Important Dates

Date

Event

Tues 29th Jan

Teachers commence

Weds 30th Jan

Orientation day
Years 1-6 New student Orientation @ Library, 9am-11am
Foundation Orientation @ Classrooms, 10am-12pm

Thurs 31st Jan

Students commence

Fri 1st Feb

New Families Info session
@ Library, 2.30-3.30pm

Fri 8th Feb

Meet the Teachers afternoon
@ 3.30-4.30pm

Student Support Coordinator

Importance of family time

The greatest responsibility of a parent is to give time. This is why:

  1. Time equals love. You cannot say you love someone and do not make time for them
  2. To give your child an identity. Children who spend adequate time with their parents have a firm identity
  3. To correct the wrong things the outside world is teaching them. The world has many wrong views, behaviours and ideologies. How will you know those wrongs if you are not spending time together? Only by being there will you know what your child has been exposed to.
  4. To monitor their growth and mindset, and give leadership.
  5. To allow your child to know you.
  6. To identify their skills and talents in order to grow them into confident individuals.
  7. To model to them how to live and behave. A role model is not one who is absent
  8. To pray over the environment around them. You are most effective in determining the environment around your child by being there.
  9. To foster better communication. Time spent together makes your child comfortable with you making it easier to open up to you.
  10. To show love through touch. A hug, a gentle rub on the back; children feel loved when they feel affection from parents.
  11. To counter negative words or thoughts spewed at your child by peers, bullies or even themselves.
  12. To give them sweet memories. When your child becomes an adult, let them look back and remember time with you. No memory is as powerful as that of a loved childhood.

Kind Regards,

Duygu Dikbas
Student Support Coordinator