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Parent Access Module
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Welcome
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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 310 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 Remember that a full calendar of events available to access on Parent Access Module ( PAM)
We are welcoming visits and inquiries about Foundation enrolments for the 2021 school year.
PARENT INFORMATION EVENING -
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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.
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:
- what is that site/ platform? how does it work and how do you set it up?
- who else is sharing this space or game? (do you know them or did you ‘meet’ them online?)
- can you see any risks or dangers in the activity?
- what are you doing to protect yourself or your friends from these potential dangers?
- when could/would you talk to an adult about an incident that has happened online that concerns you?
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:
- posting or sending messages that threaten people or put people down
- leaving people out of online games or social forums
- spreading nasty rumours online about people
- setting up unkind or unpleasant fake social media accounts using real photos and contact details
- trolling or stalking people online
- sharing or forwarding people’s personal information
- posting insulting or embarrassing photos or videos of people
- harassing other people in virtual environments or online games.
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 1 children are able to wear their Summer Uniform.
HATS are a must in Term 1
"NO HAT NO PLAY. "
Term 1 children are able to wear their Summer Uniform.
HATS are a must in Term 1
"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, 2019 we 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. 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, 2019.
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.
In term 4, 2019 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!
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, 2019 we 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. 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, 2019.
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.
In term 4, 2019 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!
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DATES TO REMEMBER:
MONDAY 24TH FEBRUARY
Assembly 2.30pm
TUESDAY 25TH FEBRUARY
School Athletics
WEDNESDAY 26TH FEBRUARY
Ash Wednesday Whole School Prayer 8:50am Led by 3/4 LL/SD
THURSDAY 27TH FEBRUARY
Foundation 2021 Learning Walk 12:15pm
Sacrament of Penance Preparation Night Session 1 6:00pm – 7:30pm
FRIDAY 28th FEBRUARY
No Whole School Prayer
MONDAY 24TH FEBRUARY
Assembly 2.30pm
TUESDAY 25TH FEBRUARY
School Athletics
WEDNESDAY 26TH FEBRUARY
Ash Wednesday Whole School Prayer 8:50am Led by 3/4 LL/SD
THURSDAY 27TH FEBRUARY
Foundation 2021 Learning Walk 12:15pm
Sacrament of Penance Preparation Night Session 1 6:00pm – 7:30pm
FRIDAY 28th FEBRUARY
No Whole School Prayer
PUPIL FREE DAYS
The school is entitled to a number of pupil free days for supporting professional learning and overall school improvement.
Dates that have been approved by our School Advisory Council thus far for 2020 are:-
Term One
Friday March 20th - Staff Retreat
Term Two
Friday April 24th - Literacy Writing
Term Three
Tuesday August 25th - Literacy Writing
Term Four
Monday November 16th - Report Writing
The school is entitled to a number of pupil free days for supporting professional learning and overall school improvement.
Dates that have been approved by our School Advisory Council thus far for 2020 are:-
Term One
Friday March 20th - Staff Retreat
Term Two
Friday April 24th - Literacy Writing
Term Three
Tuesday August 25th - Literacy Writing
Term Four
Monday November 16th - Report Writing
GETTING TO KNOW YOU CONVERSATIONS
Monday 2nd of March and Tuesday the 3rd of March.
The purpose of these 15 minute conversations is for teachers to unlock your Parent Knowledge about your child. We need to work in partnership with families and find out from you as the parent how we can best support your child with their learning and development this year. As teachers, we build up expertise in how children learn and how each child operates within our setting. We acknowledge that it is the parent who knows their child best and therefore sharing information between parents and teachers will ultimately foster the spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional and social development of each child. These conversations will be between parents and the teachers and on this occasion, students do not attend.
Bookings are now open on the Parent Access Module (PAM) for our Getting to know you conversations, Semester 1, 2020. The process for booking a time is as follows:-
* Log into your PAM Account Select Parent Teacher Interviews
* Select Student
* Select Core Group
* Select Date and Time
* Select Book Interview
You have the option to print or email by selecting the appropriate button displayed.
Monday 2nd of March and Tuesday the 3rd of March.
The purpose of these 15 minute conversations is for teachers to unlock your Parent Knowledge about your child. We need to work in partnership with families and find out from you as the parent how we can best support your child with their learning and development this year. As teachers, we build up expertise in how children learn and how each child operates within our setting. We acknowledge that it is the parent who knows their child best and therefore sharing information between parents and teachers will ultimately foster the spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional and social development of each child. These conversations will be between parents and the teachers and on this occasion, students do not attend.
Bookings are now open on the Parent Access Module (PAM) for our Getting to know you conversations, Semester 1, 2020. The process for booking a time is as follows:-
* Log into your PAM Account Select Parent Teacher Interviews
* Select Student
* Select Core Group
* Select Date and Time
* Select Book Interview
You have the option to print or email by selecting the appropriate button displayed.
SCHOOL PHOTOS
Save the date - Tuesday 3rd March, 2020
Full summer uniform is required please for the photos.
NO sports clothes are to be worn on this day.
Save the date - Tuesday 3rd March, 2020
Full summer uniform is required please for the photos.
NO sports clothes are to be worn on this day.
