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Social Justice News

We are so proud to support Chiara Avery (Year 1) who has

been growing her hair for the past year in support of the Big

Shave for Cancer.

She is donating her

beautiful hair so that

it can be made in to a

wig for someone who

has lost their hair due

to treatment for

cancer. Along the

way Chiara has also

been raising money

for Cancer Council

Victoria through her Everyday Hero account. The money that

she raises from this account goes to Cancer Council Victoria

and contributes to the purchase of wigs for those who can't

afford to buy one.

Corpus Christi School has made a donation of $405.30 which

has been made possible through the very generous support of

our Social Justice Soup Kitchen and money that has been

donated through class Social Justice donation boxes.

Chiara is having her hair cut this Saturday, 26th November. If

you would like to make a donation to support Chiara you will

find the link to her Everyday Hero account on our Facebook

page.

Good luck for Saturday Chiara and we look forward to seeing

your new hairstyle next week!

Advent Liturgies/Assemblies

On Sunday, we begin the

season of Advent. It’s not

Christmas yet. As a matter of

fact, it’s not even technically

the Christmas season, as some

retailers would have you believe. The Christmas season

begins on Christmas Day. So, we are about to enter into

Advent Season.

Upcoming Calendar Events (Including Extra Curricula Activities/Celebrations)

November 23rd Year 3/4 River Boat Cruise & Excursion to Arts

Centre (El-Kid Performance) 28th Advent Paraliturgy: Year Prep to lead @ 9:00am PFA Meeting @7:00pm 29th Year Prep Family Kite Making Night @ 7:15pm 30th ABC Music Students Performance @ 2:00pm

December 5th Advent Paraliturgy: Year 3/4Z to lead @ 9:00am Glee Club Uniting Aged Well Visit: Carols 9:30am Drama Club: A Cranky Christmas 2:45pm (Hall) 9th End of Year Mass 10:30am Student Reports and Portfolios Distributed Year 6 Graduation Dinner 5:30pm-7:00pm 12th Advent Paraliturgy: Year 3/4C to lead @ 9:00am 13th Step Up Day 11:30am-1:00pm 14th End of Year Picnic/Concert/Year 6 Graduation commencing at 6:30pm 16th Advent Paraliturgy: Year 3/4S to lead @ 12:15pm Last Day of Term. Students finish at 1:00pm

Prayer for the First Week of Advent Lord God,

only you can see into my heart and know that under all the busy-ness of my life,

there is a deep longing to make this Advent one that welcomes you

more deeply into my own life. My heart desires the warmth of your love

and my mind searches for your Light in the midst of the darkness.

Help me to be a peacemaker this Advent and to give special love to those

who disagree with me. Give me the strength and courage to forgive those who have hurt me.

Help me to free my heart from the prison of my anger and hurt.

Term 4 Week 5 3rd November 2016

Term 4 Week 6 9th November 2016

Term 4 Week 8 23rd November 2016

The Advent season is a time where we celebrate anticipating the coming of Christmas. That’s actually what

Advent means, it means “coming” or “arrival” particularly of something extremely important.

On the First Sunday in Advent Jesus explains that no one knows the time of the Second Coming, therefore we

should always be prepared.

On the Second Sunday in Advent John the Baptist preaches repentance to prepare for the coming of the Lord.

The Third Sunday in Advent sees John explain that he is not the Messiah.

On the Fourth Sunday in Advent Gabriel explains to Mary that even though she is a virgin, she will give birth

to the Son of God.

As a school community we will celebrate the Advent season through a series of Paraliturgies in our Community

Hall on the following dates:

Monday 28th November: Advent Paraliturgy (Week 1)

9:00am - Year Prep to host

Monday 5th December: Advent Paraliturgy (Week 2)

9:00am - Year 3/4Z

Monday 12th December: Advent Paraliturgy (Week 3)

9:00am - Year 3/4C to host

Friday16th December: Advent Paraliturgy (Week 4)

12:15pm – Year 3/4S to host

All families are welcome to attend. The liturgies will be followed by our Assembly.

Prep Mass 9:00am

Please be advised that our Year Prep Class Mass has

now been moved forward in time and will be

celebrated this Friday at 9:00am. Families are

welcome to join us in the Church.

PFA Meeting

Our last PFA Meeting for the year will be held next

Monday evening at 7:00pm. During this meeting we

will be organizing our Christmas Raffle and End of

Year School Picnic/Celebration. If you are

interested, please feel free to come and join us.

