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CLASS PLACEMENTS FOR 2022
I would like to acknowledge the parent feedback we have received over the past few weeks to assist class placement of students next year. We are sensitive to the fact that some children experience anxiety around this significant change and we endeavor to support such transitions with care and consideration. Please understand that as we construct classes for 2022, we prioritise the first mentioned request in the letters or emails we receive, as many contain a number of requests. A considerable number of aspects are taken into consideration when placing students in classes, including the social, emotional and academic needs of all of our little people. Given the sheer complexity of this task, multiple requests relating to individual students can not be considered.
FAMILY PARTNERSHIP AND FEEDBACK SURVEY RESPONSE - CHILDREN’S SOCIAL WELL BEING
The following three questions are related to how parents evaluated their children’s developing social skills and their social context at school. Please keep in mind that the graph moves from left – strongly disagree to right – strongly agree.
This is a good opportunity to extend the invitation to parents/carers to please communicate any concerns you may have regarding your children’s social and emotional well-being.
We have a very committed Pastoral Care team who work with staff to provide our little people with a safe and happy environment. We rely very much on the communication from families and the continuing partnership between school and families to support our children’s on going well being.
WE’RE CLOSER - FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
We are looking very forward to having our families back within the school, hopefully in 2022.
Once our families are given the ‘green light’ to return we would like to hold a meeting of interested families and look at innovative ways we can engage and use the wonderful gifts of our parents and wider community.
Our intention is to hold a meeting early in 2022, assuming restrictions allow.
Please continue to check the Newsletter for notification of this occasion.
WOO HOO….NEW LOOS
It seems like a long process. A couple of years ago we had a family meeting and decided that the toilet blocks were an area of the school we would like to improve. Finally, we will have 3 toilet blocks to be refurbished and upgraded. The Kinder, Year 1/2 and Year 5/6 toilet blocks will all be refurbished over the next 12 months.
The Year 3/4 Block will hopefully soon follow.
The Hall toilet blocks will have new toilet units and a fresh coat of paint.
There may be a need to isolate one block for a period of time in order to complete the job.
We look forward to ‘new loos’ and possibly some ideas from staff and families on how we can decorate the spaces to provide a fresh and welcoming environment.
CLASS PHOTO ‘LOCKDOWN’
Unfortunately this year it will not be possible to provide school class photos due to the current restrictions in place.
Initially we planned to have class photos done within the school (rather than through an agency, which was not allowed on site) but recent communication from our Catholic Schools Office has indicated that physical distancing must be maintained, which is not very suitable for a ‘class shot.’ We will continue to share photos in more limited numbers through Facebook and our Newsletter over the coming weeks.
CARPARK CONSIDERATION AND THOUGHTFULNESS
There have been a number of concerns raised by members of our school community regarding safety in the carpark. It has been noted that a number of families are stopping to drop children off in the bus bay. This practice is extremely dangerous for a number of reasons:
- The bus drivers have limited visibility around their vehicles, including several blind spots where children are not visible.
- Supervising staff are stationed at the crossing and the gate to ensure children are entering the school safely using the crossing and footpaths. The bus bay is not a designated pedestrian area, nor is there supervision for children in this congested space.
- Traffic congestion caused by buses required to wait for cars entering the wrong area, increases the likelihood of a pedestrian or vehicle accident occurring.
- Another concern is the misuse of the drop-off zone located on the eastern side of the bus lane. This zone is for immediate pick-up and drop-off of students. It is not a parking area. Families are parking their cars in the drop-off zone to wait for their children, causing increasing congestion right up to the lights and extending in both directions on Ocean Drive. Again, this practice is unsafe and inconvenient. If students are not available for immediate pick-up, cars must park in a designated parking spot to wait.
Our primary concern is for the safety of our students and community. We ask all drivers to abide by the car park rules and please exercise courtesy and consideration in order to maintain a safe environment. We thank you for your cooperation and support in this area.
REPORTS BEING PROCESSED
Our teachers have spent considerable time and continual assessing to construct each of our children’s final end of year Reports.
Teachers have processed insightful and professional documents for each child, which communicate their learning in essential aspects of English and Mathematics, whilst building a profile of our children’s ability to work collaboratively, engage in Blended Learning, mix socially and reflect the very important PBS values of our school.
Reports will no longer be sent home in paper form at the end of each semester. Instead they will be available in digital form via a Parent Portal Login.
If you have not already done so please register NOW... in readiness for our Semester 2 reports !
Parent Portal Login is a simple task to create -
- St Peter's Web Page
- Parent Tab
- click Parent Portal
- follow the prompts
If families would like a hardcopy please indicate by Monday 29th November through a return email pmacp-attendance@lism.catholic.edu.au
It is scheduled for Reports to become available on the Parent Portal on Friday, December 3 after 3.00pm.
