27 April 2017

Newsletter Articles

FROM THE ACTING PRINCIPAL

As we enter our second week of the Term, can I take this opportunity to mention how proud I am to be a part of this lovely community. This was reinforced yesterday as we saw many of our student body come together to march on ANZAC Day. I quite often mention to our students that by marching on ANZAC Day we are not glorifying fighting or war, but we are showing our appreciation for all those who fought for the freedoms we enjoy today. I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s with people openly saying that; ‘We live in the lucky country.’ Even though we tend not to hear this term as much anymore, I still believe that we are very lucky to be living in this great land and the life we lead today is in no small part due to those who stood for what they believed in, many of which paid the ultimate sacrifice.

‘Greater love has no one that this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.’ John 15:13

LEST WE FORGET

In the next couple of weeks, all families in our Joey’s community will receive an invitation to take part in an online survey for our School Review and Improvement process this year. The surveys will be collated with responses from both our staff and student body to help form a report that will provide us with data that will help us celebrate the things we as a school community do well but to also identify the things we need to work on in the future. Working in partnership has always been an important part of the Joey’s community and if you can take the time to complete this survey it would be much appreciated.

This week Brooke Black, Ray Carrington and I will be attending the Diocesan Student Protection Conference. As we have mentioned many times, student protection is a top priority for our school community and we are constantly striving to make St Joseph’s a safe community, where care and concern for our students goes well beyond our curriculum studies. On Monday’s assembly I reintroduced Brooke, Ray and myself to our student body as our official student protection officers. I also pointed out that even though it is these three people’s names that appear on our student protection posters around the school, that in reality, it is our entire staff that is trained in, and committed to, the safety and wellbeing of our greatest asset, our children.

Just a friendly reminder that now Dance Fever has finished we will revert to our normal PE times on our curriculum roster. This means that on Tuesday it will be our Years 1-2 and 3T that are required to wear their sports uniform while on Wednesday it will be Years 4-6 and 3A. Preps continue to wear their uniform as per usual and now that we have returned from our Year 6 camp, our senior students are required to wear their senior shirts on a Friday only.

Don’t Forget …

• Inter-school Cross Country, Thursday 27th April
• Labour Day Public Holiday, Monday 1st May
• Meal Deal Wednesday, 10th May
• NAPLAN Year 3 & 5 Testing, Tuesday the 9th – Thursday the 11th May
• NRL Development Cup Gala Day, Friday 12th May
• Mother’s Day, Sunday 14th May
• School Photo Day, Monday 22nd May
• One Day Validation Visit for SR&I, Thursday 1st June
• Athletics Field Events Day @ SJPA, Monday 12th June
• Athletics Track Events Day @ Emmaus, Tuesday 13th June

Have a great week.

Regards
Bernard Fitzgerald
St. Joseph’s PA Acting Principal

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APRE REFLECTION

On Tuesday April 25th, all around Australia at various War memorials, people gathered at dawn or marches to honour those men and women who have gone off to war. It is a day of remembrance of the deaths and sufferings in war, the bravery of fighting men and women and the hope for the people of the world to live together in peace. We think of the people who currently live the reality of war each day. We remember those who are striving to bring peace to those parts of the world that are war torn at this time. This Anzac Day, let us pray for a peace filled world.

Bernadette Brennan
Acting APRE

RELIGIOUS MATTERS

Project Compassion

The annual appeal at Joey’s was a huge success. The generosity of the children and the families is a testament to the compassion and faith our school community has in this appeal, that strives to promote justice and put an end to poverty. Your support will bring lasting changes to less fortunate communities around the world. The Joey’s Project Compassion appeal raised $1626.25, which will be forwarded to Caritas Australia.

