Term 2 Week 7 2023

Key Information

Term 2 Important Dates

• Monday 29th May - Reconciliation Week 
• Wednesday 31st May - State of Origin Dress Up Day
• Tuesday 6th June - Mulkadee Roadshow  
• Tuesday 6th June - FACE Meeting - Body Safety - 5 to 6pm - Library
• Wednesday 8th June - Life Education Year 5 and Year 6
• Thursday 9th June - RFDS Simulator Visit 
• Friday 16th June - Show Holiday Public Holiday
• Friday 23rd June - Last Day of Term 2

Tuckshop News

Miss Jamie-Lea is searching for some more volunteers if there are some available!  Please email Jamie-Lea on jmcconachy@sjctsv.catholic.edu.au or call the office to let us know you are keen.

Our Special for Week 7 is: Fried Rice, Mini Sticky Date Pudding (GF) and a Popper

Please have your orders in by WEDNESDAY 8:30am

To order: myschoolconnect.com.au 

Uniform Shop

Open Days:

• Monday: 2.30pm-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's News

Welcome to Week 7, 

It’s hard to believe we are already here. This term is going by so quickly and before we know it, we will be celebrating the end of Semester 1. What an amazing turnout at our assembly last Friday for the Reconciliation Week Liturgy and Sporting Awards - a big thank you to our family members that joined us. It is so nice to see your child’s smiling face when they spot you in the crowd. 

This week we will be acknowledging Reconciliation Week at St Joseph’s. National Reconciliation Week is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. The National Reconciliation Week 2023 theme, “Be a Voice for Generations” encourages all Australians to be a voice for reconciliation in tangible ways in our everyday lives – where we live, work and socialise. For the work of generations past, and the benefit of generations future, act today for a more just, equitable and reconciled country for all. Our students started discussing this in classes last week and will continue throughout this week. 

Each term both myself and Mrs Therese Curley, our Assistant Principal for Religious Education travel to Townsville for Professional Development. Last week Mrs Curley joined with other Assistant Principal’s from across the Diocese and this week I will join with other Principals. I will be travelling today (Tuesday) and attending the course from Wednesday to Friday. If you have any concerns, please contact Mrs Curley or alternatively email myself on skelley2@sjctsv.catholic.edu.au and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

BGA - New Build
As many of you are aware, we are excited to be knocking down and re-building our administration building and primary classrooms. We are on track for this to begin in the September holidays. This will mean that classrooms and the office will start to move into demountables throughout Term 3, ready for the school to be wrapped and demolition to begin. 

The reason this will start in the school holidays is to ensure all asbestos has been removed from the school before the beginning of Term 4. There will be radars set up throughout the demolition in term 4 to monitor the dust and air quality to ensure it is safe for students at all times. 

I am however calling for help. We need approximately 2-3 shipping containers to store our classroom resources and furniture in whilst we build. If you know of a company that might be able to help us out with this, that would be amazing and so very much appreciated. Please email me directly on skelley2@sjctsv.catholic.edu.au. 

Did you miss our fly through? Have a look here!

Show Gate Volunteering 2023
St Joseph's Catholic School will be operating the gates at the Cloncurry Show this year (Friday 16th June and Saturday 17th June). We will receive $2500 for doing so, which will be used towards updating the Arts room and Drama room. We are hoping to refurbish both of these rooms to match the new building. These classrooms will be utilised when the new building is taking place, by years 3 and 4. 

 Please find below the link to 2023 Cloncurry & District Show Gate Roster. We have 10 spots that are still open that we would love your support in filling. These are as follows:

• Saturday 2.30pm (2 people needed)
• Saturday 4.30pm (4 people needed)
• Saturday 6.30pm (4 people needed)

 All volunteers for the gate must be over 18.

Link to register: https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code/wmuvt

Code: wmuvt

State of Origin Free Dress Day - Wednesday
Our students are welcome to dress in ‘Free Dress’ this Wednesday to celebrate State of Origin. It is however important that students are sunsafe when they are out of uniform. No string straps or dresses. It is important students can participate in all school activities like they usually would. Shoes must be enclosed. 

Save the Date - FACE Meeting 
Anne-Frances Watson, Sexual Health Educator from Life Education, will be running our session for parents, carers and family members on Personal and Body Safety.  

This session will provide parents with an understanding on how to support personal and body safety with their children. 

We are excited to offer this to our community and hope that you can join us. 

This session is appropriate for all parents and carers. 