Fees and Levies

Thank you so much to all families who have

finalized payments of school fees and levies for

2016. As per our Fee and Levy Policy, accounts are

required to be settled by the end of Term 3 each year. To date we still have $8130.00 in overdue accounts. These

need to be settled immediately.

Library News

Next week the children in Years Prep to 4 will have their final Library classes for the year. Please remind your

children to return their library books next week. All library bags need to be washed and returned to your child’s

current class teacher who will store the bags ready for next year. Some children in Years 5 and 6 also have

books that need to be returned next week.

Lost Property

We have a large number of unclaimed items in our lost property box. In fact, it is overflowing. Could we ask

families to check for missing items and collect them if needed.

All items remaining unclaimed by the end of this week will be sent to our second hand uniform shop.

Community Conversations

In the past, we have offered a number of Parent Information Sessions/Forums as part of our Making Learning

Visible: Parent Partnership Program which have been focused on areas highlighted in our School Improvement

Framework. These have been positively received by families who took up the invitation but have generally not

been well attended. As we continue to foster parent engagement we are calling for ideas as to the areas you are

interested in and which you would find as beneficial. Some suggestions already received from general

conversation include: Developing Resilient Children, Parenting Today and Learning and Teaching in the 21st

Century.

If you have an idea or topic you would see as beneficial to explore as a school community, we would love to

hear from you. Just fill out the attached reply slip and return it to the office by Friday 2nd December.

School Improvement Framework

As is done every year, as a staff we have spent the last few weeks analyzing a range of ‘school performance

data’ to determine our effectiveness as educators and as an organization. Formal standardized Data sources:

Insight SRC Parent, Student and Staff Survey Data, NAPLAN Data, Literacy Advance Data, SINE (Numeracy)

data; have been combined with school based assessment data to measure our performance over the course of

the year and to set goals for 2017.

In the past we have offered the opportunity for parent to engage in conversation around school performance yet

due to the busyness of this time of the year these forums have not been well attended. So, I thought I would use

the Newsletter (since I know you all read it) to briefly present our successes and highlight areas of opportunity

moving forward. All of this will be presented in great detail in our Annual Report to the Community which is

published in May each year (by the way, our Annual report for 2015 can be accessed via our website and is ‘a

good read’ if you are looking for something a little different to peruse).

So let’s begin…

As an educational organization, Insight SRC data places Corpus Christi School well within the top 25% of

Australian Schools for all 18 Performance and Development lead indicators which are grouped under the

domains of: Professional Culture, Leadership, Student Outcomes, Professional Knowledge and Practice and

Performance and Development. Curriculum Processes and School Improvement Focus sit at the 90th and 96th

percentile respectively when compared to all Australian Schools. This data confirms that our school is a high

performing school as higher levels of performance and development are linked directly to improved student

learning, engagement and wellbeing outcomes.

The Insight SRC Parent Opinion Survey illustrates that parents believe that staff are very passionate about their

work and deliver classes which are interesting and enjoyable for their child. They are also confident that

classroom management (behaviour) is promoting their child’s learning. Parents identified the areas of Parent

Partnerships, Transition, Homework, Behaviour management, Stimulating Learning, Teacher Morale, Child

Connectedness to School and Student Motivation as key strengths all placed in the top 25% of Australian

Schools.

Insight SRC Student responses (Years 3-6) pattern data indicates that students feel well understood by their

teachers and that their learning environments are conducive to good learning. NAPLAN Mean Growth data

(Year 3 - Year 5) for Reading, Writing and Numeracy sits well above State mean for the same performance

outcomes. See table below

Reading Writing Numeracy

2014 2016 Difference/

Growth 2014 2016 Difference/

Growth 2014 2016 Difference/

Growth

Corpus Christi School (Mean) 422 528 106 434 491 85 407 533 126

State (Mean) 433 512 79 417 519 74 415 504 89

Longitudinal data indicates that over a 2-year period the average (State) growth based upon National Scaled

Scores sits around 78 points. This 78-point growth has generally become the ‘expected’ targeted growth over

the period Year 3 –Year 5. As you can see from the data, our school is consistently outperforming the ‘state’

by some margin. For those of you who have explored the ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and

Reporting Authority) My School Website you will see that this is a recurring trend.

Literacy Advance Reading Text Level Data in our junior years is also well above expected levels (see below).

Year Prep Minimum Level: 1

100%

Target level: 5

83%

Level 10 or above

63%

Level 15 or above

43%

These performance results sit well above (and have consistently done so over time) that of ‘like’ schools and

affirms school based data sources.

