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Saint Mary MacKillop said, “Never See a Need Without Doing Something About It !”

At St Joseph’s We: Need to have a Positive Attitude Need to be Aware and Need to Take Action.

Our next fortnight’s Triple A Social Skill is Manners Our focus within the three areas are as follows

Attitude : Being Polite Awareness : Knowing Good Manners

Action : Using Good Manners eg Please / Thank You

Newsletter—Week 3 of Term 1, February 14th 2019

Dear Parents, Carers and Friends Great start to our New School Year! The kids have settled beautifully, I thank our amazing staff for their work in knowing the children so well and being ready to work with and cater for their needs. Our School Mass and Day with Musician Andrew Chinn was a magnificent celebration of our 2019 Community, our Swim Carnival was a fun day of action whilst our Conferences on Tuesday filled the missing piece in Parents, Carers, Students & Teachers all being on the same page. That’s the end of the beginning, now it’s heads down!

Car Park Drop Off and Pick Up Procedures Morning Routine Drop Off Options *** Car Park - Park in the Middle and bring your child/ren in to class OR *** Use the Kiss and Drop. Pull up in the lane along from the Church Trees, let your child/ren out then off you go *** Street Parking - some parking is available along the school side. But remember, it is illegal to drop off or park in the bus space in the mornings. Some choose to park on the far side of the street. I strongly encourage these people to use the children’s crossing. Not doing this sends a very strong message to all the children, not just yours. Afternoon Routine Pick Up Options *** Car Park - Park in the Middle and come into school to collect your child/ren. Kids are not to walk to the Car Park unescorted. These children join the Bus Line and are walked out to the Car Park. *** Park on the street School side – all spaces available as Bus Bay applies to morning only

Far side - I strongly encourage these people to use the children’s crossing. Not doing tells all children that this is ok! It is not ok!!!

ST. JOSEPH’S SCHOOL

16 Tocumwal Rd, Numurkah, 3636. Phone: 03 5862 1804 Fax: 03 5862 2768 E-mail: [email protected] Website : www3.sjnumurkah.catholic.edu.au

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St Joseph’s School - Newsletter

Triple A News Welcome to Triple A news for 2019. Our Triple A Leaders for this year are

Toby Griffiths and Scarlett Eddy. To start the year we are having a blitz on wearing the correct school uniform. We have looked around the playground and have noticed these areas of greatest need; * Sports shorts to be worn only on nominated sport days * Our summer uniform should be worn with all black shoes * School hats, with our school logo are the only hats to be worn This year classroom teachers will be sending a note home if a child is found in the incorrect school uniform. The first time will be a warning after that the student may miss out on a portion of their recess until the issue is resolved. Let’s wear our uniform proudly and properly!

PRIVACY POLICY

For access please visit our website. www.sjnumurkah.catholic.edu.au

SCHOOL FEES:

If any family would like to commence having their fees directly debited fortnightly or monthly this can be

done at any time!

Next Fortnightly Debits: 22nd February & 8th March.

Monthly Debits 18th of each month.

If you have unexpected circumstances for the fortnight or month and need to stop a Direct Debit please note

they are processed two days before the due date and so you will need to contact us prior to that, to put a stop

on them.

EFTPOS and CENTREPAY are now a payment option. Please enquire at the office.

Afternoon Assembly : Monday at 2:45 Yr 6 Leaders & Class Prayer

Feb 18 : Scarlett, Shaylee, I.T Maddy & Marcus Senior B&S

Feb 25 : Alex, Claudia, I.T Tayla & Asher Middle N&W ALL WELCOME !

Live Life To The Fullest In Christ

Paul Arnel

Office News

Deputy Principal

Staffing Update Kim McKeogh goes on Maternity Leave at the end of term. I also share the news that long serving member of staff Trish Chmiel, will also be leaving us at that time. Trish takes an appointment in Cobram in pursuing a new direction in teaching Music. I will advertise for a Full Time Position over the next weeks.

