Assistant Principal - Pastoral Care & Staff Support
Character Strengths
This week in extended PC time, all our PC's engaged in a Wellbeing activity where they explored Character Strengths and determined their own top strengths.
It is a great idea to identify the strengths of your whole family and practise spotting strengths in each other.
Character strengths are the positive human qualities that serve as pathways for living a good life. Scientists and philosophers have identified a comprehensive set of virtues and character strengths have been valued throughout history, across cultures and religions. Through this process, they identified 24 character strengths that appear to be universal. They named this identification of strengths the VIA Classification of Strengths. The VIA stands for 'Values in Action'.
Parents are able to take the VIA test using the link below: http://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths-Survey
Many thanks to Ms Kylie Wallis for organising the extended PC activities and to our wonderful PC teachers for facilitating the morning.
Normal School Day - Tuesday, 9th June 2020 - No Pupil Free Day
Due to the extenuating circumstances of COVID19, Tuesday, 9th June 2020 has now been gazetted as a normal school day. It is not a pupil free day as advertised in the College diary.
From this day, all students will return to 'face-to-face' teaching and compulsory full-time attendance.
Students will follow their timetabled lessons for Day 2, Week 1.
Celebrating Students' Birthdays
Due to COVID19, we are catching up on celebrating our monthly 'Birthday Box' draw. We are very pleased to announce the winner of the March draw.
Congratulations to Maddison Wyndham for being the Birthday Box winner for the month of March. We hope you enjoy your gift.
What is the Birthday Box?
As part of our College goals, (Wellbeing & Unity) the St Joseph's Regional College Office would like to invite students to enter a monthly birthday draw.
What Do Students Need To Do?
On your birthday, come to the College Office and let the office ladies know it's your special day. Your name will then go into the 'Happy Birthday Box' and you will be given a small birthday card.
Please remember: You must come on the day of your birthday. Unless, of course, it falls in the holidays or a weekend. If so, just visit the College Office on the first day back to enter your name in the draw.
What do Students Receive?
The prize of a gift card will be drawn on the 1st of each month after your birthday month.
We are really looking forward to seeing students and wishing them Happy Birthday.
Good Luck in the drawer.
Year 10 Immunisation - Thursday, 11th June 2020
North Coast Area Health Service is holding an Immunisation Day at St Joseph’s Regional College.
A Parent Information Kit has been given to all Year 10 students today. The kit contains information about the following vaccinations and the disease that it protects against as well as a consent form.
Immunisation on Thursday, 11th June 2020
Year 10 Nimenrix (meningococcal ACWY)
Year 7 catch-ups for HPV dose 1 & Boostrix
Year 8 HPV dose 2 - catch-ups from 2019
Please note: Year 10 students are permitted to wear their sports uniform all day on Thursday, 11th June.
NO VACCINATIONS WILL BE ADMINISTERED TO STUDENTS WITHOUT A SIGNED CONSENT FORM, VERBAL CONSENT IS NOT SUFFICIENT.
Signed consent forms are to be handed directly to the Area Health Nurse on Immunisation Day.
Please do not return completed forms prior to this day.
IF YOU REQUIRE A NEW FORM, PLEASE COLLECT ONE FROM THE COLLEGE OFFICE.
What do you need to do?
- Read all information carefully in the Year 7 Vaccination Information Kit.
- Complete & sign the Consent Form (make sure you sign for each vaccine your child requires).
- Return the signed Consent Form on the day of immunisation.
- Discuss the importance of vaccinations with your child.
- Ensure your child has breakfast on the morning of vaccination
A record of vaccination will be kept by the Area Health Service and a copy will be provided to the vaccinated student for their records. Please understand that if you do not have your child immunised in the Year (eg. Year 7 – 10) that is offered by North Coast Public Area Health, you are able to access this vaccine at a later stage at your General Practitioner. The cost of the vaccine, however, will not be covered by this program.
Please contact the Public Health Unit on 1300 066 055 or visit www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation for further information and translated copies of the Year 7 Vaccination Information Kit.
Head Lice
Head lice outbreaks occur at all schools from time-to-time so we ask that you regularly check your child for head lice. If your child has head lice please treat your child and inform us. Daily combing of dry hair with conditioner can get rid of head lice. Once treated, your child should continue to attend school.
For further information on head lice and the treatment of the lice, please click the following link - NSW Health
Handling of Items Delivered to Students
Encouraging your child to be packed for school and organised the night before is a good practice. This habit will also avoid parents having to drop forgotten items to school. However, if this does occur and to eliminate the chance of cross-contamination, we ask that items being dropped off to the College are delivered in a bag with the student's name clearly marked on it. Your child will then be called to collect items.
Lost Property
We have a number of unclaimed lost property items. Please ensure your child's name is written on all items of clothing, this also includes sports bags that contain sports clothes, practical equipment and lunchboxes. Clearly labelled items are easily returned when lost.
The photos displayed below DO NOT HAVE ANY NAMES so therefore we can not return them to the rightful owner. Please contact the College Office if you recognise any of the following items. Some of the items pictured are still to be claimed from last week.
Please note: Unclaimed uniform items will be washed and donated to our second-hand uniform store.
Uniform
The St Agnes' Uniform store has now resumed trade from under revised hours of operation.
The store will be open Monday to Friday from 1.00pm - 5.00pm.
Online ordering has also resumed with a click and collect and delivery available. Please visit our webpage for online orders - https://stagnesparish.org.au/st-agnes-uniform-store/
Tanya Daley
Assistant Principal - Pastoral Care and Staff Support