St Joseph’s Feast Day - Tuesday 19th March

We are celebrating St Joseph’s feast day next Tuesday with a school mass, fun activity day and pizza lunch.

We will be beginning an initiative called “pastoral groups” where children will be mixed up into groups from Foundation to Year 6 based on their house colours. These groups will meet each term for different activities.  It is planned that children will remain in the same group during their life at St Joseph’s with new Foundation children replacing the graduating Year 6 children. These groups are designed to further promote a sense of wellbeing and community at school.

NAPLAN 2024

The NAPLAN testing  window opens this week Wednesday 13th March to Monday 25th March. Over this time our Year 3 and Year 5 students will participate in Reading, Writing, Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) and Numeracy tests.  All of the tests take place online via computers except for the Year 3 Writing test which is handwritten using pen and paper.

The information gained from these tests is used by our school to help us identify priorities for our school improvement plan. We also use it along with our school based assessments to help identify next areas of learning for children and cohorts.