Term 2 Week 3
Key Information
Term 1 Important Dates
- Week 4
- Monday 6th May - Labour Day Public Holiday
- Tuesday 7th - Friday 10th May - Mother's Day Stall; Scholastics Book Fair
- Thursday 9th May - Mother's Day Chaplaincy Breakfast, 7:45-8:20am; QMEA STEM Unearthed Year 9; Opera Queensland workshop with Choir students
- Friday 10th May - Under 8's Day (Connecting Culture through play), 9-11am
- Week 5
- Tuesday 14th May - FACE Meeting (Fete planning), 2-4pm
- Friday 17th May - Term 2 Ride to School Day; Assembly, 8:30am
- Saturday 18th May - Open Day, 9-11am
- Week 6
- National Volunteer Week
- Tuesday 21st May - Parish Meeting, 3:15pm
- Friday 24th May - Shake and Stir Performance & Workshop (The Twits), 9am
- Week 7
- National Reconciliation Week
- Tuesday 28th May - Board Meeting, 5:30pm
- Friday 31st May - 2024 Athletics Carnival
- Week 8
- Wednesday 5th June - World Environmental Day (Activities with Pastoral Care); State of Origin Free Dress Day
- Friday 7th June - Assembly
- Week 9
- Wednesday 12th June - School Officer Day
- Friday 16th June - Cloncurry Show Public Holiday
- Week 10
- Tuesday 18th June - Board Meeting, 5:30pm
- Thursday 20th June - Walk to School Day
- Friday 21st June - Assembly, 8:30am; Dress Like Your Teacher Day; International Day of Yoga (Lunchtime Activities)
Tuckshop News
Our special for Week 4 is: Creamy Chicken Gnocchi & Golden Gaytime Slice
Please have your orders in by WEDNESDAY 8:30 am.
To order: https://myschoolconnect.com.au/
OUR TUCKSHOP CREW NEEDS YOU
Miss Jamie-Lea is looking for some wonderful volunteers to help her in Tuckshop on Thursdays! You do not have to be a parent to volunteer. We have had grandparents, Auntys, uncles, friends and cousins as well as mums and dads. If you are interested in volunteering please join Miss Jamie-Lea's tuckshop volunteer group 
https://m.facebook.com/groups/
Please email Jamie-Lea at jmcconachy@sjctsv.catholic.edu.au or call the office to let us know if you're available to volunteer!
Uniform Shop
Our Uniform Shop is now located in the office. We are open to orders being placed via the app, https://myschoolconnect.com.au/
Please give us 24 hours to organise collection for your order; we generally contact you when your order is ready to collect.
If you are needing students to try on sizes, we are available:
Monday from 2:30-3pm and Wednesday from 8:10-8:30am.
As this is a new system for us, please be kind and considerate while we find our feet in the new office space.
Miss Heather
General News
Principal's News
Dear Parents and Carers
With only just over a week until we celebrate Mother’s Day, I would like to take this chance to invite all mothers to join in our Mother’s Day breakfast on Thursday 9th May from 7.45 - 8.15am in MMC. This breakfast allows us to show our gratitude to all our mothers. We will also have some entertainment from our very talented school choir.
As you are aware, Mrs Rachel Lovett-Delaney is currently on maternity leave. I am very pleased to announce that a very healthy little Theodore (Teddy) River Delaney arrived on the 22nd April. This little miracle is a reminder to us how blessed we are to have children in our lives. Congratulations to Rachel and James Delaney and we wish them all the best as they navigate through the role of parenthood.
As we being our 2025 Enrolment Campaign, another important event taking place will be our Open Day on Saturday 18th May. This showcase event is an opportunity for future families and students to come into the school and see exactly what we offer here at St Joseph’s. It is also a chance for new families to talk to staff and current students and collect enrolment packs and information about our school. There will be interactive activities for the children and our classrooms will be open for you to inspect. So, if you know someone who is thinking about joining St Joseph’s in 2025, be sure to tell them about this event.
Congratulations to our amazing cross-country runners who competed on Monday! A spectacular day set the backdrop for our cross country. It was wonderful to see families cheering on our students. With the Athletics carnival not far away, I am certain the competition was intense. We will be holding a special Awards Assembly on Tuesday at 2.30pm in the MMC. Please join us.
A reminder that this weekend is a three day weekend, with Monday being the Labour Day holiday. I wish you all an enjoyable weekend.
