Term 3 Week 3

Key Information

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 3, 

Thank you to the parents, grandparents and family members that joined us for our assembly last Friday. The amount of community members that came along to celebrate the achievements of our students was pleasing to see. One of the goals in our School Renewal Plan is to cultivate “an environment of partnership to promote open communication between all stakeholders”. Our goal is to ensure that the partnership between families and the school is based on mutual trust and respect, and shared responsibility for the education of children and young people at the school. We acknowledge that families are not only the first educators of our students, but educators that continue to influence a child’s learning and development during the school year and long afterwards. Term 3 is a time for students, parents and teachers to reflect on the learning that took place in Semester 1. This term provides a time for students to action the feedback on the Semester 1 report cards and strive to improve their results and engagement in Term 3 or Semester 2. Please ensure that you engage in this process - establish conversations with your children at home and take the opportunity to foster the partnership between yourself and your child’s classroom teacher. If you would like to discuss your child’s report card please contact their classroom teacher to arrange an appointment. 

Catholic Education Week:
This week is the beginning of Catholic Education Week. We will come together on Friday morning for our Catholic Education Week Liturgy which Fr Mick will be joining us for. Please join us at 8:30am in the Mary MacKillop Shed and stay behind following the assembly for some cake, tea and coffee. 

Catholic Education Week is a time to celebrate the incredible evolution of Catholic Education. At St Joseph’s Catholic School our history is rich. In 1909 Bishop James Duhig and Fr Edward O’Keefe visited St Mary MacKillop in Sydney to request the Sisters of St Joseph’s open a school in Cloncurry. As Mary MacKillop passed away a few months later, St Joseph’s Cloncurry has the distinction of being the last foundation established by St Mary MacKillop. The Josephite Sisters traveled on a slow moving train and arrived in Cloncurry at midnight on 28th October 1909. Till 1913 each Sister took a class either in the Church, bough shed or under the Convent. The school was officially opened in 1913. We are proud to spread the kindness and message of St Mary MacKillop today. 

100 Days of Prep:
This Friday we will also be celebrating 100 days of Prep! This is one of my most favourite days. I love seeing the creative costumes as students dress up as if they are 100 years old. We also have Prep performing at our liturgy as well. What a wonderful way to celebrate their day. 

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 able to give these to teachers on Friday 5th of August.

God Bless you and your families for a great week ahead, 

Samantha Kelley
Principal 

APRE News

Welcome to week 3 and Happy Catholic Education Week! 

A big thank you to all our families who helped us celebrate our Children's Mass on Sunday. It was very well attended, and the student participation was fantastic!

As I mentioned in week 1 Catholic Education Week is an annual state-wide event that promotes the distinctive mission of Catholic schools throughout Queensland. The Catholic Education Week 2022 theme is "Communities of Faith, Hope and Love". This was also our theme for our Beginning of Year Mass.

In our ‘Call to Action Assembly’ we discussed ‘What is the Catholic school difference?’ and more importantly ‘What makes our Catholic school so special?’. It was lovely to hear the students’ responses, most of which were centred around St Mary Mackillop's motto of “never see a need without doing something about it”. It’s very humbling to hear the gratitude and compassion our student show. At St Joseph’s we are blessed to be able to offer an education that fosters those caring and compassionate attributes. 

As part of the assembly the students viewed two beautiful books: ‘The Stone Lion’ by Margaret Wild and Ritva Voultila, and ‘Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge’ by Mem Fox. These stories shared a message of Love, Hope and Faith and sparked some beautiful conversations. 

Catholic education strives to make a difference in the lives of those in our schools and in the wider community by challenging young people to live out the message of Jesus and to reach their full potential as compassionate, contributing, life-giving members of society. This is certainly something to celebrate.  

We invite all members of our school and parish community to our Catholic Education Week liturgy to celebrate together this significant event as a Community of Faith, Hope and Love. We will share in a cake after the assembly. 

Catholic Education Week Liturgy 

 Friday 29th of July at 8:30am 

St Mary MacKillop Shed

Regards, 

Mrs Therese Curley
APRE

Prep

Week 3 in Prep,

I will be in Townsville for work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Week 3. I have spoken to the class about this and also who their teacher will be. Please remind them of this to make the morning drop off easier. Literacy groups will be happening as per usual.

Reminders:

• Tuesday - Sport
• Wednesday - order tuckshop ONLINE
• Thursday - Library and tuckshop  

Friday - 100 DAYS OF PREP DRESS UP and celebrations. The students will show off their "dress like they are 100 years old" costumes and receive a certificate at assembly. The class will also be leading assembly with a song and a story. 

