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Term 3 Week 9

Key Information

Child Protection Week - Monday 5th September - Friday 9th September
Bush Dance - Thursday 8th September - 6pm
Olympics Visit - Thursday 8th September
Cross Country - Friday 9th September, 8.30am Assembly
Catholic Soccer Cup Burdekin - Thursday 8th September and Friday 9th September

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

Upcoming Board Meetings
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/

Week 9

Hawaiian Chicken Burger & Rocky Road Cookies and a Popper

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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 9,

The holiday’s might be just around the corner but the term isn’t slowing down yet!

Prep Enrolment Interviews 2023
Today is our second day of enrolment interviews for Prep in 2023. I have been joined by our amazing prep teacher Mrs Sharon McLauchlan and a variety of existing families and new families to our school.

We begin the interviews by introducing St Joseph’s and our connection to The Townsville Diocese, as well as our founding story from St Mary MacKillop and the Josephite Sisters. Mrs McLauchlan then goes into detail on the prep program for 2023 before we gather important information about our future students.

In Week 7 of Term 4 we will welcome our future prep students on the Tuesday for orientation and Friday for move up morning.

Dance through the Decades - Thursday 8th September
Our Bush Dance has had a change of name this year and is coming up on Thursday evening. The dances will kick off at 6pm so please join us in the Mary MacKillop Shed from 5.30pm. Families are welcome to bring a picnic along with them as no food or drink will be sold on the evening.

Our classes will perform in the middle of the MMS so please ensure you set up behind the cones. Please be mindful of other families and place your chairs at the back to avoid obstructing the view.

National Child Protection Week
We have a busy week planned as we celebrate National Child Protection Week, which goes from the 4th to the 10th of September. The theme this year is that every child, in every community, needs a fair go. The protection of children is everybody’s business. It is important that we are all working together to support children to thrive and be safe and secure in their environment(s). It is vital that we are always listening to the voices of children in our communities and informing them of how they can speak out and seek assistance if they are feeling unsafe.

The following link will take you to a video from The Hon Leanne Linard, Minister for Children and Youth Justice. It emphasises the importance of Child Protection and outlines the steps that The Queensland Government are taking to ensure this. Although this video is from 2021 the key message behind it is important: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAHLeGLCfE0

I encourage you to spend some time with your children this week talking about Child Protection, to do so I have pasted a link to some worksheets that you can use as a guide for these discussions:

https://www.napcan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Childrens-Voices-Activity-2018.pdf

The eSafety Commissioner have also scheduled free webinars for parents and carers. The live webinars explore the latest research on how you can teach your child to develop skils to be safer online. All of the sessions are delivered by eSafety experts from the Education and Training Team: https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/webinars

R U OK? Day
R U OK? Day will be celebrated on Thursday the 8th of September 2021. Reach out to someone on Thursday to check in with them, remembering that a conversation can change a life!

R U OK? Day is to inspire and empower everyone across Australia to meaningfully connect with the people around them and start a conversation with those in their world who may be struggling.

Use these four steps and have a conversation that could change a life:

Ask R U OK?
Listen
Encourage action
Check in

If you would like more information including webinars and latest news jump onto ruok.org.au

Good luck to our students joining students from Good Shepherd Catholic College to compete in the Catholic Soccer Cup on Thursday and Friday in The Burdekin.

God Bless,

Mrs Samantha Kelley
Principal

APRE News

Welcome to Week 9!

This week we focus on R U OK? On Thursday it is RU OK? Day, as well as Child Protection Week. These events aim to inspire and empower everyone to meaningfully connect with the people around them and start a conversation with those in their world who may be struggling with life.

“Got a niggling feeling that someone you know or care about isn't behaving as they normally would? Perhaps they seem out of sorts? More agitated or withdrawn? Or they’re just not themselves. Trust your instinct and act on it. By starting a conversation and commenting on the changes you’ve noticed, you could help that family member, friend or workmate open up.” Please see ruok.org.au for more advice and support.