May God Bless you for the week ahead, 

Mrs Samantha Kelley
Principal 

APRE News

Welcome to Week 7!

With the temperature dropping and the days getting shorter, we officially welcome winter this week. 

Reconciliation Week:
This week we celebrate Reconciliation Week. The 2023 theme, “Be a voice for Generations” encourages all Australians to be a voice for reconciliation in tangible ways in our everyday lives – where we live, work and socialise. We are encouraged to act today for a more just, equitable and reconciled country for all. During the week the classes will discuss how they can be a voice and contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.

Pentecost:
On Sunday we celebrated the Feast of the Holy Spirit, Pentecost. Pentecost derived from the Greek word "pentecoste," meaning 50th. The feast of Pentecost occurs 50 days after the death and resurrection of Jesus. 

Pentecost celebrates the time the Holy Spirit descended to the 12 disciples of Jesus. Christians believe that the Holy Spirit blessed them with the ability to speak different languages. This meant they could easily spread the word of the Lord to the world. It’s also believed to be the start of the Christian church.

 Notices:

• Children’s Mass next Sunday (11th June):  All children are welcome to join us. Please email me if your child/children will be able to attend. I will take them for a practice this Friday.

Have a blessed week,

Mrs Therese Curley
APRE

Pastoral Care

Resilience
Resilience is a term that is used often nowadays and most of us are aware of what this means in terms of our children, but how do we actually build resilience? At SJC, we are implementing various programs, such as the Zones of Regulation, to work on the areas to develop resilience. Resilience gives people the strength to tackle problems head-on, overcome adversity, and move on with their lives.

Zones of Regulation
The Zones of Regulation framework used in our classrooms at St. Joseph’s teaches students scaffolded skills toward developing a metacognitive pathway to build awareness of their feelings/internal state and utilise a variety of tools and strategies for regulation, prosocial skills, self-care, and overall wellness. This includes exploring tools and strategies for mindfulness, sensory integration, movement, thinking strategies, wellness, and healthy connection with others. 

The Four Zones: Our Feelings and States Determine our Zone

The Red Zone is used to describe extremely heightened states of alertness and intense emotions.  A person may be elated or experiencing anger, rage, devastation or terror when in the Red Zone.

The Yellow Zone is also used to describe a heightened state of alertness and elevated emotions, however one has more control when they are in the Yellow Zone.  A person may be experiencing stress, frustration, anxiety, excitement, silliness, the wiggles, or nervousness when in the Yellow Zone.  

The Green Zone is used to describe a calm state of alertness. A person may be described as happy, focused, content, or ready to learn when in the Green Zone.  This is the zone where optimal learning occurs.  

The Blue Zone is used to describe low states of alertness and down feelings such as when one feels sad, tired, sick, or bored.

Origin Time!!!
The time of the year that all Queenslanders and those Mexicans south of the border look forward to - State of Origin! Get out those maroon outfits and see you dressed in your finest tomorrow!

Pastoral Care Leader

Mrs Toni Schneekloth

Prep

Week 7!

This week in Prep we will finish Semester 1 assessments so that reports can be finalised. I cannot believe that there are only 3 weeks until the end of the term!

This week the students will do a guided drawing of a sea turtle in the style of indigenous artists. Depending how these turn out, we may enter them into the show along with our Rainbow Fish paintings and handwriting.

Over the next few weeks in Religion the class will be learning about love, forgiveness and compassion. In Math we will continue to consolidate numbers to 10 and beyond. Dreamtime stories and the characteristics of these will be our story focus this week. Our new letter/sound will be "k" and the class will spend some time revising and consolidating the sounds and Tricky Words we have learnt. 

Reminders:

• Please make sure jumpers are clearly named.
• Tuesday - sport
• Wednesday - order tuckshop
• Thursday - tuckshop, library and return home readers

Yours in fun and learning,

Mrs Sharon McLauchlan, Miss Tamara Williams and Miss Brie Thew

Year 1

Hello parents and carers, 

Welcome to week 7! Wow, where has the time gone!!

Here is a snapshot of the week ahead;

Literacy: We are continuing to learn about simple sentences and the four aspects that a simple sentence needs. A capital letter, a full stop, the sentence needs to be about something or someone and needs to make sense. We have used our sentence train to help us write our simple sentences and are practicing rereading and self correcting. 

Math: We are refreshing our knowledge of 2-digit numbers and are learning to partition these using our tens and ones house.

