Dear Parents and Carers

It is hard to believe we have passed the middle point of Term 2 already!

Kindergarten Interviews started for 2025

This week I have started undertaking 2025 Kindergarten interviews.  This is always a delightful time of the year, meeting parents and students and discussing the start of their child’s formal schooling.  Offers for places at Rosary will be sent before the end of this term. 

2025 Leaving Students Notification

If you are enrolling your child in another school for 2025 i.e. Marist, St Edmund’s, interstate, overseas - please let our office staff know as soon as you can.  We do have a waiting list on a number of year levels so it is beneficial to know if there will be vacancies for 2025.  Thank you.    

Agriculture Club Excursion

This week students part of our agriculture club at school and other interested students attended an excursion to the Australian Agricultural Centre in Crookwell.  It is ‘Sheep Week’ and the Crookwell community offered an educational program and experience for students to learn more about the wool industry, farming and agricultural practices. This was a unique experience for the 35 students that attended and hopefully it has broadened their knowledge in this area and motivated them to learn more through their lunchtime club.  We have lots of rural families with children attending the school so this enrichment activity may have interested them too.

CLAIM THE DATE 

Rosary 2024 School Photos - Thursday 13 June (Week 7)

Please be aware of this date coming up and if possible ensure that your child attends school on time for the series of class photos that will start at 9.00am this day.  Students will need to be in full winter school uniform on this day, regardless if this is one of their sports days. Teachers will adjust school sports days or lessons this week if needed. Thank you.

 

Semester One (Mid-Year)  Reporting Period Approaching

Students are working hard in their classrooms and teachers are beginning to assess students on recent work prior to moderating and grading students for their Semester One Report. Parents and carers will receive their child’s report card in Week 9 this term, on Wednesday 26 June.   

Claim the Dates:

You will be invited to attend a parent teacher conference in Week 10, on either Monday 1 July or Tuesday 2 July. An online booking sheet for times will be released in advance of this time. 

Across our Catholic Primary Schools the 2024 Semester One report will have overall grades awarded for each subject as well as indicators of performance in each strand of some core subjects, like English, Mathematics and The Arts. There will be no written comments included in the report this Semester, but they will be included in the 2024 Semester Two Report.  This makes the upcoming parent teacher conferences very important to discuss your child’s progress in the first half of the year.      

Although the times mentioned above are our formal whole school meeting times, please remember that you can make an appointment with your child’s teacher at any time of the year to discuss their academic progress or social skills/development. 

Winter Uniform Reminder and Hats Not Compulsory

Just a reminder that all students should now be wearing their full winter uniform. 

In line with Sunsmart advice, our students at Rosary will not be required to wear a school hat in June or July, the main winter months when UV rates are at their lowest. Some students may have sensitive skin and are of course permitted to wear their hat through winter if they wish.

Students may wear a plain black or navy beanie with their school uniform to keep warm.  Please no other coloured or beanies with logos to be worn. Plain black jackets are permitted to be worn in winter too.  

Wishing you all the best for the Sovereign's (King’s) Birthday this Monday 10 June.  I hope you have a good long weekend.

God Bless

Greg Walker

• Sovereigns Birthday Public Holiday - Monday 10th June
• School Photos - Thursday 13th June - Full School Uniform to be worn
• ACT 12 & U Cross Country Championship - Friday 14th June - Mount Stromlo
• Lace Tying Workshops - Monday 17th June - Kinder and Year 1 
• Semester One Reports Available on Compass - Wednesday 26th June

Kinder Paris - Olive W

Kinder Nagoya - Natalie P

1 Hague - Buddy C

1 Vienna - Siena B

2 Barcelona - Kay R

2 Osaka - Will M

3 Bangkok - Myles D, Klara N

3 Casablanca - Hunter L, Hazel S

3 Cairo - Audrey J

4 Dublin - Luca P, Harry P

4 Rome - Valentina Q, Michael T

5 Panama - Eve A

5 Washington - Lincoln W

6 Athens - April S

6 London - Gadhen D

Rosary Netball Club will be holding training sessions this term on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons between 3.30pm and 4.30pm on the school netball courts. 

Cold and Flu season is now upon us. To assist in preventing the spread of illness, we seek your co-operation keeping children at home if they are unwell and regularly reminding children about basic hygiene practices including:

Hand Hygiene: frequent washing of hands with soap and water. Using hand sanitizer where apporpriate.

