Guidance counsellor – Barbara Salisbury

ACTION: Therapy Dog concerns feedback form…

Thank you to parents who have let me know about their child’s concerns regarding dogs. To assist in my Guidance Counsellor role, I have Honey who is a trained Therapy Dog. An important and essential start of school job for me is to make sure that children are comfortable having a dog within the school. Please read the letter attached to this Newsletter about Honey, and if your child has pet allergies or is worried about a dog in the school,  complete the form and you can also talk with me directly if you have any questions.

This week’s recommendation – School TV

https://www.stbenedicts.catholic.edu.au/parents/school-tv/

Our St Benedict’s community make good use of our School TV resource. If you are a new family to our school, I highly recommend that you become familiar with the sorts of information available to you.

The feedback I have received from last weeks recommendation has been very positive, so I thought I’d repeat it here just in case you missed it or had trouble locating the program on your iView account.

Our Brain series, particularly Episode 2 Smarter:

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/our-brain/series/1/video/DO2013H002S00

Great information to help us make informed choices on improving our own and our children’s capacity to learn, remember and overall think more clearly.  Please trust me, this one hour of viewing will be life changing for you and your family!

Note: If you would like to learn more about the role of a Guidance Counsellor at St Benedict’s please click here (https://www.stbenedicts.catholic.edu.au/parents/guidance-counsellors/) and at the bottom there is another link for the Guidance Counsellors in Primary Schools brochure.