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If you are eligible for the Camp Sports Excursion Fund (CSEF) please complete an application & hand into the

office. (healthcare card required)

If you have any queries or concerns about your payment commitments please do not hesitate to come in and

speak to Paul. If you are wanting to amend your payment options please do so ASAP.

The Term Planner can be viewed from the school website under news & events \ newsletters

If you have any queries, please ring Gayle or Donna at the office on 5862 1804

SMART Spelling Information Session Next Wednesday, 20th February, at 2.45pm we are inviting all parents and carers to an information session where we will explain the SMART Spelling Approach. We will assist you with ways you can support your child as well as giving you strategies to help your child with work they bring home. We look forward to seeing you in the Prep room and hope to answer any questions you may have. (Remember all parents and carers throughout the school are welcome). Joanie and Tan

Prep Term 1 Week 3 Newsletter Welcome to a fun-filled year of living and learning in Prep. We have had a fabulous start and all children have settled in well. They are building relationships with each other and their teachers and are becoming more confident in their new environment. The days are warm and by the afternoon we are all ready for a rest, teachers too! We will share with you the activities we have done so far. Buddies

Ob Surveys and Parent/Teacher/Student Interviews We are enjoying getting to know your child through our Numeracy and Literacy testing as well as the chats we have during P/T/S interviews. If you have been unable to attend please feel free to make another time that would suit you. Contact the office or use Seesaw. We are asking for volunteers to assist in the classroom, particularly between 9am-11am as you are a vital part in ensuring our Literacy program runs effectively. It is a great opportunity for you to observe the way we teach Reading, Writing and Spelling and then use the same process at home.

Preps

Preps have been introduced to their Grade 6

buddies and we shared a lunch together last

week. The Grade 6s will assist us in the

playground if we need help and work with us

in the classroom once each week. We

encourage them to build a positive, friendly

relationship with their Prep buddy so that we

as Preps feel safe and happy at school and

they, as Senior students, continue to grow to

be responsible, nurturing people

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St Joseph’s School - Newsletter Seesaw – Our Communication Tool We hope you are enjoying being part of our classroom. If you have not joined please come and see us and we will help you do so. Maths We have been counting every day. Whether counting to 22 to make sure we are all in line, counting our home groups to check our Emergency lines, singing counting rhymes and acting out songs, everyone has a go and has fun. We are using lots of different objects to count like fruit, dinosaurs and teddies. We are using 10 frames to investigate the value of 10.

Literacy

R.E.

We are learning about our uniqueness and the love Jesus has for each one of us. We are doing this through stories, role plays and singing songs. Inquiry Topic Our unit is “Marvellous Me” and we are looking at our uniqueness. “How am I similar and different to others?” is

the key question. Things/Dates to Remember Sport/Art/Library each Tuesday Music and P.M.P exercises each Thursday Filled water bottles each day Hats for outdoor activities

SMART Spelling Information Session Next Wednesday 20th February 2.45pm in the Prep Room

We look forward to working with you to build a happy learning environment.

Joanie and Tan

Junior Newsletter – Term 1 Week 3

Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely Christmas Break. It was great to meet many of our families at our

Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences on Tuesday. We are getting organised to set up our year and we ask

Juniors Juniors

We will be sending home “Take Home Readers” next week. We encourage lots of discussion about the book before reading it to your child. This helps with prediction and vocabulary building. Look through the whole book and TALK through it first. Use the vocabulary from the book. We also include a Spelling Book that involves reading the sentence of the week, sounding out of the focus word using fingers and then the spelling of that word. The words in blue are “Common Words” otherwise known as “Coloured Words”. This spelling approach allows us to cover more sounds and common words in a year, in a meaningful context. If you are unsure how to use this book please contact us.

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that you please take note of important reminders to ensure you are up to date with what is going on in and

around our classrooms day to day.

SeeSaw A note was sent home last week on Friday inviting you to join your child’s class via the SeeSaw app. Even

if you have used Seesaw in the past, you will need to register again via the new code sent home to ensure

you will be connected to your child’s new teachers for this year. If you have not received the invitation,

please contact your child’s teacher and we will arrange to send another one home. This will be an excellent

communication tool for your teachers to share photos/announcements with you. We will continue to use the

student communication diaries for daily communication between home and school.

