festival is on this year on Wednesday 2 September. Children may nominate to perform in front of an adjudicator and be awarded house points towards the winning house of the Inter-house Music Festival Shield across the whole Duncraig campus. Click the link below to access the entry form. Any questions can be directed to Rebecca Thorne or Sonya Elek.

2020 Interhouse Entry Form

Rebecca Thorne

Teacher – Music

 

School Banking is back!

School Banking at our school will recommence from 30 JULY and will be on THURSDAY, Yrs 3 – 6, in the Primary Village.

For every deposit made at school, students will receive a silver Dollarmites token. Once students have individually collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for an exclusive School Banking reward item in recognition of their regular savings habits.

School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. Our school receives a Regular Savers Contribution of $5 for every 10 deposits processed per student as well as an Annual Contribution which is based on the number of students who made at least one School Banking deposit in the prior year.

If your child has lost their book, please contact your School Banking Co-ordinator for a replacement or visit any CommBank Branch.

If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2020 School Banking program information pack from the school office or visit www.commbank.com.au/sbc

 

 

EVENTS.HUMANITIX.COM/TSMGO

Alison Hignett
Teacher – Primary Drama and Secondary Theatre Arts

ELC BOOK FAIR

BOOK CLUB

The cut off for BOOK CLUB orders is Friday 7th August.

 

 

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

 

Dear Parents, Guardians and Carers

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

• year of schooling
• category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional
• level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

• formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools
• consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools
• develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school provides data to the Australian Government – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).

Further information regarding the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data school students with disability, please visit: NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

This is a national fact sheet about the NCCD for parents, guardians and carers.

https://www.nccd.edu.au/tools/fact-sheet-parents-guardians-and-carers

If you have any queries regarding the NCCD, please contact the relevant Learning Enrichment staff.

Duncraig

Mrs Toni Mills (Secondary)

Toni.Mills@ststephens.wa.edu.au

Mrs Christine Roddy-Clark (Primary and ELC)

Christine.RoddyClark@ststephens.wa.edu.au

 

 

EXTRA CURRICULR ACTIVITIES  –  TERM 3

FOR  PP – YR 6

STARTING NEXT WEEK … MONDAY 10 AUGUST TO

WEEK ENDING FRIDAY 18 SEPT

EXCITING ACTIVITIES LIKE ……  running, LEGO, chess, games, drawing …  

FUN  FUN  FUN