Term 3 | Week 7 Newsletter

Key Information

• Friday 27th August - St Colman's Parish & St Joseph's Fete
• Saturday 28th August - Opti-MINDS Challenge - Mount Isa
• 30th-31st August - Prep 2022 Interviews
• Thursday 2nd September - Learning Breakfast from 730am
• Friday 3rd September - Pupil Free Day
• Friday 17th September - Last Day Term 3

Tuckshop Menu:

Uniform Shop

As advertised, all uniform items with the old logo are being sold at 50% off normal price. There are limited sizes as shown. If ordering online your discount will be applied when you collect your order from the Uniform Shop or office.

Uniform Shop Days:
Wednesdays & Thursdays: 810-830am
Any requests for uniforms outside these days MUST be done via the link below. 

Homework Club

Homework Club is every Thursday from 3-4pm in the MacKillop Room for Years 5-9.

Coffee on Fridays

Coffee, Tea & Hot Chocolate will be available at each Assembly unless otherwise advertised.

Volunteers are always welcome, please contact the office and we'll pass your details on to the P&F.

Cocktail Party - Expression of Interest

We have had a number of inquiries as to whether we are going to have our Cocktail Party, after having it postponed at the start of the year due to COVID.

We are very interested in putting this event on as a way for the community to get together and catch up. Therefore we are putting it out to the community, DO YOU WANT THE COCKTAIL PARTY? If so, please indicate by jumping onto our facebook page and liking or commenting your support.

The details for the event will be as follows:
Date: Friday, 8th October 2021 (After the Races)
Time: 6:00pm till 11:00pm
Cost: $30 Entry (includes live music and food)
Drinks starting at $5 for Beer, Wine and Spirits, and cocktails $10.

We will be making a decision on Monday, 30th August 2021 based on the interest of our community.

Principal News

Welcome to Week 7, 

Book Week 2022
This morning we came together for our annual book week parade. I was so impressed by the outfits this year - it was clear to see the amount of planning that has gone into each of the costumes. The students were so excited to show them off and share stories about their character. Dressing up is not only a fun and engaging activity for our students to do, but it also educates our students on a range of different books and characters as they engage with other students on the day and share stories about their favourite books. 

Thank you for joining us this morning. We will be awarding our winners with their certificate and book at assembly on Friday so please come along and join us. 

We were also very lucky to have Sister Lynne, Adopt-a-Cop Constable Lauchy and Diane Evans who is visiting from Brisbane join us this morning to judge our best dressed costume for each year level. Diane has also been volunteering in the library to help Mrs Chaplain create the ‘Far Away Tree’.

St Colman's Parish & St Joseph’s Catholic School Fete 
We are so excited to be joining you all on Friday evening for our annual Fete. This is my first fete experience in Cloncurry and I can’t wait to see the community come together for a night of fun and laughter. 

Events like this don’t happen without the commitment and dedication of individuals within our community. I would like to thank Tamara Williams and Shelley Curry on behalf of the St Joseph’s Community for their work coordinating the fete. 

A friendly reminder that all attendees should not enter the event if in the previous 14 days they have: 

• returned to Australia from overseas (other than a safe travel zone country) 
• been in close contact with an active COVID-19 case 
• been in a Queensland declared COVID-19 hotspot, place of concern or exposure venue, as defined by the Chief Health Officer 
• had a fever, cough, sore throat, headache, distorted sense of taste, shortness of breath, chills, vomiting or any cold/flu like symptoms in the last 72 hours.

Cloncurry Special Holiday - Friday 8th October 2021
St Joseph’s Catholic School will be finishing at 12pm on Friday the 8th of October (Term 4 - Week 1) as The Cloncurry Council have announced Ministerial approval for a half day special holiday to align with the Cloncurry and District Race Club’s Meet to grow the event within the town. 

