Term 4 | Week 4 Newsletter

Key Information

• Friday 29th October - Swimming Carnival, World Teachers Day, Day for Daniel
• Monday 1st November - Year 5 Camp
• Monday 1st November - Board Information Evening 5pm
• Thursday 11th November - Remembrance Day 
  
• Friday 12th November - Gratitude Evening for Sponsors & Volunteers
• Tuesday 16th November - Prep Orientation Day 1 - 830-1030
• Friday 19th November - Prep Orientation Day 2 830-1000
• Wednesday 24th November - Christmas Concert
• Thursday 25th November - Year 9 Dinner
• Friday 26th November - Last Day Year 7-9 Students
• Friday 3rd December - Last Day Prep - Year 6 Students

Students and/or Families not returning in 2022:

If you haven't formally notified our office yet if your child or family will not be returning in 2022 please do so as soon as practicable.

Our End of Year Mass is scheduled for the 26th November (time TBA) and we would love families to be able to attend this special event for a formal farwell and celebration of your time at our School. Formal invitations will be sent through at a later date.

REMINDER - Swimming Carnival Lunch Pack Orders 

All lunch orders must be done and handed into the office by WEDNESDAY 27th October!

Tuckshop Menu:

Uniform Shop

The Uniform Shop will be closed for further notice due to staffing changes. Orders can still be placed via the link below and items paid for at the office upon collection. You will receive an email when your items are ready for collection. New stock will be arriving at the end of November, beginning of December for any items that are currently out of stock online.

If you have any questions or need to arrange a time for a fitting please contact the office.

Homework Club

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

Principal News

Welcome to Week 4, 

Swimming Carnival - Friday 29th October 2021
Our swimming carnival is fast approaching and will take place this Friday 29th October 2021. The students have been working hard behind the scenes at their swimming lessons to prepare for the big day. It will be great to have parents / caregivers / family members join us inside the pool grounds this year for the Swimming Carnival. We do however ask that you are maintaining physical distancing throughout the event and sign in on the COVID QR code before entering the venue. Please note if your child arrives late or is being collected early they must be signed in and signed out. 

Day for Daniel
This coming Friday the 29th of October is Day for Daniel day, which is Australia’s largest day of action to raise awareness for child safety, child protection and harm prevention. Day for Daniel is held annually on the last Friday of October to honour the memory of Daniel Morcombe. 

Parents, carers, and educators are encouraged to start a conversation with children and young people about personal safety. We regularly engage in conversations with students about child safety and provide many educational activities to ensure that children feel safe and know how to communicate if they don’t. 

Due to the swimming carnival on Friday, we will be bringing awareness to Day for Daniel on Thursday. Students are encouraged to wear red this coming Thursday the 28th of October to show our support for this important cause. 

World Teachers Day
This Friday we will also be celebrating world teachers day. World Teachers Day is a day for us to stop and appreciate those that make such a big difference in the lives of our students each and every day. It is also a day for teachers to celebrate and be proud of their achievements as an educator. 

These past few years in particular have been quite challenging for teachers as they have had to navigate through uncertain times. Education continued across the world in the uncertain times of COVID-19 and it is the dedication and hardwork of our teachers that made this possible. Although we have been very blessed this year with little interruptions I would like to thank our colleagues in other States of Australia that haven’t been as lucky. 

It is also important that we also take the time to celebrate St Mary MacKillop whose teachings pathed the way for the schooling that we get to learn and develop in today. 

Year 5 Camp
Our Year 5 students are very excited to be embarking on Camp next week. The students will be off for a week full of adventures at Gumburu Environmental Centre. The Gumburu Environmental Education Centre is located in the World Heritage Listed Paluma rainforest. The students will be accompanied by Miss Campbell, Miss Heather, Fr. Emene and Mr Kelley. I would like to thank Miss Campbell for the many hours that have gone into organising the year 5 camp for our students.

Join us at church! 
It has been great to see so many students and family members joining us at Church each Sunday morning. We are lucky to have weekly services that begin at 830am each week led by Fr Mick or Fr Emene. This Sunday we have a Combined Church Service followed by morning tea. Come and join us - we would love to see you there! 