During the week students will be engaging in meaningful conversation and activities surrounding Child Protection and what RU OK? Day stands for. Students will also be encouraged to not only look out for themselves, their friends and family this week, but every day. One of the activities the students will participate in is a nature walk where they are encouraged to collect items to make a cross from nature. As they do this, they are to remember people in their lives that they could ask R U OK? Students will be reminded that sometimes the crosses we carry can be lightened by someone checking in and asking R U OK?

Have a lovely week!

Mrs Therese Curley
APRE

Pastoral Care

CHILD PROTECTION WEEK

(Taken from https://childprotectionweek.org.au/resources/schools-and-communities/)

Child Protection Week in Queensland is coordinated by the Child Protection Week Committee under the auspicing body of ACT for Kids. Most of us recognise that child protection is key to ensuring that children in our communities, families and schools are safe, nurtured and protected. Sometimes this means acknowledging that children are neglected or harmed in these same places. That is hard to acknowledge. As such, children continue to experience child abuse and neglect in our society.

In order to stop child abuse and neglect and ensure child protection in our society, we all need to play our part by assisting families who struggle and by speaking out about abuse when we see it or hear about it. Often children tell us what is happening to them through either very clear statements or in subtle ways. Our role as adults is to pay attention regardless of the way children tell us what is happening for them. Another role we can play is in hearing parents when they say they are finding their role of parenting difficult and offer assistance.

When children speak out or adults speak out on behalf of children they need those involved in the wider child protection system to be well trained and available to pay attention to what they are saying. This includes the Queensland Police Service, professionals such as Social Workers, Psychologists and Psychiatrists as well as Teachers who are often in the key position of being able to note difficulties for children and their families. Family members and friends also play a crucial role in such disclosures in terms of hearing what is stated and offering support and friendship. When unable to offer such support or when such support isn’t accepted, family members and friends can contact community organisations of the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services to seek further assistance for the child/ren and family.

Throughout this coming week, various activities will be coordinated for our students.

R U OK?Day is Thursday 8 September 2022.

It’s our national day of action when we are reminded that every day is the day to ask, ‘are you OK?’ and start a meaningful conversation whenever they spot the signs that someone they care about might be struggling with life.

Got a feeling that someone you know or care about it isn’t behaving as they normally would? Perhaps they seem out of sorts? More agitated or withdrawn? Or they’re just not themselves. Trust that gut instinct and act on it. By starting a conversation and commenting on the changes you’ve noticed, you could help that family member, friend or workmate open up. If they say they are not OK, you can follow our conversation steps to show them they’re supported and help them find strategies to better manage the load. If they are OK, that person will know you’re someone who cares enough to ask.

The scheduled Headspace workshops have been postponed until next week due to unforeseen circumstances.

Mrs Toni Schneekloth
Pastoral Leader

Prep

We have finished up with 12 gorgeous baby chicks. These are now in a cage in Prep, waiting to meet everyone tomorrow!

As a science assessment the students have designed a chicken enclosure and will explain what they have included and how these help chickens to survive. They will also explain what materials they would choose and why. Some of the boys have shown an interest in solar panels so we will explore this topic over the next few weeks.

The class will continue to explore addition in Math using the storybook "One is snail ten is crab" as a basis for this.

I had a meeting last week to look at the data from our Early Years Testing. It is exciting to see the growth from Term 1 until Term 3.

I will not be in class Monday/Tuesday as I will be in interviews with our 2023 Prep families. Mrs Lyn Gardiner will be teaching Prep on those days.

We are looking forward to performing the chicken dance at our Dance Through the Ages evening on Thursday this week.

Reminders:

Tuesday: Sport
Wednesday: Order tuckshop online
Thursday: Library, tuckshop and Dance through the ages evening

Yours in fun and learning,

Mrs Sharon McLauchlan and Miss Tamara Williams

Year 1

Hello everyone,

Welcome to week 9,

This week in Year 1 we are finalising our term of learning. Here is a look at some reminders for Year 1.

