School News

 St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Handbook

PB4L (Positive Behaviour for Learning)

Whole School Expectation - Weekly Focus for Students

Manage impulsivity! 

This is when I think before I do:

Should I be talking?

Have I followed an instruction?

Am I raising my hand and waiting for my name to be called

Am I using respectful body language?

The PB4L Team

2024 KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS ARE NOW OPEN (Kindergarten 2024)

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

Book Club - 2023 Edition 2 - CLOSED

Edition 2 2023 is now closed.

Books will be delivered in the week beginning 3 April 2023.

How Do I Order?

Parents Guide to Access and Ordering Book Club

Please see attachment below, giving you a guideline as to how to order your child/rens Book Club.  All orders are to be placed online.  Cash is NOT accepted.

NSW Health Fact sheet 

As per our Compass message on Tuesday 27 March, attached NSW Heath Fact Sheet -  Impetigo, and NSW Health - Headlice, as we have been advised of  cases within the school community.

Gravity Gymnastics

Year 2 are enjoying participating in gymnastics each Tuesday with ‘Gravity Gymnastics’. Each session has worked to improve their balance and coordination. They have been working with different equipment such as hoops and balls as well as using different apparatus such as the balance beam and mini trampoline. Their motorbike landing has definitely improved as has their balance on the beam.

Lunch Time Activities - Term 2, 2023

Once again we will be running lunchtime activities for the students in Term 2. These structured activities give students the opportunity to join in play where they feel connected and part of a group that share similar interests. We are blessed at St Joseph’s to have such dedicated, enthusiastic and talented staff at our school willing to share their time, skills and expertise with our students. 

There are a number of activities and clubs on offer for students to participate in during Term 2. These activities will be facilitated by classroom teachers and conducted across the week, some open for specific levels of children others for anyone who is interested from Kindergarten to Year 6.

If your child would like to take part in these lunchtime activities during Term 2, please complete the form attached by Thursday 6th April. Please note that not all activities will run and that there is an expectation that your child will commit and attend the activity(ies) he/she has been allocated, as these will be part of our lunchtime teacher supervision roster.  If you have any questions please contact Mr Aguilera.

(If you have more than one child at the school, please complete a separate form for each student)

Link to form - https://forms.gle/xu4rrFSdRtwhtbMM8

Library Lunch Time Play

Students K-6 have been making use of our amazing library space by engaging in structured play activities during break time. Mindful colouring, building challenges, board games, comic creating and reading have been just some of the wonderful activities available to students. Mrs Pirie has been showcasing new and donated books to our collections that have been covered by our wonderful parent helpers. Our library space continues to foster a love of books and an awareness of different genres and authors. 

I like being indoors and choosing to read or colour. (Adam L Y4) 

There are so many cool things to do and I loved building with the lego. (Will P Y3) 

Premiers Reading Challenge

A reminder for parents of students interested in doing the Premiers Reading Challenge to complete the Compass permission. This will enable books that are read at school to be added to the students' logs on your behalf. 

Student WEN Day

On Friday 24 March, four students from Year 5 (Lylah, Mikayla, Leo and Carter), along with Mrs Parker, attended the 2nd Student WEN Day, held at OLHC Rosemeadow. WEN stands for Wollongong Environmental Network. These students were recognised by their teachers for showing passion and commitment toward environmental matters within our school. 

We each created a name tag to discuss with other students on the day. We chose to make ours from plastics we found around our school playgrounds as we feel these are a problem for our school community being so close to the ocean.

We had a great day learning about the wonderful environmental initiatives schools within our diocese are already doing, as well as spending some time planning for future actions. We listened to parts of Pope Francis' Laudato Si - his letter to all people of the world, encouraging us to be stewards of Creation and reminding us of our responsibility to protect this beautiful earth. Together the students wrote a prayer for Creation which will be shared at future school environmental liturgies.

We learned about the importance of the Five R's - Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle. We repurposed a t-shirt and created a no-sew t-shirt bag!

We also had the opportunity to listen to Kerry, a guest speaker from Plastic Oceans Australasia and learn about the amazing work they do educating people all over the world about the dangers of plastics in our oceans.

Our day concluded with our students receiving a WEN badge which they will wear each day. This is to demonstrate that they are now ECO-Ambassadors and will continue to work with other students to build a cleaner school environment.

School Photos - Wednesday 26 April 2023

St Joseph's School Photo Day will be held on WEDNESDAY 26 April 2023.  

Please see the image below on how to order your 2023 School Photos

Online CODE: LY9 LKX N18

SIBLING ORDERS CLOSE:         Tuesday 25 April

INDIVIDUAL ORDERS CLOSE:  Wednesday 26 April

Packages can be purchased ONLINE using VISA, Mastercard, PayPal or LatitudePay.  

Please note that all students are to wear their full summer uniform (not sports), which is as follows:

Girls Summer Uniform

• Blue school pattern tunic
• white above ankle length school socks
• black polishable leather shoes 
• Hair Ties - Navy 

Optional Summer Uniform:

• Peter Pan collared blue shirt with school logo
• Navy Culotte

Boys Summer Uniform

• Grey shorts (not cargo type)
• blue short- sleeved shirt with school logo
• grey socks
• black-polishable leather shoes 

Happy Birthday

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

24 March - Hayes G Year 6

25 March - Andy O Year 2

26 March - Miles E Year 4 and Rosalind K Year 5

28 March - Xavier H Year 2

30 March - Gabriella Q Year 6 and Zachary S Year 2

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 the gymnastics program Kindergarten and Year 1 has changed their sports days.  See below.

Cross Country Training

The SJB Cross Country squad are invited to bring training gear on the following days: 

George W, Archer T, Tommy M, Arlo B, Indianna G, Lani B,  Maisie C, Alana QH, Hartley B, Saul O, Will G, Lukas C, Lorelei G, Andie K, Molly P, Owen O, Harry S, Ned S, Natalia H, London C, Daphne W, Sebastian B, Hayes G and Ethan M.

Kylie Grose & Christine Smith 

Sport Co-ordinators

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.

SJB Easter Lunch Pack

Our Canteen is offering Easter Lunch packs on Tuesday 4 April.  There are 4 Lunch packs to choose from.  Please order online through QuickCliq by 3 April.

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 Services

Positive Partnership - Autism Workshop

PCYC - Star Jump Challenge 2023

Holy Spirit College

PCYC - 2023 Easter School Holiday Activities