3 April 2019

Newsletter Articles

From the Acting Principal

YEAR 6 CAMP

As you are reading this newsletter, our Year 6 students, teachers and principal are at Chaverim enjoying a range of leadership and teamwork activities. We wish them well for the remainder of their camp and for a safe trip home on Thursday.

TUCKSHOP

Please remember that there is NO tuckshop on the first week back next term due to our annual field events being held here at school for students born in 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 on Tuesday, track events being held on Wednesday at Emmaus for the whole school, ANZAC Day being on Thursday and the usual pizza orders on Friday.

LONG SERVICE LEAVE

A reminder that Mrs Michelle Hannah will be taking some well-earned Long Service Leave from Wednesday 3rd April until Friday 3rd May. We wish Michelle all the best for her time away.

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS

Semester One parent teacher interviews have been scheduled for Week 2 of Term 2 (Monday, 29th April through to Friday, 3rd May). Parent Lounge will be open to parents THIS WEEK from Monday 1st April through to Friday 5th April to make a booking to see your child’s teacher. INTERVIEWS MUST BE BOOKED THROUGH PARENT LOUNGE THIS WEEK.

REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE WORK

The school has received a letter informing us that maintenance and repair work will be occurring to the sewer mains in our area. We are not sure exactly when this work will be happening or for how long. This work won’t greatly impact us but it’s important to be aware of things which are happening around the school. This work will be quite useful for the school when our planned building work begins.

Don’t Forget:

• Year 6 Camp @ Chaverim, Monday 1st – Thursday 4th April
• NAPLAN practise test for Year 3 and 5 students – Wednesday 3rd April
• Parent Lounge open to parents to book parent/teacher interviews – 1st April – 5th April
• St Mary’s Grandstand Classic Race Day, Saturday 13th April
• Palm Sunday, 14th April
• Holy Thursday, 18th April
• Good Friday, 19th April
• Easter Sunday, 21st April
• Easter Monday. 22nd April – PUBLIC HOLIDAY
• Term 2 commences, Tuesday 23rd April – NO TUCKSHOP AVAILABLE
• Field Events @ SJPA, Tuesday 23rd April – 9 -12 year olds
• Track Events @ Emmaus, Wednesday 24th April – WHOLE SCHOOL
• ANZAC Day, Thursday 25th April

Regards and best wishes for a holy, safe, relaxing and enjoyable Easter break.

Mrs Deanne Senini
Assistant Principal Curriculum

RELIGIOUS MATTERS

APRE REFLECTION

REFLECTION

Twenty-one-year-old Michaela is helping to build a social enterprise for people with chronic illnesses at The Purple House in Alice Springs. As a Purple House trainee, Michaela completed a Certificate IV in business management. She was also recently promoted from administration trainee to permanent employee, working on The Wellbeing Program.

The young Alywarr woman cares for patients as they receive dialysis and helps them to feel at home and remain hopeful during treatment. Patients in turn pass on traditional knowledge to Michaela. The program is run by the Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation, with support from Caritas Australia.

First Australians are twice as likely to experience chronic kidney disease, and four times more likely to die from it than other Australians. With the help of staff like Michaela, the Aboriginal-controlled service gives patients the opportunity to stay connected with their culture. They do this through traditional healing practices and income-generating activities, such as making bush balms and soaps. Profits are invested back into supporting patients receiving remote care and help to get people on dialysis back on country.

You can watch Michaela’s story here.

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
5.00pm Holy Family
6.30pm Our Lady Help of Christians

Sunday
7.00am St Mary’s
9.00am Holy Family

Bernadette Brennan
APRE

SPORTING MATTERS

Save the Date

The Joey’s annual athletics carnival is in Week 1 – Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th April. Tuesday is field events day for children born 2010, 2009, 2008, & 2007. Wednesday is the Track events day at Emmaus College – Yaamba Road Campus for all students.

Athletics Carnival Week 1

Tuesday

@ St Joseph’s Park Avenue
Commencing @ 9:00am

Wednesday
@ Emmaus College

Bernadette Brennan
APRE

Term 2 Physical Education Program

Next term Prep to Year 2 will be participating in a Traditional Indigenous Games Program run by Charlene Mann from Darumbal Community Youth Services Inc (DCYSI). The program will commence in Week 2 (Tuesday, 30 April) and will continue until Week 6 (Tuesday, 28 May). In this program students will receive a brief introduction of the Darumbal Language as well as participate in learning different traditional games. A consent form is being sent home with the students and can also be found on the App. Parents are asked to sign the consent form and return to their child’s teacher by the end of this week.

