School News

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Handbook

PB4L (Positive Behaviour for Learning)

Ask your child about the weekly focus for students.

This week's focus-  Listen to and follow instructions  the first time!

Happy Birthday

Wishing all our students a very happy birthday who celebrated their special day over the last week.

18 August - Indianna G Year 3

19 August - Lachlan G Year 6

23 August - Lachlan C Kinder

24 August - Finn M Year 6

Summer Uniform Changeover - 4 September 2023

Students change from Winter to Summer uniforms on the Monday following Father’s Day - 4 September 2023. Should the weather be too cold or too hot, parents may use their discretion and choose for their child to wear either the summer or winter uniform in the 2 weeks prior to or following the change-over date.

Australian Wildlife Sanctuary - Wild Rover

Kindergarten students had a fantastic day on Thursday with the Australian Wildlife Sanctuary. We were captivated the whole time and learnt all about native wildlife. We were lucky enough to get up close and personal to a Blue Tongued Lizard, Mini Crocodile, Ringtail Possum, Sugar Glider, and even a Python Snake. This amazing learning links with our Science and Technology unit of work - Living Things.

Mathematics at SJB

Stage 2 teachers have been collaboratively planning, teaching and reflecting upon student engagement in order to improve their teaching practice of Mathematics. They have been challenging students with open ended Maths tasks. Teachers begin their lessons by activating students' prior learning before they are given open-ended tasks that may be solved in a variety of ways. Students are challenged to persevere, take risks and use prior knowledge. They often find themselves in the learning pit before teachers gather student samples to explicitly teach strategies to apply to the open ended tasks. Students are then able to return to their work and confidently attempt the tasks again. They are asked to show their solutions in more than one way. Mathematics can be shown with concrete materials, drawn with visuals, explained verbally and/or written in equation form (number sentences). Here are some of our stage 2 teachers in action with their students.

Fabiola Walls

Mathematics

SJB Public Speaking Final

Congratulations to all students in Year 5 and 6 who did a wonderful job presenting their speeches in front of their peers and teachers. From the inclass competitions, three students from each class were selected to represent their grade in the SJB Public Speaking Final. Congratulations to the following students: 

Public Speaking Final - Monday 28 August 

The Public Speaking final will be held in the school hall at 9:15 am next Monday 28 August. Parents and carers of the finalists are most welcome to attend.

ICAS Assessment

Selected students will be participating in the following ICAS Assessments.  Below are the dates the assessment will take place here at school.

Library News

Students' library class visits for Term 3 are as follows.

Mrs Holly Pirie

Teacher Librarian

Sports News

Sports Uniform Days - Term 3

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.

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.

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 requireacasual booking please do this viathe 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.

Community Notices

Lowes - 2 DAY VIP EVENT, 24-25 AUGUST

Sandon Point SLSC

Football South Coast