380 Geelong Road, Kingsville Vic 3012 Web: www.cckingsville.catholic.edu.au After care: 0401 501 661 Telephone: 9314 7303 Fax: 9315 2996 Email: [email protected]Email: [email protected]First Communion Last Sunday thirteen students from Corpus Christi received the Sacrament of the Eucharist for the first time. It was wonderful to see our families supporting each other and coming together to celebrate the occasion and to bear witness of our shared faith. Thank you to everyone who assisted in the preparation of our children: Mrs Chloe Sirca, Mr Zachary Lane and Mrs Danielle Camerota for the beautiful preparation of the children; to Miss Jane Wilkinson for co-ordinating such a beautiful liturgy; to Miss Melanie Larkin for leading the congregation in song and; to Fr John O’Connor for celebrating the Mass and to all families who presented their children for the Sacrament. Long Service Leave At the end of this week, Mrs Victoria La Fauci will be taking a period of long service leave as she travels overseas. We hope she has a wonderful time and look forward to hearing the stories of her adventures when she returns at the beginning of next term. Mrs Karly McGregor will be teaching our Year 1/2 children while Victoria is away. Farewell At the end of this term we bid farewell to Mrs Danielle Camerota (Year 3/4C) as she prepares for the birth of her child. Our thoughts are with Danielle and her husband Chris and we can’t wait to meet the new little addition to their family. We hope to have a confirmed teaching appointment within the next week so we can work through our induction processes in the last week of this term. Anima Christi Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within thy wounds hide me. Suffer me not to be separated from thee. From the malicious enemy defend me. In the hour of my death call me and bid me come unto thee That with thy saints I may praise thee forever and ever. Amen. Upcoming Calendar Events (Including Extra Curricula Activities/Celebrations) June 27 th Mid-Year Learning Expo: Night at the Museum 3:30-4:30pm 30 th Student Reports and Portfolios Sent Home End of Term 2: Students finish at 1:00pm July 17 th Term 3 Commences 17 th-28th 2018 Year Prep Interviews August 2 nd School Closure Day: Staff Professional Learning 3 rd Year Prep Fire Brigade Visit 9:30-11:00am 8 th Feast of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop: Mass at 11:30am 8 th-11th Book Fair 18 th Year Prep Fire Brigade Visit(2) 9:30-11:00am 15 th Feast of the Assumption: Mass at 11:30am 24 th Footscray District Interschool Athletics Carnival September 5 th First Reconciliation Family Workshop @ 7:00pm 13 th First Reconcilaition 7:00pm Term 2 Week 10 21 st June 2017
The Year Prep students have been continuing their discussion on different emotions that everyone experiences from time to time. This week they focused on the feeling of being grumpy and how it can lead to feelings of anger. The students thought about scenarios that may lead them to feel angry and how their bodies might show this emotion. They acted out some scenarios through role play and came up with possible solutions for de-escalating their behaviours when they feel this way in order to keep those around them safe. In the Year 1/2 Community this week, the students have been learning about times when it can be hard to join in. They read social stories and then performed role plays about asking people to join in. The students then thought about a time in their own life when they found it difficult to join in or when they felt left out. The students in the Year 3/4 Community have been reflecting on their learning this week and thinking about the things they did well. Focusing on not only their academic achievements, the students also reflected on their social and
emotional learning. From there, the students set goals that they will work towards achieving next term. In the Year 5/6 Community this week, the focus has been on stress. Through discussion, we brainstormed all the things that come to mind when we think of stress. The students then worked in groups to complete an activity where they drew the outline of a person and then identified the physical symptoms of stress. After that, the students thought about a typical day in their life and created their own Stress Arousal Curve to show the times in the day when they experienced stress and other times when they felt very calm and relaxed.
This Friday, Rosabella, Anthony, Maia, Luke and Leena from the Year 5/6 Community will
be the next group to visit Dickory Dock Kindergarten in Kingsville to interact with the children
who will starting Prep next year. Our students will enjoy helping the young children learn
through play and develop their skills in preparation for their buddy role next year.