Years 3 to 6 will be participating in the School Tenpin Bowling Roll ‘n Strike Program. The program was designed by the Tenpin Bowling Association of Queensland and the equipment to run the program is on loan from Rocky Bowl & Leisure Centre. During the program students learn how to score and the basics of Tenpin Bowling. The program is run at school and will run from Week 2 to Week 8. As a culminating activity, students will have the opportunity to play a real game at the Rocky Bowl & Leisure Centre. This has been made possible by the school’s successful application for a sports grant which will subside the cost of both a bus and the game.

FINANCE NEWS

TERM 1 FEE ACCOUNTS OVERDUE

URGENT Attention is now required for Term 1 Fee Accounts. These are now 6 weeks overdue.

If you have not received your Fee statement or are unable to make any payment, can you please make immediate contact with Bernard or Megan to advise your current situation?

Fee Accounts are now being published to Parent Lounge and will no longer be posted out in hard copy. You will need to Login to Parent Lounge to access your Fee Statement.

Please remember to update your Concession Card if it has expired, as you are unable to get the Concession without a new card being presented.

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

CLASSROOM NEWS

Prep M

It’s been a very busy term in Prep M. We have spent time learning about each other and our families, sharing stories and photos of things we enjoy doing. Our science learning about living things produced a huge interest in the world around us. We investigated many things on our Comm Box including how spiders make their webs time lapse video and watching plants grow. Of course, we can’t forget to mention our new class member Rainbow Fish! We have enjoyed learning new letters and sounds and creating art activities that relate to them. Our iMaths investigation of Goldilocks and the 3 Bears was also a fantastic opportunity to learn about size, graphing, invitation writing, and story retell.

With Easter not far around the corner, we have embarked on learning the true meaning of Easter and the special liturgical season we are in. We are looking closely at Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday, the significant events that took part in Jesus life through different activities.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a safe and happy Easter break! See you in term 2!

Prep G

The children have had a wonderful start to their first year at school. This term we have explored the numbers from 1 to 10 by identifying, making connections and writing the numerals. During our shared/guided reading we have focused on the orientations of print, sound letter relationships, recognition of upper and lower case letters and identifying some frequently used words. In writing the children are exploring how to write a simple sentence using a capital letter and a full stop.

Our children engage in three sessions of developmental play each week. Through play children develop fine and gross motor skills, creativity and imagination. Engaging in appropriate play-based experiences will support the development of the children’s communication skills, persistence and resilience while also supporting their ability to successfully work in teams.

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter and look forward to seeing you in term 2.

1H

Wow! One whole term has gone by and boy have we been working hard now that we are in year 1. Some of our highlights have been the annual Joey’s fun run, designing a musical instrument for Science, a visit from the Arts Council, National Anti-bullying Day and Grandparent’s Day/Feast of St. Joseph.

We’ve well earned a holiday and then will return well-rested and ready for a busy term 2. Have a happy and holy Easter break.

From Mrs Hannah and 1H

1C

We’ve had lots of fun with learning during Term One. Some topics we have engaged with includes; Jesus’ Baptism, how sound travels, characters in picture books, counting, 2D shapes, measurement, self-portraits and the Daniel Morcombe Curriculum. A favourite activity within the classroom setting is learning our spelling words using hands-on resources (play-doh, stamps, rainbow writing, window writing and iPads).

2F

Term 1 has come to an end and here are some of our memorable moments.

Participating in our school fun run.

In HASS we have been learning about life in the past and comparing it to how our lives are today. Toys and games have interested us.

We have also been writing some What am I? Riddles for our parents to guess various objects from the past and present. Here are some. Can you guess what we are?

What am I?

I used to be popular getting people around from place to place.
I used coal because it was the only way to make me go.
I take time to get up speed.
You go to a station to get on me.

I am a steam train.

What am I?
I have a handle so you can carry me.
I have a flame that lights the house when it is dark
I get smaller by the flame burning.

I am a candle.

What am I?
I am made of bricks so it does not burn.
I am used to boil water and cook food.
I have to build a fire to work.
You find me in the kitchen.