Thank you

Northside Catholic Community Mass times

Weekday

Tuesday 9.00am Holy Family
Wednesday 12.00 Noon St Mary’s
Thursday 8.00am Emmaus College (Yaamba Rd)
Friday 9.00am Our Lady Help of Christians

Weekend

Saturday – Vigil

6.00pm Holy Family
6.00pm Our Lady Help of Christians

Sunday

7.00am St Mary’s
9.00am Holy Family

Bernadette Brennan
Acting APRE

SPORTING MATTERS

RDS Cross Country Trials

23 of our students were selected to participate in tomorrow’s Rockhampton and District Cross Country trials at Kalka Shades. After a very wet start to the training season last term, the students were able to hit the grass last week for a few solid practice runs. We wish all our competitors the best for a successful day on the course.

Hats for Athletics Season

In the lead up to the athletics carnival in week 9, PE lessons will focus on the various track and field events. It is imperative students have hats for PE lessons as most of the lesson will be on the oval. Please check your child has a clearly named school hat on their PE day.

Tuesday – Prep, Year 1, Year 2 and 3T
Wednesday – Year 4, Year 5, Year 6 and 3A

Interschool Sport Fixtures

As Season A sport is coming to a close, several teams will not be competing on Fridays unless they are in finals. Please check the draws carefully for fixtures and finals.

Sports preference notes will be sent home soon for Season B sport. The choices are Rugby League, Netball and Hockey. Please discuss these options with your child and return the forms promptly so teams can be selected and training can commence.

Rockhampton District Selection Trials

10-12yrs Softball Boys & Girls

Wednesday 10th and 17th May at Kele Park, Kalare Street (off Western Street) from 4:00pm – 5:30pm

If your son/daughter is interested in trialing for any Rockhampton team you will need to contact the school office to receive the relevant paper work in order to nominate. Nominations are due back to Mrs. Brennan two days before the trial date.

Bernadette Brennan
Acting APRE

Friday afternoon sports 28/04/2017

Soccer

Girls

St Joseph’s PA v The Hall SS (The Hall have forfeited against us)

Yr 6 Boys Blue

St Joseph’s PA v Park Avenue SS @ Park Avenue SS 1:30
Yr 5 Boys Maroon
St Joseph’s PA v Park Avenue SS @ Park Avenue SS 12:40

Oz Tag

Girls

St Joseph’s Blue v Glenmore @ Berserker 12:30 (field 1)
St Joseph’s Maroon v BYE
St Joseph’s White v St Mary’s Blue @ Berserker 1:50 (field 1)

Boys

Grand final Game

St Joseph’s White v RGS Red @ Berserker 1:10 (field 1)

CURRICULUM NEWS

Welcome back to what promises to be a very busy term. I hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Easter break.

Important Curriculum Dates – Term 2

NAPLAN

NAPLAN tests will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of Week 4 for Year 3 and 5 students. Teachers have been preparing the students for these tests and will continue to do so until week 4. NAPLAN tests are important for our school as it gives us a good ‘snapshot’ of the areas we are doing well in and also the areas where we as a school need to focus on in the future. The staff at St Joseph’s do our best to make this time as stress free as we can for the students. If you have any concerns about your child sitting the NAPLAN tests, please see me before the end of Week 2. I recommend that all students who are participating in the tests have a good night sleep the night before each test and a good hearty breakfast each morning of the tests.

DANIEL MORCOMBE CHILD SAFETY CURRICULUM

Week 2

Prep – Year 2

Students will:

• Understand the meaning of persistence
• Understand the need for persistence
• Identify a group of safety helpers they can report to

Years 3 – 6

Students will:

• Identify that planning ahead can help them stay safe
• Plan avoidance or exit strategies that can be used to keep themselves safe

LITERACY CORNER

Reading:

Learning to read involves children learning skills in comprehension, fluency, accuracy and expanding on their known vocabulary. This week’s skill comes under the heading of Accuracy.

Strategy – Using beginning and ending sounds

When reading a word, students should be using the sounds at the beginning of the word as well as at the end of the word. Often children will look at the beginning letter or letters and guess a word that may fit in the sentence without looking at the rest of the word. They may not even know there is an end to a word. It is important that children slow down enough to be able to look at the whole word before making a guess. They would then cross check the word to make sure it makes sense with the pictures and the rest of the sentence.

