16 August 2017

Newsletter Articles

FROM THE ACTING PRINCIPAL

Last week we celebrated both our annual Under 8’s Day as well as our combined whole school and parish mass to mark St Mary of the Cross MacKillop’s Feast Day. It is wonderful to see our school community taking part in these vibrant events and I must congratulate everybody who worked behind the scenes in every facet of our Under 8’s Day. The great dedication of all involved not only makes events like this possible but also successful.

Friday’s mass was a delightful way to celebrate the important role that Mary MacKillop had in inspiring the Sisters of St Joseph to found our school 88 years ago. After mass I was approached by a number of parishioners, including Sr Margaret Smith who is a Josephite Sister, who wanted to commend our students on the way they read, sang and behaved during the mass and mentioned how lovely it was to share the mass with the school community.

Once again, I congratulate the staff and students on their part in this wonderful shared faith experience.

As the new touch football season approaches, I would like to take this opportunity to remind people that the Multi-Purpose Area and it’s corresponding toilet block will not be able to be accessed of an afternoon other than by the students attending our OSHC as per the law. Touch teams training on the school grounds will need to use the newer toilet and refrigerated drink facilities near the lower school eating area. This situation would only be reversed if the MPA court is being used for a school based activity and our OSHC group moves to the lower playground area for the afternoon. Please ask your children to keep an eye out for the bright yellow signs indicating if the toilets are not to be used. As our designated parent/disabled toilet is also situated in the MPA and should not be accessed of an afternoon, parents are asked to use the toilet facilities found in the administration block. Thank-you in advance for your consideration on this matter.

Don’t Forget …

• School Board Meeting, Thursday 17th August @ 5:30pm
• 2018 Prep offers sent out. Friday, 18th August
• Children’s Mass, 6:00pm Saturday 19th August in OLHC
• Book Week Character Parade, Thursday 24th August
• Inter-School Grand Final Day, Friday 25th August

Have a great week.

Regards
Bernard Fitzgerald
St. Joseph’s PA Acting Principal

After School Care Program.

Our St Joseph’s Outside of School Hours Care runs from Monday-Friday 3-6pm. To seek further information, please contact the OSHC Coordinator from 2-6pm weekdays on 0408703482 or via email at sjpa_oshc@rok.catholic.edu.au

Our OSHC will also run Vacation Care for the upcoming holidays which will be available Monday-Friday 18-29 September 7.30am-6pm. Bookings welcome from children attending all schools. For further information, please contact Chelsea Holden on 0408703482.

Bernard Fitzgerald
St. Joseph’s PA Acting Principal

APRE REFLECTION

SAY ‘YES’

As we get busy and then even busier, it is easy to become selfish of our time. We can tend to isolate ourselves from family, neighbours and the community by claiming “I was too busy.” Our call to a Christian life is a call to say ‘Yes’ to life itself and by doing so, ‘Yes’ to others and all that life offers. Mary our Mother, is the ultimate example of saying ‘Yes’ to the service of others and life. This week we celebrate The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and may use this as a reminder that when we say ‘Yes’, we are saying ‘Yes’ to life, hope, love, God and ourselves.

Have a great week

Bernadette Brennan
Acting APRE

RELIGIOUS MATTERS

Children’s Mass This Saturday

This Saturday, 19th August, we will be celebrating a Children’s Mass. Mass commences at 6:00pm in Our Lady Help of Christians. The Joey’s tradition is to bring a plate to share supper and a chat after mass. All families and friends of Joey’s are welcome to attend and join this Eucharistic celebration. We would love to have you join us.

NO Prayer Assembly This week.

Peer Support

This week in the Peer Support session, children will be focusing on the importance of support networks and the role that friends play in each other’s lives. Children will construct a visual representation of this during the session. Encourage your child to identify friends they have who can provide support to them if the need arises.

