Welcome to Week 4!  It was wonderful to celebrate Mother’s Day last week with a Liturgy and a cup of tea and cake.  The children had also painted some wonderful portraits of their mums and there were some wonderful reflections during the liturgy of why they love their mums.  A big thank you to Miss Braun for preparing the Liturgy and to our wonderful mums and special visitors who came to help us celebrate.

St Joseph’s has recently been very successful in receiving grants from various sources.  KidsXpress have provided the school with countless books which are great resources for both students and parents to utilise.  We await the arrival of playground resources such as a mud kitchen, cubby house and drums for the playground!  KidsXpress is a Registered Children’s Mental Health Charity delivering Trauma-informed Expressive Therapy and Education Services.  We are extremely grateful to KidsXpress for their very generous donations to our school.

The National Wellbeing boost that all Catholic Education schools have received will be utilised this year for activities that improve student wellbeing and engagement.  Activities and excursions have been booked for St Joseph’s students in Term 3 and 4 and we are excited that K-6 students will participate in some wonderful activities that have only been made possible through the well being boost. 

Ms Saunders received confirmation this week that St Josephs was successful in receiving a little under $10,000 for Snowy Hydro’s Local School STEM Fund 2024. We thank Ms Saunders for the time she put into getting the grant application together and we can’t wait for St Joseph’s Sustainable Vegetable Project to be up and running.  Watch this space as we will need some help getting things in place once they arrive on school grounds!

Our Athletics carnival will be held next Friday 31st May at the Adelong Showground.  It would be fabulous to have as many parent helpers as we can for time keeping.  

Blessings for a super week,

Kirsty Beavan

Principal