At the very heart of each Catholic school is a desire for the full flourishing of each student across religious, physical, cognitive, emotional and social domains.’

Horizons of Hope

Liturgy

Parents are invited to join their children for the class based liturgies over the next few weeks. The times are as follows :


Foundation	Tuesday 16th March 9am
Year 1	Friday 12th of March 9:00am
Year 2	Thursday 18th March 9am
Year 3/4	Thursday 18th March 3pm.
Year 5/6	Tuesday 23rd of March 9am

Dear all

Today is Clean Up Australia Day and our students were out in force! Thanks to Miss Wood for organising.

Last Day of Term 1 :

Wednesday 31st March is the last day for students in Term 1.

(PD for staff on Thurs & Good Friday is the 2nd)

Parent Ambassadors

I am delighted to announce that we have 4 Parent Ambassadors who have volunteered to help and support our school as we move forward. Kate Johnson, Bridgette Conway, Suze Mannix & Kelly Laird.

We will be working together to reignite our parent engagement to support and grow our community.

Thank you to Paul Davys for organising Dads' Drinks last week and creating opportunities for people to meet socially.

Open Days

We will be holding a couple of Open Days where prospective parents are invited to come and have a tour of the school and an opportunity to meet staff and students.

16th and 22nd of March

between 12pm - 2pm.

Performing Arts

Exciting News .... This year we will be having a whole school production ! We have November 22nd booked in at Kilbreda College and we will reveal which production we are doing next term! We will employ a Performing Arts teacher for the production and we are also currently providing a Performing Arts lunchtime club every Wednesday in the hall.

Sport Leader / Sport Captains

This week Alfie, Will & Ocienne organised and ran sports and games for our junior students at lunchtime on Thursday. Congrats and thank you for you leadership! On Tuesday next week the team will be running a soccer game for the Year 3/4s.

Congrats to all our swimmers who represented St Joseph's at the Beachside level!

School Review

We are currently reviewing and updating all our policies for compliance purposes under VRQA.

All policies will be available via the website in Term 2 - Our policies (and all Catholic primary schools) will be aligned with centralised policies from Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS)

Thank you to all our families and friends who continue to support this wonderful school community.


Week 7 (8th - 12th)
Monday 8th	Public Holiday
Wednesday 10th	PSGs
Thursday 11th	PSGs
Friday 12th

Week 8 (15th - 19th)
Tuesday 16th	Open Day 12 - 2pm
Wednesday 17th	Colour Run 2.30pm (Milk shakes $3 & $5) Dolphin Ambassador Day
Friday	St Joseph's Feast Day Mass 9.15am
Wednesday 31st March	Term ends (3.30pm) Easter Raffle & Assembly 2.30pm
School closure day	April 1st (non-student day ) Staff PD

Sacramental Dates

First Communion will be an evening service at St Joseph's and will be the 26th May at 6pm.

Reconciliation will be the 16th June at 10am in school

Reconciliation will take place in school time during Term 2 and we will clarify that date ASAP

School Camp Dates

5/6 Camp 7th – 10th Sept 2021

Ballarat & Maldon

3/4 Camp 6th - 8th Dec 2021

'Hi Ace' (Cape Shank)

Last Day of Term 4

Students finish Wednesday 15th Dec 1pm

St Joseph's Primary School Newsletter

St Joseph’s is a Child Safe School.We promote the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of all children.

Term 1 Week 6 · 05 Mar 2021

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St Joseph’s is a Child Safe School.
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