Week 7 Term 2

Welcome to Week 7 We are well and truly into the reporting time of our busy semester. All students are encouraged to continue to take ownership of their learning and how they prepare themselves for learning. All St Peter’s students are now familiar with their “Feeling Zones” which helps them to plan and get ready to be active and engaged learners in class. Next week is “Wellbeing Week”, so this is a perfect time for the students to reflect of how they are feeling.

Today our Year 6 students, teachers and school officers are heading away to camp for three days on the beautiful Gold Coast. We wish them all the best on their amazing adventures. Keep a look out for our Facebook updates for all the action.

Well Being Week – Let’s Build It - Next week (Week 8 – 4-8th June) is this term’s

Wellbeing Week. We continue with our St Peter’s Every Day focus with students testing out

tools that help them get into the green zone of learning. Throughout the week all students

will try various regulation strategies – moving, breathing, rhythming, and time out strategies

and nominate their top tools. The Year 6 students and staff have got many resources

together. You are more than welcome to check out our website and grab some of the great

tools that you can use with your children at home. A great website (free but also has paid

section) full of tools for movement and mindfulness etc is GONOODLE.

30 May – 1 June - Year 6 Camp 1 June – Assembly (3A)

4-8 June – Well Being Week 6 June – Chocolate State of Origin 8 June – Assembly (2A) 10 June – School/Parish Family Mass 9am 11 June – P&F and Fete Meeting 11 June – Year 5 and 6 Parent and Child Education Evening 6.30pm-8pm 13-15 June – School External Review 15 June – Assembly (1A)

PRINCIPAL

Bronwyn Buckley

APA

Robert Campbell

ACTING APRE

Kathleen Crawford

PRIMARY LEARNING

LEADER

Jo Cridland

PARISH PRIEST

Fr Baiyi Gong

State of Origin Class v Class

Competition – next Wednesday

6 June, we will be holding a fete

fundraiser event. To celebrate the

State of Origin, students are able

to wear their maroon (red) or blue

on the day and donate chocolate

bars. Each chocolate donated gets

State of Origin Points for your

child's class. A family size block of

chocolate earns 6 points (a

converted try), long skinny bars

earn 2 points (goal), and small

chocolates like Freddos earn 1

point (field goal).

The winning class receives a prize!

The more chocolates the better!!

PB4L Update - This term at St Peter’s our focus is to continue to create engaged learners who are responsible for

their own learning. These ROCKS rules incorporate our RESPECT and OWN IT learning behaviours. For the remainder of the term students will learn to reflect on their own learning, be organised for class, be curious and motivated to learning and keep a sharp focus on what tasks are

being set. To further enhance our students’ preparation to learning they have been gaining a greater understanding of their own feelings and this can impact on the way they learn in class. The “Feeling Zones” that the students’ are understanding also contributes to having, not only a calm classroom, but a safe and fun playground.

At St Peter’s we will continue to reward positive behaviours in the classroom and on the playground and persevere in the re-teaching of inappropriate behaviours, so that all students have the opportunity to grow academically and socially.

Quick Messages

P&F and Fete Meeting – The minutes for last months’ meeting can be found on the

Parent Portal or by clicking here. Please come along to share your ideas at the next meeting on Tuesday 11 June.

Congratulations – The outstanding performance of our Zone Cross Country runners meant that St Peters were awarded 2nd Overall in Division 2 and 1st for the Aggregate Trophy in Division 2 at the recent Catholic Schools Zone Carnival.

Under 8’s Week – We concluded last weeks Under 8’s Week with a Cultural Day on Friday celebrating all the different cultures in our St Peters Community. Some of us dressed up and we all shared each other’s cultural dishes.

Click here to hear us say thanks…

Sorry Day Assembly – At assembly last week 5A shared the power of National Sorry Day, we reflected on how we might create a more powerful and peaceful relationship with all Australians, in particular our first Australians.

Tuckshop News - Thank you to the wonderful mums who came into help in tuckshop last week. Winter is upon us

and that means adults and children alike can be unwell and away from school. Tuckshop has the challenge of providing

a service to our school community with the possibility of being shorthanded due to illness. Please watch the school

and P&F Facebook pages for notifications relating to tuckshop volunteers and help out if you can!

Tuckshop is also

looking for more

Homebakers to be

added to the

homebake roster. If

you are interested,

please give your

details (preferably an

email address) to the

front office and

Ainsley will be in

touch. Homebake is a

way to volunteer

without stepping foot

inside Tuckshop!

Ainsley Weldon, Tuckshop Convenor

PARENT FEEDBACK AND IDEAS SHARING

As has been mentioned in previous newsletters the school is introducing a formal St Peter’s Shirt We’d love your input

on the best way to do this.

School Formal Shirt: A sample is available at the school office for you to feel. We’ve had lots of excited students come

for a look and the parents that have been through have been overly positive about the new shirt. We will take the

display down to assembly on Friday so parents can check out the shirt sample.

From the supplier: UMS

has designed the Unisex

Shirt for St Peter's

Catholic Primary School

to offer a smart formal

look in a comfortable,

easy care fabric. The

fabric is incredibly easy

to care for, saving time

during washing and

ironing. This popular

UM ‘Breeze’ fabric is

made using specialised

‘cool plus’ yarn,

resulting in a fabric that

is lightweight and

highly breathable which

is perfectly suited to

the Queensland

climate.