MISSION
Christmas Appeal
A fun day was had by all at St Peter’s as we dressed in our festive favourites to raise money for our annual Christmas Appeal! The money raised today will go towards providing Christmas Hampers to members or our school and parish community in need. A great big THANK YOU !!! to our St Peter's families for their generous donations. This will go a long way to put smiles on many faces this Christmas.
Faith Focus - Beauty
Helen Keller, author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer, offers a profound insight into beauty. Blind and deaf from the age of 19 months, Helen had extraordinary insight into understanding that whilst beauty is often described through our senses, it is far deeper than that. Our senses are the gateway to true beauty, they bring us to the edge of what Helen Keller says ‘must be felt with the heart.’ As was suggested in our Parish School Spirituality Days this year, ‘Beauty should do more than provide a “delight to the eyes,” like the fruit that tempted Adam and Eve; it should push us outside of ourselves to lead us to what is ‘true and good’.
Richard Rohr suggests that, “Looking for beauty all around us is a contemplative practice, an exercise in opening our hearts, minds, and bodies to the divine image.”
Children’s author Michael Speechley in his book The Gift wrote, ‘If you look long and hard enough, you’ll see beauty in everything.’
This week, let us open our hearts, minds and bodies to the divine image and see beauty in everything. Let us feel with our hearts and allow beauty to draw us to an encounter with Christ, the way, the truth and the life.
Mission Direction in 2022
The RE Team has been working on the Mission component of our School Improvement Plan going into 2022. We recognise that COVID has had a massive impact on our Worship life and sense of community. Thus, we have made these two Foundational Values our focus for improvement going into 2022. Throughout 2020 and 2021, much of our faith life was put on pause as we waited to get back to our normal, pre-COVID way of doing things. As we approach 2022, it has become clear that this normal will never exist again, that our new normal will be a reality of learning to live and exist with COVID. Thus, we have a great challenge ahead of us, in working out how to ensure our Catholic life of Worship and Tradition continues to flourish within an environment of restrictions. The RE Team welcomes the input of our wider St Peter’s Community in this work. Please contact Rebecca Cameron, via the St Peter’s office, if you would like to contribute ideas.
LEARNING
Cool Coding in Infants
Road Safety (Part 2) Walking together safely to and from school
Walking to and from school is a great way to spend time with our children. It also provides an opportunity to discuss safe and healthy behaviours.
Here are a few things you can do to help keep your child safer as a pedestrian:-
Discuss with your child about being alert in the road environment.
- Practice walking to school to ensure they know where the safe places are to cross eg. traffic lights and pedestrian crossings.
- Hold your child’s hand. Sometimes children need help to spot dangers eg. cars coming out of driveways.
- Remind your child to STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! THINK! and explain why they need to do this.
All age children need reminders about walking to and from school. They are never too old to hear these safety messages.
Summer Sports- Meet another Polding Member
Name: Stirling Wickham
Year: 6 Red
Polding Representative Sport: Rugby Union
Other St Peter's Representative Sports: Cross Country, Swimming, Athletics, Rugby League, Rugby Union and Cricket
Favourite Sports: Rugby Union, Rugby League, Cricket, Fishing, Touch Football
What is your most memorable Sporting memory at St Peter’s and Why?
My most memorable sporting memory was going to Forbes for the Rugby Union Polding trials and having my nan, pop and other family members from Orange watching my games. Then to have my name called out as being successfully selected into the Polding team was a great feeling.
Do you have any advice to give future sports stars at St Peter’s?
Don’t give up and get involved in all sports. When representing the school show great sportsmanship. If you’re playing Rugby Union or League for the school, hit the gaps and hit them hard.
Who do you admire to be like as a sporting person and why?
James Tedesco because he plays the game hard but fair. He also seems to be very kind to others.
What are your future sporting plans?
To play for the Wallabies and travel around the world playing rugby.
For those who have never seen Stirling play Rugby Union or want to see more, grab some popcorn and enjoy watching this amazing highlight package (5 minutes) from the Country Championships of Stirling on the link below. He is #13 for the Mid North Coast (white/black hoops)- you won’t miss him!
Summer Sports- update
There have been a number of updates to Summer Sports.
Touch: Trials will be held in February 2022. Mrs Kipreotis will finalise both our girls and boys teams in Weeks 8 and 9. Girls will run on Thursday and the boys will be on Friday.
We have just received updated information in regards to Basketball- Diocesan trial February 25, 2022.
Tennis: Awaiting Zone numbers to determine a trial. If numbers are large, a trial will occur in early December after school.
Cricket: Awaiting Zone numbers to determine a trial.
Softball: Is on hold for the moment.
