The last week of term is always an exciting time as students and staff look forward to a break. I’m a little unsure that all parents are as happy about this as we are, however it is a great opportunity to snuggle up by the fire and watch a few DVDs or find some other activities that the family can do together.
It is probably timely that I once again mention the perils of MSN Chat, as this may be one of the activities that your children do over the holidays. I am very aware of, and it is regularly reported to me, instances when students have had some very nasty and sometimes threatening messages. It is easy for unknown people to pass themselves off as just another young person chatting, and it is also very easy for young people to inadvertently give away information about themselves. I suppose the message here is, if your children are on the computer, make sure that you know what they are doing.
The Upper Yarra RSL Sub-Branch in Settlement Road, Yarra Junction is endeavouring to sponsor local schools. They have started a scheme where, if you have a meal at the RSL and mention our school’s name, they will donate 2.5% of the total cost of the meal back to the school. Further in the newsletter is a voucher which can be completed and handed in when paying, if you are going to dine there. They will also have these at the cash register if you forget to take one. Please note that we are not telling people where to have a meal, we are just letting you know that if you choose the RSL please mention Wessie’s name.
Reports will be coming home on Friday so please check your children’s bags. Parent/teacher interviews will happen the third week in term 3. A separate letter will be sent home so that you can make an appointment to talk to teachers about reports and any other issues/questions that you might like to raise.
The first two week’s of term 3 I will be on long service leave and Mr Trevor Gibbs will be replacing me. Please make him feel welcome to Wesburn. I am off to Darwin and then travelling across Cape York Peninsula. I hope to avoid campsites near crocodiles and arrive back at school on July 28.
I’m going to leave you with an article from the Herald Sun on June 15.
Beatitudes for Children:
Blessed are the children who have someone who believes in them and has high hopes for them
Blessed are those children who have someone to whom they can carry their problems without fear
Blessed are those children whose homes are a haven of happiness
Blessed are the children to whom life is a book of knowledge
Blessed are the children who are allowed to pursue their curiosity into every worthwhile field of information
Blessed are the children who have someone who understands that childhood’s griefs are real and bitter and call for understanding sympathy
Blessed are the children who are led gently by the hand along the pathway of life by someone who is a guide, companion and inspiration
Blessed are the children whose love of the true, the beautiful and the good has been nourished through the years
Blessed are the children whose innate imagination has been turned into channels of creative effort
Blessed are the children whose efforts to achieve have found encouragement
Blessed are the children who have learned freedom from selfishness through responsibility and cooperation
Blessed are the children who discover that all life is a process of education and that reaching graduation is but a commencement to a higher grade
Blessed are the children who are encouraged to look beyond the material things of life, to see the spiritual strand which adds eternal meaning and reality
Blessed is the home or community or nation that sees in children the hope of the future and dedicates itself to the realisation of that hope
And I would add …
Blessed are the people who make that happen.
Until next July 28 …
Anne