Homework/Spelling This week we have started sending home readers, diaries and spelling homework. We ask that students read

each night, have their diary signed at home and return their reader folder to school each day. As some

children are reading longer books they may only read a chapter or a few pages each night. Their spelling

sheet is optional as an extra opportunity to practise for their spelling test on Friday.

SPECIALIST CLASSES Art/Library/Sport/LOTE: Our specialist classes will be on a Tuesday and Wednesday and will be on a rotational basis, swapping

every 5 weeks. The children need to wear their sports uniform on either Tuesday or Wednesday depending

on their PE day. Please see underneath to check which day your child has PE. This will swap in in Week 6

and we will remind you beforehand.

WEEKS 1-5

Tuesday Junior East (JUNIOR A & JUNIOR F): PE

Junior West (JUNIOR H & JUNIOR S): LOTE

WEEKS 1-5

Wednesday Junior East:(JUNIOR A & JUNIOR F) LOTE/ART

Junior West:(JUNIOR H & JUNIOR S) PE/LIBRARY

Sport: All our children will have an extra sport session on Friday, so please wear sports uniform on this day as

well.

Religion: In Religion we have been focusing on ‘Loving God & Others’. This encourages students to learn

about treating people the way you would like to be treated.

We are also learning to set up our daily prayer/meditation circles and how important it is to take the time out

to pray to God daily.

Literacy: In Literacy we have been enjoying students’ recounts of their holidays. We are beginning our

term with a focus on handwriting. The students have been practising correct letter formation and writing on

the dotted thirds.

Numeracy: Our Measurement unit has been a real hit to start our year. We have been learning about formal

and informal units of measurement, measuring things around our room and graphing our student heights. We

will be moving onto our Place Value Focus this week.

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Reading We have posters in our classrooms to display your child’s Reading Day. This has also been written in their

diaries. Every child is expected to read to an adult each day before school. On their reading day they are

expected to read to their teacher.

Inquiry We have begun our Inquiry Unit titled ‘I Belong, You Belong’. We have discussed belonging and how it

feels to belong to a family/ school/ community. Continuing with this theme we are encouraging the students

to take responsibility for their role as a class member. We are beginning our unit with a focus on Growth

Mindset and Goal Setting. When students believe that dedication and hard work can change their

performance in school, they grow to become resilient, successful students.

Andrew Chin Concert

Assembly Junior West - Week 8

Junior East - Week 9

Remember our doors are always open from 8:30am so pop in and hear some children read if you have time

or look at the work your child has being doing in class. However if you need to speak to your child’s

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teacher for a specific reason, please make a time to catch up as the mornings are very busy with morning

reading.

We are looking forward to a great term working with you.

Sue, Jen, Dee, Alli, Virginia, Jordyn, Bern, Jane, Naomi & Karlene.

Welcome back to another year of learning in our Middle School. We are very excited about getting to know

the students better over the next few weeks, as well as having a more settled time after swimming.

Our team this year:

Middle South is being taught by Ebony Miechel and Rachael Morrison with Amanda Lukies assisting in her

role as Learning Support Officer.

Middle North consists of Sara Whitford and Kelly Newman (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)/Trish Chmiel

(Monday, Tuesday) with Amy Williams assisting in her role as Learning Support Officer.

We are all very approachable and are happy to stop and have a chat about any concerns. “Our door is always

open.”

Literacy Our first genre we will be studying is Report Writing. We have begun our Smart Spelling program this week

with the children completing sound, visual and meaning strategies on their group of words each week.

All children should now have a home reader. We strongly encourage you to keep these in your St Joseph’s

folders (from Prep) for protection of your book and your diary, it is also an ideal place to carry your

homework to and from school. Our expectation is that all children read each school night and have their

diary signed by a parent/guardian each night. It is also a great help if you indicate what pages your child has

read (at least 10).

The students should know what morning is their morning to read to the teacher. On the other mornings they

just need to show their signed diary.

