Wellbeing Week

This week marked our annual Wellbeing Week. Wellbeing Captains Charli Pelham, Otis Smith, Bridget Eames and Scarlett Booth, along with our Wellbeing Counselors organised a range of activities throughout the week to profile and raise awareness of the importance of looking after your wellbeing and the wellbeing of others.

Students engaged in writing and sharing affirmations with each other. Students were able to enjoy watching the Olympics at lunch time. Our Health Centre Coordinator, Maintenance Team and Canteen Staff arranged a free breakfast for students and staff to enjoy this morning. However, our big event took place on Tuesday with Farmer Daryl Sheridan bringing his mobile farm to the College. Throughout the day our students were able to come and spend time with his vast array of animals. It was a beautiful sunny day and it was so good to see all the joy and smiling faces of our students as they were interacting with the beautiful animals.

Another offering in Wellbeing week was our Parent Engagement Evening with Diversity and Inclusion consultant,  Bree Gorman. Thank you to Bree and the parents who came to this event for sharing your stories, seeking support and engaging with Bree and this event.

Year 9 Melbourne Experience

Coming up next week, our Year 9s will begin their Melbourne Experience days. Students and teachers have been busy planning and organising each of the days, and are looking forward to to exploring our state capital.

I would like to draw particular attention to this Information Booklet which is attached to the your permission acknowledgement in PAM.

Things to note:

• Transport to Melbourne will be by bus each day, departing SHC at approximately 9am. This means students can arrive at school as per their normal day.
• Transport returning from the city will vary each of the days for students, depending on their homeroom. Please pay particular attention to the pick up times and locations identified on the PAM permission form and in the Information Booklet.
• Please be aware of our legal duty of care responsibilities. Teachers must sight and sign students over to their parents/guardians at the end of the day.
• Parents, Guardians must notify in writing to Angelica Violante or Matt Carroll (aviolante@shckyneton.catholic.edu.au or mcarroll@shckyneton.catholic.edu.au) if you are organizing for another parent or guardian to collect your child. This person must be sighted, and sign for both students.
• Students may only be collected from the scheduled drop off points identified on the PAM permission form and in the Information Booklet.
• Any parents wishing to collect their child from Melbourne, must communicate this ahead of the day to Angelica Violante or Matt Carroll (aviolante@shckyneton.catholic.edu.au or mcarroll@shckyneton.catholic.edu.au) and must be there in person and be at the nominated pick up location. If parents are late, particularly where public transport is involved, teachers will have to take the student with them back to Kyneton.
• No students will be allowed to go off unsupervised to catch other public transport or meet their parents at another location. Again, this is because of our legal duty of care obligations.

If you have questions please contact Angelica Violante or Matt Carroll (aviolante@shckyneton.catholic.edu.au or mcarroll@shckyneton.catholic.edu.au)

Afterschool Reflection Session

I sent out a communication earlier in the term regarding changes we have made to follow up for students who have not met the Colleges expectations for behavior and uniform. I have included part of this communication below. Please refer back to your emails for the entire communication.

Beginning in Term 3, 2024, we have implemented some changes to the way we follow up with students who consistently breach the College’s expectations the following ways:

• Disrupting the learning environment in class
• Exhibiting disrespectful behavior towards other students and staff
• Not completing class work or assessment tasks
• Not wearing uniform correctly

We have implemented an After School Reflection Session (ASRS) on Mondays each week from 3.30pm to 4.30pm. Here students will have the opportunity to either catch up on class work, study or finish outstanding classwork, or engage in service activities for the College. The session will be supervised by the Deputy Principal Student Wellbeing.

• Prior to the implementation of the ASRS, students and parents will have already received a number of notifications through SIMON/PAM.

• A student will only receive an ASRS relating to uniform if there have been 5 or more unexplained occurrences over a 30 day period.

• If parents have any questions about notifications they can seek clarification by contacting the reporting teacher identified at the bottom of notification via PAM, phone or email.

Students and parents/guardians will be notified of an ASRS in two ways.

1. An automatic letter will be generated and sent to the email you have registered with us indicating the time and date of the ASRS.
2. Year Level Leaders or Heads of School will also reach out to you to confirm the session.