25 October 2017

Newsletter Articles

FROM THE ACTING PRINCIPAL

I would like to take the opportunity to thank Mr Alan Barker for the time in which I have worked as his Assistant Principal. During this time, I have learned much from Alan and seen Joeys experience tremendous growth and prosperity. Alan personally has made me a better educator and I will miss his knowledge and guidance as a work colleague. I thank Alan for his continued friendship and I am sure you will join with me in wishing him all the best in his future endeavours. I also look forward to working with the Joeys community for the rest of the year and into the beginning of 2018.

Today we had a media team visiting our school in order to shoot a promotional video. This video is being created by the Diocesan Office as a tool for people seeking Catholic values who may be new to the area and considering enrolling their child or children in a local catholic school. The video will emphasize all the positive aspects of our great school community with our greatest asset, our students, being the central feature. On completion, I will post a link to the video for your perusal.

Just a reminder that this Saturday evening, our school P&F Association will be holding a Hawaiian themed Trivia Night at 6:00pm in the school MPA. Cost for the evening is $10 per person with snacks provided and pizza available to order. A bar will be operating on the night and cash prizes will be available. If you are interested in attending and supporting the P&F, I urge you to contact Tracey at the school office on 4922 1906 before Saturday’s event.

During the next two weeks, any parents who may have significant concerns regarding the placement of their children for the 2018 school year, are welcome to make an appointment through Tracey and discuss these concerns with me. Please note that these concerns should arise from the specific needs of your child/ren. This opportunity will remain available until Friday the 10th November, however, after this time, it will NOT be possible to take any further concerns into consideration.

Don’t Forget …

• Emmaus Awards Evening, Wednesday 25th Oct
• Day for Daniel, Friday 27th Oct
• Bandana Day, Friday 27th Oct
• World Teacher’s Day, Friday 27th Oct
• St Joseph’s Trivia Night, Saturday 28th Oct
• All Saints Day, Wednesday 1st Nov
• All Souls Day, Thursday 2nd Nov

I hope you have a great week.

Regards
Bernard Fitzgerald
St. Joseph’s PA Acting Principal

APRE REFLECTION

Every day, Queensland teachers are making a difference educating and inspiring young people across our state. World Teachers' Day is an opportunity to acknowledge our teachers and say thanks for the significant contributions they make in our classrooms and communities. Celebrated in more than 100 countries world-wide, World Teachers' Day was established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 1994 to recognise the role of teachers in society. World Teachers' Day is held internationally on 5 October. As the day usually falls during school holidays, Queensland celebrates on the last Friday of October each year.

RELIGIOUS MATTERS

Prep M Prayer Assembly

This Friday 27th October, Prep M will be leading their first prayer assembly in OLHC church at 11:30am. The preppies will be presenting an assembly about teachers to celebrate World Teachers Day. Parents, families and friends of the school are all welcome to come along and share this prayer celebration.

Bandana Day

National Bandanna Day is CanTeen’s largest fundraiser and aims to raise $1.3 million this year to support young people living with cancer. Every year, another 23,000 young people (63 a day) have to deal with the challenge of cancer. And we get it. Just when life should be full of possibilities, cancer crashes into a young person’s world and shatters everything. CanTeen is the game changer.

Bandanas are available for sale before and after school. This Friday we will celebrate Bandana Day as our way of supporting Can Teen.

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

Swimming Carnival Date Claimer

The annual swimming carnival will be held on Wednesday 15th November commencing at 5:00pm. The carnival is held at the South Rockhampton Pool.

Congratulations Braydon

Braydon recently competed in high jump at the Queensland School Sport 10 – 12 Years Athletics in Brisbane. Braydon jumped a personal best of 1.33m which placed him in seventh place across Queensland.

