Welcome to Term 4.  I hope that everyone had a great break and the children had a chance to rest and enjoy time with their families.  Staff had a busy two days to start their term with some data analysis and participating in a Challenging Learning webinar, both days were great Professional Learning.

It was fantastic to get lots of outside jobs completed in the holidays.  A big thank you to our wonderful families who mowed and whipper snipped, and sprayed in the holidays – our grounds are looking fantastic.  The basketball court was cleaned and re-sanded and has come up looking brand new which is great, as well as lots of new softfall under the play equipment, a new swing has been installed and also nice new sand for the sand pit.  The gutters on the buildings were also cleaned out.

It would be great if I could get a few families who could lend a hand to do some weeding around the outside garden of the tennis court.  It is snake season and the weeds are quite high – in light of not having a working bee if anyone could lend a hand please let me know.

End of year dates have not yet been finalised.  At this stage we will have the same format as last year that our End of Year Mass and Awards Presentation will be during the day.  It is highly likely that this event will be outdoors as this will be the only way the whole school community will be able to celebrate these events together and keep to the covid protocols.  We will let you know when dates have been confirmed.

It is with great regret that the St Joseph’s community says farewell to Mrs Baxter.  Mrs Baxter has been successful in attaining a Permanent full time position at the Riverina Anglican College in Wagga.  They are opening their Primary School section in 2021 and we know this will be an exciting time for her. With two young children and travel we know that this is the right move for Jac and her family and we wish her well.  We sincerely thank her for the 6 wonderful years at St Joseph’s and for the positive contribution that she has made to our school.  We know that she will be an asset at her new school and that she will be sadly missed.

Have a great week.