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Matthew O'Brien, Principal
Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff, Students and the wider St. Joseph’s Primary School Community,
Season of Creation Prayer
Creator of Life:
Earth is full of Your creatures, and by Your wisdom you made them all.
At Your word, Earth brought forth plants yielding seed of every kind and trees of every kind bearing fruit, the waters teemed with swarms of living creatures of every kind, and the world was filled with every kind of winged bird, walking animal, and creatures that creep upon the ground.
Mountains, plains, rocks, and rivers shelter diverse communities, and through the changing seasons Your Spirit renews cycles of life.
During this Season of Creation, open our eyes to see the precious diversity that is all around us. During this first week of The Season of Creation, we praise and thank you especially for the vastness of the oceans that reveal your beauty, power, and peace. Inspire us with ways to protect and keep the oceans healthy. Enlighten our minds to appreciate the delicate balance maintained by each creature. Inspire us to conserve the precious habitats that nurture this web of life.
In the name of the One who came to proclaim good news to all creation, Jesus Christ. Amen
– from The Sisters of St. Joseph
Arts Week
We are celebrating The Arts at St Joseph's this week. One of the highlights will be the highly anticipated St Joe’s has got Talent. You are also encouraged to take your family walk (as a part of daily exercise) past the school in the evening to view the wonderful display.
Our foyer is also beautifully decorated and will remain so well into next term.
RUOK Day
This year RUOK day takes a more important role in highlighting the need for us all to support each other in maintaining our mental wellbeing. The staff here at St Joseph’s will be proactively participating in RUOK day and including it in their work with the children this week. Please follow this link for further information, resources and strategies.
How to ask "Are you OK?"
Happy Fathers’ Day
To all of the dads and significant males at St Joseph’s I hope you had a Happy Fathers’ Day.
Congratulations to Peter Furphy Father of the Year who was nominated by Sophie and won the Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 category.
And to Rohan Murfett, nominated by Rielle was a runner up.
Regards
Matthew O'Brien, Principal
Happy Birthday to children celebrating their birthday this week.
Bonnie King, Billie McDonald, Aramis Skevofylakas, Asia Suringa, Samantha Coghlan, Angus Down, Ollie Gynes, Millicent Morley, Tate Jones, Elise Perry, Rosie Thornton, Logan Heffernan, Bella-Rose McCosh and Sophia Furphy.
Grandparents are a very special part of our students lives, offering support, guidance and love. We are thankful to all of our wonderful grandparents in our school community. Thank you to those who sent in photos of their grandparents for our movie.
Please watch and enjoy, and hopefully we can celebrate our grandparents onsite next year.
Our theme for Arts week is ‘Colour our World’.
Welcome to Arts week! A week of fun activities for everyone!
This Arts week is going to look a bit different this year but we are fortunate that we will be able to still run our exciting program.
As we are still in remote learning, we will use the usual unit learning plans but with the added resource of Arts week google classroom where specialist art lessons, displays, activities, fun quizzes and challenges are shared virtually. Please explore this with your children as there is something for everyone and more.
Students will need to join this classroom with the Class code 4uri7pz.
Students will still get to participate in our virtual St. Joes got Talent through Arts week google classroom by using the link on the left hand side of the Arts homepage. The timetable for performances is posted in the google classroom with Senior students performing on Monday. Performances will be at 12:30pm each day. We remind students to turn off their microphone and camera when they join and to refrain from recording performances as this will be a breach of privacy and the code of conduct.
Our night walk has now been creatively turned into a ‘Drive by night display’ that can be enjoyed by the whole family. This can be viewed as you drive by each night, Monday to Thursday this week as well as our signature Office foyer display that our students will be able to take a look at. We will post photos for our families to enjoy via our newsletter/google classroom.
Dress Up day - Thursday 9th September - Students and staff can dress up as a colour, an artist, flag or a costume from another country. Students will share their costumes in their class google meets and we will post photos in the newsletter.
Kath McMeel and the Arts Team
Book Face Contest Winners
Well done to all of the students and families that took the time to either enter an image for the contest, or to place a vote for the People's Choice Awards. We would also like to thank our School Judges for carefully selecting the winners for the main prizes. We hope to award these prizes at our first Assembly when we're back at school!
Congratulations to the following students:
Junior Foundation – Year 2
1st place - Ted Ward from B7
2nd place - Bridget Ambrose from C5
3rd place - Sulli Madden from B8
Middle - Years 3 and 4
1st place - Simone from D4
2nd place - Darcy and Layla Drummond
3rd place - The Bellman Family
Senior - Years 5 and 6
1st place - Hilary Collins from E5
2nd place - Ruby Koch from F5
3rd place - Daisy Advincula from F4
And the People's Choice Awards, which were voted by you!
1st place - Audrey Wolff from B6
2nd place - Grace Densley C2
3rd place - Ruby Koch and Ted Ward
Thanks again and we will leave the actual display up for everyone to view once we return to school after lockdown!
