Term 2 / Week 6

Key Information

Board Meeting - Tuesday 24th May - 530 to 630pm

Ronald McDonald House Fundraiser - Thursday 26th May

Athletics Carnival - Friday 27th May

Mulkadee Dance Workshop - Tuesday 31st May

Life Education Visit - Year 5 & 6 - Wednesday 1st June & Thursday 2nd June

Children's Mass - St Colmans Church - Sunday 5th June at 8:30 am

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:

• Monday 2.30-3pm
• Thursday: 8:10am-8:30am

Any requests for uniforms outside these days MUST be done via the link below. 

Principal News

Welcome to Week 6, 

Thank you to the families that joined us last Friday evening at our first Trivia Night. It was so nice to come together for a night of fun and laughter. A big thank you to our P&F Social Coordinator Mrs Bridget Carverd and to Mrs Therese Curley and Mr Scott Murray for their work in making sure the event ran smoothly and came together so well. I would also like to acknowledge our sponsors - The Central Hotel, Foodworks, IGA, The Leichhardt Hotel, The Post Office, and The Wagon Wheel. It was great to also have the support of MMG with an amazing sound system for the evening. 

It is important that we acknowledge National Sorry Day this coming Thursday the 26th of May. National Sorry Day provides a chance to focus on healing and pursue reconciliation in Australian Society. At St Joseph’s Catholic School we are committed to reconciliation and meet regularly with our steering committee on how this can be achieved in the school. We also have a Reconciliation Action Plan that strives towards reconciliation. At St Joseph’s we stand together. 

Dance for Sick Kids - Ronald McDonald House Fundraiser:

We have a very busy week ahead of us with the Dance for Sick Kids fundraiser on Thursday. Miss Jill will be dancing with each class for 30 minutes on Thursday to raise funds for The Ronald McDonald House. Please send a gold coin donation with your child on the day.

Showgate 2022

St Joseph's Catholic School will be operating the gates at the Cloncurry Show this year. We will receive $2500 for doing so, which will be used towards updating the soundsystem in the Mary MacKillop Shed. 

Please find below the link to 2022 Cloncurry & District Show Gate Roster. As always the Show is a great community event and this is such a great way to help out so we greatly appreciate everyone that is able to give their time.

The gates will be open for the following times:

Friday: 8.30am - 4.30pm (minimum of 2 people). 

Saturday: 9.30am - 8.30pm (minimum of 2 people from 10am till 12pm & a minimum of 4 people from 12pm till 8.30pm). 

Both days will operate on 2 hourly time slots except for the last sessions on Saturday. Please remember each booking is for one person only and seperate bookings are required for partners, other family etc.

Book Here: https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code/kfr6a

Athletics Carnival 

We are very excited for the Athletics Carnival on Friday. We hope to see all of our parents and family members on the day. Our P&F will be providing a small canteen on the day and would love some volunteers to assist with this, if you have a spare hour or two on the day we would love to hear from you. 

Students must arrive at the Recreation Grounds at 8.30am, not to school. Please note that there will be no staff at school while the students are at the Athletics Carnival. Please see information sent home by Mr Scott Murray. 

Go Flinders & Kennedy! 

God Bless, 

Samantha Kelley 

Principal

APRE News

Welcome to week 6. This morning we celebrated mass at school for Mary, Help of Christians Day. We were blessed to have both Fr Mick and Fr Emene share in this mass. Following the mass they both visited the classes. 

Mary, Help of Christians

The feast day for Mary, Help of Christians has been celebrated in Australia since 1844. In the early days there were no priests in the colonies and it was largely the Rosary and praying to Mary that kept the faith alive. Catholic Australia remained faithful to Mary and was the first nation to choose her under the title “Help of Christians” as our principal Patroness. 

Laudato Si’ Week 2022 - May 22-29

This week will mark the seventh anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical (letter written by the Pope) on creation care. It focuses on care for the natural environment and all people, as well as broader questions of the relationship between God, humans, and the Earth. The encyclical's subtitle, “Care for Our Common Home,” reinforces these key themes.

The aim of this global celebration is to unite Catholics to listen and respond together to the cry of creation and rejoice in the progress we have made in bringing Laudato Si’ to life. 

In our call to Action Assembly this week we watched a video explaining Pope Francis’ vision and discussed ways we can "Care for Our Common Home". I have attached the link here. You may like to focus your dinner time discussion this week on ways we can care for Our Common Home/Environment.

Notices:

No assembly this week due to Athletics Carnival

Sunday 5th June Children’s Mass: This mass will celebrate Pentecost - all children are welcome to join us. An email was sent out yesterday asking for students who wish to take part in the mass.