God Bless
Mrs Karen Good
Acting Principal
Deputy's News
Today I would like to share with you our most recent professional development day and how this has benefited our teachers, students and ultimately the quality of education we provide here at St Joseph’s Cloncurry.
Last Friday, our teachers and school officers had the chance to upskill with the new, Version 9 (V9.0) Curriculum – I have added some information on V9 to the end of this article for those interested in knowing more about the changes in education. As educators, we must stay up to date with the most current educational standards and build our capacity to deliver the most engaging lessons for our students. Friday gave us that chance. I am very thankful for TCE’s initiative to provide this professional development opportunity and to the parents and caregivers for your support of the pupil-free day.
The day centred around three main concepts: alignment with educational standards, meeting diverse student needs, and enhancing pedagogical practices. Teachers started the day by diving into literature about the curriculum changes, closely followed with time to identify the changes relevant to their context/year level. Our school officers spent their first session collaborating with our speech pathologist examining programs for our diverse learners and how they can support students' learning using programs such as Read and Write.
After our break, teachers and school officers joined for the remainder of the day. Our team of educators explored methods for quickly identifying student learning needs, particularly in reading. They also delved into visible learning principles, assessing the impact – effect size – of teaching strategies on student outcomes, including how they affect our First Nations students. We concluded our day by consolidating everything we had discussed to ensure a clear vision and direction for our school.
V9 information for parents
In 2008, all governments agreed a national curriculum was needed to deliver an equitable, quality education for all young Australians and the national curriculum was then developed over several years. The national curriculum is reviewed every 6 years and the 2020– 2021 review resulted in the Australian Curriculum, Version 9.0.
The latest Australian Curriculum Review made improvements to the Foundation (Prep) to Year 10 curriculum by refining, realigning and decluttering the content.
Mr Dean Kelley
Deputy Principal - Teaching and Learning
APRE
St Joseph the Worker Feast Day
This Wednesday was the feast of St Joseph the Worker. As a school, we celebrated this day in conjunction with our Cross Country on Monday. Our students shared in a sausages sizzle, icy poles, enjoyed a dance party at lunch and finished off by joining their buddy classes to complete St Joseph inspired activities. A big thank you to Mr Kelley for cooking all the sausages!
St Joseph the Worker Day is one of two feast days that honors St.Joseph—with the second one being the Feast of St. Joseph the Husband of Mary, held on March 19th.
The feast of St Joseph not only honours Joseph for his participation in the creative work of God but also honours the dignity of work by everyone who does it. Pope Pius XII said Saint Joseph was a model of holiness to all workers.
“The spirit flows to you and to all men from the heart of the God-man, Savior of the world, but certainly, no worker was ever more completely and profoundly penetrated by it than the foster father of Jesus, who lived with Him in closest intimacy and community of family life and work,” (Pope Pius XII).
The feast day was established to both honour Saint Joseph and to make people aware of the dignity of human work.
Notices:
School Mother’s Day Stall: the school will run a Mother’s Day stall next week. Gifts are starting from $3 to $15 and will be on sale in the UMY’s eating area.
Mother’s Day Breakfast: Thursday 9th May from 7:45 am in the Mary MacKillop shed. Performances from our school choir and a special whole school song at 8:10 am.
Have a blessed week,
Therese Curley
APRE
Pastoral Care
URSTRONG - Think of Yourself as a Friendship Coach
In late 2016, writer and author Kasey Edwards reached out to me and asked: Should parents get involved in their kids’ friendships? As she detailed in her article that published in The Sydney Morning Herald, my answer was simple: No.
As I said to Kasey, the message that we want to give our children is, “You’ve got this!” not, “Don’t worry, I’ve got this for you!”
Try thinking of yourself as a “Friendship Coach.” Coaches don’t go out there and play the game for their players. Instead, they give them advice and send them to play. Then, they stand back on the sidelines and watch. When they call their team in, they point out what they saw and give the players some tips and guidance. It should work that way with parents too, coaching your children through their friendships.
Here’s how Kasey so eloquently put it:
Rather than acting as lead negotiator in our children’s relationships, we should support them and coach from the sidelines with the following Dos and Don’ts:
Reframe friendship altercations as opportunities to learn valuable skills
Research shows that children who have good social skills grow up to be more functional and successful adults. And the good news is that these skills can be taught.
“Like all skills, social skills take practice and don’t come naturally to all children,” says Kerford.
When our children are experiencing friendship problems it’s an opportunity for us to help them learn vital social skills, build resilience and strengthen their empathy.
