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Lumen Christi supports Child Safety with policies and procedures in place to promote well-being and to ensure that all children are protected from harm.
Lumen Christi is a Catholic primary school, which endeavours to work with families to educate children in a Christian atmosphere of love, trust and responsibility. We are inspired by our name, Lumen Christi, to create a welcoming environment which values the dignity of the individual, nurtures within the Catholic tradition each individual's spiritual journey, fosters enjoyment of learning, nourishes self expression, embraces our whole community and focuses on justice and citizenship. We view education as a partnership between school and home, and therefore strongly encourage parent participation. Lumen Christi was officially opened in 1990 with a total enrolment of 73 students, today we have over 330 children, with modern air conditioned classrooms and interactive whiteboards, a purpose built junior learning centre, a fully equipped technology centre, a library, a dedicated art room and beautiful grounds. Whilst this website contains a great deal of information, it in no way covers everything we do at Lumen Christi. We hope you enjoy reading about our school and would hope that if you have any questions that you would not hesitate to make contact with us. Click here for a message from our Principal TERM 2 - 2019 DATES BELOW - remember that a full calendar of events available to access on Parent Access Module ( PAM)
Ground Works There is a great deal of action in our new under cover area this week. The fire hydrant was successfully moved last Friday and our synthetic surface has nearly been completed. Students have been intrigued with the machinery at work and the process of removing the asphalt. It is looking amazing !!!!
Billy Carts
SKATEBOARDING CLINIC
The grade 5/6 children participated in a skateboarding clinic. YMCA staff, Zac and Harrison taught us the tips and tricks on how to be the best skateboarders we can and to become future ‘Tony Hawks’. During this clinic, we learnt many skills and some rolling techniques. Eventually, everyone mastered the balancing and focusing that is required to have success. We learnt the basics on how to position our feet on the boards, then we were riding free. At the end of the clinic 3 children received a Golden Ticket for an amazing performance and they shined! The Golden Tickets mean that they get 4 free sessions of skating at a skatepark. Well done to all the students that received the Golden Tickets, and congratulations to all the students who participated in the clinics today. Also a big thank you to Zac and Harrison who taught us in the clinic today, we loved your help. Article written by 5/6 students, Sam Webber & Zoe Crack. 
CYBER SAFETY AND BULLYING
Many of our students regularly make use of digital devices to learn, play and communicate. We know a large number of our older students also connect with each other through social media platforms such as Snapchat, TikToK, and through interactive games like Fortnite and Roblox. We recognise that this is the world our children live in, and acknowledge the important role that adults play in helping children negotiate this ‘virtual space’. Whilst we endeavour to educate and guide students around online safety and respect for others, the reality is that most of the time a child spends online is outside school hours. In this we need to partner with our families to provide our children with guidance, support and boundaries when interacting online. There are a number of concerning behaviours that have surfaced recently around how some of our students are using technology to belittle, put down or make fun of others. With some posts containing some pretty objectionable content. We encourage family members to be actively involved in their children’s online experiences, through making ourselves aware of what our children are posting and sharing we can best help them see what is right and wrong and support them in representing themselves positively when online. At home we recommend you: Find out how your child uses the internet and who else is involved in any online activities. Have any internet enabled devices in a shared place in the house – not your child’s bedroom. Ask your child to show you what they are doing online, such as:
Cyberbullying is when a person uses digital technology to deliberately and repeatedly harass, humiliate, embarrass, torment, threaten, pick on or intimidate another person. Cyberbullying happens in lots of different ways – by mobile phone, text messages and email, in online games, and through social media sites like Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Snapchat and Instagram. Examples of cyberbullying include deliberately:
Cyberbullying can become offline bullying – for example, bullying at school. And face-to-face bullying can become cyberbullying. Most of us would hate for our children to be at the receiving end of any type of bullying behaviour, being proactive together and supporting our children to be kind, thoughtful and respectful members of their communities - online and in real life, is a job for all of us to engage in. Please look for an opportunity to check in with your child/ren this week. What is their online activity like? What are they posting or viewing on social media? How safe is their online experience? The below links are to some helpful sites that may support you in supporting your children. https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents https://raisingchildren.net.au/pre-teens/behaviour/bullying/about-cyberbullying Common sense media is a great place to check the suitability of entertainment and technology. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ CODE OF CONDUCTAs with most workplaces we at Lumen have a Code of Conduct, an agreement that outlines the ways we are expected to interact with our students, with each other and with our families. This code extends to all members of our school community. The expectation being that all behaviours are respectful and reflective of our school ethos. Our school is a community that we are all tremendously proud of, and we work hard for this to be reflected in our external reputation. Any time we are out and about, whether it be for an excursion or a sporting tournament, our words and actions speak of who we are. We hope that all can support us in being the best school we can be in terms of our conduct within and outside our school grounds. I have recently been contacted by the Ballarat Netball Association in regard to parent behaviour at the Llanberis courts towards a teenage umpire. No one wants to hear a young girl has been reduced to tears due to the actions of adults associated with our school. We know that 100 good deeds can be undone by one error of judgement, but this sort of behaviour is just not who we are as a school, nail biting final in extra time or not. As a result we will be seriously reconsidering our involvement in the 2020 after school netball competition. 
