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Dear Parents and Carers
Keep the date FREE - Monday 29 July
Susan McLean – Cyber Safety Expert will be visiting St Clare's on Monday 29 July.
Susan will be running workshops with the Year 3 – 6 students at school and will also have a Parent Session on this night at 7pm.
Carpark Works Update
They are nearly finished - pending final inspection we should have access to the new permanent L-Z Kiss and Drop zone next week.
Thank you to everyone for your patience as we complete this project which will provide a safe area for our students and staff for drop off and pick up each day.
Upcoming Dates
Monday 24 June
- Year 2 Assembly at 8.50am
- Year 4 Incursion
- Year 3 and 4 Assembly at 2.30pm
Tuesday 25 June
- Year 1 Excursion to Legoland
Wednesday 26 June
- Year 4 Mass at St Patrick's
Thursday 27 June
- Year 3 Incursion
Friday 28 June
- Last Day of Term 3, students finish at 3.10pm
- Pizza and PJ Day
Monday 15 July
- NO SCHOOL for students, staff professional practice day
Tuesday 16 July
- First day of Term 3
Last Day of Term 2
Pizza and PJ day on Friday 28 June. Pizza orders must be placed by tomorrow, Thursday 20 June.
School finishes at normal time - 3.10pm
Monday 15 July is a school closure day, there is NO SCHOOL for students. Camp Australia is providing care on this day if required. The first day of Term 3 for students is Tuesday 16 July.
Families are invited to join us for our final week assemblies
Monday 24 June
8.50am - Year 2
2.30pm - Year 3 & Year 4
We have some events coming up in Term 3 where some parent help would be greatly appreciated.
The first event is the House Athletics Carnival on Monday 22 July, where we would require assistance with the Foundation to Year 3 event to be held at St Clare’s between 9am and 1:15pm. Students will complete a number of rotations with their usual learning group. Parents would be asked to assist the learning group teacher in running each activity for the students. Students have been practising the events in both P.E and GAMES and should have an understanding of how they work prior to the day.
An explanation of each activity will also be provided to teachers/parents to assist in the delivery of each activity. The breakdown of sessions is as follows:
- Session 1 – 9am – 10:45am
- Recess break
- Session 2 – 11:30am – 1:15pm
Any help would be greatly appreciated for one or both sessions. If you are interested in assisting on the day, please complete the link below by Wednesday 17 July
Athletics Day Parent Helper register
Kind Regards,
Mark Trounson
Parents and Carers - If you can spare any time to cover some new books could you please email gverstraete@stclaresofficer.catholic.edu.au Gab Verstraete. We are happy to show you how to cover the books if this is something you haven’t done before.
We are happy to provide a space at school if a team woud like to come together to cover books after drop off in the mornings.
SCHOOL FEES
LATE ARRIVAL AND EARLY DEPARTURE
Students arriving after 9am must be sigend in at the school office so should be accompanied by an adult/carers who can do so.
Likewise students being collected early must be signed out via PAM or at the school office prior to be collected by a parent. Only parents are able to collect students early - please provide the school with details if someone other than a parent will be collecting them during the school day.
Collection during the lunch break - 1.30pm to 2.10pm can be difficult. Therefore if necessay to collect students early we ask they you do so either before 1.30pm or after 2.10pm.
We remind you that every minute absent from class adds up and does impact learning time.
REPORTING AN ABSENCE
To report your child's absence please do so via PAM, email absent@stclaresofficer.catholic.edu.au or call 5940 6777
Here is the link for the St Clare's Parent Access Module (PAM)
St Clare's PAM
You username is the email address that you have registered with the school. The first time you log in we ask that you use the forgotten password feature to set your own password.
ALL parents must access PAM to receive up to date information and grant necessary permissions. Students will miss out on events if permission is not granted.
CDFpay is a secure, safe and efficient method for ordering and paying for items through school.
Below you will find instructions for setting up your CDFpay account both if you are an existing parent "already have a CDF pay account" or a new parent.