Winter Sports
Shortly, we will be calling for registration for the 2022 Winter Sports Zone Trial. The sports for Years 4 and 5 will be: Rugby League, Rugby Union, Hockey, Netball and Soccer. Trials will occur at school for all events and as always, teams will be selected primarily on each child’s PBS Values and lastly on their sporting skills. There will be selection criteria for certain sports.
School Swimming Carnival- update
Notes were sent home on Wednesday to all competitive swimmers. A reminder that the permission/medical note must be returned no later than Wednesday 24th November to be able to attend the carnival. A huge thank you to our 28 families who have offered to assist with timekeeping. We will set up 2 teams of 14. Each team will have 2 timekeepers in each lane and we will take the slowest time of the two. We will have a couple of floating timekeepers who will be back ups for any lane if a stopwatch doesn’t work. If you are not on duty for a period of time, we will have a designated seating area for you opposite the main grandstand. A timetable for volunteers will be sent home early next week and on our St Peter’s Sport Facebook page. Any changes to the day will also be placed on the St Peter’s Facebook page.
Congratulations
Congratulations to all of our 36, Year 6 students who got out and active over the past month in our 3 x 3 Basketball Competition. It came down to the Grand Final where the “Knicks” played the “Warriors” in a wonderful display of basketball. A special well done to the “Warriors” who ran out winners.
Well done Sebastian
Congratulations to Sebastian De Somma on being selected in the Mid North Coast Football 2022, 11”s SAP Squad.
Up Coming Events
School Swimming Carnival (competitive) | Monday November 29 - back up date Thursday December 9 |
Zone Summer Sports Trials | Dates TBC - see above |
Lismore Diocese Summer Sports Trials |
Tennis & Basketball - 8 February Touch Football - 8 March Cricket & Softball - 16 March |
Jeff Arkinstall - Leader of Sport
END THE YEAR ON A BRIGHT NOTEPBS Bronze Rewards DayWhat: Activities Circuit with Coloured Powder Stations When: Friday 10th December (Week 10) Where: Our school oval Why: To celebrate all students in the school achieving a Bronze Award, after what has been a challenging year for many students and families How: A permission slip will be sent home in the coming days, so stay tuned for more details.
There will also be Silver and Gold Awards and extra privileges for these award winners before the end of term. |
Kinder 2022 - Reminder to Register for Transition
Kinder 2022 Transition
A few reminders for Kinder 2022 families -
- Kinder 2022 final transition session - Monday 6th December 2021
There will be a transition morning on this day from 9.00am to 11.30am. Children will need to bring a drink bottle, hat and a small snack (clearly labelled) with them.
(Only one parent/carer will be able to drop off or collect - lease register via the form below)
As this session will include our whole kinder 2022 group could you please complete the following form to assist us with the drop off and pick up of your child. Please complete this form by Wednesday 1st December.
Click here to complete Drop Off and Pick Up form - Transition
- Parent Information Evening - Monday 6th December 2021 (6pm to 7pm)
More information to follow pending COVID restrictions closer to the date.
School Reports
Reports will no longer be sent home in paper form
If you have not already done so please register NOW... in readiness for our Semester 2 reports !
Parent Portal Login is a simple task to create:
- St Peter's Web Page
- Parent Tab
- click Parent Portal
- follow the prompts
Monday 22nd November |
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Tuesday 30th November |
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Friday 3rd December |
Reports will no longer be sent home in paper form |
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End of Year Dates 2021
Wednesday 15th December | Students last day |
Thursday 16th December | Staff last day |
Start Dates for 2022
Friday 28th January 2022 | Staff first day back (Admin Day) |
Monday 31st January 2022 (Week 1) | Professional Learning Day |
Tuesday 1st February to Thursday 3rd February | MAI Interviews for Years 1 to 6 |
Tuesday 1st February to Monday 7th February | Best Start and MAI Interviews for Kindergarten |
Friday 4th February | Years 1 to 6 Commence |
Tuesday 8th February | Kindergarten Commence |
Canteen Roster !!!
Canteen Volunteers
are welcomed back !!
- Please show proof of double vaccination
- Please sign into Service NSW and Whos On Location (St Peter's sign in) at the front school office
- Mask must be worn
Monday | Sheila McLauchlan |
Tuesday | Prue Thompson |
Wednesday | Bec Eakin, Sarah Dahlenburg |
Thursday | Jo Sexton, Lisa Bemmann |
Friday | Kate Perkins, Peta Clancy, Deb Ward |
Canteen Volunteers for 2022
Please click on the link below if you would like to help in the Canteen next year !! Volunteering is a great way to connect with other parents, whilst also providing a service for our children.
Canteen Assistance Form 2022
You can also contact the office directly or Debbie Robins in the canteen.
Fresh for Kids
The Fresh for Kids Campaign Finishes NEXT FRIDAY!!!
