Catherine's News
Dear Parents,
I hope all the dads had a wonderful day on Sunday and for those of us whose fathers are no longer with us, time to reflect on cherished memories.
Yesterday Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria, provided the broad outlines of Victoria’s roadmap for reopening with new information on the potential staged return to onsite learning later this year.
The CECV is continuing to work with the Department of Education and Training on the specific details of the roadmap. I will provide those details later in the week or as soon as practicable.
As per the Premier’s announcement, there will be no changes to the current remote and flexible learning arrangements for the remainder of Term 3.
Thank you for your ongoing support of all of our students and staff.
Parent Teacher Interviews
Parent teacher interviews have now been booked online, for next Wednesday and Thursday. You will receive an email with a link to the google meet this week.
The capacity to report specifically on student learning during a long period of remote learning will be limited. For this reason all conferences will be limited to 10 minutes and will focus on three points for discussion.
- What have you learnt about your child’s learning during this time?
- Teacher to provide feedback on academic progress, based on work handed in during remote learning and on assessments at the end of Term 2.
- Goals for Term 4.
It is important that the interview time is not used to discuss the specific difficulties or challenges that arose during remote learning. Rather, this is a time to reflect on what you know about your child’s learning, receive feedback and set goals. Please come to the google meet prepared to discuss these points (bring notes) which will provide opportunities for your child’s learning into the future.
Google Meets
This is the last week for Term 3 that teachers will be holding google meets with their class. Due to the nature of the activities planned for next week, families can look forward to a lighter workload as we come to the end of the Term.
Coming up Next Week:
- Monday 14 September End of Term Assembly at 9am - a link will be emailed just before 9am.
- Tuesday - normal day but no google meets
- Wednesday and Thursday Online Parent Teacher Interviews Prep - 2 on 16 September, and Yr 3 - 6 on 17 September.
- Wednesday 16 September, will be our usual Specialist Day.
- Thursday 17 September we will be celebrating Grandparents/ Special People Day. A Liturgy and activities will be shared with all families in place of the regular classroom activities to be completed on this day.
- Friday 18 September will be a Pupil Free Day with OSH Club available for any families who require care. All staff will be working off site on this day.
A new Arrival
Congratulations to Katie Lachal and her husband Kirk on the safe arrival of the beautiful Freddie born on 15 July, 2020. Katie has taken to motherhood with style and is loving being a mum!
On Thursday 17th September you are invited to be part of Grandparents and Special Friends Day.
With all that has happened this year sadly we have not been able to come together as a Community and celebrate the gifts of Grandparents.
We ask you to arrange a time on Thursday 17th September where your children can be in contact with their Grandparents/Special Friends or Carers to pray together.
The liturgy link will be sent out to you by email, next Thursday, 17 September, by 9am. You will be able to forward this to your Grandparents or you can arrange a google meet/Zoom/phone call or Facetime.
What we hope is that on this day you can spend some special time with people you love and celebrate each other.
The gift of life is something we don't take for granted and this year has shown us how important keeping in touch is with those we love.
Edward Dooley
Federated Schools Mission and Faith Leader
St Paul's Wellbeing Leader
Yr 4 Digital Technologies Activity
Please click on the link to see what great work the Yr 4s did in week 8.
