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Matthew O'Brien, Principal
Dear Parents, Guardians, Staff, Students and the wider St. Joseph’s Primary School Community,
Father’s Day
Mrs Chisholm and the choir performing at the Father’s Day Breakfast.
Thanks to everyone involved in the wonderful Father’s Day Breakfast last Friday. Especially to our team of volunteers who cooked, served, set up and cleaned up.
A special mention to our sponsors for the day Woolworths who donated goods and staff, Harvey Norman for the photo opportunity and Bloom Bar for providing flowers.
Raffle
Congratulations to Mrs Ewing and her family for winning the $10,000 grand prize in our Playground Raffle.
As Mrs Ewing bought her ticket through the school office there was no ticket seller on the winning ticket.
We drew a further ticket to give away the “seller’s prize” of a St Joseph’s Family Fee for one year. The McDowall Family (Harvey D5 and Nelson B4) were the lucky winners.
Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support.
This has been a great fundraiser. All of the profits will go towards our new playground.
We made a grand profit of $28,240.28
A big shout out to Cathy Duynhoven for attracting our sponsors and for following up on our ticket sellers.
C2 was the class that had the highest ratio of tickets sold to students and have won a classroom party for themselves.
Cyber Safety
The Cyber Safety Session planned for tonight has been postponed so that it coincides with the student session which was unable to be run yesterday due to the power failure.
Book Week
Please see further into this newsletter for all of our Book week details. Thanks to Mrs LLoyd, Mr El-Hage and our Arts Team for the preparation they have put into decorating our school and organising the activities.
Wild Weather - Trees Down
Thanks to all of our staff and families who have made accommodations in our recent wild weather. You may have noticed that we have lost a few trees including two large trees just inside our front gate.
Matthew O'Brien, Principal
Happy Birthday to children celebrating their birthday this week.
Hudson Coates, Miguel Kamba, Lincoln O'Keefe, Blair MacDougall, Meg Coleman, Harvey McDowall, Macy Vagg, Eddie O'Donnell, Dhanvant Sivasankar, Bonnie King, Aramis Skevofylakas, Asia Suringa, Cleo Coffey, Ollie Southwick and Ollie Gynes.
Parents/Guardians are invited to attend the
Book Week Parade in the school hall at
9:15am on Friday 6th September.
AFL 9’s
On Thursday 29th August our Year 5 AFL 9’s teams competed in the division competition at the Walter and Mack ovals. Our girls had a successful game finishing second on the ladder and losing just one match, while our boys also had a great day, not losing a game and finishing on top.
Both teams will progress to the Regional competition in Ballarat on Wednesday 11th September.
Well done to all who competed!
Matt McMillan
Sports Coordinator and PE Teacher
During recent Japanese lessons the Year 6 students learnt about the bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August in 1945. Students recalled the story of Sadako and the 1000 paper cranes and were asked to write a Haiku poem upon reflection of this tragic event in Japan’s history.
Student contribution of poems written by Charlie Bellman, Indi Smedts, Hannah Smith and Lily-May Jennings.
Emily Lloyd
Specialist teacher
The PSA will be running their annual fundraiser to raise additional funds for the Art Department.
This year your child's artwork will be available on Ribbon and Clay.
Ribbon and Clay
Ordering Details
Orders are now open via CDFPay at a cost of $18.00 and close at 3pm on Tuesday 15th October.
Orders will be delivered in plenty of time to use these items as Christmas presents.
Note: Our Art teachers will endeavour to ensure your child has completed the necessary artwork. However, if your child has been absent for an extended period of time for holidays or sickness they may not have completed their artwork.
From Moday 2nd September, children are required to wear their hats at school whilst outside at recess, lunch and sport.
No Hat = No Play
Children without hats will have to stay in the undercover area during lunch and recess. We do NOT have a grace period, hats must be worn from the 1st September.
Hats are available at Lowes, Gateway Plaza.
As per our Sun Protection policy:
Please ensure your child has adequate sun protection during the months of September to May. You child will require the following:
- their own sunscreen SPF 30+ or higher,
- St Joseph's Primary School sun hat,
- rash vest (if they are going swimming).
The above items are all to be labelled with their name and room number please.
Classrooms all have a supply of sunscreen available.