Coughing/Sneezing Etiquette: covering of the mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing, disposing of the tissue in the bin and washing hands. Alternatively, coughing into the elbow.

We thank you for your cooperation with this matter.

The School Counsellor is at Rosary all day Mondays and Tuesdays during each school term.

How to make an appointment

If your child was seen by the School Counsellor last year and you would like them to receive support in 2023, we require you to complete a new counselling registration form. Please either contact your child’s class teacher or Greg Walker- the Principal for further information.

Similarly, new referrals and requests can be made by contacting your child’s class teacher or Greg Walker- the Principal for further information.

Parent consent for counselling continues to be required for all primary school students and will be sought and provided via email. Where parents are separated, we require the written consent of both parents. Once the referral has been received by myself- School Counsellor- I will make contact with parents on my next day at Rosary to further discuss the referral.

More about School counselling/how to access school counselling at Rosary Primary School

As part of the pastoral care program for students at Rosary, students have access to a Student and Family Counselling service provided by MaryMeadCatholicCare Canberra & Goulburn (MCCG). MCCG are contracted by the CEO to provide a counselling service to students and their families on site. There is no fee to access this service. The service offers short term counselling support (roughly up to six sessions per referral issue) to children and their families – the counsellor can also provide referrals for more complex issues requiring intensive or long term therapy/support.

The role of the counsellor is to focus on the emotional, social and educational well-being of the students. Counsellors welcome contact with students having difficulty with some part of their life, the problem does not have to be a big one. It is better to seek help sooner rather than later. Some typical

concerns that counsellors work with include: anger, anxiety, behavioural problems, low mood, family changes/separation, grief and loss, learning and educational challenges, parenting challenges, peer and other social relationships, school avoidance, stress and study skills. As well as individual sessions with students, counsellors can run groups, consult with parents and teachers and make referrals to other services and supports.

Student and Family Counsellors subscribe to a set of professional ethics that include duty of care and respect for the individual rights to privacy and confidentiality. The counsellors’ obligation is to ensure the safety, well-being and confidentiality of the student they are working with. All counsellors are mandated to report any disclosure or sign of abuse (including self-harm) or neglect to Child Protection Services. Outside of our mandated requirements, all counselling sessions are confidential and the details will not be discussed with other parties unless written consent is given by the client.

Sarah Foley- is onsite at Rosary Mondays and Tuesdays during term.

Whole Day Absences

If your child is absent from school for a whole day or longer, please submit details of the absence via the Parent Portal. This should be completed within 7 days of the absence.  There is no need to adjust times for whole day absences.

If your child will only be absent for a partial day, the absence will be recorded as your child is signed in or out via the kiosk at the front office. You do not need to add an early pick up or late drop off via the Parent Portal.

Unexplained absences for your child will be displayed on your homepage when you log in to Parent Portal.

If an unexplained absence appears that you believe to be incorrect, please send an email to the front office for investigation.

Access to the clothing pool will now be as follows:

Monday - Friday - Before and after school only

Thank you to our wonderful parent volunteers who maintain the space for our community.

Please note: All donations of preloved uniforms (in good wearable condition) are welcome at the front office.

There are many extracurricular activities available onsite for our Rosary Students.  Please note all of these activities attract a fee and are delivered by external providers.  Please see the timetable below for details:

• French Lessons - Monday 3.10pm - 4.20pm (continuing) / Wednesday 8.00am - 9.00am (beginner)
• Action Tae Kwon-Do - Monday 6.30pm Children class / 7:30pm Adult class
• Chess Club - Tuesday 3.10pm - 4.30pm (Weeks 1-9)
• Zanshin Martial Arts - Tuesday 6.30pm Junior class / 7:30pm Senior class
• Artkids - Thursday 3.15pm - 5.00pm
• Italian Lessons - Friday 8:00am - 9:00am (beginner) 
• Musicorp (various instruments) / Piano Lessons - Friday 8:20am and during class time throughout the day
• Block Crafters - Wednesday Week 2 - Coding and Robotics After School Programme for interested students aged 8-12 years (currently fully booked).
• Dance Club - PLAY - The Dance Agency - Tuesdays at Lunchtime from Weeks 2-10 - Kinder to Year 4

Please contact the school if you require further information.

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