Term 3 Week 2

Key Information

AFL Prep to Year 4 - Wednesday 20th July 
Mulkadee Performance - Friday 22nd July 
Catholic Education Week Mass - Friday 29th July - 8:30am
Staff Appreciation Day - Friday 5th August 
Mary MacKillop Feast Day - Monday 8th August 
Vision Screening - Tuesday 9th August 
Book Week Parade / Learning Breakfast - Thursday 25th August
School Fete - Friday 26th August
Cross Country - Friday 9th September 

Pupil Free Days Term 3
Week 8 Friday - 2nd September 2022
Week 10 Friday - 16th September 2022

Upcoming P&F Meetings
Week 6 Monday - 15th August 2022

Upcoming Board Meetings
Week 5 Tuesday - 9th August 2022
Week 10 Tuesday - 13th September 2022 

Tuckshop Menu:

Orders to be in by 8.30am Wednesday morning! Click the link to order!

https://myschoolconnect.com.au/

Uniform Shop

Open Days:

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

Any requests for uniforms outside of these days MUST be done via the link below. Please click the link to access the Uniform shop! https://myschoolconnect.com.au/

Principal News

Welcome to Week 2, 

It is great to have our year 7 to 9 students back from Camp this week. We also had 7 new students join us this term. I pray that your first week went well and you have settled in quickly to our St Joseph’s Community as we are very excited to have you joining us. 

Mulkadee: 
9 students at St Joseph’s Catholic School have joined Miss Ansell at Mulkadee this week. Kayden, Ruby, Kimberlee, Nika, Breanna, Will, Latarnia, Chloe and Catie will be representing St Joseph’s at this event. Following a Mulkadee workshop for Drama that was held here at St Joseph’s all of our students were then selected to perform in Drama as well, what an amazing achievement. We are very excited to hear about their week and look forward to sharing some photos with you on our facebook page. Pop on over and like our page to follow their journey. 

AFL QLD:
Lachlan from AFL QLD will be joining Prep to Year 4 for 30minutes each class tomorrow morning to teach the students some fun and engaging AFL skills. The timetable for these sessions are as follows: 

• Year 3 and Year 4: 8.40 - 9.10am
• Year 1: 9.10 - 9.40am
• Year 2: 9.40 - 10.10am
• Prep: 10.10 - 10.40am

Please note that these are in addition to the students PE lesson this week. 

Staff Appreciation:
This year we will be changing the way that we thank our staff for their incredible contribution to our community. In previous years we celebrated this individually on World Teachers Day, World School Officer and Administration Day. In 2022 we will be celebrating this together on Friday 5th of August. 

We have some amazing surprises organised for our staff, however, we would like to invite our students to start writing and/or drawing messages or appreciation for our staff. Students will be can gift these to staff on Friday 5th of August.

Professional Development:
Our teaching staff come together each Wednesday for a staff meeting. This Wednesday our staff will be receiving their final training session in the LINK’s program. This program is an evidence-based, inclusive education approach to support students with language difficulties/difficulties in schools. It also assists in breaking down the barriers that may be created in our lessons and or assessment items for all students. 

The LINK-s program aims to promote ‘language-friendly’ classrooms by coaching teachers in ways to modify oral and written instructional language used in their regular classroom teaching. This is especially important for high schools, as to promote inclusion by reducing the need to remove students from classrooms for intervention, rather building strategies that support their oral and written language into teaching methods. 

Thank you to the families and friends that joined us for the NAIDOC liturgy and NAIDOC march last week. It was great to be able to come together as a community. 

Learning Breakfast, Book Week Parade and Assembly - Save the Date
We have combined our learning breakfast (7.45am) with our Book Week Parade and Assembly (8.30am) on Thursday 25th of August 2022. We are hoping that the combining of these events will be easier for parents and carers to join us without needing to take several days off work. 

God Bless,

Samantha Kelley
Principal

APRE News

Welcome to Week 2 and welcome back to our UMY’s Students and Staff. From all reports the students had a fabulous time and proudly represented our school. 

Children’s Mass

St Colman’s Church

Sunday 24th July 2022

At 8:30 am

This Sunday we will be joining with St Colman’s parish to host our Children’s Mass. Fr Emene will present the mass, along with our students. The Children’s Mass is all about getting the youth involved. If your child is able to attend, please let me know via email and I’ll make sure they are included. All children and families are welcome to attend, you do not need to be catholic, just a willing participant!   

