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Matthew O'Brien, Principal
Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff, Students and the wider St. Joseph’s Primary School Community,
This Remembrance Day, join the world in honouring those who’ve served and sacrificed.
Throughout the Commonwealth and beyond, we remember all who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
Help keep their legacy alive by attending a service, reflecting in silence, wearing a poppy, or supporting our veteran community.
LEST WE FORGET.
Our school community will celebrate Remembrance Day with a video ceremony in each classroom including a minute silence, the ode and some poetry from World War One. Four of our Student Leaders will lay a wreath on behalf of our school community and the Warrnambool War Memorial during the 11am ceremony.
School Advisory Council
New members needed for 2023-2024
I encourage all parents to consider joining the School Advisory Council in 2023 and 2024.
This group provides an opportunity to be involved in the life of your child’s school through engagement in school policies, finances, teaching and learning and Catholic School Culture. If you are curious I would love to talk to you about the role.
The School Advisory Council meets once per term, usually in week 5.
Our current Chairperson is Mr Peter Furphy, our Deputy chairperson is Mrs Donna Monaghan. They are joined by Mr Chris McGrath, Mrs Melissa Happ, Mr Joel Saywell. Liz Noonan is our staff representative.
At the end of this school year 3 of these members will finish their tenure of 4 years and we are seeking expressions of interest from our parent community to fill these vacancies to commence in 2023.
If you are interested in joining the School Advisory Council please email Cathy Duynhoven on cduyn@sjwarrnambool.catholic.edu.au stating your current role and interests, and what you believe you could bring to this committee. If you have any questions and would like to discuss this first you may call either Cathy or Matt O’Brien for an informal chat first.
Mr Peter Furphy, Chairperson, SAC
I have been on the School Advisory Council since March 2018 and have been the chairperson this year.
This year two of my children are at St Joseph’s, Sophia is in Grade 3 and Maya is in Grade 6. My eldest child Will is in Year 8 at Emmanuel College. My wife Jacqui is an Osteopath and Acupuncturist at Coastal Osteopathy.
I am employed as an Area Manager of Western Victoria for Terragen Biotech, an agricultural biological company. I travel for work visiting farms to help farmers with finances and organisation. Prior to this I worked for Schulz Organic Dairy in Timboon.
I appreciate the staff at St Josephs who provide lots of support for our parents and students. St Joseph’s provides a wide range of sporting activities and academic opportunities for our students.
Outside of work I enjoy supporting the D’s in AFL, SUP boarding at the Warrnambool beach and enjoy helping out with patrol for the Surf Life Saving Club. I enjoy supporting my children’s various activities at Surf Carnivals and basketball tournaments.
Thanks to Maya Furphy, Year 6, for her contribution to her dad’s bio.
Regards
Matthew O'Brien, Principal
Happy Birthday to children celebrating their birthday this week.
Daisy Advincula, Patrick Bowman, Roisin Hansford, Harvey Bean, Isabelle Farrer, Cooper Davies, Hewahetage Thevlini Sumanapala, Ted Ward, Max Cashmore, William Newton, Jake Conheady, Rosie Fish and Vaiga Jitin.
Wednesday 9th November, 2022
Children are invited to walk, ride or scoot to school on Wednesday 9th November for Walk To School Day.
Everyone who walks, rides or scoots will have a chance to win 1 of 2 bikes.
Mr O’Brien’s Great Wall of ART
This year Mr O’Brien is creating ‘The Great Wall of Art’ in his office. One or two students’ work from each art experience will be selected to hang for a period of time on this wall.
Next year PAM (Parent Access Module) will move to each parent having a seperate PAM account rather than one account per family.
All existing Parent PAM logins will be turned off on 16th January 2023. Between then and the new accounts being issued parents will not be able to access PAM for students reports, etc.
Please complete the form to update your families email addresses.
Parents are asked to support our school uniform policy, particularly in relation to correct school logoed shorts and non logoed socks.
As of Term 3 students may now wear their correct sports uniform (House coloured top on classroom sports day and school logoged blue polo on other days)
Sport
- School logoed navy sports shorts
- School logoed sports house top on classroom sport day/s AND school logoed blue polo on other 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
We appreciate the contribution of our volunteers at our school enormously. Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers for investing such great energy and time into our school this year.
We invite all our volunteers this year to attend a thank you evening. These include committee attendees, classroom and swimming helpers, excursion and sporting volunteers, canteen volunteers, Mothers Day stall and Fathers Day breakfast volunteers, disco committee and helpers on the night, election day bakers and helpers and anyone else who has volunteered their time at our school this year.
We are looking for volunteers to help out on Saturday 26th November for our Election Day BBQ - cooking and selling split over three shifts
Shift 1 - 8:00am to 10:00pm (set up, cook and sell) FULL
Shift 2 - 10:00am - 12:00pm (cook and sell) FULL
Shift 3 - 12.00pm to 2:00pm (cook, sell and pack up) HELPERS NEEDED URGENTLY
We are also looking for people to cook cakes/muffins/slice etc to sell.
A cake box will be sent home with the eldest child in your family. Extra boxes available at the office or by completing the form below. Items can be dropped off at school on Friday 25th November.
Please complete the form below to indicate which shift/s you are available for or to request extra boxes be sent home.
Please arrive at your nominated time and bring an apron with you.
Pizza Day: Wednesday 16th November, 2022
Orders Close: 3pm Monday 14th November, 2022
Once per term the PSA run a Pizza Day as a "special occasion" lunch option and to raise money for the PSA.
Children can choose from either Garlic or Hawaiian pizza (Gluten Free options available) which are provided by Pinkie’s Pizza who are one of our major school sponsors.
Orders are now open via CDFPay (Canteen ordering system)
There are no canteen orders on Pizza Days and children not wanting to order pizza should bring their lunch from home.
Sorry, no late orders can be accepted.
