Matthew O'Brien, Principal

Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff, Students and the wider St. Joseph’s Primary School Community,

Lord Jesus,

Bless the children receiving Eucharist for the first time this weekend.

May this be an initial step into their life long love of service.

Give them hunger to turn to you for wisdom, comfort and guidance.

Amen

Celebration of Eucharist

Congratulations to all of the students who are celebrating their First Eucharist at mass this weekend.

Thank you to their families and teachers for supporting them in their preparation.

Child Safety

On 2st July 2022 the new Child Safe Standards were released. This release has provided us with an opportunity to refocus our efforts on the safety of every child at our school. We have been supported by DOBCEL in updating our policies and procedures to reflect the new Standards. These documents can be found on our website under the Child Safety tab.

Our Policy Commitments state:

“All students enrolled at St Joseph’s Primary School have the right to feel safe and be safe. The values of learning, faith and community underpin our mission and guide our actions. The safety and wellbeing of children in the school’s care will always be St Joseph’s Primary Schools, first priority and the school will not tolerate child abuse. The school will create a child-safe and child-friendly environment where children are free to enjoy life to the full without any concern for their safety. Particular attention is paid to the most vulnerable children and young people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, those from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, children with a disability, children who are unable to live at home, international students, and LGBTQIA+ students.”

Our staff  will be working with classes and year levels with age appropriate materials from The Rights, Responsibilities and Respectful Relationships Program topics 6, 7 and 8;

Help Seeking, Gender and Identity and Positive Gender Relations (including lessons focussing on Gender Based Violence).

Further age appropriate information will be sent to all parents following classroom activities. Child safety is a partnership between school staff, carers and the wider community.

Football Final

Congratulations to the Boys Football team who contested the State Finals last Wednesday.  Our whole school community is very proud of them for this wonderful achievement. Thanks to Mr McMillan who coached the team and to all of the parents for their positive support. Please read the full report further into this newsletter.

Staffing Update

Kath McMeel returned from leave last week. Kath returns to St Joseph’s three days per week and will be supporting classrooms and leading a maths intervention program with Year 2 students.

Regards
Matthew O'Brien, Principal

Happy Birthday to children celebrating their birthday this week.

Harry Chatfield, Zoe Benson, Nellie Boyle, Sienna Addinsall, Frankie Chatfield, Jordan Hosking and Charlie Zanos.

Assembly will run at the earlier time of 12:15PM - 12:45PM on Friday 26th August, 2022.

This is to allow for the disco committee to set up for the School Disco.

On Monday the Foundation children stayed at school until 5:15 for their extended school day. 

We enjoyed some lovely fruit platters for afternoon tea and completed 4 rotations - Zumba class with Michelle Steer, a glowstick disco, some wet play activities and a Cosmic Kids Yoga session. After that, all children were picked up in the loop. We are so proud of the foundation children as this was something very new, exciting and a little nerve wracking for them. They all had a terrific time and left exhausted but happy. 

On Wednesday, 22 boy’s footballers made it to the state finals in Melbourne. We were half asleep when we left on a freezing cold morning at 5:30am.

Our first game was against Beaumaris primary school. It was a hard-fought match by the boys, but we managed to win 14-1. We were so exhilarated after a big win.

Our second match was against Glen Katherine primary school, unfortunately, we lost. The scores were 2-17, heading back to our club rooms our spirits were low.

In our final game, we played St Paul’s Warragul. We were down at half time but we came out on top and kicked away, we won the match 36-15. We finished 3rd overall. We were super proud of our efforts.

All day long, the boys played hard, and showed great sportsmanship and respect, by shaking hands with our opposition and thanking the officials.

Thank you to Mr McMillan and parents for supporting us. We were really grateful to have the opportunity to play at the highest level.

Harry McDonald - Year 6 student

A reminder that parents/guardians are invited into their child’s Year 2 classroom to do some fun science activities during Science Week.

The times are:

Tuesday 23rd August at 12:10pm - Room B6

Wednesday 24th August at 2:00pm - Room B5 and B8

Thursday 25th August at 12:10pm - Room B7

Students wear their winter school uniform for Terms 2 and 3. 

• Grey trousers or grey shorts to be worn with grey socks
• Navy tunic/skirt or navy trousers to be worn with white socks or navy tights (No leggings)
• Blue polo
• Navy windcheater
• Black shoes or fully black runners

Sport

• Blue school shorts or navy trackpants (no logos, brand names or stripes)
• School house coloured sports top
• White socks (NO logos)
• Runners

Sports Unifom can be worn every day

Students can wear their sports uniform every day with a school polo or school house coloured sports top (required on classroom sport days). 

Jackets

The school jacket is designed to be worn outdoors. Should children require a second layer indoors the windcheater is to be worn.  

Beanies

The school logoed beanie is for outdoors only. 

