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Dear Parents & Carers,
Thank you to to all famliies who connected with teachers for parent teacher interviews last week. These conversations are so valuable in supporting your child's learning journey. Please remember that communication with teachers is always open - whether it be through SeeSaw, phone calls or making an appointment to see your child's teacher.
This Friday we are excited to host our Father's Day Breakfast. We warmly invite fathers, grandfathers and significant others to join us for this special morning. If you haven't already, please RSVP through the Compass link or contact the office to assist with catering.
We also extend a very warm welcome to three new students who joined our school community last week: Jackson Murray, Year 1, Hunter Murray, Year 3, and Harrison Fisher, Year 6, to St. Joseph's. We're thrilled to have them and their families as part of St. Joseph's and welcome them into our community.
We are excited to be in the process of working on our draft copy and book of 'Fire in the Tops'. On Friday, students from 2/3 and 4/5/6 will be working on voice recordings for the characters. We look forward to sharing this final copy of our book in Term 4.
Peace & Best Wish
Amy Maslen
Princpal
TERM 3
| Week 7 | |
| Monday 1st September | Year 6 Religion Test |
| Sport Day - Basketball | |
| Tuesday 2nd September | Sascha Isaacs - School Counsellor |
| Playgroup in the hall 9:15-10:15am | |
| Thursday 4th | Library Day |
| Father's Day Stall (students bring funds and pillowcase/bag for purchase of gifts). | |
| Friday 5th September | Father's Day Breakfast 8:15-8:55am |
| Canteen Day | |
| Week 8 | |
| Monday 8th | Sport Day - Basketball |
| Workshop with Anna Kerrigan, ASPIRE/Drama | |
| Tuesday 9th | Workshop with Anna Kerrigan, ASPIRE/Drama |
| Wednesday 10th | Musica Viva - Visit to Gloucester Public School |
| Regional Public Speaking @ St Joseph's Taree | |
| Thursday 11th September | Book Week Parade, Author Visit & Meerkat CBCA Book Week Performance |
| Friday 12th September | Assembly K1 9:30am |
| Week 9 | |
| Tuesday 16th September | Playgroup 9:15-10:15am in the Hall |
| Sport Day - Basketball | |
| Wednesday 17th September | Year 5/6 Sydney Excursion |
| Thursday 18th September | Year 5/6 Sydney Excursion |
| Library Day | |
| Friday 19th September | Year 5/6 Sydney Excursion |
| Canteen Day | |
| Week 10 | |
| Monday 22nd September | Sport Day Basketball |
| Thursday 25th September | Library Day |
| Friday 26th September | Final Day Term 3 |
| Canteen Day |
| Term 4 | |
| Week 1 | |
| Monday 13th October | School Resumes |
| Week 3 | |
| Tuesday 28th | Early Birds 9-12pm |
| Healthy Harold Visit | |
| Week 4 | |
| Tuesday 4th November | Early Birds |
| Thursday 6th November | Sport (Swimming) |
| Week 5 | |
| Tuesday 4th November | Early Birds |
| Thursday 13th November | Sport (Swimming) |
| Week 6 | |
| Thursday 20th November | Sport (swimming) 12.30 - 2.30 |
| Week 7 | |
| Thursday 27th November | Sport (Swimming) 12.30 - 2.30 |
| Week 8 | |
| Thursday 4th December | Sport (Swimming) 12.30 - 2.30 |
| Week 9 | |
| Thursday 11th December | Sport (Swimming) 12.30 - 2.30 |
| Week 10 | |
| Tuesday 16th December | Final Day for Students |
| Wednesday 17th December | Pupil Free Day |
| Thursday 18th December | Pupil Free Day |
| Friday 19th December | Pupil Free Day |
| K1 Awards | |
| Everyly Sheely | for commitment to improving her reading |
| Imogen Wiencke | for her wonderful way I'm identifying how the Holy Spirit makes others feel. |
| Lily Baker | for her excellent work identifying and categorising nouns. |
| 2/3 Awards | |
| Mabel McInnes | for showing persistence and determination when working with arrays and multiplication, never giving up even when the learning feels challenging. |
| Ava Wiencke | for using context clues and making inferences to uncover hidden meanings in textx, and clearly justifying your thinking. |
| Josie Banyer | for showing kindness, empathy and leadership by supporting her peers and keeping her group positive and enthusiastic during drama activities. |
| 4/5/6 Awards | |
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Gurjiven Kaur
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for her commitment to learning in literacy
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| Henry Tighe |
for consistently putting his best effort forward in class in both group and independent work
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| Thomas Cawthorne Mckinley | for always being helpful and polite. |
| Principal's Awards | |
| Amelia Butchers | for living our school values of showing care and compassion to others. |
Thank You for helping us to raise money for "Sweethearts for kids" which helps kids with heart disease. We made $276 form our activities on Thursday. Thanks to everyone for donating and supporting the Mini Vinnies charity fundraiser. The money will really make a difference for kids with heart problems.
Big Thank You from Revel, Dakota, Talya and Eli
During Week 7 we are also holding Father's Day Breakfast on Friday morning. Please save the date of September 5th from 8am as we very much look forward to welcoming Father's, Step-fathers, Grandfather's, Uncles or significant others to this morning.
Father's Day Breakfast cooked by staff will deliver a Bacon and Egg roll, tea, coffee, juice and newspapers to share. This is a fun morning to share Breakfast with students. Please RSVP for catering purposes on through the Compass link or contact the office.
Father's Day stall will also be held on Thursday for students to purchase gift/gifts. Pricing will be $4 and $5 each for a fun range of gifts and money raised will go towards our FACE (Family & Community Engagement) fundraising at St. Joseph's Gloucester. Please ensure your child has a bag or pillowcase to place items to take home.
We will be celebrating Book Week Thursday 11th September. This will be in week 8. The theme for this year’s book week is ‘Book an Adventure’.
The day will consist of the Meerkat Productions musical adaptation of ‘The Garden of Broken Things’ starting at 9.00am. Gloucester Preschool will also be attending this production at our school.
Lunch will be at the normal time of 11.10am – 12.00pm.
Local Author Therese Lloyd will be doing workshop activities between 12.00-1.30pm. Therese Lloyd is the author of Arki and the Cursed Caves.
Everyone is invited to come and watch our book character parade at 2.00pm.
Students are encouraged to dress up as a book character or in a costume to match the theme, with the theme being, ‘Book an Adventure’. Costumes do not need to be expensive, as many book character costumes can be created using everyday clothing.
Looking forward to seeing everyone for our Book Week Parade!
Adam McCann & Jennie Shultz
