Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal The other day I had a wonderful conversation with some parents who had come along to the classroom helper training with Janet Miller. At the end of the session, we were discussing parenting things around helping your child deal with the social dilemmas they face at school. Of course deliberate physical violence never counts in this space, nor does repeated teasing, this should always be shared with you and their teacher to get the support that they need. I shared with these parents a strategy to help with the occasional teasing problem, [...]

Nerae Preece Principal From the Principal Well that wasn’t the week we were expecting! I am so impressed with our community, for making it through. Our teachers are starting to get prepared for more of these “circuit breakers” over the year. We hope we don’t have to do them too often, but we know we are prepared if we have to. If you’re feeling a bit flat, it is understandable. The news was something we weren’t really expecting, and for some of us we may have jumped into our fight, flight or freeze mode. If you’re worried about [...]