Principal's Message

Liam Buckley

Mothers' Day

Dear Lord, Bless every mother and every grandmother and maternal figure with the finest of your spiritual blessings today. Confirm in her heart and spirit the work of her hands and the love that she has so freely given to those children under Your care. Validate her worth daily so she has no reason to doubt whether she is loved, valued, and cherished in the eyes of her Heavenly Father.

Dear Families

It's the end of another busy week at St Joseph's. Some of you parents have spent the past three days with us - from the Athletics Carnival on Wednesday, the Year 5/6 Liturgy on Thursday and then an early but yummy start with Mothers' Day Breakie and Mass on Friday morning. Thank you parents and friends for the support you give to the school and the students. We could not operate without you and we are deeply grateful for those of you who can offer their time and talent. 

 

Athletics Carnival

 

What a wonderful Wednesday!

I am so grateful to Henry Mutimer for his talent and organisation of our Athletics Carnival. We may not have broken any World Records - (Maybe a pulled hammy - we hope you're okay Paul D!) but we had an amazing time. Thank you to everyone who helped and cheered. It was so lovely to see parents involved, even though they did beat the teachers - thank you for joining in and making your kids smile! Also thank you to the effort that went into catering for the afternoon. Trish and team ... we thank you all!!

Also, we are very lucky to have DJ Sando entertaining us for the duration. 

 

Mothers Day Liturgy

On Thursday The Year 5/6 team hosted a Mothers' Day Liturgy with beautiful prayers, reflections and activities. It was so lovely to be part of the celebration and it was great to see so many mums and grandmothers joining us. 

 

 

NAPLAN

Our Year 3 & 5 students are sitting the NAPLAN Testing next week. The tests are:

Date Test          
Tues 11thLanguage Conventions & Writing 
Wed 12thReading 
Thurs 13th  Numeracy
Fri 14thcatch-up test if necessary

The data is used as a national metric and is a snap shot of the child's learning on that day. Please ensure that Year 3 & 5 students have a good sleep and are in school unless unwell. If your child misses a test, there is the option of a catch up test on Friday.

'Junior Joeys'

If you know of anyone interested in coming along, then please share the details via social media or by word of mouth. Wednesdays: Week 4 & 6 & 8 from 2.30pm at school. 

 

Thank you to Dane Flighty for designing the Junior Joeys logos.

School Review

Next week we have two external reviewers in school on Wednesday and Thursday and their role is to support us create strategic improvement plans for the next four years.

 

ACU Pre Service - Teacher

 

From Monday we will be supporting a 4th Year pre-service teacher Tanya (Miss Murphy) who will start her rounds with observation and then build towards more control. I am very grateful to Mrs Botterill for facilitating the teaching round for Tanya. 

Class Reps

 Parent
PrepMegan Derunovsky
 Bianca Sabbatucci
Year 1Nell Leandrie
 Kate Johnson 
Year 2Johanna Shannon
  
Year 3/4Michelle Sweeny 
 Rod Runco 
 Antoinette Ercolano
Year 5/6Belinda Reimers
 Jo Green 
Inter-school Sport (Year 5/6) Home v St AgnesFriday 7th May
NAPLAN Yrs 3 & 5 

Tues 11th May -

Thurs 14th May 

School Review

Wed 12th May & 

Thurs 13th May.                    

Junior Joeys 

School Experience #2

Wed12th May.                           
Holt XCFri 14th May
Inter-school Sport (Year 5/6) -Away v St Anthony’sFri 21st May

Junior Joeys 

School Experience #3

Wed 26th May
Inter-school Sport (Year 5/6) - Home v St OLOLFri 28th May

June

Holt AFL L.P.Fri 4th June

Junior Joeys 

School Experience #4

Wed 9th June
Holt Netball L.P.Thurs 10th June                     
Inter-school Sport (Year 5/6) - Away v St CatherinesFri 11th June
2022 Enrolments CloseFriday 11th June

Junior Joeys 

School Experience #5

Wed 23rd June

School Camp Dates

5/6 Camp 7th – 10th Sept 2021

Ballarat & Maldon

3/4 Camp 6th - 8th Dec 2021

'Hi Ace' (Cape Shank)

Tennis Coaching

Daniel is poised top start coaching on Monday - please email or contact Daniel via this link for lessons.