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: 

Be responsible with equipment.

A BIG congratulations to Gold House who were Term 3’s PB4L token winners with a total of 537 tokens. To celebrate great playground behaviour choices Gold House can wear Gold mufti to school this Friday September 22. Keep up the fantastic work!

1st Place: Gold House (537)

2nd Place: Blue House (487)

3rd Place: Red House (442)

4th Place: Green House (419)

Happy Birthday

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

15 September - Ivy B Year 2

16 September - Zane N HYear 3 and Zach C Kinder

18 September - Aria S Year 1 and Max P Year 1

20 September - Flynn W Year 6 and Mason K Kinder

21 September - Zoe R Year 6

ICAS - Digital Technologies

The following student will be presented their ICAS Digital Technology certificates on Friday 22 September 2023 (Week 10).

Congratulations to all the students who participated in the ICAS Digital Technologies.

Ambulance Appreciation Day

Last Friday 15 September the Captains were lucky enough to go to Bulli Ambulance station to celebrate Ambulance Appreciation Day. 

We had a wonderful time experiencing and learning about the NSW Ambulance and all the great things they have achieved over the many years of their service. Natalia, Hayes and Hannah traveled by foot to the Ambulance station located on Hospital Road. It was a lovely ceremony celebrating the great work of the Australian ambulance force and the efforts they take to keep people safe. It was very interesting and inspiring to hear all the acts of bravery our Ambulance and Paramedics have done throughout the year and the different ways they serve the community. 

It was a morning that the captains and Mr Matthews will remember on top of it all the teddy bear mascot was a fun add on to our morning.

Kinder PDHPE

This term, Kindergarten students have been learning about respectful relationships and child protection/safety education as part of the Personal Development Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) program. To support with this learning, Kindergarten parents who work in an Emergency Service Role visited our classrooms on Thursday and shared important information about their profession, what the uniform of this profession looks like and how they protect individuals and keep them safe. 

On behalf of the Kindergarten students and teachers, we would like to say a big THANK YOU to Mr Bateman, Mr Buchan, Mr Jaeschke, Mr McGoldrick, Mr McLaren, Mr Norrie, and Mrs Stead. 

We had a fantastic afternoon and greatly appreciate your time and effort.

Lunch Time Activities Term 4 - CLOSES TOMORROW

Once again we will be running lunchtime activities for the students in Term 4. These structured activities give students the opportunity to join in play where they feel connected and part of a group that shares similar interests. In addition to these activities, Library activities will continue (Mon/Tue) and our normal playground equipment and outdoor games will also be made available, along with utilising Park spaces during breaks.  

If your child would like to take part in the additional lunchtime activities during Term 4, please complete the attached form by tomorrow, Friday 22 September. Please note that there is an expectation that your child will commit and attend the activity he/she has been allocated so please discuss this with them before registration, as these will be part of our lunchtime teacher supervision roster.  

If you have any questions, please contact Mrs Grose and Mr Walker. 

Pupil Free Days Term 4

Please note that Term 4 will begin on Wednesday 11 October for students. Monday and Tuesday will be pupil-free days and professional learning days for teachers. 

Library News

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

TERM 4 Library Days

SJB Book Fair is coming.

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.

Basketball Gala Day - 14 & 15 September

Nine teams from St Joseph’s Bulli participated in the Basketball Gala Days last week on Thursday and Friday at the Snakepit, Beaton Park. They were fantastic days - the students had fun and played with sportsmanship in non-competitive, friendly games.

Our St Joseph’s students displayed enthusiasm, playing each game with a friendly, positive attitude. We would like to say a huge thank you to all the staff and parents Mrs Parker, Mrs Allan, Mrs Aramayo, Mr Franklin, Mr & Mrs Peterson, Mr Harrison & Mrs Quadros-Harrison, Mrs Beck, Mrs Greenwood and Mr Brown who supported the managed teams on the day. 

MacKillop Athletics Championships 

On Monday 18 September over 100 Wollongong student athletes competed at the MacKillop Athletics Championships held at Homebush Stadium. It was extremely hot conditions and all students represented with great pride, grit and determination. Well done to all the St Joseph’s Bulli representatives who participated. Congratulations to the students that have finished in the top 3 of their event/s and will be members of the MacKillop Athletics team to represent at the NSWPSSA Athletics event to be held on 25 & 26 October at Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush. We wish these selected students all the best in this event.

NSWPSSA Netball Championships

Congratulations to London C in Year 6 who represented NSWPSSA recently in the National Netball Championships in Perth. The NSW team won the bronze medal in what was a very competitive championship. Well done London on an outstanding achievement. 

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

Netball New South Wales  - Spring Netball