8 November 2017

Newsletter Articles

FROM THE ACTING PRINCIPAL

Throughout the year our Prep class has been working in partnership with Year 2H to restore our vegetable garden and return it back to its former glory. To say that they have achieved this would be a massive understatement. We obviously have some budding farmers at Joey’s as last week we were presented with some of the fantastic vegetables that our Preps and Year 2 class have grown.

Huge tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and truly gigantic eggplants found their way around the school community last week, highlighting the fantastic work these two classes have done together on this project. I am not sure how many of our students enjoy a good eggplant regularly, and for a lot of our students the idea of an, ‘egg-plant’ seemed a bit strange until they were able to see one close up. One of the eggplants was weighed and came in at a staggering 1.363kgs. If I could have somehow preserved it, I would have loved to have placed it in our school trophy cabinet for all to see. It is really that impressive.

This joint project has been a great educational opportunity for all the students involved as they have worked in partnership with each other and have developed a true sense of pride and ownership over the vege garden. Well done to all involved including our adult volunteers who continue to provide meaningful opportunities for our students each and every day. Now all we need to do is convince our students to eat the eggplants.

With this being the last week of swimming, I would like to thank George Hunt, Mark Ryan and Tony Wren for driving the bus for ten of the days of swimming this year as well as Tracey and Megan in the front office who have ferried extra students to the pool each lesson. The generous actions of these community members in giving up their own spare time has saved our school community thousands of dollars in bus and driver hire and allowed us to keep our five-week swimming program so affordable. It is the generosity of people such as these that continues to make Joeys a great family based, school community.

Don’t Forget …

• Themed Free Dress Day, Thurs 9th Nov
• Remembrance Day, Sat 11th Nov
• Swimming Carnival, Wed 15th Nov @ 5:00pm
• Emmaus Year 6 Parent Information Evening, Wed 15th Nov
• Emmaus Year 6 Orientation Day, Thurs 16th Nov
• Final Children’s Mass for 2018, Sat 18th Nov @ 6:00pm

I hope you have a great week.

Regards
Bernard Fitzgerald
St. Joseph’s PA Acting Principal

APRE REFLECTION

Time to Remember

This year, marks 99 years since peace descended on Europe’s Western front as a result of the armistice. More than 10 million soldiers, sailors and airmen died since the First World War had begun four years earlier.

‘Greater love has no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.’

JOHN 15: 13-14

Bernadette Brennan
Acting APRE

RELIGIOUS MATTERS

3A Prayer Assembly

This Friday, 10th November, 3A will be leading the prayer assembly in OLHC church at 11:30am. The Year 3 students will be presenting an assembly for Remembrance Day. Parents, families and friends of the school are all welcome to attend.

‘Vinnie’s Christmas Hampers – Term 4 Joeys Giving Plan

We are continuing to collect items for the ‘Joey’s Christmas Hamper Appeal’ over the next couple of weeks. Families are asked to donate an item each week to their child’s classroom hamper where possible. To ensure the St Vincent DePaul Society have ample time to distribute the items, please ensure the goods have an expiry date that would reach into early 2018. This appeal is potentially life changing and our support in previous years has been tremendous.

If you are able, please contribute to this worthwhile cause.

PRESENTATION NIGHT

This year our Presentation Night will be Thursday 23rd November and the theme is Let’s Celebrate. Classes will be presenting songs and some dance performances during the evening which commences at 6:00pm. Our annual school awards will also be presented throughout this evening.

Final Children’s Mass for 2017

Our final Children’s Mass with the Our Lady Help of Christians Parish will be held this Saturday evening the 18th of November. It would be lovely to have as many of the Joey’s community come along to celebrate. It would be especially great to have as many of our Year 6 students as possible as it will be their last parish mass as St Joseph’s Park Avenue students. Hope to see you there.

Sacramental Program

The next Sacramental Programme will commence early in Term 1, 2018 with the children journeying through the Sacraments of Penance (Reconciliation), Confirmation and Eucharist. Please complete the attached letter and return to school to show your expression of interest.

Bernadette Brennan
Acting APRE

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

SPORTING MATTERS

2017 Swimming Carnival

Our annual St Joseph’s Park Avenue swimming carnival will be held next Wednesday, the 15th of November at the Southside Pool.

The carnival will be held in the evening, commencing at 5:00pm sharp with the 5 years old races and finish at approximately 8:00pm. The 25m races will be held first in the short course pool. Following the completion of all 25m races we will commence the 100m and 50m races in the main pool. The program will be completed with the open, house relays. Last year the staff entered a team in the open relay, any parents keen to put a team together are welcome to join this fun event at the end of the night.