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

Friday Sport 18/08/2017

Hockey

1pm

St Joseph’s PA 1 v St Mary’s 1 on Grass 3
St Joseph’s PA 3 v Frenchville 4 on Grass 8
St Joseph’s PA 5 v Frenchville 2 on Turf 3

1:20pm

St Joseph’s PA 2 v St Mary’s 2 on Grass 3
St Joseph’s PA 4 v Frenchville 5 on Grass 7
St Joseph’s PA 6 v Frenchville 3 on Turf 3

1:40pm

St Joseph’s PA 1 v Frenchville 2 on Turf 2
St Joseph’s PA 3 v St Anthony’s 3 on Grass 5
St Joseph’s PA 5 v St Anthony’s 1 on Turf 4

2:00pm

St Joseph’s PA 2 v Frenchville 3 on Turf 2
St Joseph’s PA 4 v Frenchville 1 on Grass 5
St Joseph’s PA 6 v St Anthony’s 2 on Turf 4

All Hockey games are played at Kalka Shades

NETBALL

Junior D 1:50pm
St Joseph’s PA v St Paul’s on Court 10
Junior C 1:50pm
St Joseph’s PA v Mt Archer on Court 8
Junior B 1:10pm
St Joseph’s PA v The Hall on Court 10
Senior D 1:10pm
St Joseph’s PA v Waraburra on Court 7
Senior B 12:30pm
St Joseph’s PA v Mt Morgan on court 7

All Netball games are played at Jardine Park

Rugby League

Year 5 A/B’s 12:45
St Joseph’s PA v RGS @ Victoria Park bottom

CURRICULUM NEWS

Important Curriculum Dates – Term 3

Under 8s Day

Last Thursday St Joseph’s celebrated Under 8s Day for 2017. It was a very enjoyable morning with lots of playing and learning occurring. I would like to thank the following people for their contributions to the day:

• Joey’s P&F for donating and cooking sausages for the students for lunch
• Mr Fitzgerald for supplying the P-3 children with an ice block at second break
• Mrs Anderson and 3A for leading us in prayer
• Joey’s P-3 staff for planning, putting together and manning the activities
• Parents and family members who assisted the teachers with activities
• Josh our Adopted Cop for coming along
• Michael Newman and the Rural Fire Brigade for bringing their trucks, Blazer the Koala and lots of goodies for the students
• Miss Black and year 6 for their assistance with setting and packing up seats and tents and helping with face painting
• Family members for coming along and joining in our celebrations

Self Defence Lessons

Over the past 4 weeks our Year 4 and 6 students have participated in self-defence lessons. During those lessons the students have learnt effective ways of getting out of holds and grabs. The students really enjoyed the experience. I would like to thank Mrs Ashleigh McNae along with her helpers (Chantal and Keegan) for instructing the students in such important lifesaving skills.

Big Book Swap

Every second year during book week we have a big book swap morning. This is when we ask students to bring in an unwanted book (in good condition) and swap it for another pre-loved book. This activity has been very well supported in the past and I’m hoping it will be again this year. The aim is for every child to go home with a new pre-loved book. Any leftover books are distributed to classrooms and used as classroom readers. If you would like to donate a book (or multiple books) for this event, please drop them to the library to Mrs Roberts who will place them aside for our big book swap. More books suitable for the upper grades are still required.

Woolworth’s Earn and Learn

Once again St Joseph’s has registered to be part of the Woolworth’s Earn and Learn program. Through this program we will be able to get new educational resources for our school.

From Wednesday 26th July to Tuesday 19th September we are collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers. You will get one Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker for every $10 spent (excluding liquor, tobacco and gift cards). Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet (which can also be downloaded, just head to the link below) and when it’s complete, the Sticker Sheet can be dropped into the Collection Box here at the school office.

At the end of the promotion we’ll be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and offers lots of items ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, Science and some fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, Sport and for our library. Last year through this program we purchased a variety of maths equipment including a teaching clock for every classroom, some stopwatches and sporting equipment.

You can get a sticker card from any Woolworths Supermarket and we will keep spare ones here in the office if you need an extra one. Please make sure you completely fill the sheet before you return it to school as partly filled sheets are not counted.