Religion: We have just finished learning about some old testament stories and identifying how God was present in them. For the remainder of this term Year 1 will begin to learn about the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist.

Reminders

• Library: Monday (week 1,3,5,7,9)
• Resilience Project: Monday (week 2,4,6,8,10)
• Sport: Wednesday (every week) please have your child wear sports uniform
• Technology: Thursday (every week)

Just letting you all know that Miss Brock and Miss Haley will be out of class this Friday as we will be taking the day to plan for next Term. 

Have a wonderful week,

Miss Mae-Louise Brock, Miss Erin Haley and the always fun Year 1’s!

Year 2

Hi Year 2 Parents,

During Writing this week, we are continuing to write our own Imaginative texts. This week, we are completing our good copies so we can enter them in the show. We are working on Multiplication and Division during Maths. We are also looking at changes to living things in Science, Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Religion and our world at different scales,  how we are connected to different places in HASS and Stop Motion animation in Media.

A few reminders:

• Technologies is on Tuesday each week.
• Sport is on Friday each week. Students are to wear house shirts for this and we will wear our Sport shirt on Wednesday so we get to use all of our uniforms.
• Library and Resilience Project will be on a fortnightly rotation on Mondays. Monday Week A (week 1, 3, 5, 7, 9) will be Resilience Project. Monday Week B (week 2, 4, 6, 8, 10) will be Library.
• Homework due and back out on Wednesday

Have a fantastic week,

Miss Leonie Ansell

Year 3

Welcome to week 7!

I would like to say a huge congratulations to all the children for their wonderful work at assembly on Friday. It can be extremely nerve wracking to stand up in front of the whole school to sing and read. I was so very proud of everyone of them.

This week will be another busy week in Year 3. In writing we will be continuing our work on procedure writing. The children can pick a game or a recipe, write the instructions for it then share with their classmates. The children have all worked extremely hard on their narrative writing for the last few weeks. They have reviewed, edited their writing and have produced amazing work. I will print a copy and send it home for you all to see. In Maths we will be continuing our work 3D shapes, we have constructed 3D shapes and will now look at their properties including faces, vertices and edges.  In Religion we will begin our topic Our Parish and Diocese. The children have also been working really hard on their slideshow presentations for their HASS topic ‘I still call Australia Home’. They are eager to share these with their parents as well. We will also be continuing our work on Reconciliation Week.

This week’s events

• Monday: Homework will be set and will be sent home with Home Readers

• Tuesday: Chaplain’s Breakfast in MMS at 7.45am

          PE the children can wear their sports shirt 

         As this is Week A the children have Resilience lesson

• Wednesday: Tuckshop orders must be in by 8.30am

          State of Origin Free Dress Day                 

• Thursday: Tuckshop - if your child is having tuckshop please remember to send a

          healthy snack for brain break and something for second lunch

          Children have Technology with Miss Laffey  

• Friday: Homework and Home Readers to be return today

Have a great week,

Thanks

Mrs Nicola Cullen

Year 4

Hi everyone,

This week we have State of Origin on Wednesday and to celebrate we’re having a free dress day. Come dressed up to support your favourite State of Origin team!!!

Reminders:

• Tuckshop - Please make sure Tuckshop orders are placed by Wednesday morning.
• Library - Students will be visiting this Library this Thursday.

• PE - We have PE this Thursday. Please make sure your child is wearing their PE uniform.

• Assembly - There is no assembly this week.

• Homework - Our Habitat Website is available at this link.

Have a great week,

Miss Mairin Borlase

Year 5

Dear Families,

It's assessment time! Throughout this week, I will collect some assessment data which will help to inform and finalise grading on the Semester 1 Reports. I try to make learners aware that everything they do at school is an assessment but that sometimes we need a piece of paperwork to support teacher judgements.

ENGLISH: This week is an opportunity to complete a range of Spelling and Reading Assessments. If your child is absent this week, we will organise an alternative time on their return. This is an opportune time to remind all learners that they should be reading at least 20 minutes every night. If the only books, texts, digital texts they choose are at a basic level of reading, their vocabulary will not grow. They must discover unfamiliar vocabulary which they can then discuss or research to develop meaning. Information texts are the best way to become an expert on a topic while also developing their range of technical vocabulary. Learners will begin to develop a variety of sentences for their Informative Text.

MATHS: Investigating multiplication strategies has continued to make a difference with learning mathematics. When children are able to recall simple facts quickly, it boosts confidence with other areas of maths. Finding the most efficient strategy to solve different problems is the challenge for all of us.

