Matthew O'Brien, Principal

Happy Birthday to children celebrating their birthday during the holidays and this week.

Harry Kerr, Patrick Cumming, Lucy Houston, Connor MacDougall, Henry Morrissey, Georgia Perry, Siena Keramaris, Saina Maria Manjaly Tony, Nate Deverall, Harry Leach, Archie McDonald, Jessica Yu, Jayden Morrison, Isabella Perry, Jim Kenna, Harvey Umbers, Nash Anderson, Jack Boyd, Aster McDonald and, Louis Johnson.

Iris Foster, Zinzan McDermott, Hugh Wright, Matilda Goldson, Elsie Gynes, River McKinnon, George Van Engelen, Cole Burleigh, Jaxon Green, Oliver Langley, Bradley Crooks, Regi Sobey, Bobby Jackson, Archie Gardner, Anna Robson, Ella Carlin, Quinn McDonald.

This year we will celebrate Grandparents Day at St Joseph's
on the morning of Thursday 19th October.

9:30am - 10:30am
Classroom Visits

10:30am - 12:00pm
Morning tea in the Hall

11:30am
Choir Performance

Notes:

• Let your visiting Grandparent know which Room Numbers to visit.
• There is no need to RSVP.
• Morning tea provided for Grandparents (children not present at morning tea)
• Parking available in staff carkpark and school oval (enter via staff carpark).

If the classroom isn't in their room they will be at a specialist class. Look for the note on the whiteboard in the classroom, eg F4 students are in an art lesson in E6.

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 keyring or magnet.

Magnets

Keyring

Description

Your child's Art Work, which is created in Art Classes, on one side and their 2023 school photo on the other.

Ordering Details

Orders are now open via CDFPay at a cost of $13.50 and close at 3pm on Wednesday 11th October, 2023.

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.

Wear Orange on Friday

Our Woof day was a great success with a sea of Orange worn by our students and staff. We raised $622 which is a fantastic effort and much appreciated. Thank you.

Please see the Story Dogs website at www.storydogs.org.au for more information and read about the success of the program. 

Sharing of food items in the classroom

As our school community grows we have more students enrolled who have been diagnosed as having food allergies or intolerances. To support all needs we have procedures for the sharing of food items in the classroom. At times some classrooms will have a shared morning tea, lunch or afternoon tea. This is a supervised event and all families are advised of this via a letter sent from the classroom teacher.

This ensures all children's individual needs are met and catered for.

To ensure the inclusion of all students please adhere to the routine for the sharing of food items within the classroom.

Celebration of Birthdays

At St Joseph's we celebrate children's birthdays as a school by presenting the child with a Birthday Certificate at our whole school assembly. Each classroom celebrates birthdays in different ways. Some classes have a special chair for the day or a badge to wear, most classrooms have birthdays displayed in the room.

For the purpose of an individual child’s celebration or birthday we are now advising an lemonade icy pole or Zooper Dooper be a recommended option for these occasions.  It is not compulsory to celebrate all birthdays through the classroom.

Icy poles can be dropped into the school office. Please label with child's name and room number and let the classroom teacher know. Average classroom numbers are Foundation (22), Year 1 (23), Year 2 (22), Year 3 (24), Year 4 (27), Year 5 (26) and Year 6 (26).

A reminder that we require all families to login to PAM and update their child's Medical Information if their child's medical details have changed. 

This information assists with our electronic permission forms. 

Please follow the instructions below to update a medical profile for each of your children by:

1. Click on link to PAM (found on our webpage or SZapp)
2. Click on student (if more than 1 child, this will need to be done individually)
3. Click on Medical Profile (blue writing to the left of screen)
4. Check all questions and select Edit Details for updates to be made.
5. Once you get to the end of the questions please confirm by clicking on the Green “Update Details” Box found at the bottom right of screen.

As a parent/guardian you are able to access your child/rens medical profile on PAM at any time to update as needed.

If you have any queries or require your PAM login details, please do not hesitate to get in contact with the office.  

Please notify the school by phone or by using the Update Contact Details in our SZApp if you have any updates to home address, contact phone numbers and email addresses. Parents are encouraged to have two alternate contacts for their child in the event that parents cannot be contacted.

Be aware that email addresses are used in several of our systems which we need to change each of these manually.

School Canteen Support