Newsletter – Term 3, Week 4

Term 3 – Week 4 2021

Important Dates

Term 3, Week 4

Tuesday 17 August: Community Engagement Cultural Meeting in the staffroom for Indian, Scottish, Taiwanese, Malaysian, Pakistani, Kurdish, American, Irish and British families – 7:00 pm 

Thursday 19 August: Board of Trustees Meeting in the staffroom – 7:00 pm

In This Issue

1. Welcome to Sunnybrae
2. School Drop Off and Pick Up
3. Sports Fees Now Due
4. Sunnybrae Open Afternoon – Thursday 26 August
5. Teacher Only Days at Sunnybrae
6. Our New Keyboard
7. Community Engagement: Sunnybrae Cultural Project
8. Wellbeing – Empathy and Kindness
9. Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L)
10. YMCA After School Care Programme
11. Community Notices

1. Welcome to Sunnybrae

This week we would like to welcome the following new students and their families to our school community: Bella De Belen (R2), Emma Li (R8), Kaia Nelsen-Pene (R2) and Nieve Sinclair (R2).

2. School Drop Off and Pick Up

Please Drop Off at the Gate between 8:30 and 8:45 am. 

Covid-19 Alert Level 1

In Term 3, we ask that parents/caregivers continue to drop their children at the school gates in the morning to help reduce contact tracing and foster independence in our students. Staff and Student Councillors will be present at all gates to assist with drop off.

Parents/caregivers are welcome to come to the classroom to pick up their children at 3:00 pm.

3.  Sports Fees Now Due

All sports fees for Term 3 are now due. Please check your Kindo account. You are able to make part or full payments of fees owing. Thank you.

4. Sunnybrae Open Afternoon – Thursday 26 August

5. Teacher Only Days at Sunnybrae

Teacher Only Days

As previously advised, all schools have been allocated eight additional Teacher Only Days between 2020 and 2022 through the Accord signed in 2019. Our next Teacher Only Days will be on the following dates:

Friday 1 October – Term 3, Week 10

Monday 15 November  – Term 4, Week 5

The school will be closed for instruction on these days.

6. Our New Keyboard

A great big thank you to Peter and Catherine Young (Room 3 Teacher) for the donation of a lovely keyboard for the music room. The keyboard was put into immediate use and the students are thrilled. Thank you for your generosity.

7.  Sunnybrae Cultural Project

8.  Wellbeing – Empathy and Kindness

The Resilience Project – Part 3: Empathy & Kindness.

This next presentation from The Resilience Project is all about Empathy and Kindness. 

 Empathy is the ability to understand another person’s thoughts and feelings from their perspective. 

Brain imaging data shows that being kind to others registers in the brain as more like eating chocolate than like fulfilling an obligation to do what’s right (e.g. eating brussel sprouts)! Research shows that practising empathy, such as performing acts of kindness, taps into our brain’s ‘mirror neurons’, builds compassion and our behaviour becomes more social and community-based. 

View Part 3: Empathy of the series here: https://theresilienceproject.com.au/parent-and-carer-hub/

Here’s an activity to practise empathy and kindness:

1. Reflect on someone in your life who could benefit from an act of kindness today. It could be a friend who would love some affirmation about their work, your pet who deserves an extra treat, or a family member who would love a phone call or text message. 
2. Make a plan for who you are going to gift an act of kindness to, and what you are going to do. 
3. If you want to add accountability to your plan, share it with someone else and encourage them to do the same thing.
4. Follow up with each other in a few days time, to ask how it went! 

Sources: Psychology Today, UC Berkeley, Greater Good Science

For mental health resources and support information, visit The Resilience Project’s Support Page.

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9.  Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L)

This week our PB4L focus has been on using independence in the library.

Our lessons have focussed on:

• Bringing books back to school before library sessions
• Putting books back in the right place

10.  YMCA After School Care Programme

Kind Regards

Lorene Hurd
Principal

 11. Community Notices