Spelling:

Strategy: Hidden Words

Draw a picture and write your spelling words in the picture. Try to hide the words.

Regards,
Deanne Senini
Assistant Principal Curriculum

CLASSROOM NEWS

Yr 4

Welcome back to another exciting term in Year 4. We have had a very busy start to the term and it does not look like it is going to slow down. This term in Literacy we will be focusing on writing narratives using the 7 Steps to Success program. Even though we only started looking at these last week, we are already seeing hints of some fantastic story writers in Year 4.

In Science this term the students will be participating in a unit called Plants in Action. In this unit students will investigate the process of germination, the stages in a plant’s life cycle and what plants need for growth. In HASS we will continue our It’s Not Easy Being Green unit from last term now turning the focus onto how we can look after our environment. Towards the end of the term we will start looking at life in Australia before Settlement.

Our excursion to the FLOW centre has been rescheduled for Tuesday the 9th of May. A new permission note will be sent home this week.

We hope you all have a fantastic term and feel free to drop in and see us at any time.

Mrs Mooney, Mrs Wayman and Year 4.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations to the following students who will celebrate their birthday this week. They are: Maddison Petkovic (6B), Denver Bazzacco (PW) & Jacob McLean (1F)

Have a great day.

PHOTO DAY MONDAY MAY 22ND

Our School Photo day is fast approaching (Monday 22nd of May). Please see the attached important letter from the photographer for all the information you will be requiring.

Thanks

MEAL DEAL

Our Meal deal for this term will now be on Wednesday the 10th of May. This will be a Sausage sizzle, cupcake and zooper dooper.

We will be asking for donations of cupcakes, which can be dropped off at the tuck-shop on the Wednesday morning.

A note will go home next week with all this information on it.

UNIFORM SHOP

Our uniform shop is run by VOLUNTEERS of the school and is open

Monday morning from 8:15 - 8:45
Tuesday afternoon from 2:45 - 3:15
Friday morning 8:15 – 8:45

Please feel free to drop any uniforms you no longer need so they can put out to sell. Proceeds can go back to you or you can donate it back to the P & F.

The Uniform Shop has quite a lot of good second hand uniforms. Please feel free to pop in (at the opening times above), and have a look.

There are second had Emmaus uniforms also.

FRIDAY PIZZA

Meatlovers and Hawaiian Pizza are available every Friday for $1.50/slice. Please have your order in a Brown Paper Bag with your name, class and order on it, with the money in side.

Please use a brown paper bag with child’s name and class written on the front.

TUCKSHOP IS UNAVAILABLE ON FRIDAYS

DRAKES SUPA IGA

Simply scan your Drakes Supa IGA key tag and the checkout with your groceries, and automatically 1 cent of every dollar you spend goes to the Cathedral Conservation Fund.

Key tags are available from the office, local church or Drakes stores. Put it on your car keys so you remember to use it.

Key tags can be used at any Drakes Supa IGA supermarket in Queensland. Currently in our Diocese Drakes stores are located at

• Glenmore (North Rockhampton)
• Emu Park

TCC RACE DAY

Please see the attachment regarding The Cathedral College Race Day “Party at the Park”, to be held on Saturday the 13th May at Callaghan Park. If you are free, grab a group and head to the races.

JUNIOR BASKETBALL

New seasons starting May 4th & 5th

Stay out of the elements this Winter with the best indoor sport in town. Basketball is fast paced, fun, and most importantly a sport that everyone can play. We¹ll help you find a club, a team, and a level of competition that is perfect for you.

Fri Nights ¬ U10-U12 comps (Players born 10-06)
Thurs Nights ¬ U14-U18 comps (Players born 05-00)

Please call Matt Neason on (07) 4922 5544 for more information.