Archive | May 2016

Term 2, Week 6 Notices

3J Assembly

Please note the date of the 3J assembly is this Friday 3rd June 2016. 

Primary Parents Newsletter

Issue 6

Book Covering in the Primary Library

Thank you for your generous support of our recent Book Fair held in the Primary Library. It was very successful and the proceeds enabled us to purchase loads of lovely new books for the library.
The new books have been processed and are now ready to be covered. If you can help with covering please pop in and see one of the library staff or email Belinda belinda@ststephens.wa.edu.au

Cancer Council Thank you

Cancer Council

 

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Help your kids tap into their capacity to be nice

Spend some time in any schoolyard or listen in to some sibling conversations and you’ll soon realize that children (your children too) can be very cruel to each other. They can say the most cutting things.

One of the jobs of parents is to help kids tap into their capacity to be kind, to be helpful and to be generous to others.

The capacity to be nice is there. It just needs to be developed, encouraged and nurtured. Some children need more reminding than others, so you may need to persevere and keep reminding kids to do the right thing by others. Thriving parenting is about developing real character in kids.

Tips for helping your kids tap into their capacity to be nice:

  1. Develop a ‘No put-down’ policy: Help kids understand the potential destructiveness of putting kids down because of their weight, looks, intelligence or other personal attributes. If you’re told often enough that you’re dumb then it can have a way of sticking. As a parent become intolerant of personal put-downs from your kids.
  1. Help children identify friendly behaviours: Help kids understand how good friends act. Being a good friend means many things such as being loyal, keeping confidences, accepting mistakes and a whole lot more. Help kids understand these friendly behaviours and refer back to them when they are being…… unfriendly.
  1. Hypnotise your kids: My dad used to say, ‘If you haven’t anything nice to say about someone, don’t say anything at all.’ Like many parents he passed on his wisdom using memorable phrases, slogans and platitudes. Some of these may have been passed on to him. Importantly, he tried to live by the values they conveyed, so they carried significant weight. (I still open up my mouth sometimes and my dad jumps out!) Find a way to package up your personal wisdom around ‘niceness’ and start hypnotising your kids….just like your parents hypnotised you!

Friendliness has been identified as a basic skill that will contribute to children’s overall success at school and beyond. (Organisation,  confidence, persistence and resilience are some of the others.) So helping kids tap into their niceness is not just a nice thing to do; it will assist them to work better with others, be more accepting and be happier to boot.

Michael Grose

 

Term 2, Week 5: Primary Notices

Primary Library: Help

Primary library staff are looking for volunteers to help shelve books and do other small tasks. No experience is required and as little as half an hour would be much appreciated. We would gladly give you a tour of our big, beautiful new space to help get you started.

Please come in and see any of us at the library desk if you think you could help.    

                                                           

OSH News: Watch this space

The OSH clubbers are very busy creating for your viewing pleasure a ‘snap shot’ highlighting their experiences at OSH club.

 

Primary Art: Old towels needed

Please help! If you have any old towels please place them in the container in the Primary Reception.

 

SEQTA: Student assessments

Over the next couple of weeks we will be uploading more work samples and assessments to SEQTA for you to view. We aim to keep you as up-to-date as possible with how your child is progressing at school, so that you are fully involved in their learning journey. If at any time you’re having difficultly accessing SEQTA please contact  9243 2160 for support.

Term 2, Week 4 Notices

Parents School Newsletter

Primary Newsletter Issue 5 2016

A Heart-Felt Thank YouLapathon Thank you2

  Book Fair in the Village TomorrowBook Fair

 Assessments Online

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 Primary Library Help
Library help

Bake Sale in the Primary this Friday

Primary Bake Sale

Primary School Disco this Friday

Primary Disco

 Parent Symposium

SSS Parent Symposium 2016 A5 Flyer AC1

 ELC Banking 

Banking volunteers

 ELC Daily Fitness 

ELC Daily Fitness

 

Term 2, Week 3 Notices

Parent Symposium 

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Parent Connect Meeting Tonight

Parent Connect

Parent IT Sessions

*****Please note the date for the Year 5 and 6 Parent Session “Managing your child’s online interactions” has been changed to Thursday June 16 at 8:30am. Location is the Primary Village******

Parent IT Sessions

 

OSH News

OSH

 

Book Fair in the Primary Village Next WeekBook Fair

Primary Library Request

Library helpers

ELC Daily Fitness

ELC Daily fitness

ELC School Banking 

School Banking

Banking volunteers

School Banking Account Opening Day at the ELC

School Banking Account Openning day

 

Mother’s Day Lapathon

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This event is to celebrate Mother’s Day and also to raise funds for the Cancer Council.

Donations can be made at school (donation boxes in classrooms and reception) or online.

The fundraising page for our event is:

http://wa.cancercouncilfundraising.org.au/StStephensSchoolDuncraigPrimary

 

 

Term 2, Week 2

Newsletter to Parents

Parent newsletter1

 

Parent newsletter2

Developing Character Series

This starts at the Duncraig Campus this Wednesday evening. 

DEVELOPING CHARACTER

 

Parent Symposium

Parent Symposium

 

Parent as Coach

Parent as Coach2

 

ELC Banking Volunteers

Banking volunteers

 

ELC Book Club

Closing book club

 

ELC Mother’s Day Celebrations

ELC Mothers day

 

Primary Lapathon and Morning Tea

Primary Lapathon 2016