Reminders

Wednesday

Students may wear their sports uniform on Wednesdays.
AFL Australia will be visiting our class.
Homework: Please ensure your childs’ homework is handed in so readers can be collected and sorted for term 4.

Thursday

Library with Mrs Chaplain. Please make sure your childs’ library bag is at school.
Family dance night, Dance through the ages is on this Thursday night. We are dancing to the song 5,6,7,8 and as a result children may come dressed in their cowboy attire if they would like to.

Friday

I will be starting holidays a week early and as a result will not be in the classroom from this Friday and all of next week. Detailed lesson plans and handover notes will be provided to the year 1 teacher. Please pop in to see them or alternatively see Mrs Kelley or Mrs Curley in the office if you have any questions or require support in my absence.

Literacy Groups: As it is such a jam rest of the Term, with a few disruptions, we will no longer be having literacy groups in the mornings. Thank you to all the parents who have helped out this term, You have been a lifesaver!

Have a great week,

Miss Mae-Louise Brock and the always fun Year 1’s

Year 2

Hi all,

This week we are learning:

English: Persuasive Texts. Our tricky words are: minutes, great, these
Maths: Addition and Subtraction Strategies
Religion: Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Science: Water is a resource
HASS: Significant people in our community
Media: Stop Motion Animation

Reminders:

Wear sport uniform on Wednesdays
Tuckshop orders due Wednesday
We have Library on Thursdays and this week will wear yellow for R U Ok? Day
We have Sport on Fridays (house shirts) and this week we have Cross Country!
Homework due on Friday

Have a great week!

Miss Leonie Ansell

Year 3

Welcome to Week 9,

Mrs Barb has been delighted to have year 3 again this week as Mrs McCann is celebrating her daughter's delayed graduation in The UK. Mrs McCann left a detailed handover and lessons for her period away for the students to complete to ensure their teaching and learning remains on track.

Our students have had an excellent start to the week with a visit from Victoria’s Race Club (VCR) with the famous Melbourne Cup Trophy! We had a presentation from the VCR representatives, Sheila Laxon, the first female trainer to win the Melbourne Cup and members from Evolution Mining. The presentation was quite interesting as it linked to the mechanisms that need to take place to build the $300,000 trophy. Our students were particularly interested in hearing about our mining processes in Cloncurry and how similar work was conducted to make the trophy.

We also have The Olympics visiting on Thursday as Unleashed will bring both Olympians and athletes aspiring to the Olympic Games in to speak to us. We will hear athletes’ stories which will demonstrate the lifelong benefits of goal-setting, developing resilience and pursuing their passions.

In year 3 this week students have continued to develop their imaginative writing. Our focus has been primarily on adverbs and contractions.

Contractions are a way to mash together two words in order to make them shorter. They also are a way to make your writing seem more conversational and have the reader feel included in the writing. Adverbs help students express manner, place, time and frequency as it describes that verb. Contractions are another useful writing technique as students can mash together two words in order to make them shorter.

Mrs Barb Byrne

Year 4

Hi everyone,

We have hit the ground running this week trying to complete our assessment items for the term and the students have been working really hard to get through these.

English- Students are writing a dreamtime story to explain a phenomena in the world.

HaSS- Students are exploring an unsustainable practice that is happening in our school and investigating solutions to the problem.

Science- Students are researching a natural landform in Australia and describing the effects of weathering and erosion.

Health- This term we have been looking at healthy living. Students are designing a poster (using the skills they gained in English) to promote healthy living in our school.

Don’t forget our dance on Thursday night. We did our 70’s dance today and the students nailed it, so they are keen to teach their family.

Mrs Lesley Wall

Year 5

Welcome to Week 9!

