Term 4 | Week 5 Newsletter

Key Information

• Thursday 11th November - Remembrance Day 
  
• Friday 12th November - Gratitude Evening for Sponsors & Volunteers
  
• Friday 12th November - Closure of School Oval 
• Tuesday 16th November - Prep Orientation Day 1 - 830-1030
• Friday 19th November - Prep Orientation Day 2 & Move Up Day 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
• Friday 10th December - School Oval Turf Day

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.

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 5, 

SchoolTV
In 2022 St Joseph’s Catholic School have been working on providing resources for Parents to help with navigating the challenges associated with parenting. TCEO have supported us with this in providing ‘School TV’ as a platform to help our families and school’s access up-to-date resources aimed at providing information on key topics that relate to the parenting and well-being of our children. 

SchoolTV has partnered with Townsville Catholic Education to deliver ongoing support to parent communities, teachers, and school staff. The SchoolTV platform is integral as part of a whole-school approach to student well-being. It is now available to our parents and families. Each topic or edition addresses key issues using brief interviews with expert specialists, fact sheets, parent quizzes, recommended apps, books, and much more.

Jump onto the website today - please note that we welcome parent engagement and your feedback.

Swimming Carnival 
Firstly I wanted to thank our staff, students and parents for being so understanding and helpful last Friday in the cancellation of our swimming carnival. It was so disappointing that the fun filled day wasn’t able to go ahead. I also wanted to mention Mr Scott Murray who put a considerable amount of time into preparing for the day and to our P&F Association and volunteers that spent a lot of time preparing slices, coffee and lunch packs for us to enjoy on the day. There were a number of parents that had a very late night the night before the swimming carnival to make this possible and we are so grateful for you. 

The swimming carnival has been rescheduled to Monday the 15th of November. Communication will come about this over the coming week. Unfortunately, due to the time that it took to prepare the lunch packs for our students last week there won’t be tuckshop available for students on the day. All students will be required to pack their lunch for the day. 

Board Information Evening 
Monday afternoon at 5pm we welcomed Stephanie Giorcelli our Education Consultant from TCEO to present on the Formation of a Board. It was a fantastic and informative presentation. Thank you to the parents, staff and Fr Mick who joined us for this occasion. There are expression of interest forms in the front office if you would like to join our board in 2022. In filling these forms out please also identify what you believe you will bring to the board. 

If you would like further information please contact me as soon as possible. 

Volunteers & Sponsors Gratitude Evening 
It has been a BIG year at St Joseph’s Catholic School and we would like to show our appreciation to our Volunteer and Sponsors at a Gratitude Evening on Friday the 12th of November from 5 to 7pm in the Mary MacKillop Shed. Please RSVP via email to skelley2@sjctsv.catholic.edu.au by Wednesday the 10th of November. 

Year 5 Camp  
Our year 5 students are off - departing at 530am on Monday morning for a week full of adventures. Accompanied by Miss Campbell, Miss Heather, Mr Kelley and Fr Emene our students set off to Paluma for a fun filled week of team building activities. Here are some happy snaps from the trip so far! 

God Bless, 

Samantha Kelley 
Principal

APRE News

Yesterday we gathered in our St Colman’s Church to celebrate the feast of All Saints. We remembered the many good men and women who followed Jesus’ way by living lives of servanthood. They cared for those in need and put others first before themselves. They lived the true message of the Gospel. Inspired by the way they lived their lives, we prayed that we too, would look to the needs of others first. 

We heard readings from the Gospel according to Matthew and the first letter of St John. We also said the Litany of the Saints as well as sung songs.

Today is All Souls Feast Day, our parish community will gather this morning for a mass at 7:30 am with Fr Mick as the presider. We remembered all who are part of the Church – those who have died and are with God and those of us still here on earth. We especially remembered our loved ones who have died, and we asked God to give us comfort and peace.

We have a wonderful chaplaincy breakfast this morning after the All Souls Mass in the St Coleman’s Church. This morning we served pancakes, Canadian maple syrup and bacon. I’d like to thank the Ujimoto family for donating some authentic Canadian Maple Syrup, having it with pancakes and bacon was a real hit with those who attended the breakfast.

Gospel Reading Matthew 5:1-12

Jesus teaches what it means to be happy.

One of the great gifts of our Catholic tradition is remembrance of and prayer with the saints. The Church offers us an official canon, or list, of saints. On All Saints Day, we recall and pray with these saints. It is important to continue to tell these stories of saints and saintly people to our children so that they have ample models of people of faith for their own lives.

Together as a family, name and tell the story of favorite saints. Together prepare a list of some of the traits that these people have in common (generosity, courage, prayerfulness, and so on) After preparing this list, read together today's Gospel, Matthew 5:1-12. Identify how the attitudes described in the Beatitudes are reflected in the lives of the saints and people you named.

Pray together as a family a Litany of the Saints. (For example, the leader prays, “St. Elizabeth,” and the children are invited to reply, “Pray for us.”) Include in your list the saints and holy people you named in your discussion. Conclude by praying that your family will follow the example of these people as disciples of Jesus.

Pastoral Care

SchoolTV

Essential information for modern day parenting, SchoolTV offers parents a fresh approach to the growing issues and pressures faced by Australian youth. SchoolTV is a unique online resource delivering powerful and credible information to empower parents with the skills to address these issues and raise happy, well and resilient kids. 

The purpose of SchoolTV is to provide a single resource for parents, about a specific topic, to streamline reputable information from leading specialists. Content is based around major topics of influence and are delivered via a series of videos presented by leading youth health specialist, Dr Michael Carr-Gregg. 

