Curriculum Corner
Start Dates for 2022
- Friday 28th and Monday 31st January Staff Development Days – Pupil Free
- Tuesday 1st February – students in Years 1-6 return to school
- Thursday 3rd February – first day for Kindergarten
St Nicholas OOSH will be open for students on the pupil free days. Please contact the OOSH if you require casual care for your child/ren on these days.
Student Leadership 2022
The process of selecting our Student Leaders for 2022 is now underway. Please see the remaining timeline below:
Monday 29 November
- Student Leadership Team for 2022 announced
- Nominees for Sports House Captain to complete speech at House Team Meeting
- Students 2-6 vote for Sport House Captains
Tuesday 30 November
- Sports House Captains announced
Thursday 2 December
- Student Leadership Team will write a short speech at school
- Speeches presented to the whole school
- Year 2-6 vote
- Captains and Vice Captains and their parents are informed
- Captains and Vice Captains for 2022 announced
Tuesday 7 December
- Passing of light between 2021 Leadership Team and 2022 Leadership Team at the End of Year Mass.
Positive Behaviours for Learning (PBL)
Our last focus area for the year falls under the category of Do Your Best: Have a go and participate. This unit encourages all students to ‘be a learner,’ while fostering the valuable skill of perseverance. Through this learning students will reflect on what it means to persevere:
- Not giving up when things become challenging.
- Understanding that it requires both effort and consistency to complete a task.
- Using different strategies to solve problems.
- Practice helpful self-talk (e.g., “I can do it” or “Keep trying.”
- Accept that mistakes are how we learn (FAIL = First Attempt at Learning).
Below you will find some useful links which reinforce this concept. Hopefully they are useful too. They may be a conversation starter for you and your child/ren.
Amazing Kids of Character - Perseverence
Safeguarding -eSafety Resources
Don’t forget the OoSG has produced a number of padlets to support parents in promoting safe online and physical safety messages with their children. Click on the following links to take you to these padlets.
COVID-19 e Books from the Australian Childhood Foundation
Edna May - A True Story about a little girl and a big virus
This book recalls the story of little Edna May in dealing with the 1919 Spanish Flu.
A storybook providing a positive narrative for young children around the increased mask-wearing seen in the community during COVID-19.