What a busy week we have had at St Joseph’s over the last week.  A big thank you to all our parents who have been with us for so many of our extra activities – Book week, the ski trip, Trent Barrett shield and today’s Public speaking in Batlow.  It is so great to see parents at school and out and about with us as we represent St Joseph’s in so many places!

Staff continue to be constantly updating their skills and knowledge and participated in a twilight session yesterday by updating their CPR, asthma and anaphylaxis training.

Eight of our public speakers headed up to Batlow this morning to participate in our annual ‘speak off’ with St Mary’s.  The standard of the speeches was amazing and St Joseph’s were lucky enough to come away with a winner in every year and runners up in most years.  A huge congratulations to our eight speakers – Arthur Roche and Toby Roots, Taylani Kapoor and Charlie MacDougall, Hugh Reynolds and Spencer Radford, Anna Roche and Isliah Kapoor.  Our winners Arthur, Charlie, Hugh and Isliah will head off to Cootamundra on Monday 9 September for the Western Region finals.  The adjudicators gave some great advice to the children on how to improve their speeches even further and were very impressed with the children’s speeches.  In all years it was perhaps only a point difference between the winner and runner up and throughout all the speeches.

We are looking forward to our Father’s Day afternoon tomorrow, we hope lot’s of dad’s can join us, and if they can’t any family or friend is most welcome!  We will kick off at 1.30pm with our tabloid sports rotations, and then just after 2.30pm we will have afternoon tea and thank our dads for being awesome!