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Dear Parents,
Below is an article from Michael Grose, one of Australia’s leading parent educators. The article discusses how parents can maximise their child’s chance of future success just by making sure they come to school on time, every day and save absences for genuine illness and poor health.
On time, every day
During the current COVID-19 pandemic parents are rightfully urged to take a cautious approach and keep children and young people at home if they show symptoms of the virus.
It’s a balancing act if you’re a parent as one the most important things you can do to ensure your child has a bright future is to make sure he or she goes to school every day—and gets there on time. It sounds simple, but it’s true. The correlation between school attendance and children’s achievement levels is well established. The more time kids spend at school, the more likely they are to experience school success. Of course, most people know this intuitively, yet school absenteeism is a huge problem in Australian schools.
According to a report by the Australian Curriculum and Assessment authority nearly 13 per cent of Australian students are missing at least one year of schooling by the time they reach year 10. In today’s highly competitive world, this rate of absenteeism is alarming, putting our kids at a distinct disadvantage.
Current research shows that mornings for most children are the most productive time of the day, with 10.00am the peak period for productivity. When children arrive late and take time to settle as they inevitably do, valuable learning time is lost.
It’s reassuring to know that you can maximise their chances of future success just by making sure they turn up to school every day. And, of course, regular school attendance also helps kids prepare for the workforce, where it will be expected that they turn up each day work-ready. The real world is unforgiving of those who stay away with no excuse.
As a parent:
- Commit to sending kids to school every day
- Make sure kids arrive at school and class on time
- Inform the school when they are away, sending medical certificates and other evidence of genuine absence
- Follow current COVID-19 health guidelines and recommendations
- Consider catching-up on missed work
- Make kids who are away stay in their bedroom, which is where unwell kids should be
Kind regards,
Joel
- CALENDAR OF EVENTS
TERM 2 2021
June
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 17th | 18th | |||
| 21st | 22nd | 23rd |
24th whole School Mass @10.00am (to be confirmed) School Reports go home with students |
25th Last Day Of Term 2 School Assembley @ 1.45pm 2.20pm finish |
TERM 3 2021
July
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 12th First day of Term 3 | 13th | 14th | 15th |
16th Winter Sports
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| 19th | 20th | 21st Year 3 & 4 Phillip Island Camp | 22nd Year 3 & 4 Phillip Island Camp | 23rd Year 3 & 4 Phillip Island Camp |
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26th School Photos |
27th School Advisory Committee Meeting@ 5.15pm | 28th | 29th | 30th School Closure Day |
August
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 2nd Yarram Eisteddfod | 3rd Yarram Eisteddfod | 4th Yarram Eisteddfod | 5th Yarram Eisteddfod | 6th Yarram Eisteddfod |
| 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th |
| 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th |
| 23rd | 24th | 25th | 26th
Book Week Library Visit
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27th Book Week Dress up Day |
September
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 30th Sep | 31st Sep | 1st | 2nd | 3rd School Closure Day |
| 6th | 7th School Advisory Committee Meeting@ 5.15pm | 8th | 9th | 10th |
| 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th Last day of Term 3 2.20pm finish |
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Bike Ed was really fun because it taught you how to go in a straight line and slow so if you need to turn. It teaches you to slow down so you can use your brakes and stop at the right time, we also got taught how to use hand signals on the road. It was really fun because they took us out on the road and we went into single file and then in partners
By Bianca
Bike Ed was fun because we got to go on a ride around the street and we had to do a challenge day after all our training.
By Harry
Bike Ed was really fun because we could bring a bike but they did have spare bikes as well. We did lots of obstacle courses and we all rode around out in a line in the street on the last day and got sausages at the end.
By Olivia
I like Bike Ed because I like riding bikes. It's my favourite thing to do. The activities were really difficult/easy and the activities were fun and a big challenge. My favourite activity was when we went for a bike ride down the street and it was really fun.
By Nate
I really enjoyed Bike Ed. My favourite part about Bike Ed was the bike ride around Yarram. Whilst on the bike ride, I discovered 2 new streets, well, at least new to me, I also liked when Mr. Sheedy set up the bike track inside the hall, it was a bit small, until he expanded it to the outside.
By Riley
TERM 2
MONDAY 19TH APRIL - FRIDAY 25TH JUNE
TERM 3
MONDAY 12TH JULY - FRIDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
TERM 4
MONDAY 4TH OCTOBER - THURSDAY 16TH DECEMBER
Thank you all for your understanding and patience with collecting your pies. A big thank you goes out to Janette, Sharon, Trace, Jo and Deb for collecting, organising, delivering and freezing the pies that could not be collected on the day.