Multiplication practice: all learners are progressing and need to continue to practise multiplication facts at home. Try throwing a ball to them and firing random questions at your child. Also use UNO Cards to create two fractions that can be added or subtracted.

RELIGION: We will complete our discussions about Pentecost and how the Holy Spirit gave people the ability to understand and speak in different languages. We will also commence our discussions about the characteristics of the Holy Spirit, using our core scripture Galatians 5: 22-23 The Fruits of the Holy Spirit.

PALUMA/GUMBURU CAMP: It is with great excitement that I announce the dates for our Paluma Camp in Term 4 - please be advised that Camp will commence early on Monday 30th October and we will return to Cloncurry on Friday 3rd November. The information from 2022 has been added to our Y5 website - please be aware that this will be finalised and updated closer to Term 4.

Have an amazing week,

Mr Mike Tarleton

Year 6

Week 7 has been the busiest week of the Term in Year 6!

All week, students have been completing their final assessment tasks across Maths, Religion, English, HASS, Health and Science. 

They have been working very hard at trying to get everything completed on time.

They are looking forward to reading each other's completed short stories as a part of their English Unit. 

We are nearly at the end of the Semester and the school holidays are in sight!

Mr Dom Purcell

UMY - Spotlight

Yr 7 & 8 Language with Mr Delaney
In Japanese this term, the students have been learning about all things portable lunch/Japanese box lunch: obentō (お弁当). We explored the historical and cultural significance of お弁当, including the configuration of ‘dishes’ within the boxes, the colour requirements, and some other cultural expectations. The students then learned about a few key ingredients that are commonly found in お弁当. We investigated the importance of eggs (tamago) in Japanese culture and compared this with Australia. We then looked at onigiri おにぎり (rice balls) and how they are incorporated into portable lunch. We interpreted methods and even had a go at making our own おにぎり in the kitchen before the students learned about which other ingredients follow the colour rules (red, green, yellow) and are commonly found in お弁当. Currently, the students are planning the design and ingredient list of their own お弁当 for their assessment. They will write a short method/recipe for their creation, use rehearsed and modelled language to present their お弁当, spend a lesson cooking next week, and annotate a photograph of their お弁当. 

Yr 7 Eng with Mrs Delaney-Lovett
This term, students have been working through an imaginative based unit with a close study of Morris Gleitzman’s novel ‘Once’. To support their understanding of the events this story surrounds - the Holocaust, students have viewed non-fiction texts to compare and contrast human experience in response to ethical and global dilemmas. They have developed an understanding of the ways authors create characters, build suspense, create shock and use language features to create meaning. We have started working on our assessment item in class: a text transformation. This task requires students to embody the writing style and features of Morris Gleitzman, integrate ideas and information relevant to the time period, and embody a character that has already been created - yet transform the story in their own creative way. I look forward to reading their writing once the final piece has been submitted!

FACE Meeting

Reconciliation Week 2023

Save the Date!

$5000 Cash Draw!

AFL Auskick

Cloncurry Community NAB AFL Auskick! 

We are so excited to be running our community NAB AFL Auskick Program here in Cloncurry. 

This Program will be FREE!!! For the first 65 participants to register! 

Please enter the code below in the payment section to receive the discount. 

CODE: 4F2A322B 

Register via the QR code located on the flyer or via the link below:

https://www.playhq.com/afl/register/4edc68 

Library Activities Calendar - June

Free Kindy for all Queensland Children - Feedback Requested

As you may be aware on Sunday 21 May 2023 the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the Government will be giving consideration to free kindy for all Queensland children of eligible age (i.e. children in the year before formal schooling commences).

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk acknowledged there are 40,000 families in Queensland already accessing kindy for free or at reduced cost but announced the Queensland Government wants to close the gap and have more children experience crucial play-based learning before entering primary school. The Premier also pointed to the proposal as an opportunity to provide cost of living relief to families.

The Premier spoke to reports from prep teachers that there is a big gap between those children who have attended kindergarten programs and those who have not and pointed out that the Government estimates that about 8,000 Kindergarten age children across the state are still not enrolled at all.

The Department of Education (the department) will develop proposals for consideration by the Government and is undertaking public consultation via a survey to find out how free kindy for every child could help families.

Given the Queensland State Budget will be handed down on 13 June 2023, the department has a very short window to consult and submit a proposal to Government for consideration. Therefore your assistance in completing the survey has been requested.  

Kindy for all