We have hit the halfway mark of the term and boy is there a lot happening at St Michaels. Today our Year 5/6 children are representing our school in the District Winter Sports Carnival where they will participate in a range of sports including football, netball, soccer and t-ball. We’d like to thank our parent volunteers who have offered to assist during the day. We greatly appreciate your support. Also this week, our 1/2 students are off on an excursion to Old Gippstown in Moe, whilst our 3/4 students will be celebrating a year level Mass on Friday at the Church. 

We are currently experiencing a lot of poor and unsafe behaviour in our student toilets. These include the throwing of wet toilet paper on the roof, sports equipment and sticks being jammed into toilet bowls, children using the floor instead of sitting on the toilet seat, children standing on and breaking the toilet seats, children climbing over the cubicles and children locking the cubicle doors from the inside and leaving the cubicle unattended. 

Whilst these issues are being addressed as they occur, often the students responsible are not identified and appropriate consequences are not able to be put in place. We have spoken about safety in the toilets at a few assemblies and every day the children are reminded of the expectations by their classroom teacher, however these issues continue to occur on a daily basis. To support us, we ask that all parents speak to their child/ren about safe and responsible behaviour expected of their child when in the toilets. We will continue to remind all children about the expectations of using the toilets and we also have some plans to make this a more child friendly environment by including some positive reminder posters in the toilet blocks.