We have received communication from The Council Administration Team that the following businesses will be closing from 12pm: The Council Administration Office, Council Depots (Dajarra and Cloncurry), Curry Kids Early Learning Centre, Bob McDonald Library, John Flynn Place and St Joseph's Catholic School will be closed from 12pm on this day. Cloncurry Unearthed Visitor Information Centre will be open on this date during the hours of 8:30am – 4:30pm.

Prep Enrolment Interviews
Mrs McLaughlan and I are excited to be welcoming our 2022 Prep Enrolments next Monday and Tuesday for their interviews. 

I hope you all have a great week and I look forward to seeing you at our Fete on Friday evening. 

Kind Regards, 
Samantha Kelley 
Principal

APRE News

This year, to assist in enhancing our Catholic Identity, we started having regular school wide liturgies in our church. This term our school liturgies are every fortnight. Yesterday we gathered to sing hymns together. Singing assists in our expression and response to God, songs in church also helps unite us as a school community.

Our Parish
Over the last couple of week’s I wrote about how our school is part of the St Colman’s Parish, giving information about who St Colman is, as well as information about our Parish Council. 

On Friday we will be having our joint school and parish fete. If you would like to volunteer to work in our parish stall please send through your name to our Parish Council President, Chris Chaplain (cchaplain@sjctsv.catholic.edu.au) or Parish Council Secretary Gillian Gardiner (ggard23@eq.edu.au )

Gospel Reading Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23
Jesus teaches that it is that which comes from our hearts that defiles us.

Children have learned the importance of following rules. Like the Pharisees in today’s Gospel, they often bring to our attention the infractions of others. Even parents sometimes get caught off guard by their children’s observations: “Why don’t you have to go to bed at 8:00?” or “But I saw you eat a cupcake before breakfast once.” Our rules for our children are not arbitrary. We establish and enforce family rules with the intention of helping our children grow to be healthy and mature adults. We foster this maturity when we also initiate conversations with our children about the purposes behind family rules and teach them the essential values that rules help us observe.

As you gather as a family, list some of your most important family rules. Together, try to write a single, positive statement that captures the essential value behind your family rules. In today’s Gospel, we hear Jesus criticize the Pharisees for making their rules about ritual purity equal to the commandments of God’s Law. Read today’s Gospel, Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23. When we remember the essential element behind our rules, we see that our rules help us be the good people that Jesus wants us to be. Conclude in prayer together that we may always honor God’s Law in our words and deeds.

Mass to honour Australia’s saint-in-waiting

A special Mass was held on the Feast of the Assumption to honour Sydney saint-in-waiting Eileen O’Connor, who had a profound devotion to Our Lady. 

The Mass was held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Waterloo – the church where O’Connor was likely first inspired to say “Yes” to God and commit her life to serving the disadvantaged.

The Mass, celebrated Fr Paul Smithers, was part of broader commemorations throughout 2021 to mark the centenary of O’Connor’s death.

As co-founder of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor in 1913, alongside missionary priest Fr Edward McGrath, Eileen O’Connor helped establish a religious order, based at Coogee, committed to nursing the sick poor in their own homes at a time when there was no free government healthcare scheme.

In his homily, Fr Smithers spoke of O’Connor’s profound devotion to Mary, who like O’Connor, was inspired to care for the vulnerable. “It’s said that Our Lady appeared to Eileen in her room at Coogee and I have no doubt that Our Lady did do so in order to inspire such greatness in someone so vulnerable,” Fr Smithers explained.

Source: The Catholic Weekly.

May God bless you and your family this week,
Shadley Davids

Pastoral Care

Student Representative Council 
Today marks our first Student Representative Council (SRC) meeting!  Student representative councils (SRCs) work to represent students’ interests and needs in various ways. They take action to bring about positive changes that will benefit the students and the whole school community. In today’s meeting, the elected representatives will be finalising the constitution and establishing roles with the SRC.

Have a fantastic week - it is certainly a busy one!