Upcoming Celebrations at the St Colman’s Parish
Fr Mick will be holding an All Saints' Day Mass next Monday at 5pm in The St Colman's Parish. We then have our board information evening at 500pm which you are all welcome to attend. 

There will then be a mass on Tuesday morning at 730am for All Souls' Day. The Mass will go for approximately 30 minutes in length. We have moved the All Souls' Day Mass earlier in the morning in case you wanted to join. 

Board Information Evening
A reminder that there will be a board information evening next Monday at 500pm. There is more information on this in the Week 3 Newsletter. If you are interested in this presentation or in joining our board in 2022 please come along for the presentation. Stephanie Giorcelli our Education Consultant from the Townsville Catholic Education Office will be joining us. 

God Bless, 

Samantha Kelley
Principal 

APRE News

Welcome to Week 4. I can’t believe how much time is flying this term. As many would know by now, I have accepted a position at St Catherine Catholic College, Whitsundays for next year. I consider myself to be extremely blessed to have worked at St Joseph’s for the last three and a half years. I would like to thank all staff, students, parents and community members for the wonderful experiences I’ve gained since June of 2018.

This is the fourth week of our Chaplaincy Breakfast which is a great opportunity to have a chat over a shared breakfast. Last week we had pancakes for breakfast and today we had bacon and eggs. Next week we will be serving pancakes again. We have our Chaplaincy Breakfast every Tuesday and Thursday from 07:30 - 08:00 AM. I would like to thank Mr Murray, Mrs. Schneekloth and Mrs. Martin for being our constant helpers for breakfast.

During first lunch on Monday I joined the Crochet Club where the secondary students taught me how to crochet, it was a new experience for me and at some times somewhat frustrating as I thought I could not do it, however the students kept encouraging me to keep at it and continue to practice, it was at this point that I realised how blessed we are as a school to have students who display the values of Mary MacKillop and St Joseph the Worker. As teachers we always encourage our students to give things “a go” even if they are not good at it or if they feel disheartened, it was very refreshing to encounter the same encouragement from the students who were teaching me crocheting skills.

World Teacher Day
Friday the 29th of October is World Teacher Day. A day set apart where we celebrate all our dedicated, inspiring, incredible teachers within our school. Our staff will be gathering together for a staff luncheon on Thursday as we have our swimming carnival on Friday.

Please join in this prayer for our teachers:

Gospel Reading Mark 12:28b-34
Jesus is questioned by a scribe about the greatest commandment.

As Christians, our moral behavior is guided by the two-part commandment taught by Jesus in today’s Gospel: love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Many of us learned to use this framework as an examination of conscience. By examining our lives through the lens of these commandments, we have learned that the challenge of these commandments is not in our desire to follow them but in our capacity to consistently honor these commandments in our daily lives.

For one week, identify and collect news reports of how Christians show their love for God by loving and serving their neighbor. Clip these news items and share what you have heard when you gather as a family. Read together today’s Gospel, Mark 12:28b-34. Talk about ways in which your family might contribute to the examples of Christian service you found. Choose one of these actions to do together as a family. Conclude in prayer together asking God to help us show love to our family members and friends. Pray together the Act of Love.

O my God, I love you above all things with my whole heart and soul, because you are all good and worthy of all my love. I love my neighbor as myself for the love of you. I forgive all who have injured me and I ask pardon of those whom I have injured.

Amen.

May God bless you and your family this week

Shadley Davids

Pastoral Care

Student Representative Council
Our SRC has been meeting fortnightly to discuss matters to improve school life and facilities. There are lots of fantastic ideas being suggested by our students such as fundraising ideas to provide funds for additional sport equipment and promoting Catholic social teachings through mission in action. From today, students will see a basket in their classroom in which they can donate any non-perishable items for members in our community for this Christmas.   

Uniform
Although the year is winding down, we always have very high expectations of all students regarding uniform, punctuality, and work ethic. Students are reminded to wear the correct uniform at all times and comply with the dress standards at the school.

Please ensure all students have black shoes to wear with their formal uniform and with the warmer weather now upon us, hats are essential for sun protection. 

Have a great week and see you all at the Swimming Carnival!

Mrs Toni Schneekloth

Pastoral Care Leader

Prep

Wow the term is flying!

