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 Responsible! Use your words or ask for help. Physical contact is not okay!

Happy Birthday

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

2 March - Arya N Year 4

4 March - Coby C Kinder, Harrison B Year 2 & Nieve R Year 5

5 March - Mahalia S Year 3

6 March - Brock C Year 5

Kindergarten and Year 5 Buddies

The Year 5 and Kindergarten students enjoyed meeting their Buddies this week!

Our Buddy Program is a very important part of our community being inclusive and connected. It helps the students develop strong bonds with each other.

Where is Maths?

Were you out driving in the car on the weekend? Did your children notice all the Maths around them? If they didn't, it's a great opportunity for conversations about shapes and numbers in street signs and traffic lights, straight and curved lines, parallel lines, angles and of course counting. Count buses, cars and motorbikes, are there more or less red cars than white? The possibilities are endless! I hope you find the parent and carer guides to support your child in Mathematics of interest.

Proud Moments in Yr 3

Yr 3 have been exploring arrays as a building block for multiplication and division. They were able to communicate their reasoning by explaining why some numbers were even or odd.

Portia and Charlotte proudly displayed the arrays they created during a wet lunchtime break. It's fabulous seeing these young Mathematicians thinking about Maths outside of the classroom.

Yr 4 Problem Solving

Look at all the justification in Hamish's response to a multi step word problem.

Learning Maths through Exploration- Kindergarten

What sorting or counting is happening here?

Fabiola Walls

Year 6 Support Teacher/ Mathematics

The Fathering Project - Thursday 7 March

Our next Dads Group catch-up is Thursday 7 March at the Woonona Bulli RSL at 6:30pm in the Main Lounge area.

Dads can contact me (Benn Lim) on 041 99 66 000 if they can't find us.

ACTION REQUIRED - Online Forms & 2024 Parent Input Forms

Just a friendly reminder if you haven't already done so, we ask that you complete the following forms online (Insights) as soon as possible.

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

Due to difficulties in accessing the attached form through our COMPASS Parent Portal, could you please complete this form for EACH CHILD and return to school office by tomorrow, Friday 23 February.

We apologise if you have already completed this via the portal but do ask if you can now complete this form.

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

Kindergarten Parent/Carers Welcome Evening - POSTPONED

Please note that due to the extreme weather today, we will be postponing tonight's Kindergarten Parent Welcome Night.

The new date of this event will be Wednesday 13 March 2024 from 6.00pm-8.00pm.

We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. If you are able to attend the new date, please complete the google form via the link below:

NAPLAN 2024

This year our Year 3 and 5 students will sit NAPLAN from 13 March 2024.

Information in regards to NAPLAN 2024 Parent and Carers Information has been sent out through COMPASS earlier this week.

Students will sit the test on the dates below

Writing	Wednesday 13 March
Reading	Thursday 14 March
Conventions of Language	Wednesday 20 March
Numeracy	Thursday 21 March

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

Library News

Premier Reading Challenge

Our SJB Premier Reading Challenge has begun.

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

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

Diocesan Cricket Trials

Congratulations to Will G in Year 5 who was selected in the Diocesan Cricket Team and will compete in the MacKillop Trials at Wagga in September.

We wish Will all the best of luck!

MacKillop Basketball Trials

Congratulations to Owen O in Year 6 who was selected in the MacKillop Basketball Team last week. We wish him the best of luck as he competes in the NSWPSSA Championship later in the year.

Well done Owen!

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 Wednesday 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

LOWES - 20% Off Everything - 6-8 March

Family Matters

Swap It: Get your kids packing everyday lunchboxes