Curriculum Corner - Renata Powell
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)
This fortnight our schoolwide PBL focus is Be Respectful: Include Others.
On the playground, staff are keeping an eye out on how students are including others as they are playing. In the classroom students are learning about the definition of ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’ and having discussions about the associated feelings connected with each of these. It is reinforced for students that including others is important because we:
- celebrate everyone’s differences (their individuality)
- display kindness as we are empowered when we care for others
- want to be ‘shepherds not sheep’ (idea of not following the crowd)
- if we notice exclusion it is each of our responsibility to do something about it.
Please take the opportunity at home this fortnight to discuss how we can all be inclusive with your child.
It is great to see the excitement students are displaying around the Dash tokens so far this year! Sharing weekly tally updates is exciting each Monday morning at our weekly assembly. Our first mid-term final count is going to take place at the end of next week. The winning sport colour house will enjoy a special reward.
Semester One Student Council
Congratulations to the student representatives who were voted upon from Years 2-6 to be part of the Semester One Student Council. I very much look forward to working alongside you as we meet to discuss how we can make St Joseph’s an even better school.
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Year 2 Gold |
Hamish Mitchell, Layla Pinto |
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Year 2 Blue |
Alexander Bailey, Maya Vickery |
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Year 3 Blue |
Bailar Griffiths, Max O’Donahue |
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Year 3 Gold |
Hayden Craig, Ava Knox |
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Year 4 Blue |
Jonathon Higgins, Audrey Owens |
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Year 4 Gold |
Diesel McHardy, Edie Petersen |
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Year 5 Blue |
Mason Van Huisstede, Isabella De Siqueira Mattes |
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Year 5 Gold |
Luca Wildschut, Eleonor McConkey |
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Year 6 Blue |
Rhys Kelly, Madeleine Lusby |
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Year 6 Gold |
Gizelle Griffiths, Archie Williams |
Cybersafety
Be an eSafe kid: Fake news, real harms
On the 15th February, Year 6 joined as a grade, to take part in a webinar about being safe online. We did this webinar because on 9th February it was Safer Internet Day.
Year 6 had an activity sheet that had three questions based on what we were learning in the webinar. We had to fill out this worksheet as the webinar was on, because the man hosting the webinar explained the question before we answered.
One of the questions was, “Do you think this website is true or misleading?". The webinar gave us an Instagram post of someone saying that you should not swim in Sydney Harbor because there are sharks.
The point of the webinar is that we all need to be safe on the internet, especially children. Lots of people can convince you to get things but then you do not receive it. This is called spamming.
Doing the webinar has helped Year 6 improve our knowledge of ESafety.
Lucia Minto and Shiloh Flynn (Year 6)
Safeguarding
As with all peoples, children have human rights across the full spectrum of civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights.
Because children are recognised as having particular inherent needs and dependencies, they also have particular rights.
Both the Commonwealth of Australia and the Vatican (Holy See) ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child in November 1990, this is the central international instrument that underpins both Australia’s and the Church’s approach to safeguarding children.
The Australian Human Rights Commission’s child friendly summary of children’s rights state that children have the right to:
- be treated fairly no matter what
- have a say about decisions affecting them
- live and grow up healthy
- have people do what is best for them
- know who they are and where they come from
- believe what they want
- privacy
- find out information and express themselves
- be safe
- be cared for and have a home
- education, play and cultural activities
- help and protection if they need it
Source: Maitland Newcastle Diocese Office of Safeguarding website
As a St Joseph’s school community we have a firm commitment to upholding these rights of a child.