The excitement this week is the Swimming Carnival on Friday! All the Preps will have whatever level of support they need to swim 25m in each of the events. These events involve using noodles and kickboards and adult helpers will be in each lane. Unfortunately I will be absent for the swimming carnival due to a medical appointment. Miss Maggie is also away all of this week. A  reminder - Friday Week 7 (Friday the 19th November) Pep will be performing Going on a Bear Hunt at assembly. This is also Move Up day so the current Preps will have the morning session in Year 1 and the 2022 Preps will be at parade and then in Prep.

In Prep this week we will continue our Initial Lit program, in science explore movement, start practicing our Bear Hunt performance, complete a religion assessment and continue revising and extending concepts in Math. We will also login to the Chromebooks and practice sending an email again. It would be great if your child could have access to a keyboard to practice typing their first name initial and last name (bsmith) as this will help them when they login to Chromebooks and also to their profile on the Literacy App we use on the Ipads. 

The Preps have begun typing sentences during Literacy rotations so keyboard knowledge will also help with this. 

- Tuesday: Swimming
- Wednesday: Library and tuckshop orders
- Thursday: Tuckshop
- Friday: Swimming carnival (no readers exchanged this week). Please keep your books. Reread these and practice Tricky words!     

Wishing you a great Week 4!

Yours in fun and learning,

Sharon McLauchlan

Year 1

What a busy week ahead!

In English this week we have just finished creating our Character Reflection on Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley. I am so impressed with everyone's efforts on this task! We are moving onto Writing a diary entry from either Pearl or Charlie’s point of view for the remainder of the week. In Math we are beginning a new topic on addition and subtraction. We will practice different techniques over the coming weeks. We have started most assessment topics to ensure students are not too stressed out about what is going on over the next couple of weeks.

Reminders:
- Friday: We are on assembly this week
- Tuesday: Sport with Mr Murray, we are swimming!
- Thursday: Library with Mrs Chaplain
- Friday: Homework is due Friday morning. Please remember to bring your readers back so we can change them.

Have a fantastic week,

Miss Brock and the always fun in Year 1’s!

Year 2

Hi all,

This week we finished Science for the year! We are currently working towards finishing our other subjects off so that we can start getting Christmassy!!! 

Our Year 2 learners are currently working towards our persuasive texts in English and the skills associated with this. We are also making and interpreting graphs in Mathematics. 

Our SRC is seeking donations of non-perishable food and essential living items for our Christmas Appeal. The items will go to families in need.

Reminders
- PE day is Wednesday. We are doing swimming so remember to pack swimmers and a towel!
- Library Day is Thursday

Miss Ansell

Year 3

Hi everyone!  

The learning highlights for Year 3 this week are:

• In maths we will use centimetres and metres to measure lengths, and grams and kilograms to measure mass. 
• In English we will be using the wordless picture book ‘Journey’ by Aaron Becker to infer meaning, ask questions and observe the ways the images have been constructed to have an effect on the reader. 
• In science, we will be completing our assessment task. Students will be asked to make a storyboard to explain the melting and freezing in a given scenario. 
• In HASS, we continue looking at the history of Cloncurry. We will look at the explorers Burke and Wills and the impact they have had on our town. 

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

Reminders 

• Library: Wednesday 

• PE: Thursday (swimming) 

• Swimming carnival on Friday 

• I will be out of the classroom on Thursday

Have a great week ahead. 

Miss Coombs

Year 4

Hi Everyone,

I hope you and your children are getting excited for the swimming carnival! We look forward to seeing all our students there to represent their house.

In class this week we are covering the following concepts:

Maths: Revision of operations and number patterns. 

English: Finding evidence in our novel of a character's thoughts, dialogue, feelings and actions that help us to know the character in more depth. In our writing we are continuing to write suspenseful scenes and edit our work.

Science: This week we are looking at the properties of materials that different bags are constructed of and choosing the right bag for different scenarios.

HaSS: What factors would you have to consider if you were to bring an animal from South America to Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney? This is our investigation question for the week.

Have a wonderful week and let’s all pray for rain!

Lesley Wall

Year 5

Welcome to Week 4!

This Friday we have our Swimming Carnival. A letter has been sent home regarding the timetable for the day.

