Term 1 Week 6 2022
Principal Report
Hello parents and St Joseph's school community people. We have marked out the area for our outdoor learning area. The builder will be coming next week to get measurements and apply for the permit. This will take a number of weeks but when we get the go ahead it will be all systems go. We had a great day at the Variety Club meeting on Friday at Charlton Park. The participants were very impressed with the facilities and the food provided, well done mothers once again. The Variety Club expressed interest in coming back in two years time for an overnight stay.
Well done to Kelly Wright who is the new president of the CCSA. We wish Kelly all the best and we look forward to working with her in the ensuring years.
This weekend is a long weekend, so don't come to school on Monday.
Information
Hockey Roadshow. The Hockey Roadshow will be on Friday 11th March. Xanthe Fitzpatrick will again be running a clinic for the St Joes students on behalf of the North Central Hockey League.
Labour Day Long Weekend. Please remember Monday 14th March is a public holiday.
School Nurse. The school nurse, Kerrie McCosh, will be here on Monday March 28th. She will complete the prep health assessments but is also available to do basic hearing and sight tests on any other students whose parents feel a need. If you would like your child to have one of these tests, please notify the office for information.
Hot Shots Tennis. The Hot Shots Tennis day will be in Boort on Thursday 7th April. After much deliberation we have decided that we will take a team of Grade 4 and 5 students. Emily and Cate will take the children across to Boort for the day.
Tuckshop. Please remember to have all tuckshop orders in on Tuesday each week
Prep/1/2 Class News
This week during shared reading we have looked at the text ‘Patch at the Pet Show’ about a dog causes trouble at a pet show- or does he? Foundation students have been revising their understanding of the letter s a t p i n and associated sounds. Year 1 and Year 2 students have looked at what nouns are and how to add suffixes like ‘ing’ to different words. Students have begun looking at persuasive writing, focusing on understanding what an opinion is. Foundation students are still focusing on orally constructing simple sentences with the teacher and writing a few of these down in their books.
Our focus in Maths is still addition. Foundation students have been working with beads and counters to add single digit numbers together. Some students are having a go at writing their own addition sums. Year 1 students are working on bridging to ten with single, two and some three digit numbers. Year 2 students are exploring mental strategies such as split strategy, trading in addition and the jump strategy with and without MAB blocks.
In Music we are focusing on making music in different ways, with a focus on body percussion.
Grade 3/4/5/6 Class News
Literacy: We continue to read the book Kick It To Me written by Neridah McMullin. We are looking at how the author has crafted her sentences and hoping to craft some of our own that are similar to hers.
We are completing Homework Contract five this week learning our 10 spelling words and studying our twelve Times Tables.
Religion: The class we have looked at Jesus time in the desert and how he overcame temptation. We have also read from the bible Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem on a donkey.
Numeracy: The students are continuing to work on strengthening their knowledge of addition and subtraction strategies. They are reinforcing their knowledge by playing 100 or bust, and wishball
Variety Classic Car Day at Charlton Park
On 4th March 2022, St Joseph’s School went over to the Variety Bash at Charlton Park to receive the donation we were kindly given. We had our lunch order there and were given water.
The Variety Bash people had really awesome cars and really nice personalities.
My favourite car was the V8 Mercedes and the Go Kart.
I had to say a speech near the end to say thank you, I was pretty nervous but I think I aced it. We really enjoyed our day and appreciated the ipads. I hope Variety Bash keeps doing what they do best By Murphy
The Variety Bash was very good. My favourite car was the Go Kart. It was my favourite one because it can go 230km/h. By Toby
Community News
Charlton Hockey Club
Hookin2Hockey (Minkey) program will begin at the hockey field at 4.00pm each Thursday from March 17th. Students from Foundation and up are welcome to join our free “Come and Try” session on Thursday 17th March. Registration costs will be $35 - $50 for players wishing to continue. https://www.hockey.org.au/hookin2hockey/ Choose Charlton as your program when registering your child.
Sticks and shin guards are available to borrow for the season and participants are asked to wear a mouth guard. Alternatively, a beginner’s pack which includes stick, shinpads, ball and mouthguard can be purchased for $48 when registering.
For further information, please contact Tessa Fitzpatrick on 0437621898.
We can’t wait to see you at training!!
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