St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Handbook

2024 Bus Timetable (Premier Charters)

PB4L (Positive Behaviour for Learning)

Ask your child about the weekly focus for students.

This week's focus:

Be Respectful - Respect learning time!

Happy Birthday

We wish the following students a very happy birthday who celebrate their special day during the week.

15 February - Amelia W Kinder

17 February - Charlotte R Year 3, Lucy M Year 3 and Blake B Year 5

19 February - Maggie F Year 1 and Emmett G Year 3

21 February - Zahli B Year 4

ACTION: 2024 Online Forms & Consents- Action Required (Kinder-Year 6) - DUE TOMORROW

Thank you for those families who have completed our 2024 Online forms and consents.

We ask that the following forms be completed via the COMPASS Parent Portal-Insights by tomorrow, Friday 16 February 2024.

2024 CEDoW Consent for the use of student’s image and/or work
2024 CEDoW Acceptable Use of Technology
2024 Local Excursion and Incursion Consent
2024 Parent Input Form
2024 Going Home Dismissal Arrangements

Please read the attached Parent Guide on how to access this forms.

Kindergarten Parent and Teacher Meet & Greets - OPEN TOMORROW at 4pm

Now that Kindergarten students are in their permanent classes, parent teacher meet and greet bookings will open tomorrow, Friday 16 February at 4pm. Meet and greets will be held during Weeks 4 and 5 (19 February - 1 March).

Meet & Greets will be 10 minutes in duration. Please ensure you arrive 5 minutes before your schedule time. All meet and greets will be held in your child/s classrooms unless otherwise advised.

All bookings are to be made via the COMPASS Parent Portal.

Kindergarten Parent/Carers Welcome Evening

Kindergarten parents/carers are invited to a special welcome night on Thursday 29 February 6.00pm - 8:00pm. Please join us for this opportunity to socialise and connect with other Kindergarten parents and school staff. (Parents only, no children)

Please register your attendance using the link provided below by Friday 23 February 2024.

Head Lice

We have been advised of a number of cases of head lice. Please check your child's hair and treat accordingly. Please click on this link from NSW Health that you may find helpful

Lost Property

The following items were left at Corrimal Pool after our swimming carnival. If they belong to your household, they are in the school office waiting for your collection.

2024 Enrolments - Online applications now open

Our online applications are now open.

You will be required to use our new online enrolment platform, called Funnel, removing the use of all paper forms. Please take note, particularly for sibling applications. The online application form will be accessible from the home page of our school website

2024 School Fees

School fees for 2024 have now been invoiced and statements have been issued.

If you are paying your fees upfront, full payment is due by 28 February 2024.
If you are paying your fees via weekly, fortnightly, monthly or quarterly, your first instalment is also due 28 February 2024.

If you wish to pay via instalments and have not requested to do so, please complete the form below.

Library News

Premier Reading Challenge

On 26 February the Premier Reading Challenge begins.

In 2024 St Joseph's will be running a school wide challenge. All students will participate.

Kinder-Year 2 books will be lodged by Mrs Pirie. Years 3-6 students will log books they have read, both class reading and home reading will be included, during library lessons

Library Monitors - We Need You!

Do you love our library? Do you enjoy helping others? Do you enjoy using computers? Do you LOVE books?

Thank you to those students who have showed interested in being involved in the library monitor program.

If your child is interested, please return the application at your earliest convenience.

Sports News

Sports Uniform Days - Term 1

Students are required to wear sports uniform as outlined below.

Please be advised that students will be required to wear their sports uniform the following days.

Year	Days required to wear sports uniform
Kindergarten	Wednesday & Friday
Year 1	Monday & Wednesday
Year 2	Tuesday & Thursday
Year 3	Tuesday & Friday
Year 4	Thursday & Friday
Year 5	Tuesday & Friday
Year 6	Tuesday & Friday

SJB Swim Trials 2024

On Monday the SJB Swim Trials were held at Corrimal Pool. The weather was absolutely glorious which we hope is a sign of things to come for our Cross Country later this term! A special thank you to the amazing parent volunteers and the dedicated staff who ensured the swim trials ran smoothly. We are also very grateful to those who remained at school and supported staff and students before or after the event. We give thanks for the wonderful community we have at St Joseph’s!

Fantastic results were achieved, and the students had fun, which is most important. It was a wonderful display of school spirit and participating students are to be congratulated for their representation of our school. The presentation of the winning house, war cry winner and age champions will be made during assembly on Friday and our SJB Swim Squad for the South Coast Carnival will be announced in coming weeks ahead of the South Coast Swimming Carnival on 5 March 2024.

Diocesan Touch Football Trials

Congratulations to the following students who this week were selected in the Diocesan Touch Football Team and will compete in the MacKillop Trials at Wagga in June - Brody N, Carter O, Zaine B, Ella R and Zarli A.

We wish them all the best of luck!

Primary All School Selection Trials

St Joseph School Cross Country - Whole School Carnival K-6

We look forward to our whole school Cross-Country carnival which will be held in Term 1 on 27 March 2024. Please save the date to spectate, support and/or act as a carnival official! More information will be shared later in the term.

Canteen

Open Monday to Friday for recess and lunch.

Cash purchases for snacks and drinks can be made at recess and lunchtime. Snacks and drinks can also be ordered via the new platform FlexiSchools.

FRIENDLY REMINDER: PLEASE ENSURE YOU CHANGE YOUR CHILD/S CLASS TO REFLECT THEIR CLASS FOR 2024

Lunch orders

Orders for lunch can only be made through Flexischools. Please note that orders close at 9.15am daily. Orders cannot be placed after this time.

Flexischool Parent Support Line - 1300 361 769 (Hours: 7.00am-12.00 noon)

Catholic Care

OOSH, Out of School Hours care at St Joseph's

Email: bullioosh@catholiccare.dow.org.au

Mobile: 0437 713 067

Booking Information

Enrolment Form

CatholicCare Website

Service hours

Before School Care

7:00am – 8:30am

After School Care

2:45pm – 6:00pm

If you require the use of OOSH for your child/ren you need to be enrolled in the service prior to commencing.

Casual bookings

If your child already uses the service and you require a casual booking please do this via the Xplor app.

Before School Care: Bookings are to be made no later than 5:30 pm the night before

After School Care: Bookings are to be made no later than 9:00 am that morning

Casual booking must be made as per the times above to ensure enough staff. If notice is not provided within these time frames and the service does not have sufficient staff your child/ren will be sent to the office for collection. This is something that we all wish to avoid, so please keep in mind the time frames to help support the service.

If there is an emergency and care is needed please phone and leave a message and we will see what we can do.

If you do have any questions, need clarification, or have any feedback please feel free to contact the service mobile during operating hours on 0437 713 067 or Jacinta, Team Leader – 0407 759 720.

Strengthening Relationships

Community Notices

Holy Spirit College - Year 7 2026 Enrolment

Fairy Meadow Hockey Club

Norths Netball Registration

Tigers AFL Club Registration

Family Matters

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