Newsletter 69- September 9th 2022

R U OK.... 

Loving God

You are always near to us

especially when we are weak, suffering and vulnerable

Reach out to those who experience mental illness. 

Lift their burdens, calm their anxiety, and quiet their fears. 

Surround them with your healing presence that they may know that they are not alone. 

We ask this in the name of your Son, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, now and forever. 

AMEN.

The Sculpture below is by Timothy Schmalz. It is inspired by the poem “Footprints in the Sand”. Here the sculptor has captured the moment where Christ carries us through our troubled times.  It is a symbol of how Chirs is always present to help us.   https://www.sculpturebytps.com/portfolio_page/footprints/

Annual Payment of School Fees

A reminder for families who have elected to pay their 2022 school fees in one instalment, please note that payment is due by 16^th September, 2022 (end of Term 3). 

Payment can be made via electronic funds transfer to:

National Australia Bank

Account Name:  St Patrick’s Primary School Stawell

BSB 083-408

Account:  873223326

 Please remember to include your surname as a reference for receipting purposes.

Payment can also be made via credit card – please contact Anna at the office to make arrangements.

Resilience:

Key points

• Resilience is the ability to bounce back after challenges and tough times.

• Resilient children can recover from setbacks and get back to living life.

• Resilience develops when children experience challenges and learn to deal with them positively.

• Strong relationships are the foundation of children’s resilience.

Resilience: what is it?

Resilience is the ability to ‘bounce back’ after challenges and tough times.

For children, challenges and tough times include experiences like starting at a new school or kindergarten, moving house, or welcoming a sibling into the family. They can also include serious experiences like being bullied, family breakdown, family illness or death.

Children build resilience over time through experience. You can help your child learn skills and develop resilience by having a warm, supportive relationship with them.Resilience: why it’s good for children

Children who are resilient can recover from setbacks and get back to living their lives more quickly. And when children overcome setbacks and problems, it builds their confidence and helps them feel more capable the next time a problem comes up.

Resilient children are often good at solving problems and learning new skills. This is because they’re more willing to try again even if things don’t go the way they want the first time.

And when things don’t go well and children feel anxious, sad, disappointed, afraid or frustrated, resilience helps them understand that these uncomfortable emotions usually don’t last forever. They can experience these emotions and know they’ll be OK before too long.

Resilient children are less likely to avoid problems or deal with them in unhealthy ways, like getting defensive or aggressive or intentionally hurting themselves. Resilient children are also likely to have better physical and mental health than children who struggle to be resilient.

All children experience challenges but children with anxious temperaments, learning difficulties or disabilities might find certain situations particularly challenging – for example, reading aloud in class or being left with an unfamiliar carer. When children build their resilience skills, they can better manage their emotions and overcome setbacks.

Relationships and resilience

Relationships are the foundation of your child’s resilience.

Your child’s most important relationships are with you and their other main caregivers. Strong relationships with you and other carers helps your child feel loved, safe and secure. This sense of safety and security gives your child the confidence to explore their world and to recover from any setbacks they experience.

Your child’s relationships with grandparents, aunties and uncles, early childhood educators and teachers, and friends are also important. These family and community connections give your child a sense of belonging and the feeling that they’re valued. These feelings help to build your child’s confidence and resilience.

Children learn about resilience from watching how you and other important people in their lives respond to tough times and setbacks. When your child sees you try again, let anger go, or think positively in difficult situations, they learn that they can do the same.

Building resilience in children

Children learn resilience through experience. Each time your child overcomes a problem, it builds their confidence in their ability to handle the next challenge.

Here are some ways you can build your child’s resilience:

• Support your child but try not to solve every minor problem or disappointment. For example, if your child doesn’t get invited to a birthday party or didn’t get what they want for their birthday, you could talk about how they feel instead of trying to fix the problem.
• Avoid predicting and preventing problems for your child. This might mean letting your child hand in homework that’s wrong or not replacing a broken toy. Overcoming small challenges builds your child’s resilience for bigger setbacks.
• Help your child to identify and manage strong emotions. For example, your child might be worried about a family member who’s sick. You could say, ‘I can see you’re really worried about Grandpa. It’s OK to be worried. But remember we’re doing everything we can to help him get better’.
• Encourage your child to have another go when things don’t work out the first time they try something. Praise your child for trying, no matter the result. You could say ‘I’m proud of you for finishing the race’ or ‘Well done for giving it another go’.
• Build your child’s self-compassion. Self-compassion helps your child deal with disappointment, failures or mistakes by being kind to themselves. In turn, this helps them to move on from difficult experiences.
• Make it a habit to recognise and acknowledge when things are going well. For example, during family meals you could each share one positive thing from your day.
• Help your child to develop problem-solving skills in an age-appropriate way. For example, if a child at school says or does something unkind to your child, brainstorm how your child might respond next time.
• Find a positive role model who has experienced similar challenges to your child. For example, your child might find support in an older friend whose parents have separated or who has lost a family member.