Kind regards,
Mrs Schneekloth
Pastoral Leader

Prep

I can't believe it is week 7 already!

This week we will be completing some Math assessment as well as exploring addition using the story book "One is snail, ten is crab" as a basis. This book uses different numbers of legs to make numbers. For example twenty could be two crabs (crabs have ten legs). We will do a sunscreen experiment as part of our science assessment task this week. In religion we will continue to explore prayer. We will be finishing our next section of Initital Lit Literacy lessons soon and will begin to assess the students ability to blend letter sounds so they can read and write words and also the students ability to recall the tricky words taught. Please continue to practice our tricky words (we are up to set 9) and read the home readers.

Thank you to those of you who have donated playdoh and/or utensils for our fete stall. 

Sport: Tuesday
Library: Wednesday
Return home readers: Friday
Fete: Friday

Yours in fun and learning,
Mrs McLauchlan

Year 1

As we are getting to the pointy end of the term, this week we are again consolidating our learning for this term. 

Here is a snapshot of our week ahead: 

English: We are learning to identify and describe characters and settings in different types of texts. We have had the opportunity to read and listen to different texts and use setting prompts in our daily writing. 

Mathematics: We are learning to identify 2D shapes and 3D objects. This week we are becoming familiar with vocabulary used to describe and identify different 2D and 3D shapes. 

Religion: We are learning about Daily life at the time of Jesus, especially where he lived, what he wore and how he got around. 

Reminders:
Sport: Tuesday
Library: Thursday 
Fete: on Friday afternoon. Our Year 1 stall is selling glow sticks (all provided). 

Have a great week,
Miss Brock and the always fun Year 1’s

Year 2

Week 7!

Our baby chicks are doing very well and are now down at the chicken coop during the day!

We are also learning about:
Tricky words: surprise
English: Procedural texts
Maths: Multiplication and Division

Our school fete is coming up on Friday of Week 7. Year 2 will be running a fishing game. For our game, we are asking parents to donate fun size, individually wrapped chocolates or lollies to use as prizes.

Reminder:
Wednesday is PE day
Thursday is Library day

On Monday we joined together at Church to sing hymns and come together as a P-9 schooling community. On the day Mr Davids and Mrs Kelley commended year 2 for their involvement in this and outstanding behaviour. As a reward to the year 2 students there will be an icecream party at second lunch on Friday. If your child has any food allergies or intolerances can you please email Mrs Kelley on skelley2@sjctsv.catholic.edu as soon as possible. 

Have a great week,
Miss Ansell

Year 3

Hi everyone!  

The learning highlights for Year 3 this week are:

• In Maths we continue our unit on fractions. Students will partition collections of items to create halves, thirds, quarters and fifths. 
• In English we are drawing connections between our personal experiences and the worlds of texts. We are currently reading a picture book on Ned Kelly and using it to discuss the issues and problems in making moral decisions. 

Homework and home readers were sent out on Monday. Please let me know if you haven’t received these. 

Reminders: 
Library: Wednesday 
PE: Thursday 
Fete is this Friday!

Year 3 will be leading prayer for assembly on Friday. 

Fete News:
Year 3 will be holding a ‘bottle stall’ for the upcoming Fete. It would be a great help if students brought in any clean glass jars (e.g. jam jars, pasta sauce jars.) These jars can be sent into school empty or filled with small ‘knick-knacks’ such as hair-ties, lego pieces, bubbles, chocolates, lollies or any other fun item! Thank you!

Have a great week ahead. 
Miss Coombs

Year 4

Year 4 News

Fete- Don’t forget our Fete is this Friday night! If you have not already donated some lollies yet,we are after wrapped lollies or small chocolates. Students are welcome to help me out on the night!

Science Excursion- This will be held on Wednesday 8th September. We will be leaving school at 9am and be going to the lookout, dam and Cloncurry Unearthed. We will be accompanied by Chloe Hawtin, a geologist from Glencore who will be sharing her expert knowledge with us. You are all more than welcome to join us. Permission notes will be sent home soon.