Alpha Program will be run after Sunday Mass

Prep

We have finished our current HASS and science units and are moving on to learning about the "properties of materials" in science and "our place in space" in HASS.

We have completed our show artwork and writing. It looks amazing and I can't wait to see them displayed at the show!

We had our Prep open evening on Monday this week. If you know of anyone who is considering sending their child to St Joseph's next year, please encourage them to collect an enrolment form from the office.

Reminders:

Please RETURN YOUR HOME READER ON THE DAY ALLOCATED, otherwise we do not have enough books (which only use the letters taught) to enable us to swap them. ALSO, TAKE THESE OUT OF YOUR CHILD'S BAG AND PUT THEM INTO THE HOMEWORK TUB.  We do not check bags for literacy folders or library bags.  

Wednesday - Order tuckshop

Thursday - Tuckshop and library.

Friday - Athletics carnival. Prep students' should finish around 11:00 am. They are free to go home at this time. They are usually exhausted so this is a good option if possible. Any students that are not able to go home will come back to school with me. 

Yours in fun and learning,

Mrs McLauchlan and Miss Tamara

Year 1

Hello Parents and Carers,

Welcome to week 6!

This week in Year 1 we are learning about;

Religion: We are learning to identify words, actions, and symbols used in the Sacrament of Baptism. We are lucky that Fr Emene will join our class today after the school Mass to discuss why people are baptised. 

Math: We are moving on to our unit of direction. Students are already exploring programming beebots to follow directions on a map. For the remainder of the term, students will use the language of direction to move from place to place. 

English/Science: This week we have started looking at different Australian animals. Using the amazing work of Peter Cromer, students have identified Australian animals, researched information about them, and completed a portrait of the chosen Australian animal. 

HASS: We are learning to share stories about the past, and present observations and findings using everyday terms.

Health: We are learning to identify ways we can be safe in our community. Specifically, safety near the road. 

Reminder:

• The sports carnival is on Friday! Please refer to the note from Mr. Murray that was sent home with your child yesterday. 
  
• Due to the sports carnival, our sports day has been changed from Friday to Wednesday. Please have your child wear their sports uniform on Wednesday.
• Library: Is on Thursday if you haven’t already, please send your child’s library bag to school.
• Homework: Homework will be handed out on Thursday and expected back next Wednesday.

Literacy Groups: If you are able to help out, our literacy groups will be at 10 am each morning.

Have a wonderful week!

Year 2

Hi all,

Week 6 - this term is FLYING!

This week we are learning:

English: Narrative writing - we are looking at how to write short stories. Our tricky words are alright, always, said.

Maths: Fractions - we have looked at halves and quarters and are now bringing in eighths

Religion: The forgiving father

HASS: Connections to different places

Science: Life cycles - we had some new additions join us today and we are so excited!

Health: Our Identities

Our artwork for the show is coming along really well and we have now started working on our narrative pieces.

Have a great week,

Miss Ansell

Year 3

Hi everyone, 

The learning highlights for this week are:

• English: we continue to explore the use of adjectives in the setting of narrative texts. We will work collaboratively to describe a picture prompt using our five senses and do lots of practice writing our own settings.

• Maths: we begin our new unit on number patterns. 

• Science: we will define the terms ‘orbit’ and ‘rotation’ and learn that the Earth orbits around the Sun, whilst also rotating!
• HASS: we will read about the Great Barrier Reef and learn how to take notes when researching

The key notices for this week are:

• Sport is on Wednesday 
• Library is on Thursday
• Homework and home readers are due on Friday
• Athletics Carnival on Friday - Please ensure that your child has a hat, water bottle and wears sunscreen. 

Have a great week ahead!

Year 4

Hello and happy week 6! Here is a look at some of the things we are up to in the Year 4 classroom this week.

ENGLISH- We have begun a new unit called ‘Humour in Poetry’ which has gotten off to a cracking start. The students have made alliteration icecreams and onomatopoeia pops to practice using these poetic techniques and, although they were made of paper, they contained some delicious language!

HaSS- This week we will begin looking at our task of preparing a submission for the Cloncurry Shire Council for a grant for a community group that we believe Cloncurry and its citizens would benefit from. Students will work in pairs to complete this task.

MATHS- Last week the students smashed the concept of tenths, so this week we are moving on to hundredths, which they have already shown a good understanding of. 

Don’t forget that the Athletics carnival is this Friday. Please ensure that your child has a hat, water bottle and wears sunscreen. 

I will be absent on Thursday and Friday but look forward to hearing the results on Monday.

Have a great week!

Year 5

Welcome to Week 5!

Maths -  We are learning to solve problems involving the multiplication of large numbers by one- or two-digit numbers, using a variety of strategies, including the split strategy, area model, and the standard algorithm. 