Book Week Character Parade

Once again during Book Week we will be having our annual character dress up parade. Students are invited to dress up as a character from a book. The parade will be held in the multi-purpose area on Thursday, 24th August from approximately 10:30am.

Write 4 Fun Competition

I have received an invitation for our students to participate in a writing competition. Entry is free and students can win money for themselves and the school as well as other great prizes. The competition is open to all students from Kindy - Year 12. Students can either write a poem or a short story. Entries are due by Friday 31st August. If your Joey’s child is interested in entering the competition, please ask them to see me for further details.

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 fluency.

Strategy – Use Punctuation to Enhance Phrasing and Prosody

Clustering words together by using our knowledge of the spoken patterns in the English language and using punctuation enhances our understanding of what we read. Learning to read in phrases is important. The meaning of what is read is embedded in the chunk of words we read, not just in the isolated words themselves. The order and the way words are put together to make a sentence and then a paragraph create the meaning. It is important for readers to practice reading fluently in phrases.

Spelling:

Activity: Words within words

Write each spelling word and then write at least two words made from the same letters. For example: slide, side, lie, lid, led

Regards,
Deanne Senini
Assistant Principal Curriculum

CLASSROOM NEWS

YR 5

Things we have enjoyed this term in year 5!

Charlie - Challenge Cup Grand Final
Chloe & Jayla – Challenge cup Netball was awesome.
Dakotah – Learning about indigenous culture on Harmony Day.
Brenten – Learning about fitness and healthy lifestyles in Health.
Josh – Playing interschool sport and representing school for Capras Cup.
Harrison – creating a working water wheel for Science Week.
Nicholas – Choosing assessment from Matrix for Science.
Ashley – learning about programming robots in technology.
Mercedez – Creating iMovie’s.
Tendi – PE lessons.
Braydon – Interschool Athletics carnival.
Shari – Learning about Natural disasters.
Chloe – learning about and writing biographies.
Jayla – learning about the solar System in Science.
Leo – Using a matrix to select assessment for Science and HASS & learning about graffiti and street art.
Sienna – Learning about the galaxies in space.
Blake – learning about tsunamis.
Isobella – Learning about astronomy.
Callum – programming Mrs Tranberg (robot) to make Jam Sandwiches in an unplugged Technology lesson, so funny.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations to the following students who will celebrate their birthday this week. They are: Rori Kipling (2F), Jaiden Wust (3A), Daniel Tanner (2F) and Oliver Jahnke (3T).

Have a great day.

FINANCE NEWS

TERM 3 FEES were due on Monday 7th August

Fee Accounts for Term 3 were due for payment on Monday 7th August.
If your account remains unpaid, these are now Overdue.
Your immediate attention to this matter would be appreciated.

If paying by Direct Deposit, please use your Account Number (6-digit number on your Fee Statement) as the reference.

If you are unable to settle your account, your immediate contact with either Bernard or Megan is requested to advise when the account will be settled.

TUCKSHOP NEWS

We are looking for people that can help in the tuckshop on Mondays and Tuesdays.

If you are interested, please stop by the tuckshop and let us know.

Thank you

SCHOOL BANKING

If you are wanting to start school banking but are unsure of what to do, pop in to the office and we can help you out.

School banking is done thru the school every Thursday.

LOST PROPERTY

The lost property is starting to mount up. If your child/ren are missing their jumper or school jacket, lunch box, water bottle or hat, this is where it could be.

At the end of the term, all unnamed items will be discarded or donated to the Uniform Shop.

VOLUNTEERS INDUCTION SESSIONS

WPH&S Volunteers Inductions are necessary for the safety of your children. Therefore, we ask that all parents who generously volunteer their time to the school, either in a classroom or in the tuckshop, attend a very brief induction regarding maintaining a safe environment for the children of St. Joseph’s.

These sessions only take about five minutes and are available after assembly on a Monday morning with Deanne Senini, and on Tuesday afternoons from 2:30pm - 3:00pm. Sue Clarke will also be conducting induction sessions in the tuckshop, if you are helping out in there.

Thanks

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