Week 9 Term 3 - 2022

Tomorrow 17 September 2022 our six Stage 2 students, Meluca Jett, Phillipa Swanson,  Rose Quirk, Sunni Rese, Sophie Flanagan, and Ayla Stahl will be receiving their First Holy Communion. We are so looking forward to supporting them and their families on their very special day. 

We would also like to invite our students and families to the Mass to acknowledge the Parish and parishioners for giving us the use of their Church and moving to the Anglican Church for their Masses. 

WE ARE TRULY GRATEFUL TO FR MAX GOW, FR PETER JONES, AND THE ST JOHN'S CHURCH PARISHIONERS FOR ALLOWING US TO MOVE INTO THEIR CHURCH WHEN WE SO DESPERATELY NEEDED A PLACE TO GROW A SCHOOL FOLLOWING THE FLOODS.

We hope that you can join us to show our community thanks.

As stated in the Parent Handbook, students are not permitted to bring mobile phones into school at any time. If there is a need for your child to bring a phone (eg for after-school use) please ensure that the phone is handed into the Office on arrival at school and collected at bus time in the afternoon. 
Parents are also advised to monitor their child’s use of mobile phones outside of school hours to protect the children from potential harm. and to ensure that they are not being used as a means of communication to interact inappropriately.  Thank you for your assistance and vigilance in this matter. 

A reminder that Friday 23 September 2022 is a Staff Development Day.

As a staff, we will be learning about the new Kinder to Year 2 English and Maths Syllabus. 

This is a Pupil Free Day, therefore the students' last day for this term will be Thursday 22 September 2022.

• Staying home if unwell or showing any symptoms, and not returning to school or work until fully recovered.
• Rapid antigen testing for any students or staff showing symptoms and for close contacts who are able to return to school.
• Maximising natural ventilation.
• Good hygiene practices for students and staff including regular hand washing with soap and water.
• Encouraging all students, staff and families to keep up to date with vaccinations, including COVID-19 booster shots when eligible and the flu vaccine.
• Identifying when schools need to implement additional COVID-smart measures if experiencing rapidly increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases.

• Strongly encouraging all staff, students and school visitors to wear a mask while indoors, particularly during the first four weeks from the beginning of term. 
• Distributing RAT kits to all staff and students in schools (1 pack per person).
• Boosting day cleaning in schools, with a particular focus on high-touch areas.

This week at St Joseph’s we celebrated our love of reading by taking part in different book-related activities each day. On Tuesday it was Roald Dahl day and to celebrate the day we worked in groups to prepare a readers theatre performance to share with students in our school. We performed to kindergarten and Stage 2 and we had a lot of fun making them laugh. 

On Thursday we celebrated Dot Day. The theme of this day is to make your mark and see where it takes you. We were encouraged by the teachers to be creative and we created our own dot masterpieces.

We have also been learning about slam poetry. We used our favourite book characters to create ‘I Am’ poems.