Yours in fun and learning,

Miss Tamara Williams and Mrs Sharon McLauchlan

Year 1

Hello everyone,

Welcome to week 3! 

This week in Year 1 we are starting a new unit of work in maths. We are learning to recognise our Australian coins according to their value. 

In English we are continuing to learn about Bossy ‘e’ digraphs. We have learnt that bossy ‘e’ makes the vowel sound long. We are also looking at different fictional characters, creating character descriptions and identifying character traits. 

In science we are continuing our unit of work on Marvelous Materials. We are learning to describe the different effects of interacting with materials and objects. 

Reminders:

Wednesday

• Students may wear their sports uniform on Wednesdays.
• Homework: Please ensure your childs’ is handed in so readers can be swapped. 

Thursday

• Library with Mrs Chaplain. Please make sure your childs’ library bag is at school.

Friday

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

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 Year 2 Parents and Carers,

This week we will be having two Sport lessons. We will have one on Thursday and our regular one on Friday. Students need to wear their sports uniform on Thursday.

Just a reminder that no longer than 30 minutes should be spent on the homework tasks. Please leave the homework task if it is a battle and spend the time on reading!

This week we are learning:

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

Reminders:

• Wear sport uniform on Wednesdays (and Thursday this week!)
• 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

What a great start to week 3 we have had. All our students arrived with such a positive attitude to their learning - what a fabulous start to the week. Our class dojo points will soon be adding up. 

Our learning focus for week 3 is as follows;

• Maths - Revision of place value for 4 digit numbers and expanded notation
• English - Who are we writing for? Who are the audience?
• Religion - Beatitudes - Who was Luke talking to?
• HASS - Climate zones and characteristics of places
• Science - We will walk around the school identifying living and non-living things.
• Our spelling focus is on the ‘ar’ sound - this is always an interesting discussion when your teacher is from the north of England. 

Could I ask all parents to check that their children have enough pencils and glue sticks for the rest of the term? 

Have a fabulous week .

Mrs Deb McCann

Year 4

Hi Everyone,

As I mentioned last week I am in Brisbane this week to be with my mother who’s having an operation and I will be back on Monday of next week. This week the students have Mrs Cook so I am sure they will have a great week.

ENGLISH- If you have any cereal boxes could you please send them in ASAP. We will be needing them next week to look at the persuasive techniques that are used on the packaging and the students will then be designing their own.

Please send these in-:

DANCE: This year we are not having a bushdance, however we are having a Dances through the Ages night. The Year 4 students are doing ‘Night Fever’ and 70’s costumes will be encouraged! It is not until Week 9, but you may want to start thinking about outfits for not only the students, but for yourselves as well!!

Fete: Our Fete is quickly approaching and the Year 4 students will be running the Mini Golf and Pick-a-stick. We are looking for donations of lollipops and wrapped lollies to use as prizes for these stalls.

Have a wonderful week!

Mrs Lesley Wall

Year 5

Welcome to Week 3!

Maths: Students will be adding and subtracting proper and improper fractions and mixed numbers,  with the same denominator. 

HaSS: We have been learning how to develop inquiry questions to investigate the relationship between the Mary Kathleen Mine and Settlement. We will be using these questions to collect information to answer our questions. 

RE: Students will interpret and examine The Decalogue and think about how it helps with the conscience of a Christian. Students will spend time rewording the Decalogue to make sense to people today. 

Reminders:

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

Enjoy your week,

Miss Therese von Drehnen

Year 6

Welcome to Week 3!

Week 3 already??!!

This week’s learning focuses are:

Religion: After learning about some of the traditions and festivals around Judaism, we will be learning about some of the high holy days.  

English: We will finish writing and practising our persuasive pitches, present them by next week and then begin our informative writing unit. 

Mathematics: The students began a new mini unit at the end of last week about interpreting data. This week we are reviewing different types of graphs. 

HaSS: The students will be finalising their business and economics learning this week by completing their business plans and then we will start learning about federation!

Japanese: We learned about the significance of ‘yuru chara’ or mascot culture in Japan. The students will be creating their own mascot to represent the Cloncurry community. They will also use knowledge of verbs and adjectives to describe their mascot. 

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 9 with Mr Kelley

This Semester students will move into the workshop (woodwork) for design. Students will first complete online competencies around safe practices in the workshop. This will be followed by demonstrations of each tool/machine with the focus on safe practices. Students will create outdoor furniture (tables and chairs) from H3 pine (timber for outdoor use).

