Welcome back to all our Columba families, I hope you have all had a restful break and feel rejuvenated, relaxed and recharged. Term 2 was again a very different term, as we navigated our way through a whole term without any long-term closures or shutdowns. I would like to thank all our families for the patience and support you afforded the staff and students of our great school.

Columba staff did an amazing job working with your children last term ensuring continuity and assurance to our learning environment. I am also very grateful to the patience and understanding all the teachers and community have had toward our building project over the last two terms. This includes school puckup and very muddy carparks!

I am very glad to announce that our refurbished Learning Centre will be open for learning on Monday 18th July. We will be having an assembly next week so that families can experience the wonderful new learning environment we are are very blessed to be able to provide for our students in grades 1 and 2.

SORTING OUR SCREEN TIME IN OUR HOMES

PARENT WEBINAR SESSIONS

This week and next, our families and students will be once again working with Inform and Empower. They are our partners in supporting us to help educate ALL of our students on how they can stay safe in an online environment. All classes have learning sessions with Marty from Inform and Empower next week.

On Wednesday 13th July, many families also joined us for an online webinar with Inform and Empower. This Webinar focused on SCREEN TIME and how we as parents can manage our children's screen time. While many attended, 'thank you for this', I do know that life is very busy during the week, so I have worked to get the recording of the webinar for all families so that they can watch it in their own time. I do implore all parents to make the effort to watch through this 45min Webinar as it gives very 'real' strategies on how to ensure screen time is managed in our homes.

Please see the Webinar replay below.

I also encourage all families to respond to our PULSE survey which will be distributed next week. Each term we like to get the PULSE of the commujnity to ensure we stay on the right track, for not just our students and staff, but our many wonderful and supportive families. This survey will be distrubted in our next newlsetter and through an SZAPP alert.

Again I look forward to another wonderful term at Columba.