Tuckshop Roster

8.30am-11am

8.30am-11am

8.30am-11am

11am-1.30pm

11am-1.30pm

11am-1.30pm

Thursday 31 May

Tracey D’E Kirsty S Krystal C Tracey D’E Kirsty S Krystal C

Friday 1 June Kerri M Kelly H Tracey D”E

Kerri M Tracey D”E

Louisa P

Terri O’D Louisa P

Angela W

Thursday 7 June

Tracey D’E Kirsty S Louisa P Tracey D’E Kirsty S Louisa P

Friday 8 June Kerri M Amorita O Krystal C Kerri M Amorita O Krystal C HELPER NEEDED

HELPER NEEDED

Angela W

Some points about the new shirt

- It’s a unisex shirt (in line with current focus on school uniforms)

- Matches current uniform range

- Fabric can be washed, flicked/fanned out and hung straight on a hanger – Quick dry

- Doesn’t need ironing

- Can be worn with shorts (boys and girls) and culottes

- Price will be comparable to school polo shirt

- It looks great in presenting and presents a more formal image into our community

The plan for uniforms

- Our current polo shirt will become our sports shirt (possibly worn twice a week)

- Current coloured sports shirts to be worn on whole school sports days (cross country, swimming, athletics, house

days (these are being investigated), some special occasion days like in wellbeing weeks – possibility 10 days per year).

The current coloured shirts are available to purchase until stocks run out. Families may then source their o wn version of

a coloured shirt.

- Students in Yr. 6 in 2019 have the choice to purchase the formal shirt. It is not expected.

- It would be anticipated that once current excess polo shirts life span (including look has gone) then formal shirts

would be purchased. This is relevant to shirts that are being passed down to siblings.

To access the survey to have your say on

implementation click on the link. The survey

should take no more than 10 minutes to answer

and closes next Friday 8 June.

If you are a volunteer at St Peter’s in any capacity

(excursions, tuckshop, library, classroom help,

coaching) you must complete the following online

training course. It takes less than 30 minutes. At

the end of the training there is a form to print out

and return to the school office. This remains

current for the year.

Please click to access Volunteer

Training

Parent and Child Education Evening

11th June 6.30 to 8.00pm

This term students and parents in Grade 5 and 6 have been invited to attend a Personal Development evening, “Life Work in Progress” The session is titled “Stepping Up To Puberty” and will focus on the normal emotional and physical changes that young people go through as part of the process of puberty. Parents and children will be involved in a discussion around this process. This evening is run by experienced educators with an understanding of the catholic perspective in relationships and sexuality education. The content provided is age appropriate. The content of the evening will include:

• Change as a natural part of life and who to speak about puberty with

• Puberty changes – focus on respect for self and others, and taking personal responsibility for hygiene and self -management of moods

• Girls and Boy physical and emotional development.

• Fertilisation and foetal development before birth

• Dealing with changes and self-care

• Displays of models and resources

Message from the Australian Government regarding the New child care package –

important information…

There’s not long to go before the New Child

Care Package is introduced on 2 July. If you

access Outside School Hours Care, or Vacation

Care, you will be affected by these changes.

The new Package will overhaul the current child

care fee assistance to provide more support for

more families.

The key facts you need to know:

• On 2 July, the current Child Care Rebate and Child Care Benefit will be replaced by a single Child Care Subsidy.

• Low and middle-income families will no longer have an annual cap on the amount of subsidised child care they can

claim and families with higher incomes (earning up to $351,248) also benefiting with the cap being increased from

$7,613 to $10,190 per child per year.

• Three things will determine how much Child Care Subsidy families can access including: combined family income,

activity level of parents, and the type of child care service they use.

• A wide range of activities will be recognised for the Child Care Subsidy including: paid work (including leave), study or

training, unpaid work in a family business, looking for work, volunteering, self-employment, setting up a new

business (for up to six months) and other activities on a case-by-case basis. If paid or unpaid maternity leave is a

condition of your employment, then that is also considered a recognised activity under the activity test.

• To transition to the subsidy, you’ll need to provide some new information and confirm your current details now

through myGov. To find out more information, visit education.gov.au/childcare

A Message from The Brisbane Roar - The Brisbane Roar are bringing their Roar Active Program to the

following ever popular indoor locations. This is an ideal way to gain extra skills and game awareness while having FUN BRISBANE INDOOR CLINICS 2nd 3rd 4th July- Brisbane City Indoor Sports Centre, Newmarket -9:00am – 12:00pm 2nd 3rd 4th July- Brisbane City Indoor Sports Centre, Coorparoo - 9:00am – 12:00pm 9th 10th 11th July- Morayfield Indoor Leisure Centre. Morayfield - 9am-12pm Wonderful clinics for children to learn new skills while having FUN playing our beautiful game in a safe environment. BRISBANE ROAR ACTIVE WORLD CUP DAYS July 5th Caloundra Indoor Stadium 9am-12pm July 12th Brisbane City Indoor Sports 9am-12pm The World Cup day involves no coaching or drills just match play. We get the children into teams with their friends and they represent a country – It’s a simple concept but all children just love game play – the 3 hours is pretty intensive with round robin group games and then finals resulting in multiple games with little time off the pitch. We pump out of the music and let the players weave their magic and have FUN! To view and register these clinics please go to www.roaractive.com.au and select Holiday Programs. Tell your friends, places will be limited and we hope you can join us for some Football fun with our Brisbane Roar Coaching Team. Kind Regards, Andy Pinches BRFC Community Football Program Manager 0402 634 774