Principal Message

Hello families of St Mary's,

   I hope you are all staying warm as we head into the Winter months here in Bowraville. A few updates from me for the Week 6 Newsletter. 

Child Protection Policy

As part of our commitment to ensuring a safe learning environment for all children, please see our Child Protection Policy & Procedures on our web page here.

Under our Child Safeguarding statement, all staff are committed to working towards keeping our children safe at all times. It is important that parents are aware of our processes should you need to raise a concern at a school level.

Green Zone for parents

To ensure that we are keeping all of our children safe and following Child Safeguarding protocols, can I please ask all families to report to the Office to drop off/sign out your children.

Parents are only permitted in the COLA area and front office during school hours unless there is a particular event occurring in our classrooms. This is known as our school Green Zone. Aunty George and Leia will call to classrooms, to inform particular students that they need to be collected. 

Thank you for your cooperation with this matter and ensuring we are keeping our school compliant with Child Safe standards. 

Baptism

I have had a number of families inquire about having their child or children undertake the Sacrament of Baptism. This is really exciting. For all enquiries, please contact the Nambucca Valley Parish on 6568 1107. Parents will need to attend a meeting with Fr Peter, prior to getting their child Baptised.

Barrmarrrany Girrwaa - Family group

A very big thank you to all the families that attended our first Barrmarany Girrwaa meeting last week. We had such an amazing turn up. When we asked our families, what values were important to them, these were some of your ideas:

  • Life skills

  • Happiness - Social and emotional well-being

  • Friendship

  • Confidence

  • Involvement

  • Resilience

  • Self-worth, and 

  • Respect

Thank you to all of our families for contributing to this important conversation.

Reports

Reports for Semester 1 will go live on Compass on Friday the 28th of June. Our reporting templates have once again changed to be in alignment with System recommendations. Parents will have an opportunity to meet with your child's teacher on Wednesday the 26th of June for an update on your child's progress and learning. 

Staff Leave

This is just an update for our families, Miss Amy Chapman will be taking leave for weeks 8,9 & 10 this term, and I will be on leave, Term 3 - Weeks 1,2 & 3. Please contact Amy should you require anything during this time.

Thank you, 

Nadine