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Term 2, Week 7 Notices

Scholastic Book Club orders (due this Friday)

Scholastic Book Club catalogues have just been recieved.

To ensure delivery of your orders before the school holidays please submit orders by this Friday 10th June.

Thank you.

Primary School Meal Deal (due tomorrow)

Orders must be placed through Our Online Canteen, if you haven’t already registered please do so at www.ouronlinecanteen.com.au .

If you need help registering please contact Our Online Canteen on 1300 116 637.

Follow the instructions below to order:

Click GREEN order button (top right)

Step 1 – select your child

Step 2 – select date 14 June 2016 and then click on the pop up dialogue box SPECIAL EVENT MENU

Step 3 – click on the green cross next to MEAL DEAL then click on the box next to Term 2 Meal Deal. Then click green ADD TO ORDER box.

Step 4 should be completed if your child has any health warnings/food allergies/intolerances

Don’t forget to click ‘Confirm and Exit’ before leaving the page. You will receive a confirmation email or you can click the Active orders tab on the homepage to check your order has been processed.

Payment by direct deposit is a free option and it allows you to pay the exact amount. The other payment methods are credit card or PayPal, which require a minimum account credit of $20 and have a small fee attached.

Please ensure you allow enough time for payments to reach your online account.

Orders must be placed by 1pm on the cut-off date of Thursday 9 June 2016. NO OTHER FOOD WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM THE CANTEEN ON THAT DAY.

Any queries regarding food please contact the school canteen direct on 9243 2434.

For any queries regarding ordering online please contact Our Online Canteen by phoning 1300 484 888 or email info@ouronlinecanteen.com.au.

Kings Club Holiday Activities

Wheelchair challenge

Term 3 After School Clubs

Term 2, Week 6 Notices

May30

3J Assembly

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

Primary Parents Newsletter

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

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:

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.

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.

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

May23

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

May16

Parents School Newsletter

A Heart-Felt Thank You

Book Fair in the Village Tomorrow

Assessments Online

Primary Library Help

Bake Sale in the Primary this Friday

Primary School Disco this Friday

Parent Symposium

ELC Banking

ELC Daily Fitness

Term 2, Week 3 Notices

May9

Parent Symposium

Parent Connect Meeting Tonight

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******