4 December 2019

Newsletter Articles

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Well done to our Semester 2 Academic Award winners last Monday morning. It was fantastic to see over 170 awards being handed out. Many students came very close to fulfilling the set criteria for the awards, but just missed out. Next year, I hope for continued growth and that all of our ongoing students continue to persevere and be determined in striving toward their Individual Academic Goals in reading, writing and numeracy in 2020.

A reminder that Semester 2 reports were posted to Parent Lounge yesterday, Tuesday 3rd December.

It was fantastic to see so many of our Joeys community gather together for last week’s Presentation Night. Many thanks to everyone who came along to support our students and help make it such a memorable evening. A special thank-you to Tim Harkin who worked tirelessly to ensure the court was well-lit and clean for the evening. Congratulations to the worthy recipients of this year’s awards and also to all of the students who performed on the night. Many thanks also to the staff who put in so much hard work and preparation for what proved to be a wonderful event.

Presentation Night Award Winners for 2019:

Encouragement Award – Antwan Austin
Kelvin Hill Award – Bailey McLaughlin
Sports Girl – Hannah McCrohon
Sports Boy – Zac Joyce
Sportspersonship – Nicholas Thompson
Luke Monaghan Award – Blaine Fergusson
Junior Performing Arts – Saba Schoneveld
Senior Performing Arts – Chloe Baker
Principal’s Recognition Award – Paige Barron
Dux – Hayley Hallam
Leadership Award – Miranda Brunton
Spirit of St. Joseph’s Award – Sarah Marlin

Congratulations also to Amanda Ryan who received the Diocesan P&F Community Spirit Award.

Drawing our school year to a close will be our End of Year Mass this Friday, 6th December. We will be celebrating with a whole school Mass commencing at 9:00am. The Mass not only provides us the opportunity of fare welling our Year 6 students for the final time, it will also incorporate the induction of our student leaders for the 2020 school year.

New leadership badges have been designed that further promote our school’s history and Catholic identity. I think they look wonderful and being magnetic, will be much easier to put on the students this Friday.

We must also be aware that we share Friday’s mass with the Parish so I request that we leave the parking spaces directly outside the church vacant for the use of our parishioners.

Please remember that during all of these celebrations that we not use the parking in the mall car park as retailers in the mall have previously complained that there is no parking for their patrons. In an effort to try and alleviate these parking issues we will be making parking available on the grassed area beyond the end of the Multi-Purpose Area during both tonight’s and Friday’s celebrations.

Your child’s classroom teacher for 2020 will be emailed directly to the address provided in your parent information. This will be done before the end of the school year. For those who made the time to see me with specific requests for 2020, I was able to facilitate these to the best of my ability at the time, not knowing my full staffing roster for next year until late last week.

St Joseph’s Park Avenue Staffing 2020

Officially school concludes at 3:00pm on Friday, though some parents have enquired about students going home early. Students are able to go home with their own parents or guardians following Mass. Students wanting to leave with another child’s parent must have written permission to do so from their parents.

A reminder that as Christmas draws close, we have exciting news. The Lights of Christmas 2019 will be on again consisting of a fantastic light show that will use the external facade of St Joseph's Cathedral as a canvas to display animations as well as Christmas themed slides. The display will have a St Joseph’s slide and will be bigger and better than last year. The Lights of Christmas will run from the 17th to 23rd of December.

A reminder that the school office will be closed next week from Monday the 9th till Friday the 13th of December due to capital works asbestos removal. Please see our Finance Secretary, Megan Crosthwaite before Friday to finalise school fees for 2019. The office will close for the Christmas period and correspondence will be sent home via the school app alerting the community as to when the office will reopen in January.

Finally, congratulations to Year 6 teacher, Brooke Black who completed her 2 years of study for her Graduate Certificate in Education – Safeguarding Children and Young People through ACU. Well done also to our Year 4 Teachers and students who have secured a Woolworths Junior Landcare Grant for 2020. Ann McCutcheon and Hannah Hamilton have also been approached to present at the K-6 Conference in March next year addressing the topic of how to effectively teach reading in the classroom. Well done to all of these Joeys community members.

Don’t Forget …

• Year 6 Graduation Mass, Wednesday 4th December @ 6:00pm
• Year 6 Fun Day, Thursday 5th December
• End of Year Mass/2019 Leadership Induction, Friday 6th December 9:00am
• St Joseph’s school office closes for holiday break, Friday 6th December
• St Joseph’s school office reopens for 2019, Monday 13th January (To be confirmed)
• 2020 School year commences, Tuesday 28th January @ 8:35am

I hope you have a great last week and a happy, holy and most of all safe Christmas holiday break. We look forward to working with you again in 2020.

Regards
Bernard Fitzgerald
Principal - St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Park Avenue

APRE REFLECTION

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

CURRICULUM NEWS

CURRICULUM NEWS

Back to school supplies:

If you have received your back to school supplies from Kookaburra Educational Resources, please double check that you have received everything you ordered. If you have ordered Clag Glue please note that it will be delivered to the school separately to your order to ensure no leaks throughout your gear. The glue will then be passed on directly to the teachers.

