Thank you to everyone involved in making the Year 5 and Year 6 camp a success – your time, effort and care are truly appreciated.

A huge thank you as well to all the staff who kindly took on additional yard duties and classroom supervision during this time. Your support helped everything run smoothly back at school.

I will continue to be in Melbourne with my family next week while my dad is still unwell.

As we approach the end of the term, take pride in all that you’ve accomplished. Thank you for everything you’ve poured into your work—your contributions truly make a difference.

Exciting news: Laura Dunn is officially on maternity leave!
Laura, thank you for everything you’ve sewn into the St Joseph’s community. Your expertise, care, dedication, and presence have left a lasting impact on the staff, students, and families alike.

We wish you all the very best as you embark on this beautiful new chapter of motherhood. You will be deeply missed, but we’re so excited for what lies ahead for you.

FLARE Closure Day (online) - Day 1 of Week 1
LSOs and Teachers If you do not work on Monday and would like to participate in the day, please email me (you will be paid for the day). I will be finalising numbers Friday night (Friday the 12th). 

Time to update data on Simon - Simon Protocol

Reminder that the Simon Protocol is on Simon.  

Marlie & Gabe will be in the staffroom to help navigate anything in Simon and to support you if needed.

Week 9:  No School Assembly - Hall unavailable

Please read in conjunction with the Upcoming events list.

Week 9:

Wednesday 17th September:  2026 Traineeship Interviews; Year 4 Pillowcase program

Thursday 18th September:  Disconnection of services to Portables, and moving of furniture etc will commence

Friday 19th September:  September Birthday Morning Tea; Final day of Tem 3, school finishes at 2.30pm

Week 1:

Monday 6th October:  School Closure Day - Structured Literacy

Tuesday 7th October:  Warden Training, followed by OHS staff meeting

Nearly there…a shorter term, but it has been a busy term! A big thank you for all of the work in classrooms, interventions, yard support, special activities, office/sick bay and maintenance of our school. Our students and staff are fortunate to come every day to such a vibrant and supportive community. Enjoy the last week and have a wonderful break.

Co-created prayer - It has been so exciting seeing the planning in teams in order to have a go at co created prayer next term.  A big thanks to Nell who has put together this resource - a scaffold/description for each part of co created prayer not linked to any scripture. 

REAP - As you may have seen in the DOBCEL newsletter it is highly unlikely that a new cohort for this program will run until 2027. However it is important to note that these  courses (that can be done online) will also give you your Catholic Accreditation.  Sponsorship through DOBCEL is available. It would be great if we had a couple of people working through this together.   

ACU Graduate Certificate in Religious Education (GCRE)  online engagement   ( ideally 2 yr commitment) 

CTC/YTU Graduate Certificate in Teaching Religious Education (GCTRE)  online engagement (ideally 2 yr commitment) 

All staff are invited to another end of term celebration, for all schools, at The Seanchai on Friday 19th September from 2pm. Happy Hours 3.30pm-5.30pm.

It was a great night at the end of last term, so it would be great to support this again.

NEW Online Maintenance & OHS Management system: As a part of our partnership with Danihers we have now introduced their online Maintenance & OHS Management system.  This will replace the use for our maintenance@ and ohs@ emails that all staff currently use.

Please bookmark this link on your computer or phone to access the new system.  I am happy to do some run throughs of this in the staff room at lunch times if that would help.

Essentially you will need to enter your name and email address (both of which should pre-populate if you use the same device), select the room or area of the school the issue relates to (you can start to type a room number e.g. B1 and it will narrow the list for you) and then enter a summary of the issue in the description field.  Under the priority drop down you will be selecting a timeline or urgency of the task.

OHS (urgent attention required) would only be used for serious items e.g. water is pouring in through the roof, you have found a live wire some where, a window and has left broken glass exposed etc

If a child has vomited or had a toileting accident please still call the office.

DFMS (Maintenance & OHS Management system)

This will allow us to monitor more closely if the same issue keeps arising, or if it is in the same area of the school.

A message from Georgia Johnston (living her best life in Vietnam): 

Having the best time, mastered the scooter, swimming everyday and the kids are really settled. Very happy!

For all Staff Reimbursements, please use this link:  Staff Reimbursement Form

Refer to the newsletter or PAM for further details on all these events.

Week 9

No Whole School Assembly: Friday 19th September

Term 3 Concludes: 2:30pm, Friday 19th September

Term 4, Week 1

School Closure Day: Monday 6th October

Term 4 commences: Tuesday 7th October

Whole School Assembly, Room F6: 2:30pm Friday 5th September

Refer to the newsletter or PAM for further details on all these events.

Converge International is a free and confidential support service for staff and their families.   Ph 1300 687 327

• Ebony Cooper - 18th September