From a School Improvement perspective, we should be extremely proud of these achievements over the course

of the year (and over time) as these key performance indicators are extremely high. It’s important that we take

the time to acknowledge the work of staff for creating such a positive climate for children to learn and to

celebrate with children in their successes.

As with all performance appraisal, it’s also important to take a look at what has been highlighted as areas of

opportunities moving forward. Insight SRC Pattern Survey data highlights that while our students believe their

classroom ‘behaviour’ promotes good learning opportunities they do recognise that they need to further develop

skills in relationship building. Parent Survey data aligns with student data in that while our parents believe

children behave well in the classroom and they are being taught (and are developing) appropriate social skills,

they also believe that children may not always be transferring this knowledge when working/playing with others

in general. Parent data also suggests there is a misalignment between the school’s procedures/processes for

supporting student behaviour and their current understanding. These areas will be become priority in our 2017

School Improvement Framework Action Plan.

I hope this all makes sense and am happy to elaborate on any of

this data at any stage and would welcome the opportunity to

engage in conversation with you.

Have a wonderful week

God Bless

Anthony Hyde

(Principal)

Making Learning Visible: Parent Partnership Program

Community Conversation Suggestions

Name: …………………….. Eldest Child: ……………………….. Grade:………………....

Suggested Topic, Theme or your thoughts in general:

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Signed: …………………………………………

Year 1 Minimum Level: 15

100%

Target level: 20

94%

Level 28

65%

Year 2 Minimum Level: 26

100%

Target level: 28

100%

ABC Music Students Presentation Our guitar and keyboard students will have

the opportunity to showcase their talents to our community next Wednesday 30th

November at 2:00pm in the undercover area.

Term 4 Social Decision Making Prep (Foundation) Year 5/6

Making choices

identifying the steps to help make choices

role playing making choices

More steps to help solve

social problems

applying the decision making model in a variety of bullying related situations

describing the effects the bystander can have in bullying situations

demonstrating how to respond safely as a supportive bystander in bullying situations

Year 1/2 Year 3/4

We all have choices

identifying that in every social situation there are opportunities to make choices, good and not so good (poor)

describing the effects on others of good and not so good choices

demonstrating making food choices in social situations and observing the outcome of these choices

Responding safely to bullying

situations

identifying when it is safe to respond to a bullying situation

describing strategies, they can use to respond in a safe way to a bullying situation

planning strategies to effectively respond to bullying situations

demonstrating actions to reduce harm caused by a bullying situation

Working out ways to respond

identify what it means to think feel and act about a social situation

describe why it is important to link what they think, how they feel and the actions they take and the effects on others

demonstrate ways of responding appropriately in social situations using the ‘Think, Feel, Do’ process

Choices and consequences

demonstrating the use of choices and consequences and model how to select appropriate actions to take to respond to bullying situations

November

Lucas Lazar

Michael Paolucci-Ellis

21st

24St

Keighley Ferro 25th

Year 3/4 Wellbeing News

In Wellbeing, students in Year 3/4S have been exploring the key area of Social Decision Making. It has enabled us to demonstrate the use of choices and consequences when selecting actions to take, in response bullying situations. Together, we have explored and plan strategies to effectively respond to bullying situations in a safe way. Here are a few comments from students from Year 3/4S on what they have learnt: “I understand that there are consequences to my choices and actions. I feel comfortable speaking out and standing up for myself if someone isn’t treating me fairly, or a peer”. (Molly Brooks) “I understand that when people get bullied it can have lasting effects on their self-esteem. I make sure that my choices won’t affect anyone else in a negative way” (Sienna Malkoun). “If I am ever bullied I know there are many positive choices which I can respond, including standing up for myself, walking away or telling a teacher or parent”. (Mark Cuni) “It is important to always consider the consequences to your choices and take responsibility for your own actions”. (Mia Lowe)

Week 8 Year 1/2 D Clio Dinnen Year 1/2 G Brayden Le

Year 1/2 K Zarah Cataldo & Ryan Lay-Nguyen Year 3/4 C Carl Refardt Year 3/4 S Liv Dinnen

Year 3/4 Z Lola Refardt Year 5/6 B Dylan Phan

Year 5/6 C Rowina Teklemariam Year 5/6 M Quan Cao

Bowel Cancer Fun Run!! On week nine, Thursday the 8th of December, there will be

a fun run to raise money for Bowel cancer in the paddock.

It will be a gold coin donation to participate. There will be

sign-up sheets located in every classroom. You can wear

your sports uniform if you are participating. It will be a 2km

fun run. If you are a parent and you want to participate you

are most welcome. It will be at 1:15pm.

Thank you for reading

Mark Cuni & Xavier Healey