This is what we are doing this week:
- DRAMA: Students are working on their assessment task where they create a script based on an Indigenous dreaming story.
- ENGLISH: I will hand out our assessment task this week and students will begin planning for their informative writing task. This assessment is combined with Science so it relates to what we have been learning about animal adaptations. 
- MATHS: This week we will be practising how to use a protractor when measuring angles. 

Enjoy your week!

Miss Campbell

Year 6

Welcome to Week 4!

This week’s learning focuses:
- Religion: The students will be learning about the origin of the Our Father prayer from different parts of the bible. 
- English: The students will continue to complete a range of responsive activities regarding the novel Sabriel. We will also be creating characters and fictional worlds to enhance our story writing. 
- Mathematics: Students will be revising their knowledge of fractions, decimals and percentages in order to describe probabilities. 
- HaSS: We will be learning about Australia’s democratic system of government and how a bill is passed through parliament. 
- Science: This week, students will continue planning and testing their modifications that they can make to a building to make it earthquake resistant. 
- Health: Students will continue learning about relationships and managing conflict in groups. 
- Digital Technology: Students will begin thinking about the functional requirements of a game and plan it using a storyboard. 

Library is on Thursday and Physical Education is on Monday. The students head to the pool around 10:00am. They can wear their swimmers under their uniform if they would like to, otherwise, they will have a chance to get changed during Brain Break time. 

Have a great week ahead!!

Mr. Delaney and the Year 6 Legends!

Swimming Carnival - 2021

This year, the St Joseph’s Catholic School Swimming Carnival will be held on Friday the 29th October 2021 at the Cloncurry Swimming Pool. The carnival will commence at 8:30am sharp and finish by 2:45pm. Please find below an outline for the day.

We have ordered some new ribbons for this event. It provides a space for the date of the carnival and the event to be recorded on them. We would love to hear your feedback on these!

The program for the carnival was sent home with your child. The following information was also on the letter but we have popped it here for you incase you have misplaced it:

Drop Off 
All students need to be dropped off at the pool by no later than 8:20am. However, as per the program above, students aged 5 – 8 years will finish the day at 11:30am. The students can either walk back to school for the remainder of the day with a teacher or be collected and taken home by their parents. Please ensure that you sign your child/children out if you are taking your child home. Students aged 9 – 16 years will be required to be at the carnival for the entirety of the day. 

Sun Safety
Throughout the day, students will be required to wear fully sun safe attire (eg. swim shirt, T- shirt, hats, sunscreen etc). However, when the students are participating in their events they are permitted to remove sun shirts and hats etc.

Food  
Students are required to bring their own lunch, snacks and water bottle on the Swimming Carnival day. 

Tuck-shop will be available for students to purchase, you MUST pre-order this through the school office. 

Parental Assistance 
Any help you can offer on the carnival day will be greatly appreciated. If you can help out on the day, can you please send myself an email (smurray2@sjctsv.catholic.edu.au) to advise me of your availability. Or alternatively, fill out the below form and return this to the St Joseph’s Cloncurry Admin.

Emerging Leaders News

Dear Parents/Carers,

On Wednesday 20th of October St Joseph’s hosted their Emerging Leaders presentation and luncheon. It was great to come together and celebrate the students’ success and achievements. I would like to thank our families for joining us on this day. 

Yours in Faith and Education,

Mrs Louise Martin

Student Awards - Week 3

Congratulations to our Students who received awards for Week 3!

OWOW AWARDS!

Student Of The Week AWARDS!

Chaplaincy Breakfast - Term 4

In Term 4 St Joseph's Catholic School will be introducing a Chaplaincy Breakfast program each Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30am - 8:00am. 

All staff, students, parents, carers and family members are welcome to join us! 

Our aim is to ensure students are provided with the best opportunity to make the most of their education and develop healthy eating habits. We also aim to bring our community together through this breakfast program. Research suggests that eating breakfast in the morning sets our students up for a day of learning by maximising their behavioural outcomes in the classroom, while assisting them in engaging with learning tasks in the classroom. 

We would love if you help us spread the word! 

Spare Pallets and Wheels !

Mr Brown, a new teacher to our UMY space has joined us for Term 4 and would like to make Billy Carts with the students. He needs pallets that can be taken apart and wheels. Old pram wheels would be suitable.

Drop off outside the Workshop or phone the office for directions.

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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