I have had a terrific start to life at St Joseph’s and the class have really welcomed me into their community for which I am truly grateful.

Maths: This week we are investigating time with a particular focus on digital 24-hour time. Following assessment, we will revise some of the concepts of time before we commence our investigation.

English: We have started our work on investigating suffixes to make adjectives comparative or superlative. We have continued to inquire into Alaska and Greenland as part of our reading and will continue to compare and contrast with Cloncurry to investigate similarities and differences.

HaSS: Our Mapping work has continued with a focus on how we locate places around the world using Grid Referencing and latitude/longitude references. Using Google Maps, Peg Man has enabled us to see Google Street Views and develop questions for inquiry.

PE: Monday

Library: Wednesday

Homework: Homework is handed out on Monday and is to be returned on Friday. Homework is a chance to revise concepts taught in class and practice skills. For the last two weeks of this term, homework will be reading, spelling and Multiplication Facts and I’d like the learners to develop their independence with completing the tasks.

Y5 Paluma Camp - please be advised that we have a Camp Meeting at 4pm on Monday 12th September. Please come into the Year 5 Learning Space. The Camp will be Week 5 next term (Week Beginning 31st October) and we have already started our discussions in preparation for this amazing experience.

Bush Dance - Thursday 8th September at 6pm - having seen the class practice last week, I know you’ll be as impressed as I was.

R U OK? Day - On Thursday students are encouraged to wear yellow to school for R U Ok? day.

Have a great week,

Mr Mike Tarleton

Year 6

Welcome to Week 9!

How on Earth are we less than two weeks from the end of the term?

This week’s learning focuses are:

Religion: We are starting to learn about the Church’s liturgical year and making connections between Jewish passover to the Eucharist.

English: This week, the students will be informing an audience- through their writing- about federation.

Mathematics: We will be revising operations with decimals thai week before assessing our learning.

HaSS: We will be learning about what it means to change the constitution, including some changes in the past, some proposed changes and the effect on First Nations peoples.

PE and Library are on Wednesday.

Homework: For the remainder of the year I will be encouraging students to utilise their student diaries. They will be bringing these home to be signed. Students are encouraged to read each night. At key intervals throughout the week and/or based on the progression of content covered in class, students will have maths homework to consolidate their learning from class. On some occasions, their may be some class work or assessment work that can be completed at home. This will be communicated with parents and students.

Have a blessed week!

Mr. James Delaney and the Year 6 Legends!

UMY Spotlight

Year 7/8 Art with Mrs Kelley

This term in The Arts, students have been studying Media Arts. Our unit is titled Genre-nators. Genre-nators is an introductory unit that introduces students to the way in which film and television genres work to satisfy the audiences expectations and emotions. Students explored the different types of genres and the movies or TV shows we would expect to see in this category. Students also examined the impact each genre has on them as the audience.

The students then jumped into the hands-on element of the unit as they became young directors, making their own mark on the Australian Film Industry. Students have worked in groups as they created a short film that clearly demonstrates three different genre styles, shot with the exact same storyline. The students have had to work on the set, props and costumes to bring their three different genres to life.

I can’t wait to see the finished product this week.

Yr 9 English & RE with Mrs Delaney Lovett

English: This term the students have worked through persuasive texts - visuals, written & spoken. Through this understanding, students have created a 3 part campaign for an Australian public health issue of their choosing. They constructed a promotional poster, manipulating language features and visual literacy techniques. From this, they were required to construct a persuasive writing piece, exploring the choices they made in the poster, to effectively persuade their targeted audience. The final component of their unit has centred around presenting ideas and information: balancing visual and verbal elements in a multimodal format, as well as using appropriate spoken techniques. I am looking forward to seeing the final pitch of their campaigns in week 10!