Listen and empathise
While listening seems so simple, it’s probably often overlooked for that very reason. Just like adults, when kids talk about their problems they want to feel heard, validated and understood.
Kerford says that we need to remind ourselves that what might seem small to an adult can loom large in the eyes of a child; so large that it can seem overwhelming.
“Tune in and ask direct, specific questions,” says Kerford. “Often children have a hard time articulating what’s going on, they just ‘feel bad’. Help them put a voice to it by digging deeper.”
Encourage kids to stand up for themselves
When my daughter talks to me about her friendship problems, my default response is to say to her the things that were said to me. “Just ignore him”, “Walk away”, “She’s just jealous” are the kinds of phrases that instantly spring to mind.
But Kerford says that these responses can be too passive and minimising. She suggests taking some time to listen and empathise — and then follow up by asking “Did you stand up for yourself?”
Rather than retreating, we should encourage our kids to confront their problems and not simply put up with bad behaviour.
Kerford suggests asking kids what they could do differently next time and role-play different scenarios so they feel practised and more confident.
Teach kids the difference between healthy and unhealthy friendships
This one is the sort of advice that will be useful right into adulthood. It’s important for our kids to know that they are in control of their lives. Kerford says that this includes the people they choose to surround themselves with. Do their friends make them feel good about themselves? If not, they should minimise the time they spend with people who make them feel bad and spend most of their time with friends who treat them well.
“Let them know that trust and respect are ‘must haves’ when it comes to friendship,” Kerford says. “Don’t say, ‘This is just something all girls must go through.’ This statement tells a girl she must suffer through and she is helpless. We cannot normalise the behaviours of ‘mean girls’.”
What about bullies?
There’s a lot of talk about bullies and bullying at the moment. But Kerford’s advice is to avoid the word altogether. The reason is that it’s often misused and leads children — and their parents — to label kids. Instead, she suggests the term “mean-on-purpose”.
“Children understand what this means and know when someone is intentionally trying to hurt them.”
Parents can help their kids come up with a quick comeback statement to combat mean-on-purpose behaviour. It doesn’t have to be an Oscar Wildean witticism. A simple “Not cool”, “Wow” or “That was really mean” will suffice.
Quick comeback statements should be delivered in a strong voice with authoritative body language, and then the child should walk away.
“If they’ve tried using a quick comeback and the person continues to be mean-on- purpose, that’s when an adult needs to get involved,” says Kerford. “It’s the responsibility of the adults (parents and teachers) to ensure that children feel safe and supported.”
Be a good role model
Anyone who’s sworn their head off during a spot of road rage only to have their little darling repeat it the next day at Grandma’s house knows our kids are watching us and modelling our behaviour. Especially, it seems, the bad bits.
“I know it’s so much pressure on parents, but their children are watching them and mirror their behaviour. If we don’t want our child to gossip, we don’t gossip” says Kerford. “If we don’t want our child to yell, we don’t yell. It’s as simple as this: If you want your child to be kind, show them what being kind looks like.”
Tell stories
Sometimes our kids forget that we were once kids too. Providing examples from our own life experience or of other people overcoming similar difficulties can help guide kids to a solution.
“Sharing your stories about some of the ups and downs you experienced in friendships when you were their age helps your child view you as not just mum or dad, but as someone who’s been there before,” Kerford says.
Kasey Edwards is a writer and best-selling author. www.kaseyedwards.com
The Resilience Project
This week’s presentation from The Resilience Project focuses on Gratitude.
Gratitude is paying attention to the things that we have right now, and not worrying about what we don’t have. We practise this by noticing the positives that exist around us.
Research shows that practicing gratitude rewires our brains to overcome the negativity bias (which can lead to anxiety and depression) and see the world for what we are thankful for. It is also shown to broaden thinking, and increase physical health through improved sleep and attitude to exercise.
View Part 2 of the series here:
Part 2 - Gratitude: https://theresilienceproject.com.au/2023-parent-carer-hub-inspire-hugh/
There are many ways in which you can practise gratitude, including starting a gratitude journal. You can simply use a notebook to list three things that went well for you each day or use a more comprehensive Wellbeing Journal, like those created by The Resilience Project.
Source: Psychology Today
For mental health resources and support information, visit The Resilience Project’s Support Page.
Homework Club Change!!!!
So we are changing the Homework Club to a Feed and Succeed tutoring session offerred weekly to our Years 7 to 9 students!
Check it out from next week!