Please join us after the mass for morning tea in the Mary MacKillop Shed. If you would like to make a small contribution to the shared morning tea, that would be very much welcomed and appreciated. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

St Mary Magdalene Feast Day:
Our school leaders will present assembly payer this week. The focus is on St Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day. Magdalene was a close friend and follower of Jesus. She was present at Jesus’ crucifixion and at his burial. She was the first person to see him after the Resurrection. Mary was a constant companion of Jesus. She shows us how to live with hope and faith.

St. Mary Magdalene Feast Day July 22

Saint Mary Magdalene, Pray for us.
Who anointed the feet of Jesus, Pray for us.
Who washed his feet with tears, Pray for us.
Who was vindicated before the proud Pharisee, Pray for us.
Who received the pardon for her sins, Pray for us.
Who restored from darkness to light, Pray for us
Mirror of penance, Pray for us.
Wounded with the love of Christ, Pray for us.
Last at the cross of Jesus, first at his tomb, Pray for us.
First to see Christ risen, Pray for us.
Constant woman, Pray for us.
Apostle of apostles, Pray for us.
Loving advocate for sinners, Pray for us.
- Traditional Litany of St. Mary Magdalene

Regards, 

Mrs Therese Curley
APRE

Prep

I hope you  had a good first week back.

We will continue to send readers and literacy folders home this week. Please remember to return yours on the day which is written on your folder. The class will be getting a decodable (should have been taught all the sight words in the book and also all the letters used in words that need sounding out) reader and also a non-decodable reader. They may initially be confused about not being able to sound out the words in the non-decodable reader. Remind them to look at the pictures for clues to what is written. The class will be drawing and labeling a "Monster Trap" in response to a book we read last week. They will also be writing a sentence about their holidays.

Literacy groups will begin again this week on Monday to Thursday at about 9:10am. Any helpers are greatly appreciated. If you are able to help on a particular day can you email me so that we can make sure we have enough helpers, but not too many. 

In Math we are continuing to explore numbers and amounts to 20 and beyond. 

The Preps will be making a treasure chest each this week. This will be used for part of their HASS Assessment task which involves drawing a map of the courtyard, marking where their treasure chest has been placed and having a partner find their treasure. 

Last week in Science we investigated the waterproofness of materials. This week we will explore strength.

The potatoes which have been left over from our Potato people last term are ready to plant and the soil has been dug up. We will plant these this week.

Our 100 days of Prep celebrations will be on Friday next week. I would like to make a display of "What 100 looks like". It would be great if you could count a collection of "something" with your child and put it in a ziplock bag for us to add to the display. Some ideas are; nutrigrain, pegs, shells, bottle tops, sequins. Please keep these small and light so that the bags can be sticky taped to our whiteboard.    

Reminders:

• Tuesday - Sport
• Wednesday - Order tuckshop
• Thursday - Library and tuckshop
• Friday - Wear house colours

Yours in fun and learning,

Miss Tamara Williams and Mrs Sharon McLauchlan

Year 1

Hello parents and carers, 

Welcome to week 2!

This week we are lucky enough to not only have a visit from the AFL but also get to meet Tonyi the Worm who will be teaching us all about worm farms. 

In maths this week we create place value donuts focussing on identifying tens and ones. In english we have been introduced to ‘Bossy e’, we have learnt a new song all about how bossy he is and how he makes the vowel sound in words long, for example tap - tape. In HASS we have began to identify features of familiar places. In science we have looked at different materials and determined if they are waterproof. Religion this term focuses on Jesus and his 12 disciples. We have listened to and acted out ‘Jesus calling the 12’. Year 1 has also identified where the story took place and identified this on the world map.

Reminders:

Tuesday:

• We are receiving a visit from Tonyi the Worm

Wednesday

• Students may wear their sports uniform on Wednesdays
• We are receiving a visit from ALF

Thursday

• Library with Mrs Chaplain

Friday

• Sport: is on Friday with Mr Murray. Students wear coloured house shirts.

Homework: will resume this week.

Literacy Groups: Literacy groups will be on Monday - Friday at 9am. If you are available to help out please let me know. 

Have a wonderful week!

Miss Mae-Louise Brock

Year 2

Hi all,

Welcome to Week 2. I am away in Townsville this week! The students have the wonderful Ms Barb looking after them!