Socks

All socks should not display a logo, please support the school is this matter.

Purchasing Uniform items

There is a tile on our SZApp for Uniform information including:

• a link to Lowes online
• Lowes pricelist
• 2nd hand uniform orders
• suggested pricing for 2nd hand uniform items
• label template to attach to 2nd hand uniform items.

What does PSA stand for?

Primary School Association.

What is the role of the PSA?

It is a forum for all parents to become involved in the life of the School. It’s where we work to provide, improve and maintain the amenities available for the school students, including equipment and maintenance of School Buildings and grounds.

To provide opportunities for social meetings between parents, and promote a spirit of union and good fellowship. The PSA runs and supports several events throughout the year to raise money for the school and to support our school community.

What do we do?

• Mother’s Day Stall
• Hot Cross Bun Drive
• Father’s Day Breakfast
• Pizza Days
• Art Activities
• Canteen support

Who can attend?

Anyone and everyone. In 2022 the PSA will meet face to face with meetings held in Room C19 at the school.

How often do they meet?

Tuesday evening, Week 3 and Week 7 of each term. 8 meetings per year! Meetings commence at 7:30pm.

• Tuesday 23 August, 2022
• Tuesday 18 October, 2022
• Tuesday 15 November, 2022
• DATE TBA: Parent Committee Thank you evening

How can I help?

Come along to the meetings, contribute to the discussion, share ideas, support events that enrich the school community.

We really need our school families to support this group.  

It’s only 8 meetings per year!

Hope to see you there, better still bring a friend!

General Information

Children must be signed in by an adult (contact number and the name of the person collecting).

Parents to drop children in the foyer, sorry no parents allowed in the disco unless they are on the volunteer roster. This rule is in place to comply with Child Safe Standards.

Voluntee Roster

Disco Poster Competition

...and the winners are:

Senior/Middle Major Prize Winners

Pre-Disco Party in the Library

• Simone Lobos Boada F4
• Maya Furphy E2
• Roisin Hansford D6
• Bethany Moran F4
• Harrison Williams D3
• Billy Main D5
• Braxton Ciurleo D4
• Mack Rees D4

Junior Major Prize Winners

• Estella Roberts C4
• Millie Hughson B4
• Evie Bushell B5
• Lucy Kavanagh C3
• Judd Coffey C4
• Hudson Moloney C4
• Abel Delaney B1
• Charlie Matthews B8

Senior/Middle Minor Prize Winners

$10 Browns Bakery Vouchers

• Alfie Woonton D1
• Mason Marshall F4
• Sophia Furphy D4
• Neve Edwards D5

$5 Piccolo Coffee Hot Chocolate Voucher

• Ethan Thomas B5
• Brodie Manson D5
• Mason Murrell D4
• Louis Kenna B3
• Elouise Flett D4
• Sophie Hardiman D5
• Ayla Matthews D5
• Nyla Daffy D6
• Hayley Astbury F7
• Meredith Jones D4

Junior Minor Prize Winners

$10 Browns Bakery Vouchers

• Poppy Main B5
• Amali Greene B3
• Dylan Thomas C5

$5 Piccolo Coffee Hot Chocolate Voucher

• Elsa Farley B3
• Grace Densley B2
• Violet Greening B8

In preparation for our Foundation, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 swimming program for  Term 4 parents are asked to complete this form for Aquazone.

This will enable the swimming instructors to group children into groups.

Over Term 3 we are running a raffle aimed at supporting local and school connected businesses.

Thank you to families who have already sold and returned their tickets.

We are asking each family to sell 4 x $25 tickets, with there being one prize of $10,000 worth of vouchers.  The winner will select their vouchers from the participating businesses outlined in the attached booklet.

If you have not sold your 4 allocated tickets, please return your sold, and unsold, tickets to the office so they can be redistributed to other families who are in the position to sell more.

The seller of the winning ticket will also have their 2023 Family fee (at least $1,375 based on the 2022 fees) credited off their school fee account.

The raffle will be drawn on September 2nd.  

7:00am - 9:00am
Friday 2nd September

Our PSA is once again holding a Father's Day Breakfast for our school Dads (or special person). 

Children arrive at school early with their dad and enjoy a breakfast of egg and bacon sandwiches or sausages in bread. The PSA will provide some fruit, juice and hot drinks, gluten free bread available. After the breakfast dads can walk their child/ren to the classroom for a visit.

Orders now open

Orders close on 29th August at 2:00 pm. Sorry no late orders.

Volunteers

We rely on the assistance for volunteers on this day. Thanks to those who have volunteers already.

Please complete the volunteer form if you are able to assist with setup on Thursday after school or on the Friday morning for cooking, serving or cleanup.

We need help on

• Thursday 1st September
• Thursday 8th September

Please contact the office if you are able to assist.

School Canteen Support 

Warrnambool Coastal Landcare