Religion: This term we explored what the Catholic Social Teaching principles are and how these are a direct reflection of the Church’s understanding of the work of Jesus. Students examined global documents, in particular the UN Rights of a Child document, to gain context of how the CST’s are applied in the real world. We then identified ways the Church has responded to growing moral situations through the creation of organisations that are an extension of the Catholic Church. The students linked the work of Caritas Australia with the articles in documents such as the UN Rights of a Child, to determine their significance and make connections with how the work of Jesus is still lived out today (through the CST’s).

Sports & Extra Curricular

Melbourne Cup Visit - Tuesday, 6th September 2022

This week at school, it is a busy week with a lot of Sporting and Extracurricular activities on. Today, St Joseph’s Cloncurry played host to something very special to not only our nation, but also our town. Today, Victoria Racing came to the school to show us the 2022 Melbourne Cup. With a total value of over $300,000 we were all very keen to get our hands onto it.

We also learnt that the 1.65kg of pure 18 carat Gold that is used to make the cup is mined out here by Evolution Mining. We were lucky enough to have a couple of Representatives from Evolution Mining come to the presentation and answer a few of the questions out students had.

Olympics Unleashed - Thursday, 8th September 2022

On Thursday, we have Olympics Unleashed coming to our School. Olympics Unleashed takes Olympians and athletes aspiring to the Olympic Games into QLD Schools to inspire students to be the best possible version of themselves. Athletes’ stories demonstrate the lifelong benefits of goal-setting, developing resilience and pursuing their passions – whether that’s in the classroom, the playground, the sporting field or at home.

This year, they will be bringing Winter Olympian, Alex Ferlazzo. Alex is an Australian luger who has competed since 2012. He competed in the first-ever Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, where he finished 19th out of 25th. Ferlazzo also competed for Australia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

We look forward to welcoming Alex to our School on Thursday.

Townsville Catholic Soccer Cup, Burdekin & Cross Country, 9th September 2022

On Friday, we will have our annual Cross Country. This takes place at school and this year, after our whole school Assembly. The assembly will run for approximately 30minutes with our staff heading out onto the course straight afterwards to get ready. We predict our first race will take off at about 9:10am, however, this could be earlier or later.

On Friday, we also see Mr Kelley as well as five of our students heading to the Burdekin for the Annual Townsville Catholic Soccer Cup. During this time, we pair up with Good Shepherd Catholic College to make a western team to compete against the other Townsville Catholic Schools. Last year, our joint team took the carnival out and the staff and students are looking to bring the cup home again.

We wish the students for the Cross Country and Soccer Carnival all the best.

Mr Scott Murray

Cross Country - Friday - join us!

Wear Yellow for R U OK? Day

Bush Dance - Thursday - 6pm

Our Bush Dance has had a change of name this year and is coming up on Thursday evening. The dances will kick off at 6pm so please join us in the Mary MacKillop Shed from 5.30pm. Families are welcome to bring a picnic along with them as no food or drink will be sold on the evening.

Our classes will perform in the middle of the MMS so please ensure you set up behind the cones. Please be mindful of other families and place your chairs at the back to avoid obstructing the view.

Student Wellbeing

Many parents will attest to the fact that most boys are active, loud, rambunctious and prone to rough play, but this should not affect how a parent acts towards their son. Be careful not to pigeon-hole your son into sex-specific behaviours or gender roles. The male brain is distinctly different in its development. A boy’s physical maturity is often at odds with his mental and brain development.

Societal beliefs about how to raise boys can sometimes influence their adult carers. Although we are not determined by our biology, it is a factor. It is important to support boys in their natural tendencies and nurture their strengths and abilities. Teach them the skills they need for their future and to develop a healthy identity. It is important for boys to have a role model they can connect with and acknowledge who they are. One of the most important determinants for a boy’s development is how secure they feel growing up.

In this edition of SchoolTV, adult carers will gain a better understanding into some of the more complex issues relating to raising boys.

Here is the link to the Raising Boys edition of SchoolTV

https://sjctsv.catholic.schooltv.me/newsletter/raising-boys