This week we are learning:

• English: We are starting to look at Procedural Texts. Our tricky words are: build, house, about.
• Maths: We are starting Multiplication and Division.
• Religion: God’s Covenant with Noah.
• Science: Water is a resource.
• HASS: Significant people in our community.
• Health: Food Advertisments.
• Media: Stop Motion Animation.

Reminders:

• Wear sport uniform on Wednesdays
• Tuckshop orders due Wednesday
• We have Library on Thursdays
• We have Sport on Fridays (house shirts)
• Homework due on Friday

Have a great week!

Miss Leonie Ansell

Year 3

Week 2 has started well with lots of great work taking place in the Year 3 classroom.

We are working on our writing stamina so that we can complete our work to a much higher standard.     

We are also trying to be respectful learners - making positive choices in order to allow all class members to have a positive learning environment.                                                                 

Here are our focus areas for week 2;

• English - what does an information text tell us?
• Maths - modelling and representing numbers up to 10,000.
• Science - we will take a walk around the school and identify living and non-living things.

Reminder: Please ensure any home readers or library books are returned on time.

I hope you have a wonderful week.

Mrs Deb McCann

Year 4

Hi Everyone,

HEALTH- I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weather! Our veggies are growing well and we are now ready to use some of our zucchinis to use in cooking zucchini slice for our Health unit- Healthy Eating. During this unit students will be receiving some collector cards each time they bring in a healthy snack for brain break. Could I please ask that you support your child in ensuring they have a healthy snack. 

ENGLISH- In English our first unit is ‘Persuasion in Advertising’. We will be identifying persuasive techniques in print advertising, then developing advertising campaigns for a new type of breakfast cereal. 

Writing- Last term we were focussing on having short but regular writing sessions across all subjects. This will continue this term and students are off to a great start. They are becoming much more proficient at thinking of ideas quickly and being able to write for different purposes without too much prompting.

Next week I will be absent as my mother is having surgery in Brisbane. Students will have Miss Barb who had them for a week last term, so I’m sure they are in very capable hands!

Mrs Lesley Wall

Year 5

Welcome to Week 2!

Religion: This term, students are learning about Christian charity; its foundations in the Gospel and its implications for our everyday actions. We have explored the meaning of morals, conscience and charity. This week we will be reading and interpreting scripture, The Beatitudes in the Gospel of Luke.

English: We are continuing to learn about the Elements of Poetry. This week, we will be completing engaging activities to understand figurative language, including personification. Following that, students will begin exploring sound, rhythm, rhyme and structure. 

Visual Art, Pop Art: This term, we will be studying an art movement, pop art, and well known artists associated with this movement. Last week, we recreated Lichtenstein's Girl With Hair Ribbon, using markers to create Ben Day Dot Patterns. They are characterised by solid areas of colour and areas with dot patterns, using the colours yellow, red, blue and white. 

Reminders:

• Homework: Homework is handed out on Monday and is to be returned on Friday. 

Enjoy your week,

Miss Therese von Drehnen

Year 6

Welcome to Week 2!

What a busy start to the semester!

This week’s learning focuses are:

• Religion: This week we will be continuing to look at Jewish festivals and identifing the key elements.
• English: Students have started planning and writing their persuasive pitch with their partners.
• Mathematics: We have been learning about different types of transformations and will be applying our learning to the Cartesian plane before assessing what we have learned.
• HaSS: The students will be finalising their business and economics learning this week by completing their business plans. 

PE and Library have remained as is, on Wednesday. 

I look forward to wonderful Semester 2!

Mr. James Delaney and the Year 6 Legends!

UMY Spotlight

Yr 7 Maths with Mrs Laffey
Let the fun begin! Students also begin their first official Algebra learning, which is everyone’s favourite memory of highschool maths right? Student’s will get to revise cartesian coordinates in all four quadrants (of course by playing battleships and doing the high school version of dot-to-dot activities) and then learn to actually use this to solve real world problems. 

Students will also be looking at linear equations (if apples are $6 each, how much will it cost for x apples? What if they charge me a $1.20 eftpos fee?), graphs and transforming shapes using translation, rotation and reflection.

Mrs Tania Laffey

Yr 9 Language with Mr Delaney
Welcome back!

This term the Year 9 students will start by writing diary entries based on their time on camp - yes, in Japanese. We will be understanding more about the use of kanji and katakana. Later in the term, we will be using our new knowledge of kanji to create some meaningful calligraphy artworks.