Active Body | Calm Mind | Connected Spirit
Look what is on offer for all of our students during lunchtimes at St. Joseph’s in Week 4!
Best regards,
Mrs Schneekloth
Pastoral Care Leader
Prep
Welcome to Week 3!
On Monday, Prep participated in our annual Cross Country. After marking the role we headed to the Mary MacKillop Shed for our War Cries before moving into our age groups. In the middle session, Prep joined in with their Year 6 buddies to complete rotation activities in celebration of St Joseph’s the Worker Feast Day.
During literacy rotations this week we continued to explore putting our learnt sounds together to make words, practising our letter formation, revising our learnt ‘Tricky Words’ by sounding out the parts we know and identifying the tricky bit. We also learnt about the letter 'd' and identified the sound it makes.
In Maths, Prep continued their unit of work on Shapes. We revised shapes and their attributes and moved into identifying differences between common 2D and 3D shapes.
During Science this week, we continued watching and discussing the changes that occured as our chickens grow. We also revised what the chickens will need to survive: food, air, water, shelter. Next week we will start to talk about plants as living things and begin to grow some plants with our Year 6 buddies.
In Religion, Prep have been discussing different celebrations in the Catholic Church. As Wednesday was St Joseph’s the Worker feast Day, we spent time learning about this celebration and why we celebrate it here at St Joseph’s Cloncurry. On Friday, Prep also helprf the Year 5 students during prayer by singing their song on assembly all about St Joseph the Worker.
Keep up to date with what is happening in Prep by checking out our Little Leaders Website.
Yours in fun and learning,
Miss Brock, Mrs McLauchlan, Miss Rachel, Miss Kylie and Miss Nina
Year 1
Hello Parents and Carers
What a wonderful and busy week we have had in Year 1 for Week 3!
This week:
In Mathematics, students have finished consolidating their knowledge on 2D shapes and 3D objects. The students will be moving onto length, capacity and mass next week. If you see any 3D shapes around in your everyday life, ask your child to identify the shapes to conunite to broaden their knowledge and understanding.
In English, we have continued exploring at our new focus book ‘A Journey Home by Alison Lester’. This week we looked at the journey in the sea with the pirates. We have started to look at an Adverb start sentence. An adverb start sentence has an adverb followed by a comma (Quickly, she slid down the slide). The students have enjoyed coming up with many adverbs.
Here are some photos from this week:
Reminders:
Monday is a Public Holiday! NO SCHOOL
Tuesday: Art
Thursday: Sport, Library and homework due
Friday: Technology
Have a wonderful week.
Miss Haley and the always fun Year 1s!
Year 2
Hi Year 2 Parents and Carers
During InitiaLit this week, we focused on doubling the final consonant to add 'ing' to words that have a short vowel in spelling. We have now started to move into adding prefixes and suffixes to words. We are also looking at the comprehension strategy of connecting.
This term in writing, students will be creating an imaginative text based on the story, Wombat Stew. We began planning our text using a box plot this week. During Maths, we have been learning how to skip count from any number. In our other subjects this term we are looking at:
Religion: Jesus and Community
Science: Life Cycles
HASS: Connections to different places
Health: Keeping ourselves healthy and safe
Reminders:
- Homework is due on Monday. This week it is just a homework sheet. Readers will be sent home with homework next week.
- Library is on Mondays of Week B - Our next library lesson is in Week 6
Have a fantastic rest of your week!
Miss Ansell
Year 3
Hi all
Week 3 was a busy week! We had a massive day on Monday with Cross Country and then all of the exciting St Joseph the Worker Feast Day activities. We were even lucky enough to have the Year 7s join us!
Mathematics
Students have been continuing to practice telling the time and have applied this knowledge and their understanding of time duration (eg. 1hr = 60min) to create itineraries!
English
This week, the students learnt about paragraphs and the structure of texts. They learnt that a paragraph is a group of sentences about ONE main idea. They also read various nonfiction texts to explore different text structures.
Religion
This week we read scripture from the Acts 2:43-47 and discussed how the first Christians lived. We also worked together to create our very own Year 3 lunchtime prayer!
HASS
The students used their research skills to investigate various natural landmarks in Australia. For example, they researched the Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, the Bungle Bungles, Wave Rock, and more!
Science
Students continued to investigate how day and night is created by the Earth's movement around the sun.
Week 4 Reminders:
- Homework - Homework will be given to students every Monday and is due Friday.