Children develop resilience over time, so try to be patient and supportive while your child works out how to respond to challenges. You might want to make everything all right for your child, but sometimes your child has to go through uncomfortable feelings so they can work things out for themselves.

Assembly:

It is fantastic to once again have our Friday school assemblies happening. Assembly next week starts at 1:50pm as its the last Friday of term in the hall. All family and community members welcome. 

Assembly roster for term 2:

Week 9 No assembly - this week

Week 10 Buddies and Foundation - Earlier time 1:50pm

Professional Development:

On Friday 9th September our whole staff will be meeting to look at our Literacy Curriculum development throughout the school. 

Curriculum development is critical to ensure teachers are able to analysis, design, select, create and review students' learning and outcomes.  We will be working through a process of:  Analysing the Victorian Literacy Curriculum, Designing learning statements to match, selecting the essential learnings and creating our scope and sequence for each year level.  Curriculum development is essential to ensure that we are taking the time to have a methodical approach to determine what students will be required to learn and when. 

Professional Development:

At St Patrick’s Primary School we are committed to Professional Development of our team.  At various times staff members will be working off site or online which may result in classroom teachers being out of the classroom.

Week 9

 9/9/2022 - Whole school staff Curriculum planning day

Week 10

13/09/2022 - Mr Chris McAloon       Principals Conference. 

Wow! What a great day we had on Thursday with our Steam expo.  The students loved being able to showcase their learning and participate in the hands-on challenges. The expo is a credit to our students, St Patrick’s team and community. 

Thankyou to all those who completed the at home learning with the STEAM challenge.  We had a great number of entries.  Mr McAloon will draw the winning two families at the assembly next week. 

To our St Patrick’s community, thankyou!  We can do so many things but without your support it is difficult for them to be a success.  Our community is amazing, everything we do is always supported by you - Thankyou.

SAVE THE DATE...

ANDREW CHINN is back  

WHOLE SCHOOL EVENING CONCERT & PICNIC

WEDNESDAY 19th OCTOBER, 2022     6.00pm

St Vincent de Paul Winter food appeal:  

Oodie/Hoodie/Footy Colours Day  - St Vincent de Paul Winter food appeal: On our last day of Term, Friday 16th September, 2022 Social Justice will be running a special day for our Vinnies Winter appeal.  All students are invited to wear either an Oodie, Hoodie or Footy Colours to school.  Instead of bringing a gold coin donation for casual clothes we are asking if possible for students to bring along non-perishable food or household item i.e glad wrap, tissues etc,  which we can put into our winter food collection. 

As a Catholic school support the work of Vinnies and Stawell's Interchurch council by assisting these organisations with their efforts to help those in our community who are facing difficulties at this time.  We are asking if families are able to donate any non-perishable items to the appeal (Items can range from tin food, toiletries, paper products etc.)

At the end of the Term these items will be donated to St Vincents to distribute to those in need in our community.  

Each class will have a donation box where donations can be left.  No matter how small or big the donation is, we always strive to teach our students at St Patrick’s how important giving to those in need is. 

Thankyou for your support. 

Thankyou -

Fathers day...It was great to see our dads and Special Persons Day last Friday. What a wonderful celebration we had at school last Friday to recognise Father’s and Special Persons Day. It was a lovely celebration where children were able to spend time with their dad/special person. Thank you to those who were able to participate in this event.

Congratulations to these students having their birthday this week:

Ally smith

Tom Jess

Lilly Hine

Emily Nutting

Good morning,
We are hosting a creative workshop with local artist Jade Kahle on Saturday 10^th September - please could you include the attached flyer in your school newsletter?

Don't hesitate with any questions. 

Thank you from the Ararat Gallery TAMA team!
Kim DearnleyArarat Rural City CouncilE: kdearnley@ararat.vic.gov.auP: (03) 5355 0220