Mathematics Our first topic is Place Value. We are completing lots of work around reading and writing numbers with

emphasis on their place value positions. Some groups will look at renaming numbers eg, 1356 can also be

recorded as 13 hundreds, 5 tens and 6 ones. We are also doing lots of counting and practice of number

strategies (building to 10 (or 100) and doubles an early focus)

Swimming We are so very proud of the children in our area that participated in Swimming on Friday as well as the

practices during the week. Everybody tried their best, it was especially great to see the Year 3 students

embrace this new opportunity – we even had a number of 50m Year 3 swimmers. Well done.

Reminders * With such a hot start to the year please ensure all children have a school hat and a drink bottle.

* School Uniform – we are having a blitz in our area about wearing our gorgeous uniform proudly. Could

you please support this by checking that your child is coming to school with the correct shorts, hat and

shoes. This also includes jewellery, hair ties and nail polish. Studs and sleepers are allowed for earrings, no

nail polish, school colours in hair ties and all black shoes.

Middles

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Specialist Classes * Specialist classes are on Wednesday’s. Two classes will have sport and library and the other two classes

will have L.O.T.E and Art. This swaps half way through the term. The classes that miss either Sport and

LOTE on Wednesday’s will have a lesson on Friday’s.

* All middle students can wear their Sports uniform each Wednesday and Friday.

* Library Books to be brought to school each Wednesday – classes that don’t have library that week will

ensure the students have an opportunity to change books during the day.

Thank you to all the Year Five and Six students on the settled manner in which they have begun the School

year. We regard all of the students as leaders of the school and therefore will approach discipline through

this lens. In the Senior School, we expect our students to set the standard in regard to their behaviour and

attitude towards others and their schoolwork.

Swimming Sports

The Swimming sports were a great success and it was wonderful to see all of our students determined to try

their best and get points for their house. A great team spirit was evident. A highlight is not always the fastest

swimmer but the swimmer that has finished his/her race and stands at the end of the pool cheering on others

in the same race or the child that is determined to swim 50m in each event regardless of what a huge

physical effort it was or the place they got.

Opening Year Mass and Year 6 Leadership

We congratulate our 2019 School Captains;

Keeley Black

Aleece Bethell

Angel Cook

Hudson Storer

Alongside our School Captains, we congratulate our Area Leaders:

Sports Leaders; Ashton Commadeur and Rahni Garner

Triple A Leaders; Scarlett Eddy and Toby Griffiths

I.T Leaders; Bridie Kelly and Tristan Hopkins

Fire Carriers; Harry Moon, Madison Brewer and Jirra Letcher

Sustainability Leaders; Luke Buha and Claudia Plum

We look forward to seeing all our leaders receive their t-shirts in our afternoon assembly

next Monday 18th.

The 2019 Line Up

This year we welcome back Brooke Williams to our Senior area and our new teacher Liam Booth to our

team. The unit is being led by Adam Stirton and Therese will be continuing her Welfare role on Thursdays

and Fridays, whilst Kim Boulton steps into the class for those two days. We are also very fortunate to have

Di Thorne full time as Learning Support Officer and Deb Cairns as Literacy Support. Ray will continue his

role with Maths Extension. We all look forward to working with your child to support their individual needs.

Homework

Homework is handed out to everyone on Friday afternoon and is to be completed neatly by the next Friday

morning. Homework is designed so that each student can complete it stress free and with minimal guidance.

It is to help further develop their organisational and time management skills in preparation for Secondary

School.

Seniors

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Thank you

Adam, Therese, Kim, Brooke, Liam, Di and Ray.

Welcome back, everyone.

Issue #1 Bookclub orders are due back tomorrow, February 15th. If there are any questions about the

ordering process, feel welcome to contact me in the library.