I am a fireplace

What am I?
I have boxes and people jump in them.
I have numbers 12345678910.
You need chalk to draw me.
I am a game.
You need a rock for throwing into the box.

I am hopscotch.

What am I?
I am used to speak to people.
I have a handle that you put to your mouth and ear.
I have a cord so if the handle falls off it won’t fall on the floor and break.

I am an old telephone.

What am I?
I am used for cleaning clothes.
I am made of steel and wood.
I am used by hand.
You rub clothes on me.

I am an old washtub and washboard.

What am I?
I am used for calling people.
I have a screen.
I have games that people can play.
People can type thing on me.

I am a mobile phone.

We hope you enjoyed some of our riddles.
Mrs Farr and the students of 2F

2M Week 9 Prayer Assembly

Last week 2M presented their Prayer Assembly based on God’s great Commandment ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’.

But ‘Who is my neighbour?’
Our neighbour is the person who is excluded from the game.
Our neighbour is the person who struggles with school work.
Our neighbour is person who is not very good at sport.
Our neighbour is the person who finds it hard to make friends.
Our neighbour is the person who always gets picked last.

Loving our neighbours means showing mercy and love towards everyone. Loving our neighbours means getting on together, looking after each other, treat others as we would like to be treated.

Jesus explains that to love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength also means showing love and care to others- even those who are different from us.

As we reflected about God’s commandment, we pray:

Lord Jesus, be with our Community. Grant us Your peace and harmony. Gift us with compassion to better understand each other, wisdom and love to assist each other, and trust and patience to work and play peacefully together. Grant that our community will be accepting of each other, work together in unity, be selflessly dedicated to one another and to You.

3T

Wow, what a busy term we have had. This is a small snap shot of some of the experiences so far. We had a lovely morning with our grandparents celebrating our Grandparent’s Morning Tea.

We have been learning about aboriginal art and produced our own X-Ray art. Our class created a prayer assembly on the topic of forgiveness to share with the school community. Last week we constructed a Tippy Tap device, to join with the Year 4’s as part of Project Compassion, to raise awareness of being water wise.

We hope everyone has a happy and Holy Easter break.
From Mrs Tennyson and the students of 3T

3M

It’s the end of the first term! Wow, how quickly that time went. This term we’ve been busy getting to know each other and establishing routines as this is Miss McGinley’s very first year of teaching.

In the classroom, 3M have enjoyed learning about the benefits of meditation and how well it works to calm us down after busy lunch times running around and playing with friends. Miss McGinley is already so impressed with the initiation of 3M wanting to take time to calm their minds and relax their bodies.

We’ve also enjoyed participating in Project Compassion during Lent by building and running the ‘Tippy Tap’ alongside the year 4’s. 3M did such a wonderful job helping everyone in the school who came and participated to understand the meaning behind the Tippy Tap and the importance of making people aware of how lucky we are to have access to the resources we do.

3M and Miss McGinley very much look forward to the coming year and wish all families a safe and happy Easter break.

Yr 4 Term 1 Done and Dusted

And so we see the back of our first term of year 4. What an amazing time we have had. Last week we took our turn at walking in another’s footsteps whilst studying the Caritas Message.

Firstly, we built and used a Tippy Tap which is a hand washing tool used in countries that don’t have fresh running water. We had around 200 students visit us and use the Tippy Tap over two days. Both our Yr 3 and Yr 4 helpers explained to the visiting students how important washing hands is for good health.

One of our Yr 4 students Chloe Bragg then went home and persuaded her dad to help her build her own Tippy Tap and helped educate her family about the importance of washing hands. Well done Chloe!

Then we as a class had a go at seeing if we could live on the small amount of rice some families have to exist on. We only had to last 10 mins while these families have to last 24hrs on a small amount of rice. The conversations had after this experiment were very interesting. Our students became very aware that they had the ability to fill up with lunch after the experiment whilst children their age in some parts of the world could only fill up with unclean water.

We wish you all a Happy and Holy Easter and hope your holidays bring you joy and peace. See you back bright and sparkly ready for great learning journeys next term.