- PE uniform Tuesday
- Chaplain’s Breakfast - Tuesday & Thursday at 7:45am in MMS
Thank you
Laura Cook
Year 4
Hi all,
This week has been busy! We had a massive day on Monday with Cross Country and then all of the exciting St Joseph the Worker Feast Day activities. Here are some photos of us working with Year 2 and Year 8. We had the best time!
This coming week we will continue our review of the Preposition Start Sentence. This sentence gives writing more energy. It starts with a preposition such as: on, in, by, after, during, under, over, from, behind, at, before, against, next to, close to, through, etc. After the preposition bit, a comma is placed. Add the subject, then finish the rest of the sentence. It's that easy!
Here are some more examples:
- Under Gran's sofa, Billy discovered his long-lost peanut butter sandwich.
- Above the treetops, three golden eagle birds searched for their next meal.
- At exactly seven o’clock, every light in the house went dark.
- Before the end of class, Freddy pressed the switch and the teacher Mr Brown vanished
Our spelling sound this week is the ‘aye’ sound in snail. This sound can be represented by a range of graphemes including: ai, ay, a_e and a.
- We often use the grapheme ay for the ‘aye’ sound in snail at the end of words (e.g. say, play, spray, today, holiday).
- We do not use ai for the ‘aye’ sound in snail at the end of words (e.g. aim, rain, tail, paint, brain).
- The grapheme ea is an unusual way to represent the ‘aye’ sound in snail (e.g. great, steak).
- The graphemes e, e_e, et and ee can represent the ‘aye’ sound in snail (e.g. cafe, fete, ballet, entree). Words containing e, e_e, et, or ee for this sound usually originate from French.
Reminders:
- There will be no school on Monday as there is a public holiday
- The Scholastic Book fair is happening next week! Please pop into the Library to check it out!
- There will be a Mothers Day stall run all of next week for students to buy a Mothers Day gift for their mums. We will also be celebrating Mothers Day on Thursday with a special Chaplaincy Breakfast!
- Chaplaincy breakfast is on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning at 7:45am.
- Tuckshop is on Thursday
Have a great week everyone!
Mairin Borlase
Year 5
Welcome to Week 3.
Year 5 have had a busy week 3. On Monday we had our Cross Country and then had our St Joseph the worker celebrations and activities. The children have been working hard on our assembly on St Joseph the Worker for Friday, I’m sure they will make us all so proud.
English
We have continued our work on persuasive texts. The children this week were presented with various statements and had to give their opinion whether they agreed with the statement or not. The topics lead to amazing discussions with the children giving insightful reasons for their opinions. This will lead to developing their work on persuasive texts and transferring their oral discussion into texts.
Maths
The children used their knowledge of perimeter and area to investigate squares and rectangles. They investigated shapes with the same area and the effect on perimeter and then investigated shapes with the same perimeter and the effect on area. We also continued work on multiplying strategies.
Religion
This week we continued work on the Sabbath. The children linked today practices of the Sabbath with the practices in Jesus’ time. They also were able to link the Sabbath traditions with many of the rituals in the Last Supper. The children will be working on a slides presentation on the Sabbath as part of their assessment.
Specialist Subjects:
Monday: Japanese, Science
Tuesday: Drama
Wednesday: Health and Science, students may also wear their House Shirts to school
Thursday: Technology
Friday: Sport, Students may wear their Sports Uniform
Reminders:
- There will be no school on Monday as there is a public holiday
- The Scholastic Book fair is happening next week. The Book Fair will be set up in the Library.
- There will be a Mothers Day stall run all of next week for students to buy a Mothers Day gift for their mums. We will also be celebrating Mothers Day on Thursday with a special Chaplaincy Breakfast.
- Chaplaincy breakfast is on Tuesdays and Thursdays beginning at 7:45am.
- Tuckshop is on Thursday
I hope you have a great week. If you have any concerns please do not hesitate to contact me.
Nicola Cullen
Year 6
Dear Families
We trust you all had a lovely long weekend. GOOD NEWS the Year 6 shirts have arrived and have been distributed; your prompt payment was very much appreciated. If there are any issues with sizing, I will try to do a reorder towards the end of Term 2, so please let me know as soon as possible if additional shirts are required. We do have two spare Y6 shirts at size 12 if anybody needs a spare.
Next week, Paul Jarman, singer/songwriter, is working with several of our creative leaders to develop lyrics for our school song - watch this space for these exciting developments!