Mr James Delaney

Mulkadee Week

We have 9 very talented students in Townsville with Miss Leonie Ansell to perform in Mulkadee. 

Mulkadee showcases the increidble talent in our Diocese. The only schools that participate in this event are from our Diocese. 

We will be wishing Kayden, Kimberlee, Ruby, Nika, Breanna, Catie, Chloe, Latarnia and Will all the best as they travel to perform.  

Student Wellbeing

As adults, we may ignore or downplay a child’s behaviour because it was not intended to be mean or hurtful but young people need our help to learn about acceptable behaviours and when we point out exclusionary behaviour in a non-judgmental and encouraging way they have an opportunity to learn. 

Talking with young people about what it means to exclude and how to include others helps build empathy and compassion and can prevent unintentional exclusion. Teaching students to be aware of their own actions will help reduce any unintentional exclusion on their part. The questions we ask and the conversations we stimulate with young people teach them what to pay attention to and can “shift their focus from “all about me” to others” and help them “to draw connections between being excluded and possible negative emotions and between being included and possible positive emotions”.

One way to support young people to think about how they would feel in certain situations is by using the approach: If this… then that. For example:

• If a student is always the last person to be selected in the PE class teams then they may feel left out or unwanted and may not perform as well as they would if they were selected earlier. How can we change things to make sure that doesn’t happen?
• If a student is sitting outside the class circle, then that student may not feel like they belong and are part of the class. What can we do to change that?

Everyone has that memory of when they were the new student or have just joined a club or walked into a room where it seems like everyone has known each other forever. Adults can help young people to draw on this memory pausing and thinking about how it felt and what would have made it easier. A conversation like this is a powerful tool that can be used to encourage students to look out for others who may be left out or finding it hard to join in.    

Parents may like to use the following questions when chatting with their young people about how school is going:

• Are there any new kids in your class this year?
• Do you remember when you were the new kid? That was hard, right?
• How can you help this new kid feel welcome?
• You had a good day. Do you think anyone in your class may have had a tough one today? Why?

For more information go to:  https://inclusiveschoolcommunities.org.au/resources/toolkit/art-inclusion-teaching-students-be-includers

Thank you

Spark Club

Our start to Spark Club has been a little disrupted, though the spark is still lit! Yesterday when I had only one beautiful soul with me, I asked the question, "What random acts of kindness can we do?".

We spoke about all sorts of things to do, and what we could contribute to our school. Then this morning, I received this. I do want to thank Bella Swalling for being so kind and thoughtful, always on the ball thinking how we can spark up spark club, always helpful and a constant visitor first lunch! Thank you for being present ❤️. I also love her message at the bottom. Mary Mackillop would be proud her words are still so very present within our school.

Open to ideas for us to Spark up Spark Club! Send them to me if you wish, pmcintyre@sjctsv.catholic.edu.au.

Have a great week, 

Miss Pete McIntyre

Fete 2022

Save the Date: 26th August 2022

Please see our raffles below. All tickets can be purchased at the office. We thank you in advance for your support!

Library & Book Week

As we are back into borrowing, we are encouraging you all to please take care of the books from the library and bring them back once read. If you aren't reading a library book, we hope you are reading a book from home to keep your imagination alive and creative.

In Week 7, we have Book Week! We are inviting all students to participate and dress up for the judging! The book week parade has been scheduled for Thursday the 25th of August. 

Community Notices - Music Lessons

Change to COVID-19 Rules

The Queensland Government has announced an update to COVID-19 isolation protocols. The change relates to people who have had COVID-19 and are considered ”cleared cases”.

Previously, cleared cases did not need to isolate or get tested if they re-presented with symptoms in the 12-week period after having contracted COVID-19. In response to updated AHPPC advice that reinfections may occur as early as 28 days after recovery from a previous COVID-19 infection, the Queensland Government has announced that the “cleared case” period will be reduced from 12 weeks to 28 days (4 weeks). 

This means that people who were previously infected with COVID-19 will need to get tested and isolate if they re-present with symptoms or return a positive test from four weeks after their initial infection.

A reminder to families - please do not send your student to school if they have any flu-like symptoms. Unfortunately the high risk of infection prevents us from being able to accommodate unwell students in our sick bay. If your child is meant to be wearing a mask as a previous case or as a Close Contact, we appreciate your support in providing these and ensuring they are worn.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the school’s front office on 4742 1633.