Assistant Principal - Pastoral Care

High expectations and culture of learning.

Welcome back from what I hope has been a restorative and restful break for you. 

Here at St Joseph’s Regional College, we have high expectations of all students. Our high expectations do not begin and end with your learning or what appears on your report card, although of course, great learning is a focus for all of us. Our high expectations extend into our many co-curricular endeavours and opportunities and into our work and service as members of our Catholic community. Every staff member at SJRC expects students to be the best person they can be, in every lesson, every day.

Every student at SJRC has one job: learning. Our teachers work hard to set students up with everything they need to be successful learners, starting with a positive attitude and a strong learning mindset. Every policy, every rule, every procedure is in place so students are best positioned to walk into every learning space ready to learn all they can.

Over this next week, I will be meeting with each year group to ensure every student in our College understands some baseline expectations. This will support them in avoiding negative experiences at school so that they can focus on their job of learning.

Also to support students in being as well-positioned as possible for learning, their PC Teachers will be introducing a Positive Education Wellbeing Program which is embedded into the new College diaries. There will be daily check-ins and lots of discussions about what it means to be healthy, well, positive and ready for everything life has to offer. I encourage students to embrace this opportunity to be their best selves in 2023.

To keep lines of communication open, parents are asked to view their child's diary and sign it each week. This is also an area where a short note can be written if needed.

Code of Presentation - College Uniform 2023

Our Code of Presentation is very clear. At the end of last year, changes were communicated to all students and parents. The main changes for 2023 are:

• The old style stretchy SAPSS shorts with the white lettering have been phased out. All students need to be in the new sport shorts with the yellow trim.
• No students should be wearing white socks anymore. All socks are now black. Sports socks should only be worn with sports uniforms only.

The following uniform items have been phased out and are no longer available to purchase or wear in 2023:

• old style plain black SAPSS sports shorts
• white SAPSS sports socks 
• white formal socks
• grey formal socks. 

Sports Uniform
All students must wear the new black sports shorts with the yellow strip down the side and black SAPSS sports socks when wearing their sports uniform.

Formal Uniform
Boys may still wear their grey formal shorts, however, will be required to wear the new style black socks with white stripes.

Girls will be required to wear the new plain black socks with skirts or the white striped sock if they choose to wear black shorts. 

Not Permitted

• Invisible “sockette” style socks or branded socks such as Nike or Adidas.
• Jewellery items such as beaded anklets

These items are not part of our College uniform and are not permitted to be worn at school.

I thank families for their assistance in ensuring the high standards of our Code of Presentation are maintained.

Mrs Jennifer Furney
Assistant Principal- Pastoral Care