Last week, we spent time discussing ANZAC Day and working with our Prep Buddies to create stained glass poppies - these our proudly displayed in our windows. We also spent some time together, with Year 9, to celebrate St Joseph the Worker Day and help the Prep Buddies to choose books from Books in Homes.
In our English learning, we are continuing with persuasive texts. Investigating what makes an effective argument - clearly stated opinion, why the point matters (impact), evidence which supports and elaborates on the argument (quotes, facts and specifics) and summarising with a POWER SENTENCE (12 words or less). The terms emotive language (deliberately selected words and phrases that are used to provoke an emotional connection) and modality (you might like to versus you definitely should) will also be discussed to ensure our writing is engaging, powerful and convincing to an audience.
We will write using the LAWYER PARAGRAPH and HAMMER with the aim of sounding like an expert - facts and figures will expand our simple arguments into detailed and in depth ones.
In spelling, we are inquiring into words with the [h] phoneme e.g. house and words with [j g ge or dge] graphemes to represent the [j] phoneme e.g. jellyfish or hedge. We are learning about prefixes hyper (meaning over) and hypo (meaning under) and the Greek Root hydr (meaning water) as well as the Greek Roots geo (meaning earth), bio (meaning life) and logy (meaning study of) so the word biology literally means study of life and geology means study of the earth.
In Mathematics, we are finishing our work on percentages, completing work with capacity. If a container has 600 mL, what percentage full is the container? If the container is 1 Litre, we would have 600/1000 which the learners equate to 60/100. Once they understand out of 100, they would know that the container is 60% full. In Think Mentals, we continue our investigation into multiplication strategies - the GRID method allows learners to demonstrate their understanding of place value when multiplying and the number splitting is great when working with decimals.
For the Resilience Project, our Year 6 learners are discussing how barriers may sometimes prevent us from being kind or helping others in need. Peer pressure sometimes prevents us from behaving or acting in our normal way - understanding how to counteract that is a continuing goal as we progress through to becoming young adults. Other planned learning includes discussions about empathy and how we can develop our empathy awareness.
Have a great week,
Mike and Aiden
Subject Spotlight
Year 8 Science with Mr Robert Grehan
This term, students are engaged in the study of Energy. Experiments comparing energy in a variety of foods has lead to calculating how many joules (unit measure of energy) are in cereals. Students will investigate how energy is transferred from one source to another. Students identified through experimentation, how energy is received from the sun and how this energy can be transformed into other forms of energy required for humans and other living organisms.
Year 9 Science with Mr Robert Grehan
This term, students are investigating multicellular organisms and their relationships within their environment. Students have examined the stomach of white ants to determine the cellular process of digestion of wood (lignocellulose) by termites and the symbiotic relationship between flagellates living in the stomach of termites. Students will examine the impact on the human body by viruses, diseases, temperature change and how the human body responds to environmental conditions. Students will study the endocrine system and how it functions in the body.
Year 8 Maths with Mr Robert Grehan
Students are involved in the mathematics of data and how it is used for analysis of information gathered. The various functions of analysing data are covered using frequency tables to calculate mean, median, mode, graphical representation such as histograms, tree diagrams, two way tables and includes methods of determining outliers and comparisons between sets of data using InterQuartile Range calculations. This enables students to gather data, organise it in a managed format and make specific and useful calculations about the data collected. The next step in the learning process will be the use of this learning in determining standard deviation.
First Nations Education
Guidance Counsellor
With the advent of the internet, smart phones and tablets, there is now a whole new digital dimension added to traditional schoolyard bullying. There was once a time when bullying victims were given some respite outside of school hours, but sadly these days, online bullying can occur 24/7. In today’s world, teaching your child about online and cyber safety, is as important as learning to swim or cross the road!
Cyberbullying can be identified as being the repeated behaviour by an aggressor with the intent to harm or embarrass. Technology enables these aggressors to share information widely and quickly, making this form of bullying extremely dangerous and harmful. However, the answer is not to shun the internet nor social media. Instead, parents are encouraged to embrace it and instil a family internet policy to protect their children without limiting the freedom to learn, explore and communicate online.
In this edition of SchoolTV, parents are provided with useful guidelines and advice on how to minimise the risks. Children have the right to feel safe, regardless of whether it is in the schoolyard or online.
Here is the link to the Cyberbullying edition of SchoolTV
https://sjctsv.catholic.schooltv.me/newsletter/cyber-bullying
Mrs Bec Greaves
Guidance Counsellor