Term 2 Week 6 2022
Principal's Report
Hello parents and friends of St Joseph's.
It has been a cold week so we say welcome to the wonderful season of Winter and we are grateful for the beautiful rain for our farmers, gardens and sporting ovals.
A big thankyou to our helpers and staff with the organization and running of the Winter Sports. The day was very successful and as they say in the classics "a good time was had by all".
We have had Mr Steve Russell here on Tuesday helping work on our five year school review preparation. All is nearly ready for our school review which will be held on Thursday and Friday the 9th and 10th of June.
Information
School Review. On June 9th and 10th St Joseph's will be undertaking our 5 yearly school review. The reviewer, Sheridan Cloverdale, will be talking to staff, some parents, and some students. You will have been contacted by now if you are required to attend. The staff have been working hard preparing for the review. During this process, we make a plan for the next five years.
Ashleigh Freckleton Speech Pathologist will be visiting the school on Wednesday the 15th of June.
National Simultaneous Story Time
Last Wednesday at 11.00am F-6 gathered in the Senior room for the National Simultaneous story Time 2022 story ‘Family Tree’ written by Australian Musician Josh Pyke and illustrated by Ronojoy Ghosh.
The children loved watching Josh Read the story and enjoyed the interview with the illustrator as he explained how he created the illustrations for the story.
We were also blessed with being able to watch and join in the singing of Josh Pyke's song
‘Words make the World go Around’.
Prep/1/2 Class News
This week we are continuing our work on fairy tale texts by looking at ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. Students are sequencing events in order from the story and looking at compound words found in the text. We are working on a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and writing alternative versions of the story using appropriate nouns, verbs and adjectives. Students are working on their skills of proofreading and editing.
In Maths this week we are exploring the concept of time. We are looking at what the days of the week and months of the year are. We are ordering these and looking at reading and interpreting calenders. Students are beginning to work on telling time on an analogue clock using o’clock and half past. Year 2 students are beginning to work on using quarter past and quarter to.
In Religion we are discussing Paul’s letter to the community of Corinth and how Paul’s letter calls them and us to remember that love is the most important lesson that we can take from God.
Contract 16 homework due this week.
3/4/5/6 Class News
Literacy: As a class the Students are writing letters of thanks to people in their lives that have helped them.
Can everyone please make sure they have their reader diaries and ipads with an adequately charged battery at school. Thank you.
Can everyone please make sure that they have google classroom downloaded onto their ipad.
We are completing Homework Contract Fifteen this week learning our 10 spelling words and studying our Eight Times Tables.
Religion: The students are reflecting on the topic of Unity and in pairs they are creating a Google Slide show to complete their Religion Assignments.
Numeracy: In mathematics this week the students are practicing their times tables and working on solving problems with multiplication.
Art: In art the students are continuing to explore their ipad camera. They are taking photos of a pumpkin which was grown in the school garden. The students are creating a pencil drawing from the printed photo of the pumpkin.
Gardening: Students can start to bring their gardening shoes to school.
Winter Sports
We won! The Grandfinal was really close but Brody kicked the only goal which made us win. I was so happy when I kicked a goal myself that I celebrated real hard.
By Darcy and Brody
Isaac and I won 3 out of 4 games because we lost to Murphy’s team because their team was sooo overpowered.
By Cooper
I had a lot of fun at the winter sports. I played soccer and kicked 5 goals but kicked 3 crossbars.
By Murphy
The yellow team lost two games to the blue and came a draw to the pink team and won two games to the red we placed third.
By Clancy
We were on team” The Bont”. We made it to the grand final and Liam and Charlie kicked a goal each while I got three. We won 4 out of 5 games losing only to team Dangerfield and Dad was our coach.
By Henry, Charlie and Liam.
Community News
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