Columba Catholic Primary School Acknowledges the Bunurong Peoples’ of the Kulin Nation as Traditional Owners and Custodians and pay respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.  

Columba acknowledges the Bunurong’s continuing relationship to the land and waterways and respects that their connection and spiritual identity are maintained through ancient ceremonies, songlines, dance, art, and living culture.

We pay tribute to the invaluable contributions of the Bunurong and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Elders who have guided and continue to guide our work.

I took a stroll through our classrooms over the last two weeks and was really impressed with the routines or 'predicatble classrooms' our teachers are developing and facilitating for our children. It’s important that we all support kids with their transition into mainstream schooling. Getting kids into routines is a great way to lay a solid foundation to build learning.

One of the key ways of supporting this transition for our students is via communication. If any parent has concern relating to your child your first point of call is always the classroom teacher. Your teacher will always listen and there is no question that can’t be asked.

It’s great to see all teachers using our WSAPB (Whole School Approach to Positive Behaviours) across our school to support classroom learning. The WSAPB values are a great way of reminding all in the Columba Learning Community that we are about building positive relationships with each other, and are designed to support students, parents and teachers. I touched on these values last week, but again want to make the link for families on how we connect this to supporting student behaviour and expectations.

The core values of our Columba WSAPB, Respect,  Perseverance, Inspiration, Generosity, Fairness are crucial components in each of our student's individual development. Each fortnight all classes across our school will have a specific learning focus based on one of the core values listed below. We all work with the students to connect these values and the behaviours that come from these values.

Assembly is held in the Multi-Purpose Room at 2:20 PM every Friday

1 March : Prep & Junior Grades

8 March : Middle & Senior Grades

This year, assemblies will be run a little differently. Due to growth in classes and student numbers, it has been decided that the school will be split in two and each group will have their assembly and awards on alternating weeks.

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Last Friday we celebrated

Fairness

Today we celebrated

Perseverance