Principal's Page

Dear Parents and Friends,

Tomorrow, we welcome five visitors to our school who will form the panel for the school visit component of our School Cyclic Inquiry. This panel will be with us for two days: tomorrow, Thursday 19 June 2025, and again on Friday 27 June 2025.

The panel is made up of Catholic Education Office personnel, colleagues from the Parramatta and Rockhampton Dioceses, and an external education expert. Their main role is to help us identify our strategic priorities for the next four years. They will engage with our School Leadership Team, interview staff, students, parents, and Father Patrick, and conduct Literacy and Numeracy Learning Walks.

We are looking forward to sharing our school's journey in faith, learning, and wellbeing over the past four years. We're also excited for them to see firsthand the excellent learning and teaching that occurs every day.

We would love to have a few more parents participate in the group interview on Friday 27 June 2025, between 11:20 am and 11:50 am. If you're available, please contact the school office.

Thank you to all parents who completed the Tell Them From Me Survey. This is the second year we've run this survey, and we'll continue to do so annually to help us identify important trends over time. The data we collect will directly inform our School Cyclic Inquiry, and we will share the findings with the community early next term.

Semester 1 Reports

The Semester 1 reporting period is a time to celebrate your child/ren's achievements and learning during the first half of the year. Semester 1 student reports for Kindergarten to Year 6 will be available via the Compass Portal from 3:30 pm on Thursday 26 June (Week 9).  If you would like to meet with your child’s teacher to discuss your child’s report, please contact the school office.

Uniform Requirements - Hair

Over the past few weeks we have been reminding students of our school Hair Requirements and in doing so have made clear what is meant by an Extreme hairstyle: 

Hairstyles

• Students are required to wear their hair in a neat and tidy manner. 

• Long hair, or hair that touches the shoulders, or covers the eyes, is to be tied back off the face.

• Haircuts should be blended and uniform in appearance. Extreme haircuts and excessive variations in length are not acceptable, including undercuts, steps, mullets, mohawks, rat’s tails, lines, extreme fades. 

• Hair should be natural in colour. Bleaching, colouring and dyeing of hair is not permitted.

• Haircuts should not draw negative comments or attract undue attention.

• Navy blue headbands (no sweatbands), ribbons and scrunchies may be worn in the hair.

We truly appreciate parents' support in ensuring these requirements are upheld. 

2025 Annual Improvement Plan 

Goal: Through quality assessment, students will be challenged in their learning, to ensure continual growth and achievement.

• Moderating Processes have continued over the past two weeks in Professional Learning Teams where teachers moderate work samples, assessments and application of learning to align with the Common Grade Scale and to develop consistent teacher judgements

   

• Professional Learning in Phonic Instruction continues with workshops deepening teacher knowledge and developing school-wide practices.

   

Recent Staff Professional Learning

Research tells us that the quality of the teacher is the greatest in-school influence on student achievement. Therefore high quality professional learning for teachers must be a priority to ensure improved teacher practice that leads to improved student learning growth. Professional learning undertaken by our staff over the past fortnight includes:

12 June 2025 - EDUTech Conference

Mr Walker

13 June 2025 - Principal Network Meeting

Mrs Duffin

16 June 2025 - CEDoW System Focus Day - Collaborative Complex Problem Solving

Mrs Duffin and Mrs Grose

17 June 2025 - Leadership Team Planning

Mrs Grose, Mr Walker (half day), Ms Boyd-Skinner, Ms Clarkson (half day)

19 June 2025 - Spirituality Formation - Lamplighters

Mr Walker

School Assemblies

Our Week 8 Assembly was held today. 

Our End of Term Assembly will be held on Friday 4 July at 2pm.  All are welcome! 

Kaylene Duffin

Principal, 

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

Principal Awards

Our Principal awards are presented to students fortnightly on the even week.  

The following students received their Principal Awards at today's assembly, Thursday 19 June 2025 (Week 8).

How does my child receive a Principal's Award?

Class teachers nominate students for Blue Merit Awards which are presented at the weekly assembly.  When five Blue Merit Awards have been received, students send them to the school office to be recorded and are then eligible for a Principal’s Award. When students attain their 4th Principal Award, they are awarded a Principal’s Medallion at an assembly. End of Term awards can be included as part of the 5 awards.  Please see the "School Handbook" for a full list of eligible awards.

End of Term Awards

The following student will be presented their End of Term 2 Achievement Awards to students on Friday 4 July 2025 (Term 2 Week 10). Parents of students receiving End of Term Awards are welcome to join the assembly.

Academic Achievement Awards

Habits of Mind Awards

Saint Mary MacKillop Award

Acknowledgement to Country

St Joseph's Bulli acknowledges and pays respect to the Dharawal people past, present and emerging the traditional custodians of the land on which our school is built