Book Week Parade- Thanks to all the parents who helped their children get ready for today’s Book Week parade. Congratulations to Tala who won for her Mulan outfit. All the students looks fantastic!

Have a great week.
Lesley Wall

Year 5

Welcome to Week 7!

Here is a snapshot into Year 5 this week!

ENGLISH: This week we are going to be introduced to our assessment poem and begin drafting our personal response!

MATHS: Students have been working hard to master their balancing scale equations and will begin their budgeting unit.

SCIENCE: During science this week, we have looked at Betelgeuse and the various cultural understandings of the constellations above us. 

DESIGN: This week we will discuss the method of making a milkshake and students will then work in pairs to create a recipe for their own burger!

HASS: During HASS this week, students will be discussing the environmental changes that have occurred in the Americas from as early as 13000 BC up until the 1900s.

FETE: Our artwork is looking fantastic so far! We can’t wait to show it off!

Reminders:

• If you have a spare 2L bottle please bring it in for the Fete! Even better if it comes in painted black!!
• The SJC Learning Breakfast is next Thursday 2nd September.
• Next Friday is a pupil free day (September 3rd)

Have a wonderful week!
Miss Campbell

Year 6

Welcome to Week 7!

This week’s learning focuses are:

Religion: We have started learning about the Eucharist and will now be learning about some comparisons between it and the themes of Jewish celebrations. 

English: Students will be learning about exciting endings before starting their assessment task - creating an informative text about federation. 

Maths: This week, we will be learning about percentage discounts and sale prices. 

HaSS: This week, students will be learning about suffragists in Australia's past who fought for equal rights. 

Science: The mould is looking GROSS! We will be making our second observation before adding to our scientific report. We will also continue to work through our research task. 

Health: We began investigating contributions to health, safety and wellbeing through the planning and design of a flood-resilient house. 

Have a great week ahead!
Mr. Delaney and the Year 6 legends

Subject Spotlight - Technologies

Year 7 & 8:
This term students are creating a nail caddy from raw materials. Students have 2 options when creating the nail caddy. Option 1: students can create the nail caddy using a rebate joint (this joint is the easier of the two but still comes with it’s challenges). Option 2: students can choose the move difficult pathway which is a dovetail joint (pictures below for reference)

Year 9: 
This term year 9 is creating a cutting board. Students join 3 pieces of 140mm by 19mm meranti timber. Once students have created their cutting board they will  burn a design on each side.

Library News - Book Week Celebrations

Book Week 2021

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Rock Pop - Updated times

There are now 2 practices a week.

This ensures each group has their routine complete & polished, ready for the big show! 

Both groups will run Tuesday & Thursday afternoons from 3-4pm. We will all meet under the Mary MacKillop shed to begin with and then move to our designated space/s.

The students are doing SO well with their practice, it’s been great to see. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact Miss Lovett.

Fete

Some important reminders for this week:

Dodger Raffle Tickets are to be back to the office by Wednesday 250pm. This is to ensure all tickets are counted ready for the announcement of the iPad prize on Friday at assembly and then for the draw of prizes on Friday night.

Items for the Cake Stall are to be brought in Friday morning only between 8-10am directly to the Music Room. Please do not bring items to the office. Please ensure ingredients are listed on each item. 

A great big thanks to Shelley Curry & Tamara Williams who have worked tirelessly over the last couple of months to bring this night together.

A HUGE thank you to the sponsors listed in the attached flyer that have come on on board for the 2021 St Colman's Parish & St Joseph Catholic School Fete.

Casual Employment Opportunties

We are seeking casual School Officers and qualified Teachers to cover sick and leave days.
For more information please contact our office.
Teaching staff will need to apply here > https://tceo-portal.applynow.net.au/jobs/TCE679-supply-teacher-registration-2021

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