SchoolTV is accessible via mobile, tablet and desktop and is designed especially for Australian schools. In 2022, SchoolTV will be presented as a monthly eNewsletter which will be emailed to you from your school and/or accessible via your school’s website. SchoolTV can be found via our SJC website as shown below.

Each month a new topic will be presented and introduced by Dr Michael Carr-Gregg. Some topics will include: 

• Youth Anxiety 
• Depression 
• Digital Reputation 
• Screen Addiction 
• Drug and Alcohol use 
• Cyberbullying 
• Social Networking 
• Self-harm and Suicide 

Credible and independent information presented by leading experts such as Professor Ian Hickie, Professor Pat McGorry and Dr Liz Scott. 

Snapshot of Young People in Australia 

• 99% of young Australians are online 
• 75% of parents feel digitally disconnected and concerned about their kids online*
• 1 in 7 children experienced a mental disorder** 
• 1 in 3 girls and 25% of boys report being depressed*** 
• 10% of youth are self-harming*
• 15% of 16-17 year old girls have suicidal ideation, 1 in 13 actually attempted it.

* Young and Well CRC, 2015. ** The two-year survey of 6300 families - Mental Health of Children & Adolescence Report, 2015. *** Resilient Youth Report, 2014.

Check out SchoolTV this week and let us know what you think!

Have a great week!

Mrs Schneekloth

Prep

Week 5 already!

Last week we began to create a Santa's Workshop which includes an office, writing and card making area and craft area. I would love to borrow any office type props to add to Santa's office. For example an old printer, old laptop, landline phone etc. Let me know if you have anything we could add!

Prep has finished most assessments and over the next few weeks we will be focusing on writing practice, revising Tricky Words and sounds, reading, revising and extending math concepts and learning about the birth of Jesus. Going on a Bear Hunt, and the drama skills related to this, will also be a focus in readiness for our performance on the 19th of November at assembly. We are also performing the Happiest Little Xmas Tree at our Xmas concert evening. So we will be practicing for this as well! This morning Prep joined years 1 to 4 by walking to the shire hall for a Goldilocks performance which began at 10:00am.  

Tuesday: Swimming and Goldilocks performance at the Shire Hall

Wednesday: Library and tuckshop orders in

Thursday: Tuckshop

Friday: Home Readers returned to be swapped.

Yours in fun and learning,

Mrs McLauchlan

Year 1

Welcome to Week 5, Half way through the term already!

This week we are learning about letters and how to set a letter up. We have had the opportunity to spend a lesson writing a letter to Santa. In maths we are continuing our unit on addition and subtraction. In Science we have started observing our day and night sky and will continue this throughout the month of November to observe how the weather changes throughout a term.

This week we have unfortunately had some unacceptable behaviour in Year 1. We have had class discussions about this behaviour and Mr Davids has even talked to us as a class. Please have a discussion with your child about our ‘3 B rules’ in Year 1 and ways that they can follow these rules. (Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Ready). 

Reminders:

Tuesday: Goldilocks jally Entertainment Performance & 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,

We are starting Probability in Maths this week and are also working hard at our persuasive texts and Technologies board games - they are both looking awesome!!

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

Enjoy your week, 

Miss Ansell

Year 3

Hi everyone!  

The learning highlights for Year 3 this week are:

• In maths we will use grams and kilograms to measure, order and compare capacities. We will also have our assessment towards the end of this week. 
• In English we will be finishing off our unit with an assessment. In the assessment students will be asked to examine images from the book ‘Into the Woods’ by Anthony Browne and compose questions to either the author or the characters in the book. 
• Our science unit is now completed and we will be focusing on our HASS unit for the rest of the term. 

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) 

Have a great week ahead. 

Miss Coombs

Year 4

Hi Everyone

This week is a really busy one with a performance at the Shire Hall and lots of learning happening in our classroom. We welcomed back Reese Logan which has sent a buzz through the class!

Writing Workshop- Yesterday we had an author, Vicki Bennett, visit us to lead us in a writing workshop where the students brainstormed what they love about Cloncurry, then wrote postcards which will be shown to other classes around Queensland.

The students were very motivated by this and had lots of stories to tell Vicki about where they live and their experiences.

We also got to look at a few of her 30 published books and we purchased some for the library. The Year 4 students are very keen to read these books which are all based on true events.

English- This week we are completing our assessment task where the students have to choose a character from the novel we have been studying, The Impossible Quest, and tell how the author has developed the character through their traits, dialogue, relationships, actions and thoughts.

Enjoy your week,

Mrs Wall

Year 5

WE'RE ON CAMP... UPDATE NEXT WEEK!!

Year 6

Welcome to Week 5!

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. 

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!

Inclusive Education News

Dear Parents and Carers,

Below you will find a link to a new online medical service that has a same day online Paediatrician service for $75. This link may be helpful for some of our families who are, or have been, waiting for long periods of time to see a paediatrician. 

https://www.docto.com.au/

Yours in Faith and Education,

Mrs Louise Martin

Student Awards - Week 4

Congratulations to our Students who received awards for Week 4!

OWOW AWARDS!

Student Of The Week AWARDS!

Congratulations to Ruby King for her participation in the High School girls Northern carnival. Their team placed 2nd overall!

School Oval Update

As you are aware, St Joseph's have been working hard this year to renovate our oval at the end of the year. The turf is being layed on the 10th December!! This means that the Oval will be closed from Friday 12th November, so we can complete the prep work necessary in this time. 

School Improvements

Our new eating tables for the Primary area have arrived, aren't they amazing?

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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