From the Principal
From the Principal
Welcome back, I hope that your holiday was filled with rest and relaxation. I really enjoyed watching your engagement in the School Development Day agenda and can’t thank the presenters enough for their time and energy in preparing such relevant and useful presentations.
On top of the successful SDDs, the school assembly, School Captains speech and Year meetings have confirmed my feelings of progress in conquering our challenges and mastering our expectations for 2022. I cannot recommend highly enough that you keep a hold of the Our Focus 2022 document and keep the recommendations of our reviews foremost in your thoughts and actions. I know that they are in mine.
A lot of information was given during the two SDDs so there is little left to say but to wish you well for the beginning of the year and to remind you to look after your health and wellbeing.
*Photo: South Coast Salmon where the Great Australian Bight Cliffs meet the sand - Point Culver
Getting Started
Term 1 creates the foundation for the year and I would highly recommend that you go slowly, set your classroom routines, student expectations and focus on calm calculated classroom management strategies. Tina Nottle produced an excellent handout on the Behaviour management flow at Bunbury SHS. Please make sure that you have a copy. Providing consistency across the school supports your colleagues.
Another useful document to keep in front of you is the Positive Behaviour matrix. This document gives you a framework to have conversations with students from a positive perspective.
Booster Program
Can I remind you of the third dose booster requirement. For many of you, who are eligible, you will need to have had your third dose by the end of the week (5 February). Those not yet eligible have a month from when they are eligible to get the booster.
For the eligible staff, please do what you can this week to get your booster shot and upload the proof to HRMIS. If you can do this by Thursday morning would be good to give us a chance for any contingency planning. Please check HRMIS for your eligibility.
Vaccination appointments may be hard to come by, but it is very easy to get a walk-in vaccination at the clinic behind Bunnings. In the first instance please try to get your vaccination after school but I am happy to authorise school time for you to get your booster shot if needed. It will require coordination of teacher relief and it may not always be available when you need it. If you need time through the day to do this, please see Vicki to make arrangements. The advice from the DoE is that I have no discretion in allowing you to remain on the school site if eligible staff have not had the booster and uploaded the evidence. Thank you for your prompt attention to this requirement.