PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE
Matthew O'Brien, Principal
Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff, Students and the wider St. Joseph’s Primary School Community,
Living With Primary Aged Children
Parenting is the most important role that any of us will engage in. It gives us our opportunity to mould and shape the lives of the ones we love the most, our children. It is also the least taught or coached skill. We kind of learn it by doing it. Make mistakes, adjust and try again. It is probably good that we don’t need a licence or get a one size fits all lesson because we (as parents) are all different and each and everyone of our kids is also different. So there is no one size fits all approach.
But wouldn’t it be great if someone, say an experienced person with expertise in the complexities and joys of parenting, was there for us to offer support and non judgemental advice.
Well, this is exactly what Helen Diamond will be offering for us. She will be running two identical sessions focusing on “Living With Primary Aged Children”. These sessions explore the latest research and draw upon your and her experience into building strong relationships with children.
I believe that this opportunity is so important that we are offering it twice: The sessions are 7:30pm - 9:00pm on Tuesday 28th February and 1:30pm-3:00pm on Wednesday 1st March at school.
So that we can make this important session as easy as possible for all parents (mums and dads) to attend, we will provide free child minding at the evening session.
Please book your spot (and child minding should you require it) via the registration link.