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Congratulations to Gold Box winner
Winners of our Gold Box get to go for a swim at the pool.
Our newsletter is now weekly with every second newsletter featuring a Principal's report and news from our staff in the areas of Literacy, Numeracy, Religion, Library and Wellbeing.
This is an alternate week which features upcoming school and community reminders for this week.
Our newsletter is distributed via email, our SZApp and our website and is published at 1pm on Mondays.
Front Row (L-R): Sam Marris, Sophie Jellie, Will Main, Annabel Thornton, Archie Everall, Rylee Parsons, Emily Benson
Back Row (L-R): Sam Smith, Ashlee Pavletich, Matilda Stevens, Nicholas Russell, Hannah van de Camp
Congratulations to Gold Box winner Maya Duynhoven for walking her bike into the school grounds even though it was wet and cold.
Winners of our Gold Box get to go for a swim at the pool.
Friday 15th March, 2019
Mrs. Felicity Lane from the Catholic Education Office, will lead Saint Joseph’s Staff, in further developing our understanding about best practices for the teaching and learning of spelling.
As a staff, we will be discussing our beliefs and understandings about the teaching and learning of spelling. The Victorian Curriculum will be explored in order to identify the spelling skills and knowledge our Foundation to Year 6 students need to know.
Community Conversation Update
Parents are invited to participate in a Community Conversation process. Community Conversation is a forum that seeks to listen, understand and explore what is important to the school community.
We were planning to do this Community Conversation as a parent evening but as we have had a small number of registrations we are going to change how this process will work.
We invite parents to contribute via this electronic form by Friday 29th March, 2019.
Andrew McCombe, Physical Education and Sport Co-ordinator
Senior Athletics
Thank you to everyone involved in making the school sports a great success.
| Senior Sports House Results | |
| Gold | 1,086 |
| Blue | 1,055 |
| Red | 1,026 |
| Green | 961 |
Children who have qualified for districts will be notified soon after all trials have been completed. Medals for Age Champions will also be handed out to our winners this week.
Triple Jump Finals - The 12/13 year old Triple Jump Finals will be held this Wednesday morning. Mr McMillan will be taking these trials.
Junior School Sports Day
Thank you to those people who have already volunteered to help out for our Junior School Sports on Thursday 4th April 2019. We would be grateful for any parent helpers to be involved in helping out.
https://sjpswarrnambool.schoolzineplus.com/form/40
Golf Tryouts
Any Senior school children interested in playing in the upcoming School Sports Victoria (SSV) golf tournament can bring their clubs this Wednesday and Friday. You must put down your name and your room number outside E4 before Wednesday. Mr McMillan will take children interested for these trials.
Swimming
Good luck to all our swimmers in the carnival on Friday the 15th March. Please make sure you wear the correct swimming attire. Strictly no long shorts for boys and one-piece bathing suits for girls. This is a Swimming Victoria enforced rule and any swimmer not abiding by the swimwear rules will be disqualified.
PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Officials have the power to disqualify swimmers or schools if parents fail to abide by this rule.
Mr McMillan and Mr Vizon will be supervising on the day. Parents are required for time-keeping duties on the day and your help would be greatly appreciated. Please notify the school no later than Wednesday if you would be willing to help out. A roster of times will be made available and shared equally among helpers.
Swimming Sports Volunteer Form
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The Warrnambool Swimming Club will be running a BBQ on the day with sausages and hot-dogs available. Pricing will be reasonably cheap at $2-3 each. Flavoured milk and water will also be available.
Regards
Andrew McCombe, Physical Education and Sport Coordinator
To assist with our electronic permission forms that is a feature in PAM, we require you to complete a Medical Profile for your child/ren. Many families have already completed this process. If you have supplied an Action Plan to the school office already for 2019, we will be upload this to your child’s profile, once we can see you have commenced this process online.
Please follow the instructions below to complete a medical profile for each of your children by Friday 15th March, 2019.
- Step 1: Click on link to PAM (found on our webpage or SZapp)
- Step 2: Click on student (if more than 1 child, this will need to be done individually)
- Step 3: Click on Medical Profile (blue writing to the left of screen)
- Step 4: Complete all questions with * the remaining questions are optional. Please complete any that apply to your child.
- Step 5: Once you get to the end of the questions please confirm by clicking on the Green “Save Details” Box found at the bottom right of screen
As a parent/guardian you are able to go into your child/rens medical profile on PAM at any time to update as needed. Administration will send out reminders each term requesting you update any necessary information.
If you have any queries regarding the above or you require your PAM login details, please do not hesitate to get in contact with the office on 5561 1343.
Our PSA are once again holding a Hot Cross Bun Drive. Brown's Bakery will be supporting this event with orders now open through CDFPay. Please place your order against the eldest child in your family.
Orders close at 3pm on Friday 29th March.
Delivery dates
Wednesday 3 April 2019 (Grades 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Thursday 4 April 2019 (Grades F, 5 and 6) *Note this is Junior Sport Day
Monica Currer, Literacy Co-ordinator
The Classroom Helpers Program will take place this year on Wednesday 27th March 7:00 pm – 8:00pm. The program aims to inform parents of Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 students, about the teaching and learning of reading and writing and how you can help in the learning process at home. It is an expectation that you participate in this program if you wish to help in the classroom now or in the future. However, you are very welcome to attend if you are unable to make this commitment.
We also invite you to ask others e.g. grandparents, who may like to help in the classroom. Remember everyone who does help out in the classroom needs a working with children’s check.
Please complete the form below if you would like to attend this session.
Classroom Helpers Program
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Thank you to our volunteers who assisted in the canteen on school sports day. We have received lots of positive feedback in relations to the food that was on offer to parents and other adults on the day.