Friday 26th November
Milkshakes
Available Term 4 - Lunch 1 only
50c
Chocolate - Strawberry - Caramel
Kinder Red | Kinder Blue | Kinder Green |
Jett Fuller Pixie Hockley Fynn Saunders |
Koby Collins Abby Zerafa Bella Elwood-Franchimont |
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Year 1 Blue | Year 1 Green | |
Skyla Stansfield Mabel Smith Mason Pope |
Zara Baldock Alfred Norman Otto Easton |
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Year 2 Red | Year 2 Green | |
Ahliyah Bennett Lilly Anderson Genevieve Ford |
Camila Jones William Kee Jasper Luck |
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Year 3 Red | Year 3 Blue | Year 3 Green |
Steele Cottom Sifa Fono Isla Garel |
Oliver Parrish Harrison Blake Evie Pattinson |
Harrison Insall Brody Galvin Rose Eccles |
Year 4 Red | Year 4 Blue | Year 4 Green |
Julian Geddes Indi Easton Patrick Blackman |
Sonny Cowan Ben Clarke Lincoln Wells Mason Caltabiano |
Nathaniel Sun Zhong William Ebbs Paige Heery Felix Plowright |
Year 5 Red | Year 5 Blue | Year 5 Green |
Ryan Clarke Indie Gardoll Lucee Monck |
Alex Parrish Nikki Seears James Allen Ryder Colthorpe |
Harrison Ebbs Isla McNeil Livia Pelley Maeve Gornall |
Year 6 Red | Year 6 Blue | Year 6 Green |
James Bugler Riley Nevins Stirling Wickham |
Lily Moseley Madison Munro Jack Robb Aidan Wadwell |
Patrick Green Gracie Huxley Allie Donohoe Grace Dahlenburg |
If you know your child won't be returning to St Peter's next year, or if any details have changed (address, contact number, emergency contact etc) could you please advise our school office.
ALL VISITORSAre reminded to please SIGN INTO Service NSW on your phone and to wear a mask BEFORE entering the school office All visitors entering our school must be fully vaccinated. Visitors going through the school office onto school grounds must also sign in via 'Whos On Location' at the front office |
Sale of Discontinued StockINSTORE SALE ONLYNot available onlineAll uniform items that will not be sold after the end of this year are on sale at 50% discount NO REFUND OR EXCHANGE ON SALE ITEMS On Sale until Friday 10 December |
ORDERING NEW SCHOOL UNIFORMS FOR 2022
The St Agnes' Uniform Store have indicated they are on track for delivery of the new school uniform at the end of the year. This will enable them to be ready for January trading of new uniforms from when they open on 4 January 2022.
The Uniform Store will only be selling the new uniform.
Lay-by is available now for your convenience, this system will work this way:
- Sizing can be gauged using the existing uniform items
- The lay-by will be set up and a deposit taken
- Progress payments can be made
- Lay-bys can be collected in January, 2022
- Sizing will be checked at the time of collection and adjusted if required
At this stage, the St Agnes' Uniform Store still have supplies of most sizes for the existing uniform items.
Trading Hours
Last day of trading for 2021 is 10 December.
January 2022 Trading
Re-open 4 January 2022
10.00am - 5.00pm Monday to Fridays
9.00am - 12 noon Saturdays
IMPORTANT - CHANGES TO SCHOOL ROUTE & BUS NUMBERS
Commencing Tuesday 30th November
There will be no changes to times or route paths operated.
Attached below is St Peter's School timetable showing the current and new bus numbers.
St Peter's Primary - New Bus Numbers & Routes
This is also available on Busways website: https://www.busways.com.au/nsw/school-services/school-timetables
Please select the link adjacent to the schools name; “New timetable | 30 November 2021”.
For any enquiries regarding these changes, please contact our Customer Service Team via 1300 69 2929 or Infoline@busways.com.au
eSafety Parent Guide to Digital Technologies and Mental Health
The Council of Catholic School Parents NSW/ACT invites you to a free one-hour webinar designed for parents and carers of young people aged 10–18.
Details:
Monday 22 November 2021, 7.30-8.30pm
It will cover:
- what do to about accidental exposure to content about suicide, self-harm or eating disorders
- using games, apps and social media to support mental wellbeing
- the pros and cons of digital mental health platforms
- strategies for young people to support friends online.
Questions should be directed to clare.dunstan@ccsp.catholic.edu.au
Resources:
Photography Competition
Closing date has been extended to 23rd November
Free to Enter....
- Choose up to five of your best images !!
- Email the photos along with your name and the name of your school to canvas@momentz.com.au before 23rd November
- Remember to name your Photo
- Attach the media form if applicable to the email
Please click on the following links:
Richard 65812666
46 Uralla Road, Port Macquarie