English - We are learning to use complex sentences in our writing. When your child is reading, you might like to encourage them to identify a complex sentence and read it aloud to you. I encouraged them to explain to you what a complex sentence is when they got home from school yesterday :) 

HaSS- We have moved on to a new unit in HaSS! We will be learning about bushfires and floods, specifically how and where they occur and how people can help to prevent and prepare for them. At the end of the unit, students will work cooperatively to create an action plan to respond to a bushfire or flood, with details of the expected effects of their plan.  

Reminders:

• Dance for Sick Kids Fundraiser to raise funds for Ronald McDonald House this Thursday 26th May. Please send a gold coin donation with your child. 
• Athletics carnival this Friday 27th May, therefore, no assembly. Students are to meet at Cloncurry Recreation Grounds at 8:30 am. 

Sports day: Mondays  

Library day: Wednesdays 

Yours in Faith and Education,

Therese von Drehnen

Year 6

Welcome to Week 6!

How are we past the halfway point already?

Our learning focuses for this week are:

Religion: This week, students will continue researching a contemporary Australian Catholic for their assessment task. 

English: Students will finish organising their ideas into body paragraphs using the PEEL structure before going back to Sizzling Starts and finally, Exciting Endings. 

Mathematics: We will be spending the remainder of this week on fractions, particularly adding and subtracting (finding common denominators). 

HaSS: This week we begin our Business & Economics learning. Students will be learning about the components of business before starting their own.

Health: We have been learning about physical activity, foods that support it, the different types, and its benefits.

Japanese: We will be finalising our learning of classroom language and asking for items. Students will then begin preparing for a spoken and written assessment of all the things we have learned so far this term. 

As of this term, our PE and Library lessons are both on Wednesday!

Have a blessed week ahead!

Mr. Delaney & The Year 6 Legends!

UMY - Subject Spotlight

Year 7 Geography with Mrs Schneekloth

The Year 7 students are wrapping up their unit on Place & Liveability - what makes a place liveability for them.

Year 9 Maths with Mrs Laffey

More than halfway through the Term, and finished our first Unit (Geometry and Simple Interest)! Students showed quite a bit of Interest in the money side of that unit, they had a lot of questions about general banking and fees at the end of Term 1 and then we continued with learning how to use and rearrange formulas both for Interest and for Surface Area/Volume.

We have started on Chance and Data where students are investigating probability of events with and without replacement, and look at the differences of Primary and Secondary Data. Data is a really important topic for our students to help them make sense of information and statistics they come upon in their everyday lives. 

Pictures: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h8Ls3USajalhNgVH5wtMshhYnyWRVvbZ

Mitakoodi Word of the Week

Library

Thank you to all families that purchased from the Book Fair last week, we raised over $1500.00. Your contributions go to bringing in new books and equipment to our Library. Thank you to the volunteer students also. I enjoy having students come and help with all things Library.

Save the Date: Term 3, Week 7, Parade: Thursday 25th August. Book Week! Theme: Dreaming with eyes wide open.

Could you please provide your child / children with a Library bag?
Also if children could bring their books back weekly that would be much appreciated.

Regards

Mrs Chaplain
Teacher /Librarian

The Spark Club

Chaplaincy Breakfast: Toast, Toasted Sandwiches, Pancakes, Fruits, Cereal & Hot Chocolates! Sometimes, banana muffins or muesli slice! Thanks to all that come in and help out, I value each and everyone of you. The donations have been great too, your kindness is so welcomed, thank you. Remember Tuesday & Thursday mornings in the MMS, 7.30am - 8.15am. Parents, you are welcome too :).

Spark Club: Hangman, Guess Who and Colouring In! Having fun and chatting about all things fun is where we are at with Spark Club. I do like having music on also to encourage some dancing or singing, whatever really the day brings. 

Chocolate Drive: It's the last week to order! $60 a box or $1 each individual chocolate. Final orders received by 3pm 26th May! 

All the best to our students this Friday! 2022 Athletics Carnival will be awesome!  

Student Wellbeing

Employment Opportunties - Teachers & School Officers

We are currently recruiting a teacher to join our team in Teaching The Arts. This position will be 5 days a week. Please apply by clicking the following link: https://applynow.net.au/jobs/ni/TCE1549-teacher

We are also seeking a Primary Teacher to join our team. This position is full time. Please apply by clicking on the following link: 
https://applynow.net.au/jobs/ni/TCE1586-year-5-primary-teacher

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

Community Notices - Guitar Lessons

Jill Fisher will be holding guitar lessons for any children interested! These will be occuring at St Joseph's Catholic School. Please contact Jill directly if you would like more information.