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eSafety Parents & Carers Webinars: Term 2

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The eSafety Commissioner has some free webinars coming up to give parents and carers the knowledge, skills and tools to support their children to have safe online experiences.

Some of the topics include:

Understanding & using parental controls to help protect your child online

Parental controls can be a useful addition to the strategies you use to help protect your child online. Parental controls can help keep children and young people by preventing access to harmful content, managing time spent online and who they communicate with.

Term 2 (Australian Eastern Standard Time):

  • 14 May, 12.30pm
  • 3 June, 3.30pm

Sexual extortion: What parents & carers need to know

Sexual extortion or ‘sextortion’ is a form of blackmail where someone threatens to share a nude or sexual image or video of a person unless their demands are met.

Sexual extortion is a serious, growing online concern, especially for young people. But what exactly is it? What conversations may help prevent it and how can you support your child if they’re targeted?

Term 2 (Australian Eastern Standard Time):

  • 28 May, 12.30pm
  • 18 June, 12.30pm

Join our 2025 Push-Up Challenge!

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Last year, our students and staff collectively completed over 50,000 push-ups and raised $1,500 for Lifeline and mental health services across Australia. What a fantastic feat this was for our school community!

This year, we’d love to ‘push’ even further than this – by including more students and staff than ever before in the Finigan SDE Push-Up Challenge, completing more push-ups, and raising even more money for charity.

Does this sound like something you’d like to be a part of?

Join our school community in this challenge between the 4th-26th of June. You can join our whole-school team, by registering your name and details at the following LINK.

Alternatively, if you’re not keen on doing the push-ups, you might like to throw a few dollars in to fuel our fundraising campaign and post some encouraging words for our participants. You can donate to our school team, by using the following LINK.

We hope to have you join us!

The 2025 Premier's Reading Challenge has been extended

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The PRC has been extended for both the student and coordinator deadlines for public and non-government students to allow additional time for challenge completion.

2025 Challenge Dates

·         Challenge closes to students: Extended to Friday 19 September 2025 (Week 9, Term 3)

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Challenge closes to coordinators: Extended to Friday 26 September 2025 (Week 10, Term 3)

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Languages Day

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