Mrs Lyn Hyland & Mrs Emily Lloyd
Isaiah 41:10 – So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
As part of the Young Vinnies fundraising for term 3 the students are hoping to raise money toward and awareness of childhood cancer.
On Friday 17th September (last day of term 3) the Young Vinnies are asking for students to wear a touch of yellow. This can be a yellow jumper, yellow shoes, yellow socks, yellow scrunchie or a simple yellow ribbon pinned to their school uniform.
Donations toward children's cancer can be made through CDFPay and all proceeds will be made to childhood cancer research.
A reminder that we move to Summer Uniform in Term 4. An outline is provided here.
Purchasing details are contained in the link below.
Girls
- Blue and white check summer dress or school logoed blue polo with navy culottes
- A choice of school logoed navy windcheater, school logoed navy vest and school logoed navy jacket
- White socks
- Black school shoes or totally black runners
- Navy school logoed bucket hat
Boys
- Grey shorts with school logoed blue polo
- A choice of school logoed navy windcheater, school logoed navy vest and school logoed navy jacket
- Grey socks
- Black school shoes or totally black runners
- School logoed navy bucket hat
Sport
- School logoed navy sports shorts
- School logoed sports house top (compulsory for all year levels in 2022)
- A choice of school logoed navy windcheater, school logoed navy vest and school logoed navy jacket
- White socks (no logos)
- Runners of any colour
- School logoed navy bucket hat
Foundation Students
- School logoed navy sports shorts with school logoed blue polo
- School logoed navy sports shorts with school logoed sports house top for their sports days
- A choice of school logoed navy windcheater, school logoed navy vest and school logoed navy jacket
- White socks (no logos)
- Runners of any colour
- School logoed navy bucket hat
Drop in your items for sale or donation
Now would be a great time to have a clean out of uniform items that your child has grown out of. These can be dropped at the office for sale or donation. The link below will give you a guide for pricing and a label print out.
From Wednesday 1 September, 2021, children are required to wear their hats at school whilst outside at recess, lunch and sport.
No Hat = No Play
Children without hats will have to stay in the undercover area during lunch and recess. We do NOT have grace period, hats must be worn from the 1st September.
As per our Sun Protection policy:
Please ensure your child has adequate sun protection during the months of September to May. You child will require the following:
a) their own sunscreen SPF 30+ or higher,
b) St Joseph's Primary School sun hat,
c) rash vest (if they are going swimming).
The above items are all to be labelled with their name and room number please.
Classrooms all have a supply of sunscreen available.
As COVID and lockdown restrictions have changed the way we can run many of our traditional fundraising events, our PSA and School Advisory Council are looking for new ideas.
We believe this could be the opportunity to change it up a bit, and bring on board new events and fundraising ideas. We have been very lucky in the past where our Fair was able to generate a significant amount of funds for the school each year, and we hope to be able to do that again in the future.
However, we know already that we cannot hold our Fair, in its traditional format, in 2022, so we have it pencilled in for 2023 (hopefully bigger and better than ever).
We have changed both meeting dates to week 10, Wednesday 15th September where we will hold a joint meeting of the PSA and SAC members, with the focus being on fundraising. Our preference is to hold this meeting in person. We invite any other parents who may like to come along to this meeting.
We want your ideas, please fill in this survey below and let us know what ideas you may have. What have you seen work well at other schools you have been involved with? Is there an idea you have been toying with but have never put forward? These are the ideas we would like to hear.
2021 Art Fundraiser
The PSA will be running their annual fundraiser to raise additional funds for the Art Department.
This year your child's artwork will be available as a 2022 Calendar and/or Greeting Cards.
2022 Calendars
Distinctive calendars which display your child’s artwork created at school, printed on quality paper with 12 tear off wire bound months.
- One picture per 12 tear off months.
- School term, public holidays and activity stickers with plenty of room for noting special occasions.
- Printed artwork or photo A4 (300 x 210 mm) with A4 calendar attached below.
- The same artwork can be used on all our products.
- Name and age is printed on the artwork.
- All original Artwork is returned.
Greeting Cards
These fantastic greeting cards feature your childs artwork created at school, printed onto high quality card. Each pack of 8 cards comes with red envelopes and is shrink wrapped into a single high quality package.
- Suitable for all occasions, the cards are left blank inside for that personalised message.
- An excellent idea for Mothers or Fathers Day and Christmas cards.
- Size: 155mm x 110mm - C6
- Name and age is printed on the artwork.
- All original Artwork is returned.
Ordering Details
Orders are now open via CDFPay at a cost of $14 and close at 2pm on Friday 17th September, 2021.
Orders will be delivered in plenty of time to use these items as Christmas presents.
Note: Our Art teachers will endevour to ensure your child has completed the necessary artwork. However, if your child has been absent for an extended period of time for holidays or sickness they may not have completed their artwork.