16 March 2022

Newsletter Articles

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

St Joseph’s 2022 School Improvement Priorities:

• Prayer
• Family Partnerships
• Increased Learning Gain & Achievement

Positive COVID Case Notification

St Joseph’s Catholic School Park Avenue wishes to advise you that, during the past week, we have been notified of positive cases of COVID-19 in our school community.

St Joseph’s regularly consults with the Catholic Education Office and relevant authorities, and continues to follow the advice of Queensland Health regarding cleaning requirements.

Queensland Health has advised that no quarantine of students or staff is required.

As COVID-19 remains active in our community we ask you to continue to monitor your child’s/children’s health and if they develop any flu-like symptoms:

• Keep your child/children at home
• Seek a PCR or Rapid Antigen test where it is recommended and notify the school of positive results. Please be aware, a negative COVID test does not change the requirement to be symptom free to attend school.
• Follow the advice of Queensland Health

As we continue to navigate the pandemic, please remind your child/ren to:

• maintain good hand hygiene at all times
• cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue or the inside of their elbow and dispose of tissues in the bin immediately.
• practice social distancing from others where possible
• wear masks when required

We will continue to work closely with health authorities to keep our school community informed of any developments and advice. Thank you once again for your ongoing support.

Bernard Fitzgerald
Principal – St Joseph’s Catholic School, Park Avenue

RELIGIOUS MATTERS

2nd Sunday of Lent

Jesus is tempted in the desert.
Luke 9:28-36

Living the Gospel – ‘Listen to him!’

God’s voice from the cloud claims Jesus as his Son, the Chosen One and then goes on to instruct those present – and we, the readers – to ‘Listen to him!’ For the disciples, this was a message not to get carried away with their own ideas about the Messiah but to listen to what Jesus was saying about the suffering he must endure and to what he was saying about true discipleship. Jesus tells us that to be a follower of his involves sacrifice, hardship and often unpopularity. It is this message we must listen to as much as the promise of salvation.

@Liturgy Help – Greg Sunter

A reminder for families who have indicated they wish for their children to be part of the Northside Parish Sacramental Program for 2022 to access the program’s webpage. On it you will find all the important dates. An information session for parents only is first up. You can attend these this week on 15th March at Holy Family or 16th March at Our Lady Help of Christians. Please click the link below for the Sacramental Program’s webpage.

Liturgical Celebrations Coming Up

*SJPA – St Joseph’s Park Avenue
*OLHC – Our Lady Help of Christians church (next to St Joseph’s, Park Avenue)
*HF – Holy Family Parish Centre (next to Anthony’s School)
*MPA – Multipurpose Area (Basketball court)

PARISH BULLETIN

Elizabeth Carter
Assistant Principal Religious Education

FINANCE NEWS

Fee Accounts for Term 1 were due Tuesday 2nd March and are now Two Weeks Overdue

Term 1, 2022 Fee Statements were emailed and posted to Parent Lounge on Wednesday 16th February. These were due for payment on 2nd March 2022 and are now two weeks overdue.

Please ensure that you have increased your payments if you now have extra siblings in the School to ensure that your fees don’t get behind.

If you have a means tested Concession Card and have not yet given a copy to the Finance Secretary, please do so as soon as possible.

All new families should have received your Parent Lounge Login details.

If you have not received these, please contact Tracey or Megan in the office.

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

BRAVEHEARTS SAFETY PROGRAM

We had a school visit from Ditto (Braveheart’s loveable lion) on Thursday. Our Prep, Year One, and Year Two students were lucky enough to participate in Ditto’s Keep Safe Adventure Show. The program aims to promote personal safety messages through song and dance that complement the Daniel Morcombe Safety Curriculum already heavily embedded at Joey’s.

Ditto’s 3 Rules:

• We all have the right to feel safe with people.
• It’s ok to say NO if you feel unsafe or unsure.
• Nothing is so yucky that you can’t tell someone about it.

Brooke Black
Student Protection Contact

CLASSROOM NEWS

Yr 2

A look at a day in Year 2

We thought we would share what a typical day looks like in Year 2.

We chose Monday 14-3-22. Our day began with our first assembly for the year in the MPA. Was nice to be able to gather as a whole school again.

After we said good morning and took the roll, we organized the message bag and came together to talk to God in prayer, Monday morning we usually focus on our School Prayer. This week in You Can Do It, we are focusing on Time Management.

In English we begin the week with an introduction to our Sound Waves focus sound which is – I for igloo and complete activities as a whole class.

Following English is two 45min lessons, the class is in two inquiry groups – Religion: The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant and HASS: People’s connections to places.

At 11am we have lunch and enjoy playtime with our friends.

After lunch we learnt about our Learning Intention and Success Criteria.

Mathematics for the week. This week we are focusing on Place Value:
Learning Intention: We are learning about place value up to three-digit numbers.
Success Criteria: I can correctly say, read and write three-digit numbers in their worded form. I can make and record 3-digit numbers, including internal zeroes.

We then split into our four groups and complete two workshops with the other two workshops on Tuesday.

After second break we listen to a story focusing on our reading strategy of the week.

This week we are reading - How to babysit a Grandma? By Jean Reagan with the

comprehension focus of Finding the Main idea.

Our last lesson of the day is Inquiry, and we swap groups from the morning for Religion and HASS.

To finish our day, we collect the message bag and reflect on our day

conclude with prayer.

Hope you enjoy a little insight into our day.

Wednesday (02/03/2022) was ASH Wednesday and we participated in a prayer assembly in our classroom. Mrs Carter attended our prayer assembly and talked to us about Project Compassion.

From Mrs Thorsen, Mrs Tennyson, Mrs Watson and the students of Year 2.

YR 6 EASTER RAFFLE

This term the Year Six major fundraiser is an Easter multi-draw raffle that will be drawn on Monday 28th March 2022. Tickets are $1 each and will be sold in Weeks 7, 8 & 9. Students will be selling tickets from just inside the gate each morning so please send your child/ren money to purchase tickets.

If you think you might be able to sell a book of 20 or 50 tickets within your workplace or at your sporting club etc please reach out to the year six teachers and we can arrange to get a book of tickets to you for selling. The contact email addresses are;

hannah_hamilton@rok.catholic.edu.au
alana_jones@rok.catholic.edu.au

Thank you for your support, it is always a great fundraiser for our year six students.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Congratulations to the following students and staff who will celebrate their birthday this week. They are: Heidi Nembach (Yr 6), Blair Andjal (Yr 6), Ahri Cooney (Yr 1), Amalia McClintock (Prep), Hudson Steffek (Yr 2), Amelia Nolan (Yr 6), Blake Reading (Yr 2) and Miss Sloan (Prep).

Have a great day.

DRAKES SUPA IGA

Drakes Fundraiser for St. Joseph's Cathedral

I thank you for your support of this project which has raised over $40,000, of which the school community has played an important role. Please continue to support the Cathedral by shopping at DRAKES using your key tag and receiving the benefits.

If you have not been part of this fundraiser you are invited to get a key tag from your local School or Church and shop at your local Drakes, one cent in every dollar you spend will go to the Cathedral. No Fuss, only benefits.

Hoping to see you at Drakes
Stay Safe

Shirley Hopkins,
Co-ordinator, Drakes Fundraiser for St Joseph's Cathedral