Mary

We started the Sporting Year in magnificent fashion with our Annual Swim Carnival and the tussle for the Fr Kilmartin Shield. We were presented with a warm but stormy day so hustled through the events and finished with the All Age Relay. Team O’Connor salute in the Blue Ribbon Relay and also went Back to Back in the Teams Event. Thanks to Mr Merkel for his A Grade organisation and to the staff for their work in providing the children with every opportunity to do their best. And congratulations to our boys and girls on their effort and attitude which we demand in everything we do. Special mention to our Representative Team which heads to Shep next Tuesday, we wish them well.

Divisional Swimming Team – 2019 BOYS 10 Years Cooper Weeks, Brian Hansen 11 Years Jared Bethell, Kaleb Gilmour, Seth McCracken, Aiden Prior 12+ Boys Nick Tickell GIRLS 10 Years Heidi Moon 11 Years Beth Pellegrino, Eva Laidlaw 12+ Years Aleece Bethell, Keely Black, Madi Brewer, Angel Cook

Sen C Tom Masters

For his magic start to the school year,

Sen S Archie Johns

For settling so wonderfully into our senior

school routines.

Sen W Chelsea Clancy

For settling in nicely to our school.

Sen B Aidan Prior

Great start to the year! Always respectful

to peers and teachers. Well done.

Mid N Xavier Tonkin

Welcome to St Joseph’s and

congratulations on your positive start.

Mid M Jack Keane

For his beautiful manners and settled

approach to learning.

Student of the Week

Sports

Library

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Mid R Sienna Lawless

For the enthusiastic manner in which you

take on all learning tasks.

Mid W Heidi Moon

For her awesome effort and sportsmanship

at our swimming carnival

Tahlia Kosanke

Welcome to St Joseph’s and

congratulations on settling in so well into

the middle area.

Jun S Cobie Patching

For the positive and confident way she is

settling into the school year.

Jun H Tanner McKellar

For his outstanding efforts in writing

tasks. Neat and all complete!

Jun F Georgia Robertson

For showing leadership and caring for

others at all times.

Jun A Emma Cole

For starting the school year with a positive

and determined attitude.

PREP N Nathanael Hubbard

For settling into school life so beautifully

and showing enthusiasm in all we do.

PREP A Phoebe Keane

For being an enthusiastic Learner and

friend to all.

Please note the new canteen roster is now

attached & we will start with the new roster

Monday 18th February.

Also we still need volunteers, please let Karen

know if you are able to help out by contacting

the school on 5862 1804

February

15th Kim Allen

18th Natasha Stell

19th Volunteer

20th Volunteer

21st Jodie Carkeek

22nd Kristy Kallasmae, Volunteer

25th Kate McGregor

26th Volunteer

27th Ranai Mulloy

28th Rachel Robertson, Rachelle Moon

MARCH

1st Michelle Razga, Volunteer

4th Leah Laidlaw

5th Volunteer

6th Volunteer

7th Haylee Schulz

12th Volunteer

13th Jane Bearham

14th Helen Osborne

15th Volunteer

If you are unable to attend on your day, can you please arrange a swap with someone else or as last resort let Karen know in advance, so she is aware that she has no helper that day. We now have our App up & running. If you have a

smartphone please go to your App Store (iphone)

or Google Playstore (Android) and search for the

St Josephs Numurkah App and install. We will be

publishing the Newsletters & notices on this App.

In settings please select classes relevant to your

children.

Canteen

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Second Hand Uniforms

Second hand uniforms are bursting! Over the past

couple of weeks we have had lots of donations

from the previous Year 6 families so we have a

great range of larger sizes. Karen will be available

next week at 9 am if you would like to come and

have a look. All monies raised go to the P&F.

Bendigo Banking Please note that school banking deposits are now collected on a Thursday. If you wish to make a deposit please ensure that your bank deposits are in to the office by Thursday.

Community Notices

Lenten Reflection Program Our Parish Advisory Committee has supported the offer to parents of a Lenten reflection program. The program is to be facilitated by Patrick Kempton using the documents from either the Archdiocese of Brisbane or Adelaide. It is proposed to hold the weekly reflections on Wednesdays at 9.30 am in the Parish House. The cost of the program will be less than $10 for each person. Please let the school office know by Thursday 21 February 2019 if you wish to participate.

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