Miss Melanie Larkin – Student Wellbeing Leader
Liv Dinnen 20th June
Xavier Healey 22nd June
Prep N Angelina Pham
Andrew Shea
Year 1/2 C Mya Malkoun
Year 1/2 H Samuel Langhorne Year 1/2 V Chiara Avery Year 3/4 C Max Papandrea Year 3/4 D Lilli Scarcella
Year 3/4 Z Liv Dinnen
Year 5/6 B Zoe Taylor Year 5/6 S Olivia Anderson Year 5/6 M Richard Tang
OSHClub News After School Care Program Hi families; Can you believe next week is the last week of Term 2? As always, we will be receiving children into OSHClub at 1pm on the last day of term next Friday. Please ensure they have a lunch with them as usual. We will be closing at our usual time of 6pm. Next week we will be celebrating the end of term and I will again be collecting as many ideas as I can from the children about things they would like to make, play, cook and eat next term. We’ll be playing Marker’s Up and Goalie’s Up, Karaoke and dancing, 40-40 Home-base and Crocodile, Dodge ball and Fruit Salad. We’ll be making paper-crafts, colouring, Hama-beading, wool-crafting, building with Lego and Marble Run, playing dressups, dolls, cars and role-playing. Corpus Christi OSHClub has a new email address. You can now contact us at [email protected]. Our new customer service and accounts contact details are 1300 395 735 and [email protected]. You are always welcome to stay for a little while when you collect your children to play with them, look at the Reflection Scrapbook, your child/ren's portfolio, or our Quality Improvement Plan. We’re always grateful for your feedback on any topic. Write us a note, send us an email ([email protected]), leave us a text message (0401 501 661), or just have a chat to us about your ideas. REMINDERS: If you need to cancel ASC please do so on the internet by the previous evening, leave a message on 0401 501 661 on the day, or pop in to let staff know you are collecting your child so that we know where the children are. OSHClub is open 3:00-6:00pm. There is a $2/minute fee for each child that is picked up after 6pm.
Information for Families
OSHClub program phone: 0401 501 661 email: [email protected] Coordinator: Kristen Assistant: Emilia (Milly)
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The four girls, or the ‘Four Musketeers’ as they called themselves, had been really close friends since Primary School. They did everything together. They shared the good times and the bad; they slept over at each other’s houses (frequently at ours), and seemed really happy.
Then one day it all fell apart.
Noticing our daughter seemed unusually quiet I asked, “Is everything OK, you seem a little down?” Then it all came tumbling out.
One of the four had decided it was time to say goodbye. She didn’t want to be part of that friendship group anymore and had already made overtures to another group that she wanted to be best friends with instead.
But rather than explaining her decision, she chose to break all contact with her former best friends and spread rumours that they had been mean to her and it was they who had outed her from the group. Bewildered and hurt the three
girls attempted to rebut the accusations, to no avail. Their frustration led to resentment and anger along with grief that the happy band of four was no more.
Helping our kids deal with relationship issues is an important part of growing up; at any age. As adults we have our previous experience, logic, and reasoning which helps us to keep things in perspective, without resorting to catastrophising or experiencing those intense emotions that can be diffi cult to contain. That’s because the fully mature adult brain uses the pre-frontal cortex (PFC), the thinking part of our brain, to help regulate emotion and behaviour.
But a child does not attain full brain maturity until approximately the age of 24 when cognitive development is complete (boys can be a bit later!). This means our kids see their world through a predominantly emotional lens, they feel emotions more intensely than we do and they react more strongly to those emotions because they lack
the regulatory mechanisms of a fully developed PFC.
Helping a child through a diffi cult time helps them develop a higher level of emotional intelligence (EQ), which helps them to handle those more complex interpersonal relationships as they get older.
It’s hard seeing your child in pain, whether emotional or physical, and it’s natural as a parent to want to fi x it. What matters though is to not intervene with all guns blazing, as this can make matters worse and doesn’t teach our children how to work through a tough time and fi nd their own solutions. It’s diffi cult too if we have a pre-existing relationship with the other parents involved, because the fallout from our children’s friendship issues impacts everyone.
Emotional intelligence remains a work in progress throughout our lives. Dr Jenny Brockis offers parents tips to help children deal with emotional pain
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Allow them to grievePain hurts and that’s normal. Social pain hurts as much as physical pain because they share common neural pathways. Share with your child that you’re sorry they are hurting to help them learn that emotions are normal, and that it’s normal too to feel that their whole world has temporarily turned upside down.
Encourage them to step away from the situationWhen up close it can get very personal. Encourage your child to look at the situation from the other person’s perspective to ease their pain; even though they may not fully understand why the other person acted in the way they did or said those horrid things. This helps them to reframe what happened, elevates empathy and builds resilience to future hurts. What doesn’t work is returning fi re with fi re or blocking communication routes. A nasty comment on Facebook is best not responded to. However, telling your child to not use social media or to ban access to Facebook or their phone isolates them further and means they can’t reach out to their other friends for support.
Off er time and an open earSometimes what helps the most is to just be there. Off ering support so they know you care with a kiss or a cuddle and encouragement to do some ‘normal’ things is what counts, as well as being available to just listen when required. It’s about understanding, not interrogation. They don’t necessarily want our advice!
Move forward with respect and dignityA great friendship is a thing of joy, but many will wax and wane for a variety of reasons. Helping your child to celebrate what makes them feel good about any relationship leads to greater acceptance and tolerance of diff erence.
Emotional intelligence remains a work in progress throughout our lives. It’s something that can always be built on and added to. Helping our children develop their EQ equips them to know they will survive when a relationship goes pear shaped, and increase resilience to life’s knocks. This has to be one of the greatest gifts as parents we can give to our kids.
Dr Jenny Brockis is the Brain Fitness Doctor, author of Future Brain: The 12 Keys to Create Your High-Performance Brain and mother to two young adults.
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