Yr 8 English & RE with Miss Lovett

English: 

This term the students will engage with all things persuasion! We will work together to explore the different forms of persuasion - written, spoken & visual. Students will use these skills and work in teams to gain points for our class ‘Persuasion Cup’. There will be ‘challenges’ throughout the term that require students to use their understanding of persuasive language features, oral presentation skills and vocabulary choices to influence an audience - all to be the ‘top team’ at the end of the term!

Religion:

Students are working through the unit ‘The Prophet’s Message’. In this unit, they will explore the covenants and the relationship between God and God’s people. The students will develop an understanding that a covenant is a unique relationship and is different from a promise. We have identified what a covenant might look like in 2022 and I was SO impressed with their ability to make connections from a Biblical context to a contemporary context. For assessment, students will pose as a Prophet and write a letter to a family member, discussing their chosen covenant with God. They will explain the themes present in this covenant and how they reveal God’s unending love and mercy for humanity.

 Yr 9 Media Arts with Mr Murray

This term in Media Arts, students are young directors, making their mark on the Australian Film Industry. Actors and actresses want to work for them... production companies seek themout………..film fans flock to cinemas each and every time you release a film!    

Despite their raging success and popularity, they have become disheartened with the audiences’ lack of knowledge when it comes to genre films and production elements. And they are determined to change this! 

Over the next 8 weeks, they will work towards the creation of a short film that clearly demonstrates three different genre styles, shot with the exact same storyline. Your film will incorporate the media conventions and production elements which are manipulated to make it clearly evident the change in genres.

Student Wellbeing

Most young people today experience anxiety at some point in their life. Sometimes that slight rush of anxiety that occurs prior to an exam or sporting event, can enhance their performance. However, experiencing too much anxiety, over long periods of time, can be extremely damaging to their health and wellbeing. There is a difference between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ anxiety.

Statistics show that the psychological health of young people today is far worse than it was a generation ago. This is having an adverse affect on children in both primary and secondary levels. Some of their issues of concern include stress, school, study, body image and friendship.

Parents need to be aware of the warning signs of ‘bad’ anxiety. There are preventative measures parents can implement as well as teaching kids the skills to cope more efficiently with their anxiety.

To find more information visit our SchoolTV website: https://sjctsv.catholic.schooltv.me/newsletter/youth-anxiety

Curry Merry Muster Float Information & School Display Request

Spark Club

On the weekend I was fortunate to participate in learning about Circle Solutions. For me as School Chaplain, it will help with facilitating group circle time, each circle with a specific topic.

Circle time/Circle solutions is about being able to express and coming together in a positive way. Building people up and listening to what they have to say. Please see the poster below that the Circel Solutions group use with their program.

This week so far, we have had karaoke, letters and games. Tell you what, these kids love the karaoke! Rewards for Week 2 didn't happen, sorry about that kids! So, this week we will have Week 2 and Week 3 recipients meet in the Home Ec Room @ 1.10pm just before second lunch. Our breaky club is going well, this morning we had about 20 spaghetti and cheese toasties walk out the door, anzac slice, banana bread, fruit (mandarins kindly donated by the Kidd family, Thank you!), cereal and hot chocolates! Today the kids were hungry! I loved it! Thanks for coming and sharing your energy with us at Chaplaincy Breakfast!

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

Greetings from the Library!

Yes, it is that time again… Book Week.

Book Week is a celebration by the Australian Children’s Book Council of Australia.  It celebrates Books and Australian authors and illustrators for a week.  

Book week goes from August 20-26 and the theme this year is Dreaming with Eyes open. 

This gives us a wide scope of characters we can use to dress up as.  I know that some of you parents and carers stress about the dress up bit. Honestly just ask your child as they have lots of ideas and love to have input into designing what they are wanting to dress up as.  Pinterest is a great source for some very simple ideas. 

We will have our dress up parade on Thursday the 25th August at 8:30 am in the Mary McKillop Shed, following the Learning Breakfast. All are welcome to our breakfast at 7.45am. 

We will be doing some activities prior to Book week in the library. 

I would also like to formally thank Mrs Jill Smith who does a lot of covering of books for our library.  It is such a big help!  This enables us to get the books on the shelf for borrowing much more quickly. Thank you, Jill!

I have sent a lot of our culled books and second copies of books to Townsville for the Hospital Second-hand Book Fair which is held in September. If you are travelling to Townsville before September and you have excess books at home, they would be only too pleased to receive them.  I would be happy to put you on the contact for the Fair. 

I know it is hard to remember library books, but it is very important that the children bring their books back regularly as other children may what to borrow the book your child has.  

Library is either Wednesday or Thursday.  

Thank you for your co-operation. Happy Reading

Chris Chaplain
Teacher/Librarian.

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.

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