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RATS Reminder
- Students who are close contacts are still required to undergo 5 days of RATs and can continue to attend school as long as the RATs turn a negative result
- The exemption period after testing positive has been revised down to 4 weeks. This means that students who test positive are exempt from further testing and isolation for the 4 weeks after their isolation period ends.
- RATs are to be taken only when symptomatic. Due to this change, we will no longer send RATs home on a fortnightly basis. We have ample stock onsite, so please let us know when you're running low and we will send some home via your child.
- We can also send home a pack to families with students attending school as close contacts to ensure they can continue to test daily for 5 school days. Please let us know if your require this.
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Mount St Josephs 2024 Enrolments
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We are a nurturing faith and learning community where each individual is
encouraged to excel in their academic, co-curricular and personal goals whilst
bearing witness to the gospel values.
Students wishing to attend Mount St. Joseph Girls’ College for Year 7 in 2024
should apply in Grade 5 of their primary school education.
Applications for Year 7 in 2024 are now open. Apply online via the College
website. The closing date for applications is Friday 19 August 2022.
For application to Years 8-12, there is no application closing date, but vacancies
are limited and waiting lists may apply.
For all enquiries, please contact:
Sherri Collins: registrar@msj.vic.edu.au
133 Maidstone Street, Altona
(03)8398 2000
www.msj.vic.edu.au
We would also like to thank Mancini Real Estate for their continuous support to St Mary's Altona
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Literacy: Book Week Dress Up Day
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Literacy: Home Reading Routines
Home reading is ideally an enjoyable shared reading experience with easy books, in order to engage and motivate your child to become a reader.
Here are some hints and tips to help you with setting up and maintaining a home reading routine at home to support your child’s reading success. Junior students from Prep to Year 2 have level appropriate books which they are bringing home in their Reader Bags. All students from P-6 also have the opportunity to visit the school library and are expected to borrow books of their choice/interest as well.
It is important to continue to practise reading skills, such as decoding, comprehension, visualisation, thinking and language ability regularly.
When you see take home readers come home from school, remember, these are deliberately set at an easy level so that your child can be independent, practice fluency and so that reading is enjoyable for all. Your child’s teacher will work with them at their instructional level and help them to take the next step in their reading development during school time.
Before reading take-home books with your child, take a moment to discuss what they have been learning during their reading sessions. Are there any sounds or blends that they are focusing on? Is there a particular goal that they are working on in their focused teaching group?
Reading these books with your child and listening to them read to you, helps to reinforce what is being taught in the classroom. Students often enjoy rereading the same books and this is great! This should be supported as it builds fluency and the automatic recognition of words. Fluent reading sounds like the reader is talking or having a conversation rather than sounding stilted, monotone or robotically slow. When reading fluently, children should also be able to retell/summarise what the text is about and make connections to their own lives, the world around them or other texts as they are not concentrating all their effort into word breaking so they can take in meaning and enjoy the process and content more..
Keeping a reading routine with your children works best if it is easy to manage and enjoyable. Here are some tips to instil the love of reading and literature into your family routines:
- Read together and discuss what you read
- Set an example - pick up a book yourself and let them see you reading
- Let your children read what they want for enjoyment - tap into their interests, this could even include cook books and graphic novels
- Read signs and packaging everywhere: in shops, in traffic, even signs posted on hiking trails, etc
- Create a scrapbook to record events and fun outings
- Celebrate finishing a book - draw the character, make cookies or treats around the theme of the book, act out a favourite scene or create it with Lego
- Write letters - have your child write letters to family or friends
- Schedule a daily reading time
- Subscribe to magazines
- Make your own book about a family trip or event or daily life
- Visit the local library
Thank you for all of your support at home, happy reading and don’t forget to reach out if you want more tips and tricks!
Brenda Lycke
Literacy Leader
blycke@smaltona.catholic.edu.au
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