Great effort Braydon

Friday Sport 27/10/2017

Basketball

Game 1 12:30pm
Fireballers v Pink Warriors

Game 2 2:00pm
Sabertooth Tigers v Mavericks

All basketball games are played at school

Softball

Games are played at 12:30

Yr 6
St Joseph’s PA v Frenchville 2 on KP3

Yr 5
St Joseph’s PA 1 v Mt Morgan 2 on KP 12
St Joseph’s PA 2 v RGS 2 on KP 9

All softball games are played at Kele Park

T20

All games start at 12:30

St Joseph’s PA 1 v Frenchville 1
St Joseph’s PA 2 v Lakes Creek 2
St Joseph’s PA 3 v Lakes Creek 1
St Joseph’s PA 4 v St Joseph’s 5

All T20 games are played at McLeod Park

Bernadette Brennan
Acting APRE

CURRICULUM NEWS

DAY FOR DANIEL

Once again this year we will be inviting students to participate in the annual ‘Day for Daniel’. ‘Day for Daniel’ is a National Day of Action to raise awareness about child safety and protection. Parents, carers and guardians are asked to start a conversation about personal safety in the real world and in an online environment.

Students are asked to wear a red shirt to school on Friday, 27th October with their normal sports uniform shorts. Students are also asked to bring a gold coin donation. This money goes towards educating children about safety and supporting young victims of crime. Those senior students travelling for sport are asked to bring their normal sports shirt to change in to.

Teachers will be talking to the students and completing activities as a way of remembering how to stay safe. Please reinforce the important messages of Recognise, React, Report with your children.

What does RECOGNISE, REACT and REPORT mean?

• RECOGNISE encourages students to be aware of their surroundings and to recognise body clues in situations where they don’t feel safe.
• REACT helps students to consider choices that may keep them safe or help make them safe again as quickly as possible.
• REPORT encourages students to report unsafe incidents to an adult.

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 comprehension.

Strategy – Determine and Analyse Author’s Purpose and Support with Text

During this strategy, readers identify why the author wrote a text, by giving specific examples from the text to support the reader’s inference. This strategy helps deepen understanding for how to read and comprehend the text. Readers infer the meaning of the text based on the author’s purpose for writing it, which may be to persuade, inform or entertain.

Spelling:

Activity: Word Sort

Divide a piece of paper into however many patterns you have in spelling this week. For example: if you are learning about ‘el’ and ‘le’ endings, divide your paper into two sections, and label the pattern at the top of each section. Have someone read the words to you and write them in the appropriate column. Check your work after you finish.

Example:

Regards,
Deanne Senini
Assistant Principal Curriculum

FINANCE NEWS

Fee Accounts for Term 4 were emailed and posted out on Monday 9th October.

*** Please Note: Term 4 Fees were due yesterday Tuesday 24h October. ***

NOTE: When your Concession Card expires, please present your new card to Megan otherwise Concession’s cannot be applied.

If you have not received your Fee Statement, please contact Megan for a copy.

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

If you have an outstanding amount and are unable to make any payment, can you please make immediate contact with Bernard or Megan to advise your current situation?

CLASSROOM NEWS

YR 5

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations to the following students who will celebrate their birthday this week. They are: Shaylah Ireland (2H), Liam Austin (6B), Humbal Salam (PM), Hugh Ballinger (3T) and Rayna Andersen (3T)

Have a great day.

2018 SCHOOL FETE

2018 ‘Festival of Colour’ School Fete

Stall holders and sponsors

The ‘Festival of Colour’ School Fete for 2018 is fast approaching. We are now looking for any businesses, individuals or groups that are interested in purchasing a 3X3 undercover, unpowered site for only $25! The fete is on Sunday 29th April 2018 between 2-6pm. Please contact the school or email sjpafete@gmail.com for further enquires or bookings.

Poster competition

We are running a competition for the students to create the poster that will be used to advertise the fete. All details of what needs to go in the poster has been sent home in a note. These are due back to be judged by Friday 10th November. Your child will be in the running to win a rides wristband so encourage them to give it a go!

Thanks Kate Nembach
P & F Fete Committee President

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.

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