Curriculum Corner - Renata Powell
Promoting the Safeguarding of children: We each have a responsibility!
Here in our Maitland Newcastle Diocese the Office of Safeguarding have compiled a number of resources to support the safeguarding of children. These are very practical resources that support parents in their own knowledge and understanding, as well as providing age appropriate resources for their children. Some resources are short Youtube clips of songs about ‘safety’ you could watch with your children, whilst others are aimed at providing parents with ideas on how to best begin discussions about safety online. This is an excellent bank of resources we encourage you to look over. These links can be found below
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)
Do Your Best: Learn and let others learn!
During our Do Your Best focus, students are learning how to do their best through learning and letting others learn. At St Joseph’s we highly value learning and we are focused on our own desire to be active learners. We do this by fostering a great love of learning and mastering new skills. PBL lessons over this fortnight will outline ways each student can make an effort to be a creative learner. Lessons will also focus on the importance of how our behaviours impact the learning of others in the classroom too.
In the classroom we are highlighting the importance of respecting others’ right to learn by working quietly, listening, staying focused, asking for assistance and challenging ourselves. We aim to complete our set work tasks with quality and attention to detail. When working collaboratively we are learning to be great listeners, to take turns and ensure we actively contribute. This means that we respect different points of view and we are inclusive of all members in our group.
If you have an opportunity, please discuss these concepts with your children.
Students are enjoying taking their class tokens to the colour house boxes and watching the numbers rise.
Special thanks to our dedicated Sports Captains for counting our tokens.
San Clemente Year 7 2022 Open Day
NAPLAN 2021
Next week, all schools are required to participate in a national NAPLAN ONLINE Practice Test during the NSW Test preferred dates of 23 March – 26 March 2021. This will take the form of two tests, an Omnibus and Writing (Year 3 will participate the omnibus only. Omnibus is a combination of Numeracy, Language Conventions and Reading).
- It is an opportunity for dioceses/schools to test their IT and support structures – i.e. a dress rehearsal for the real event.
- The window is far enough away from the real test event that any issues identified may be remediated appropriately.
- It is an opportunity for a national platform resilience test.
- The practice test provides a good opportunity for students to familiarise themselves with the test platform.
Excessive preparation for NAPLAN Online is not recommended. Students and parents can use the public demonstration site ACARA NAPLAN Demonstration Site to familiarise themselves with the types of questions and tools available in the NAPLAN Online tests. If you have any questions about NAPLAN Online, please contact your child’s teacher.
NAPLAN testing fortnight for 2021 is the 11th - 21st May.
eSafety Webinar
Last Monday Year 6 participated in the eSafety Webinar for National Day Against Bullying and National Day of Action 2021. We learnt what bullying can look like and how to report it.
We were also taught what to do if you or someone else was being bullied, how to be an upstander and how to fix the problem. The eSafety Commissioner told us an example of an “incident” and what happens when you do the wrong thing and how it affects the person. Here are some examples of what we learned.
We learnt:
- 85% of bullying “incidents” involves bystanders.
- Bullying has been shown to stop within 10 seconds when bystanders take positive action.
Here are some useful links you can use to report bullying:
- Bullying no way! - https://bullyingnoway.gov.au/
- E Safety Kids - https://www.esafety.gov.au/educators/virtual-classroom/be-esafe-kid-being-upstander
- E Safety Guide - https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-issues/esafety-guide
By Xavier Mulley and Domenic Papichio
(6 Blue)