St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Handbook

PB4L (Positive Behaviour for Learning)

Whole School Expectation - Weekly Focus for Students

Be Responsible - Use a strategy to respond respectfully when you are feeling upset, stressed, overwhelmed or angry.

The PB4L Team

Home Reading

Home reading will begin next week for Years 1 - 6. An information sheet will be sent home on Monday with your child regarding home reading expectations and routines. If you have any questions about Home Reading please ask your child’s teacher during meet and greets.

Did you know that researchers discovered that the very best readers (children who scored better than 90 percent of their peers on reading tests) read for more than 20 minutes a day.

Reading for 20 minutes a day = student will read about 1.8 million words a year

Reading for 5 minutes a day = about 280 000 words a year

Reading less than 1 minute a day = 8000 words a year.

A child who reads less than 1 minute a day would require one year to read what the best readers read in two days! This highlights the importance of daily reading, so your support with home reading is greatly appreciated and will benefit your child.

ACTION: 2023 Parent Information Packs and Important Information

Thank you to those families who have completed and returned the forms to the school office. For those who have not yet returned the forms, please read the covering letter carefully and return at your earliest convenience.

What do I need to do if my child's arrangements for going home change?

At times your child's travel arrangement for going home can change for various reasons. When this occurs it is always advisable to let the school office know to save any confusion.

The school office is able to advise your child and their teacher if messages are received by 1:20 pm.

2023 School Fees

School fees for 2023 have now been invoiced and statements were issued last week with annual or first instalment payments are due on 28 February 2022. You may view school fees in the Compass Parent Portal.

Student Absences

Whole Days

The school must receive notification by a parent or caregiver of any whole day absence. This can be done via the Compass School Management System on the day of the absence. In the event that notification is not supplied, the absence will be recorded as Unjustified/Unexplained.

Partial Absences

The School Office records partial absences when a child enters school late or leaves school early and parents are not required to enter these via Compass.

Unexplained extended absences from school are serious and the school adheres to the School Attendance Guidelines and St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Bulli Procedures of the Catholic Education Office, Wollongong.

2024 KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS ARE NOW OPEN

2024 Kindergarten are now open and enrolment packages are available from the school office.

Places are available in some grades. If you know anyone thinking about enrolling their child please contact the school office

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Happy Birthday

Wishing all our students a very happy birthday who celebrated their special day over the Christmas, New Year and beginning of the school year.

5 February - Maisie C Year 4

6 February - Vivienne H Year 5, Felix P Year 4 and Jordan G Year 3

7 February - Liam T Year 4, Mikayla K Year 5 and Zoe C Year 3

9 February - Finn B Year 5 and Chelsea L Year 1

Sports News

Sports Uniform Days - Term 1

Students will be required to wear their PE uniform on the following days for the remainder of the term.

Due to changes in timetabling, Year 5 has changed their sports day to Monday and Thursday.

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

SJB Swimming Trials

The St Joseph's swimming carnival will be held tomorrow FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2023 at Corrimal Public pool for those students who have already completed the trial consent.

Event nominations have been entered into the system and printed so if your child decides not to enter one of their nominated races, they can let the marshall know on the day.

Please refer to the Compass event for more information and to ensure payment for the event is completed where applicable. Job allocations for parent volunteers (who are fully vaccinated) have been sent out. If your availability has changed, please let the office know.

Thank you for your ongoing support of our school events.

All other students in Years 2 to 6 will remain at school and are invited to wear their sports uniform with their house colour t-shirt (optional) to participate in some physical activities during the day.

Kylie Grose & Christine Smith

Sport Co-ordinator

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 Quickcliq.

Lunch orders

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

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 5:30pm the night before

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

Casual booking must be made as per the times above to ensure enough staff. If notice is not provided within these timeframes 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 timeframes 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 Services

Lowe's - NSW Back to School Voucher Program

Northern District Tigers

Norths Netball Club

Parenting Page

eSafety’s Gift Guide for our parent community