As it may be a late night for some of our younger students, age championship medallions will be presented in the MPA at 8:35am Friday morning in front of the entire school.

Friday Sport 10/11/2017

Basketball

Game 1 12:30pm
Fire Ballers v Sabertooth Tigers

Game 2 2:00pm
Mavericks v Pink Warriors

All basketball games are played at school

Softball

Games are played at 12:30

Yr 6
St Joseph’s PA v Berserker 1 on KP7

Yr 5
St Joseph’s PA 1 BYE
St Joseph’s PA 2 v Mt Archer on KP13

All softball games are played at Kele Park

T20

All games start at 12:30

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

All T20 games are played at McLeod Park

Bernadette Brennan
Acting APRE

CURRICULUM NEWS

BOOKLISTS

2018 booklists will be sent home this week. Please check with your child that they have received it. Once again Capricorn Educational Resources (CER) in Alexandra Street have offered to give a generous amount of money back to the school when Joeys parents purchase their school supplies from them. Of course you are able to purchase your child’s supplies from wherever you wish however I have worked closely with the ladies from CER and they guarantee supply of the correct equipment. Teachers put a significant amount of thought and time into developing the booklists so I ask that you provide your child with all the equipment listed. If purchasing from CER you are welcome to drop your order into school before the end of Term or take it directly to CER.

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 – Check for Understanding

This strategy teaches children to stop frequently and check or monitor whether they understand what they are reading. This is typically a quick summary of what they’ve read, starting with who and what.

Spelling:

Strategy – Across and Down Words: Write each of your spelling words across and then down. See the example below.

Example:

FAST
A
S
T

Regards,
Deanne Senini
Assistant Principal Curriculum

FINANCE NEWS

*** Please Note: Term 4 Fees were due on Tuesday 24h October, and if they remain unpaid are now 2 weeks overdue .***

NOTE : When your Concession Card expires, please present your new card to Megan otherwise Concessions 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 6

Wow! Week 6! Nearly the end of the year. We have been busy finishing our assignments, these are a few which have been really interesting!

This term in Maths, Grade 6 has been working on a Maths Investigation called ‘Pyramids and Pharaohs,’ by the title you can already tell it is about Ancient Egypt. For the investigation students will first be asked to create a timeline about Giza going from 3000 BC - 500 BC. The timeline may include events like when Pyramids are built or the birth or death of famous Pharaohs in Giza.

For the second part of the investigation students made a paper model of what the Pyramids of Giza look like. To make the Pyramid sizes match the scale inside the student’s maths investigation book, it shows sizes and degrees to use to build these Pyramids. There were many great Pyramid models in the classroom with full effort put into them, it was excellent.

Models of the Pyramids

This term in Art we have been learning and grooving to the Bhangra Dance which is an Indian folk dance that has been around for hundreds of years. Year six first learnt a dance to the song “Pretty Woman Video” from Shahrukh Saif, Preity and out of the movie Kal Ho Naa Ho. This is a fun Bollywood style dance. After we have a bit of a practice, each student was placed in a small group which they would make their own dance inspired by Bhangra moves. Year 6 have not completed these dances yet but so far they are looking fantastic, keep a look out for a performance soon!

Some great dance moves!

The next four weeks at St. Josephs are the Grade 6’s last weeks at the school. The year 6’s are so excited but also really sad at the same time as they are leaving some of their friends, teachers and they will just miss the school as some of them have been here for seven years. We are in the classroom preparing for fun day, last day of school and Graduation! We wish all of the Year 6 students good luck on their journey to high school, which is another new chapter in their life.

By Bryce Wogand and Angelina Swadling

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations to the following students and staff who will celebrate their birthday this week. They are: Brock Rowley (5T), Riley Slater (4M), Claire Farrow (4W0 and Mrs Crosthwaite

Have a great day.

2018 “FESTIVAL OF COLOUR” SCHOOL FETE

The Fete Committee will be having their next Fete Meeting on Monday 13th November 2017 at 3:15pm outside the Prep classrooms. We invite anyone to come along and join in our discussions, to help make our next Fete even better than the last. Ideas and help of any kind are more than welcome, as we all know that “many hands make light work”. If you can’t make it along to our meetings; and would love to help, or have an idea, please see your classroom teacher. Things are starting to take shape and it’s getting very exciting.

We hope to see you there,

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

KEYBOARD LESSONS 2018

Keyboard lessons will be offered in 2018. These lessons are best suited for students with electronic keyboards, with focus on chord bass and utilising keyboard voice and rhythm features. Group and individual lessons are available for students in years 1 to 6.

Continuing students are required to re-enrol.

To enrol, please collect form from the school office and return as soon as possible
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For more information or any enquiries please contact Leanne Voss 0447 414 730.