Here is the link to head to our school CDFpay shop St Clare's CDFpay Shop
How to Help Kids Stay Safe Online
Adapted from: https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/blog Office of the eSafety Commissioner
- Start the chat
It’s not possible to be at your child’s side every second of the day, so it’s important to talk with them about online safety issues to help develop their critical thinking and ability to make good choices. It’s also good to let them know they can come to you for help if they have any concerns. You may feel they know more about the latest technology than you do, but you have more life experience to guide them.
- With primary school aged children use online devices in the open living spaces at home to make parent supervision part of the expectation for your child.
- Take the opportunity to set some boundaries around when and where they can use devices like tablets, smart TVs and gaming consoles, to help limit potential tech tantrums — you could even fill in an Early Years Family Tech Agreement
- Screen free time before bed is important for good sleep. Consider charging devices in a central location at a regular time each night to allow an hour screen free before bed.
- While you are all at home more, it’s a great time to co-view and co-play with your kids, so you can understand what they are doing and experiencing online.
- Learn about the games, apps, social media and platforms they are using at The eSafety Guide, including how to protect their information and report inappropriate content or conduct.
- Use parental controls and safe search options
Parental controls can help block your child from accessing specific websites, apps or functions. They can also monitor your child’s use of connected devices and set time limits. But beware! You cannot always rely on them — they should be used in combination with other online safety strategies.
- Parental controls are available on most tablets, smartphones, computers, TVs and gaming consoles.
- You can also download family safety controls or buy robust filters out of the box.
- You can set up child-friendly search engines, or select safe search settings on digital devices, to help prevent your child from stumbling across inappropriate sites and content.
- Check smart toy settings
It’s surprising how many toys or devices can connect online these days, from drones and smart teddies to tablets and wearables. While they can be both entertaining and educational, they can reveal your child’s personal details and location — and allow other people to contact them without you knowing. You can help keep them stay safe by:
- setting strong passwords
- turning off location settings
- limiting the amount of personal information shared.
The eSafety Gift Guide has advice on what to check for and how to stay safe.
- Look out for unwanted contact and grooming
Unwanted contact is any communication that makes your child feel uncomfortable or unsafe, even if they initially welcomed the contact. It can come from a stranger, an online ‘friend’ or even someone they actually know. At worst, it can involve ‘grooming’ — building a relationship with the child in order to sexually abuse them.
You can help by:
- making sure their accounts are private — including chat functions on games
- encouraging them to delete requests from strangers and any contacts they don’t know in person
- checking in with your child as they use online devices in the open living spaces at home
- reporting and blocking anyone suspicious on a website or service
- remembering that if suspicious online contacts become aggressive or threatening you should contact your local police.
- Know the signs of cyberbullying
Kids who are bored by long periods at home can pick at each other, and that happens online too. So it’s important to keep an eye out for cyberbullying. It can include mean posts, comments and messages, as well as being left out of online group activities like gaming.
- Remember, when they are away from school, kids have less access to their usual support systems, including friends, teachers and counsellors.
- eSafety research shows that girls are more likely to be affected than boys and the person doing the bullying is generally someone they know from school.
- Watch out for signs such as your child appearing upset after using their mobile, tablet or computer, being unusually secretive about their online activities or becoming withdrawn.
- Cyberbullying can make social isolation worse and the longer it continues, the more stressed kids can become, impacting on their emotional and physical wellbeing.
What to do if your child is being cyberbullied
As parents, our first instinct may be to ban our children from social media, disable the wi-fi or turn off the data access. But this can actually compound the problem, making your child feel as if they’re being punished and heightening their sense of social exclusion.
There are four simple steps that can help minimise the harm:
- report the cyberbullying to the social media service where it is occurring
- collect evidence of the cyberbullying material
- if the material is still public 48 hours later, make a report to eSafety — we work with social media platforms to have the harmful content removed.
block the offending user.