School Assemblies

Assemblies at St Michael’s are an opportunity for our community to come together to acknowledge and celebrate the great learning and events that happen in our school. The school assembly allows all students at St Michael’s to be recognised for their efforts.  We welcome all parents and friends to our school assemblies which are held every fortnight on a Friday afternoon at 2.30pm in the hall (McCarthy Centre). Our wonderful Year 6 leaders will be facilitating these assemblies throughout the year. This year we are exploring other ways to showcase our learning through our assemblies.

Please see below dates for our Term 1 assemblies.

Week 4 - Friday 21 February 

Week 6-  Friday 6 March 

Week 8- Friday 20 March 

Week 10- Friday 3 April 

The Leader In Me

This year our wonderful Year 6 leaders have begun collaboratively planning ways to strategically keep The Leader In Me framework as a key component of our school culture. Last year we saw the implementation of the fortnightly focuses during our fortnightly assembly. This year our leaders have developed a new strategy that allows students and teachers to record actions of how this habit was displayed both on the playground and in the classroom. These recorded actions will be collected prior to the following fortnights assembly to decide on our class of the fortnight.

Dance the assembly away

To continue to engage our students and create a fun and exciting environment during our school assemblies we have decided to add music to the beginning of our fortnightly Friday assemblies. Students, parents and teachers are encouraged to dance their hearts away upon entering the assembly to create a positive and uplifting vibe before beginning our formal proceedings. 

Professional learning update 

This year we continue our journey with our professional learning on writing. This will be complemented with a key focus on differentiating content to ensure that learning is challenging and enjoyable for all students. Teachers will continue to implement our consistent assessment and data collection to ensure learning experiences are tailored to meet the needs of our students. In our collaborative planning meeting teachers will be utilising this data to develop engaging learning that responds to the interests, abilities and learning styles of all of our students. We look forward to sharing some of our progress and celebrations of student learning throughout the year. 

St Michael’s Award System

Please find below a summary of the fortnightly awards that are presented at our assemblies.

St Michael’s Uniform Expectations:

Please find below an excerpt from the Parent Handbook in relation to school uniform expectations. This ensures that a high standard is maintained. If students are consistently wearing the incorrect uniform a reminder slip will be sent home.

The wearing of the correct school uniform is an expectation at St Michael’s. It is important for students to take pride in themselves, and in their school, by being correctly groomed and wearing full uniform.

The following information from the Parent handbook outlines the school uniform policy. We thank you for your cooperation in ensuring that our students take pride in their school uniform.

Girls Summer Uniform

Blue check tunic, short blue socks, black shoes, hat with school emblem or culottes and shirt. 

Girls and Boys Sport Uniform 

Unisex microfibre navy shorts or culottes, polo shirt with emblem, blue socks, preferably white or blue joggers with white or blue laces. Navy microfibre sports jacket with emblem and microfibre sports pants, navy scarf (optional). School hat with emblem.

Boys Summer Uniform

Navy blue shorts, short-sleeved blue shirt, blue socks, black shoes. School hat with emblem.

Hairstyles

Hair that is over collar length must be cut or tied back. Hair may not be dyed. Hair that is untidy (for example long in length or on top or sides, in face) must be cut, no hairstyles that are inappropriate for school (eg. rat tails, mohawks, beaded hair etc.) are allowed. Only light blue or navy coloured bands, ribbons etc. may be worn.

Jewellery

For safety reasons, jewellery, with the exception of simple watches, signet rings and plain stud or small “sleeper” earrings, is not permitted. Crosses on chains may be worn under uniforms.

Nails 

Nails are to be kept short and clean.  (No nail polish or other cosmetics are to be worn.)

Mr James Bryce - Assistant Principal