If you are missing anything from your order, please contact Kookaburra directly. You will find their number on the paperwork sent in your order. If there are any issues, please also let me know by contacting the school or emailing me at Deanne_senini@rok.catholic.edu.au

Wishing everyone a very safe, happy and holy Christmas break and I look forward to a productive 2020.

Kind Regards,

Deanne Senini
Assistant Principal Curriculum

FINANCE NEWS

TERM 4 FEE ACCOUNTS OVERDUE

Just a reminder to any families with students who play a musical instrument or do singing lessons, that these payments have been added to the past few terms school fees and extra payments may be required to cover these costs.

Quite a number of students have outstanding library books from throughout the year. The cost of these books have now been charged to school fees.

Just a reminder to any Year 6 students that may be leaving the school at the end of the year, to please finalise accounts or make an appointment to see Mr Fitzgerald and myself in regards to this.

If paying by Direct Deposit, please use your Account Number as the reference

(this is the 6-digit number on your Fee Statement).

OSHC FOR 2020

ASC booking/enrolment forms are now open for 2020. Please see attachment below, Chelsea or the office for forms.

OSHC is seeking your support to collect the following items to create a Loose Parts outdoor area.

Crates, Rope, Lengths of PVC Pipe, Lengths of Wood/Boards, Nets, Buckets/Baskets, Containers (Milk, Yoghurt etc), Metal Tins, Spools, Pots and Pans, Textiles (Sheets, Shower Curtains, Blankets, Tarps etc) and Laundry Baskets.

If you have any of these items and would like to donate them please contact Chelsea on 0408703482.

Thank you for your support

TUCKSHOP

As we are at the end of the term, Tuckshop has run out of some items. Just please be aware a substitution might be given.

Don't forget to sign up to QuickCliq as next year we will be going online for all lunch orders.

Due to capital works starting over the school holidays, the last day for Tuckshop will be Wednesday, December 4th.

Thank you to everyone for a wonderful year and I wish everyone a happy and safe holidays.

See everyone in the new year.

Debbie Rooney

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations to the following students and staff who will celebrate their birthday this week and over the holidays.

They are: Trey Batchelor (Yr 5), Maddison Clarke (Yr 4), Olivia Bragg (2F), Izabelah Zerafa (1H), Jaxson Balderston (1C), Juliet Horton (1C), Emilee Thompson (1H), Joshua Conway (Yr 6), Hayley Hallam (Yr 6), Mackenzie Zanette (Yr 4), Amelia Gray (PM), Mikaela Dale (Yr 6), Angus Turner (Yr 5), Lilly Beal (2F), Jackson Crosthwaite (Yr 6), Charlie Rowley (Yr 5), Braxton Kane (2F), Amelia Pedersen (1C), Corben Emerson (PG), Emily-Rose England (PG), Tayte Mooney (PG), Madeleine Watson (1H), Kiara Carpenter (3T), Angellina Halil (Yr 5), Eden Jackson (PM), Connor Fulwood (2F), Tauryn Schneider (3G), Ava Geiszler (Yr 5), Logan Kane (Yr 4), Jaison Henaway (1C), Saba Schoneveld (3T) and Mrs Farr (2F).

Have a great day.

PARENT LOUNGE

Changes to your address, phone number or work phone number can be made in Parent Lounge. To do this, log in through the Skoolbag App, go to the Parent Details tab, make your changes, and then submit.

Changes to Parent Lounge are the submission of your child’s absentee days (but only for the current term). It will be similar to the way you do this on the Skoolbag app. Once accepted our end (when we log into our computer), this will be entered straight onto our system, and saves the double handling.

SCHOOL BANKING

There will be NO School Banking this week.

You will be notified when School Banking commences for 2020.

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 at 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

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 2020

The Rockhampton Catholic Schools Instrumental Music Program is a structured tuition program for students wishing to learn strings, woodwind, percussion, guitar or voice on a group basis.

NEW AND CONTINUING STUDENTS ARE WELCOME.

The program’s aims are to develop a student’s musical experience through group lessons and through performance-based playing in an ensemble.

To enrol for 2020, please go to the link below:

(A reminder for parents to re-enrol their child for 2020 if they wish to continue)

Thanks again,
Stephanie Coughlan
Assistant Director of Instrumental Music
Direct: (07) 4923 5837

KEYBOARD LESSONS

Leanne Voss will offer Keyboard lessons again in 2020 for interested students in grades 1 – 6.

Lessons are of 30-minute duration and will be conducted weekly at school on a rotating timetable so that students do not miss the same lesson each week.

Students will be required to have access to a keyboard for practice, and also purchase a music tutor book and theory book. Lessons will generally be given to groups of 2 or 3 students with some individual lessons available when it is not possible to match students of similar musical ability. The lessons will focus on using a chord bass with an emphasis on utilising keyboard features such as different tones and rhythms.

Playing keyboard is an excellent extra curriculum activity to develop not only musical skills, but creative thinking, hand-eye coordination, concentration and commitment to task.

Enrolment forms are available from the office for both new and continuing students.