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Matthew O'Brien, Principal
Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff, Students and the wider St. Joseph’s Primary School Community,
Gentleness and Tenderness
May the God of gentleness be with us,
caressing us with sunlight and rain and wind.
May God's tenderness shine through us
to warm all who are hurt and lonely.
May the blessing of gentleness be with us.
May the God of wonder be with us,
delighting us with sunrise and sunset, enchanting our
senses, filling our hearts, giving us wide-open eyes
that we may see the splendour in both the humble and majestic.
Author Unknown
Basketball State Finals
As I write this newsletter our Girls Basketball team are playing in the State Finals in Melbourne. Good luck to the team and we look forward to hearing all about this great opportunity. (Update: the girls have won their first two games).
Matthew O'Brien, Principal
Happy Birthday to children celebrating their birthday this week.
Pasindu Kumarapperuma, Daisy Amor, Ned Coughlan, Ruby Gillingham, Bowie Barber-Francis, Oscar Saywell, Sophie Jardine, Harrison Williams, Jaeda Willoughby, Abel Delaney, Sulli Maddern, Levi Coates, William Saker, Vincent Uzkuraitis and Juliette Smedts.
Scholastic Book Club Delivery Update
I have been notified that there has been a delay with the delivery of our final Book Club orders. The order should arrive at school this week. If you want any of these purchases to remain a secret gift - then please email me so that I put the order in the Front Office for your collection. Thanks again for your support of this ‘bookish’ fundraiser!
Overdue notices
Thank you to those parents who were able to fill in the notes that went home a couple of weeks ago. It has helped us manage and locate many of the books that the Library Program may have missed. If you still have any of these notes at home - please fill them in accordingly and return them to your child’s classroom teacher.
Changeover period from the current Library Borrowing System
The St Joseph’s School Library has been using a program named ‘Destiny Follett’ for many years. We decided to look into other Library Programs to see how it compared, especially in light of our whole school transition to a structured literacy program in 2025. With this in mind, we have chosen to change over to ‘Oliver v.5’ this week! Therefore, your children will be unable to borrow books from Tuesday 19th November - Tuesday 26th November while the LRC staff are trained and the data has been transferred successfully. Students can still return any books to the trolleys and we will do our best to process these after Tuesday 26th November.
Thank you so much for your support and understanding during this transition, and we look forward to sharing this new program with the students, staff and parents.
Mrs Emily Lloyd, LRC Coordinator
The PSA along with the Year 6 Leaders will begin selling Zooper Doopers on Tuesdays for the remainder of the term. Zooper Doopers will cost $1 and all monies will go towards our new playground. Strictly ONE PER CHILD cash only and correct money (no change given).
In August, 105 Year 3 - 6 students challenged themselves to participate in the Australian Maths Competition. This was our biggest group so far.
We had a lot of great results and the children should all be very proud of themselves. I hope the certificates are all being displayed at home for everyone to see.
Congratulations and we look forward to more competitions next year.
Year 3
Herbie Neagle, Knox Guiney, Ezra Smith, Grace Densley, Frankie Chatfield, Hank Gladman, Max McCosh, Maddox McDermott, Archie Edis, Henry Saker, Theo Arms, Daniel Jiang, Nellie Edis, Gus Kenna, Felicity Chang, Patrick Farrelly, Leonard Rope, Hadley Boyle.
Year 4
Sophie Dubyna, Mary Fitzgerald, Joel King, Oliver Ault, Eddie O’Donnell, Lucas Resk Wilson, Rebecca Coughlan, Akarsan Paramanantham, Siena Keramaris, Jacky Deverall, Noah Daffy, Hugh Wright, Xavier Skevofylakas, Charlie Matthews, Turner McCaskill, Violet Greening, Jed Lilley, Daisy Brown, Nash Anderson, Layla Kane, Emma Hatfield.
Year 5
Harrison Farrelly, Abbie Wrightson, Jaxson Byron, Max Cashmore, Ella Carlin, Chris Vu, Elijah Bishop, Chelsea Kao, Alfie Woonton, Ella Down, Nina O’Kane, Sophie Parker, Matilda Houston, William Farley, Elise Perry, Cooper McDonald, Reeve Shields, Harrison Williams, Jaxon Green, Gretta Heggie, Milla Rentsch.
Year 6
Oscar Saywell, Quinn McDonald, Blair MacDougall, Remy Roberts, Ava Gleeson, Billy Main Doris Pham, Charlie Bellman, Alex Triance, Molly McNeil, Ned Van Rooy, Ayla Mathews, Pippa Jones, Indiana Smedts, Paddy Quinn, Emelia Kelly, Lillee-May Jennings, Archer Koch, Daisy Amor, Isaac Brown, Mackenzie Marshall, Aramis Skevofylakas, Darcy Drummond, Jasper Schultz, Arusha Cashmore, Edward Jeffries, Joshua Coghlan, Stella Monigatti, Spencer Kenna, Cooper McCosh, Neve Lyons, Rhiana Gibbons, Mia Toohey, Cole Burleigh, Jessica Happ, Zavier Nelson, Paddy Ward, Roisin Hansford, Archie Harle, Connor Greening, Lila Gommers, Ethan Thomas, Luca Macchiesi May, Patrick Cumming, Mason McArthur.
The PSA are providing a BBQ lunch for the students of a sausage in bread and Zooper Dooper on Orientation Day, Tuesday 10th December.
If you are able to assist on the day your help would be greatly appreciated.
Exciting News! Music Lessons at St Joseph’s Primary School in 2025 with the School of Jammin.
We’re thrilled to announce that the School of Jammin will be offering music lessons at St Joseph’s Primary School in 2025! Students will have the opportunity to learn guitar and keyboard in a fun, interactive band setting, during school hours, all instruments provided in class and online support for practice at home.
In addition to learning instruments, we encourage students to explore their creativity by writing songs, singing, creating music videos, and performing together. School of Jammin's creator and tutor, Mick McCall (a qualified primary school teacher), has been operating the School of Jammin since 2005, and we're excited to bring this program to St Joseph's—Mick’s old primary school!
Enrol now or learn more at www.schoolofjammin.com as spots are expected to fill up fast!
A reminder to families that a deposit for the proposed Japan trip in September 2025 is due by Friday 29th November 2024. It is payable at the front office or contact Cathy Duynhoven at cduyn@sjwarrnambool.catholic.edu.au or 5561 1343.