Reminder:
Term 4 children are able to wear their Summer Uniform. HATS are a must in Term 4 "NO HAT NO PLAY. " 
At Lumen Christi Primary School Delacombe, we take an instructional approach to behaviour that assumes that children will have different experiences and skills in relation to behaviour, as they do with literacy and numeracy.
We have high and specific expectations for the behaviour of all of our students. We promote a SHINE approach to behaviour, and explicitly teach children to Be Safe, Have Respect, Include Others, Never Give Up and Excellence. We equally understand that as is the case in academic learning, individuals will require different teaching in order to achieve behavioural learning success. At Lumen Christi we encourage and reward positive behaviour through the use of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. Please find the list of rewards at our school. Classrooms will also have a system in place to support ongoing positive behaviours and these vary from teacher to teacher. Assembly SHINE award (given out weekly to acknowledge positive behaviour, and to highlight for all students the actions that demonstrate our SHINE attitudes and behaviours) this drawn out of the token box at random each assembly. The more tokens students earn the better the chances are of getting drawn out for the award. • SHINE money for SHINE store (opening once a term for voucher purchases) this money is then cashed in for a voucher which is either a casual clothes day, additional play time or lunch with a teacher of the student’s choice. • The Golden SHINE token (given out for exemplary behaviours which enables the student an automatic invitation to the SHINE lunch) Each term students who have received a SHINE token are drawn out at assembly to enjoy a special end of term lunch- again the more awards you get the better the chances. In Term 3 we have relaunched shine with our wonderful day in week 4 with the new staff video clip soon to hit Youtube! In weeks 6 and 7 teachers were searching for students making good choices in their learning and/or the playground to give shine money. On Monday we opened the SHINE store where students could purchase a voucher, which would enable them to take part in a special activity on Tuesday the 3rd of September. The purpose of the SHINE money and the SHINE store is to support all students in the moment in which they display the appropriate behaviour to acknowledge their choice and encourage them to continue to make that choice into the future, it is also a wonderful opportunity to make concrete for other students the types of attitudes and behaviours that are expected against each letter of our SHINE acronym. This term 140 SHINE dollars were given out and the most popular purchase was lunch with Mr Macdonald. Another benefit we see with our positive behaviour recognition is a significant reduction in problem behaviours in the playground and classroom. Well done everyone! Mr Dalli
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TRANSITION DAYS
A reminder that our transition days are as follows:- Tuesday 19th November Foundation Transition Both groups 9:00am - 11:00am Transition for all other classes 9:00am - 11:30am Tuesday 3rd December ‘Going Up Day’ All classes 9:00am - 1:30pm WEDNESDAY 20TH NOVEMBER Wide Open Road Optometry Testing Grade 6 Regional Cricket Finals at Victoria Park THURSDAY 21ST NOVEMBER Grade 2 Sleepover FRIDAY 22ND NOVEMBER Whole School Prayer Led by: F JS |
