The Resilience Project is committed to teaching positive mental health strategies to prevent mental ill-health and build young people’s capacity to deal with adversity. We will be implementing their evidence-based Teaching and Learning Program throughout our classrooms, staffroom and school community.
Teachers and students will engage in weekly lessons and activities around the key principles of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness (GEM) and Emotional Literacy to build resilience.
Under updated MACS guidelines, a Medication Administration form is to be completed where parents/carers request that a student is administered medication at school or during a school activity. The principal or their delegate must approve all ongoing and regular administration of medication (over the counter or prescription) by the school and in most cases, medication must not be administered to a child being educated and cared for unless this form is signed by an AHPRA registered medical practitioner or pharmacist.
The principal or delegate may agree to proceed with the authority of parent/guardian/carer signature without the authority of an AHPRA registered medical practitioner or pharmacist. This would only occur in rare cases, for example, short term (1-2 days) administration of over-the-counter medication at school or on off-site activities such as camps. No medication will be administered beyond the instruction on the original packaging unless recommended by an AHPRA registered medical practitioner or pharmacist.
Schools require written permission for students to self-administer their medication from parents/guardians, in consultation with registered medical or health practitioners to determine appropriate age and situation under which the student can self-administer their medication.
Parents/carers must ensure that medication brought to the school is in its original package with original labels. Please note, school staff will seek emergency medical assistance if there are concerns about a student’s condition following the administration of medication.
A copy of the form is attached to the Newsletter or via link
Dear Parents
We are seeking Parent Volunteers to provide a cake, biscuits or slices for our weekly cake raffle fundraiser. If you can help out please send Anne Maree Jones or Gail Rich your name/ preferred date/week (if you have one ) to be added to our list of volunteers.
Week 5 - 1st March : Emily (Isabelle - Prep)
Week 6- Camp
Week 7 - 15th March : Beth ( Abigail & Ethan)
Week 8 - 22nd March : Carla ( Tommy)
Term 2 Week 1 - 19th April Divjot (Naunidh & Ishreet)
Friday 15th March
Our School Photo day is booked for Friday 15th March. We ask that parents try to avoid appointments booked on this day for their children.
The children will be asked to wear FULL SUMMER UNIFORM including correct socks and shoes.
Order forms sent home today with each child.
Thank you
God, thank You for this day! Thank You for the birds and the animals, the flowers and the trees, the lakes and the streams, and the sun that rises and sets over them each day. Thank You for creating everything we see! Thank You for the life we live, and for making each person different. Thank You for Jesus, who died for us so that we can go to heaven one day just for believing in Him. What an amazing God You are! In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Parish Newsletter Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th February
Like so many other important events in the Bible, the events of this week’s gospel occur on a high mountaintop. Mountaintops were places of special and dramatic encounter with God and the disciples’ experience of the transfiguration is clearly no exception! In this instance, the disciples suddenly see Jesus’ power fully revealed but they fail to fully understand what is going on. One might think how much more obvious could God be about trying to reveal Jesus’ identity to the disciples, but still they don’t really catch on. Peter thinks he has caught on to the message. When the great prophets Elijah and Moses appear beside Jesus, Peter understands Jesus to be part of the line of prophets in the Hebrew tradition. He believes he has had a great insight and is so impressed that he wants to remain on the mountaintop – setting up tents in honour of Jesus, Elijah and Moses. In essence, Peter has still only partially understood who Jesus is. He thinks he is the Messiah, but a Messiah in the same mould as the prophets of old, a prophet of the old tradition. He has not understood that Jesus is breaking that mould and creating a new vision, a new tradition – one that is endorsed by the voice of God on the mountaintop. Rather than allowing the disciples to set up tents and remain in the ‘high’ of this experience, Jesus immediately leads the boys back down the mountain. This is perhaps the greatest message of this passage: that life is not lived on the mountaintop but back down in the valley. Although the mountaintop experience may have provided some new insight and new energy, it is back down in the valley that the world waits; that the real work needs to be done; that the sick and the poor are crying out for God’s love and mercy.