Year 5 - Term 1 wrap up

Our highlights from Term 1

Chase: Having Macbooks to use for all of our work and using Flipgrid.
Antal: The ‘All about me’ artwork.
Azariah: Doing group assignments.
Adelaide & Matilda: Making the science “States of Matter” board game.
Sam R: Making our science volcano game.
Ava: Art and science assignment.
Chace: Art
Lewis: Maths
Lachlan: Getting Macbooks, art and science.
Darcy: Feeding the chooks.
Callum: Writing algorithms to get our teacher robot to write a vegemite sandwich.
Thomas: Maths lessons.
Jayden: I like that we get more work and we get to choose when we do each lesson for the week.
Abigail: Getting to choose how we do our assignments.

And

• Reading Wonder.
• Looking after the chooks.
• Selecting our timetable.
• Choosing how we do our assessment.
• Flipgrid.
• Prayer Rituals
• Doing the Yr 6 jobs when they are away.

Yr 6

Off to Camp We Go!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations to the following students and staff who will celebrate their birthday this week. They are: Skylah McLean (Prep M), Cooper Wedel (Yr 4), Jack Burnham (3M), Zaeleigh Hannah (3M), Hannah Jamieson (Yr 6), Jed Ryan (2M), Alfred Timms (Yr 4), Darcy Sewell (Yr 5), Dominic Fitton (Yr 5), Max Toby (3T), Nathaniel Oliffe (1H), Isabella Doblo (Yr 6), Haylee Wust (Yr 4), Coby Neden (Yr 6), Chloe Baker (Yr 6), Imani Cooney (Prep G), Benson Perkins (1H), Katelyn Whiting ( Yr 5), Elijah Austin ( Yr 4), Maggie Wooler ( 2M), Connor Batley (2F), Bailey Swift (Yr 5), Colby Bartley (Yr 4), Gemma Mass (Yr 4), Mr Fitzgerald and Mrs McLean. Hope you have a great day.

P & F NEWS

Sports Day is the first Wednesday back of Term 2 (April 24th), so please keep those lunch orders coming in on brown paper bags, one bag per order, with your name and class written on them. It’s best to order early, so you don’t miss out. Orders are due in at the end of this week.

If you’ve been lucky enough to be able to attend our meetings, you’ll have noticed that the topic of a “Cashless Tuckshop” has been floated on many occasions. Keep an eye out on the app and newsletter for updates, as we’re looking to begin a trial phase very soon. Exciting times!

Our next meeting will be Wednesday 15th May, and it’s open to one and all to come and have a chat and see what’s on the cards for our school

Remember, NO TUCKSHOP TUESDAY APRIL 23rd (first day back of Term 2)

Let’s have a great Sports Day, and a safe and happy holiday.

Reminder:

Thanks,
Joeys P&F

VACATION CARE

Please find attached the Vacation Care Program and also the Booking Form. If you are looking at care for your child/children and have not yet booked in, could you please do so by calling Chelsea on 0408 703 482.

Cheeky Monkeys School Holiday Fun

At the Indoor Sports Arena. From 5 years of age.

$30 per day per child, discounts apply. Wide variety of sports and activities throughout each day.

With arts and crafts, Yoga, Swimming and so much more to keep the Cheeky Monkey’s entertained.

Make sure you secure your spot by calling us Today on 49278499 or email sportsisa@hotmail.com.

PARENT LOUNGE

Changes to your address, phone number or work phone number can be made in Parent Lounge. Simply log in, go to the Parent Details tab, make your changes, and then submit.

ABSENTEES

Absentees can be done through the Skoolbag App. Click on our School Logo, eforms and then Absentee Form.

All notifications from the school are done through this app. Our weekly Newsletters are also posted to this app.

Please make sure that you have downloaded it.

SCHOOL BANKING

School banking happens every Thursday.

If you wish to start school banking, you need to open a Youth Saver Account at the Commonwealth bank, make no deposit and they will provide you with your banking book and details.

Please send your child’s banking book in so they can place it in the grey classroom-banking bag.

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 do not take long and are available after assembly on a Monday morning with Deanne Senini, and on Wednesday afternoons from 2:30pm - 3:00pm. Debbie Rooney will conduct induction sessions in the tuckshop, if you are helping 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 and Wednesday afternoon from 2:45 – 3:15.

Please feel free to drop any uniforms you no longer need so they can be 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 hand 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 inside.

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

PIANO LESSONS

Piano Lessons are available on Thursday mornings. There are three places open for lessons on a rotational Timetable and a Keyboard will suffice to practise on. Please contact Mrs Lynette Anstey on 49333661 / 0419358485 / anstey.family@bigpond.com.

Kind Regards
Lyn Anstey