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St Mary's Flying Start

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

St. Mary’s Flying Start - A school familiarization program for PRE- SCHOOL CHILDREN

Come and experience life at St. Mary’s enjoying our “Get Reading Right” Phonics, Music, Italian and Digital Literacy Programs for children.

This FREE program will be run in Term 2 and 3 on Friday mornings from 9:30 to 11:00 for all interested families.

Please contact the school office for an enrolment form or for further enquiries phone Mr. Paul Bissinella on 03 50332541 Email principal@smswanhill.catholic.edu.au or visit http://www.smswanhill.catholic.edu.au

Parent's Car Park

Monday, February 13, 2012

Parent's Car Park

Just a reminder to everyone that we continue to use the Murlong Street car park as our parent car park. For the safety of all the children, please make sure you are using the car parking spaces.

 

Parents must park their cars in either the first or second bay of the front carpark and walk their children across the bus bay.  In the morning there will be a teacher on duty to assist with the process of walking children across the bus bay.

 

At 3.15pm children that are town bus travellers will be dismissed. At 3.20pm country bus travellers will be dismissed. At 3.25pm car travellers will be dismissed.  No parents or students will be allowed to cross the bus bay between 3.10pm and 3.25pm.  Teachers will be on duty to ensure student and parent safety. 

 

Parents collecting their children are asked to arrive at 3.25pm, park in one of the allotted spaces and walk into the grassed area at the front of the school to collect their child.  If parents wish to collect their children from the room they must be parked and across the bus bay before 3.10pm and wait on the grassed area until after 3.25pm to cross the bus bay.

The St. Mary's Way

Monday, February 13, 2012

The St. Mary’s Way

Last year our St. Mary’s teachers researched and participated in Professional Learning to develop a whole school Behaviour Management program. We based our investigations on Lee Canter’s Assertive Discipline research and have developed a set of rules and consequences that we are going to promote in both the classroom and playground. The ultimate aim of the program is to teach all the children to manage their behaviour well thus allowing them to focus on their learning and to build positive relationships.

At St. Mary’s we:

  • Follow adult instructions immediately
  • Keep hands, feet and objects to ourselves
  • Do not call out
  • Do not swear,  tease or call others names