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Dear Parents,
A special welcome to Katrina McGrath who has been appointed Acting Principal in Kirsty’s absence. Katrina comes with years of experience, including Classroom Teacher, Learning Support Teacher, Religious Education Coordinator Principal. Recently Katrina worked as Senior Schools Registration Officer, Schools and Family Services at the Catholic Education Office in Manuka.
Katrina will be at St Joseph’s Monday-Thursday. On Fridays I will continue to be Acting Principal. Students were very excited to meet Katrina today. Katrina is eager to meet our wonderful parents so if you are in the office, please feel free to pop your head in to say hello!
Catalyst
On Monday staff participated in a day of Professional Learning with the Catalyst Team from Catholic Education.Staff completed a range of Professional Reading before the day to ensure that all staff had an understanding of the research behind the practices that were being introduced through the sessions during the day.
Topics Covered:
- The connections between High Impact Teaching Practices and the Science of Learning evidence.
- How the brain processes information.
- Cognitive Load Theory
- The importance of starting lessons with a Daily Review – which leads to consolidation and automaticity of knowledge, skills and strategies.
Over the next few week staff will develop their own Daily Reviews and present them to Catalyst Team for Feedback. We look forward to working with our Coach – Michael, and hopefully have him visit the school to see our lessons first hand.
Western Region Swimming Carnival
Just a friendly reminder to please return permission notes for the Western Region Swimming Carnival. The qualifying students will compete next Thursday 24 February in Cootamundra.
Congratulations and best wishes to our talented swimmers who will be representing St Joseph’s.
Have a lovely week everyone.
Stacey Braun
Acting Principal
Opening School Mass
Our Opening School Mass will take place Tuesday 22 February (Week 4) at 9:30am on the school oval where we will officially welcome our Kindergarten students and present our Yr 6 leaders with their badges.
Unfortunately due to Covid-19 restrictions, only Yr 6 Parents will be allowed to attend - if they are double vaccinated and will be seated socially distanced. I am extremely sorry not all parents can attend, but I know you understand we are guided by the current advice from Catholic Education, NSW Government and NSW Health. Please bring your own chair.
This week students made a gratitude tree with all the wonderful things they were grateful for. It is important to teach students that gratitude is an attitude towards life that makes us more resilient and improves our well being. Some of the things on our gratitude tree are: family, friends, having food, teachers and school.
What are you grateful for today?
Scan the QR code to watch the video of Toby, Culley and Laura sharing what they are grateful for.
- Stacey Braun
Religious Education Coordinator
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2022 - Term 1 |
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| Week 3 - 14th Feb - 18th Feb | |
| Fri 18th: | Swimming - Yr 2-6 |
| Week 4 - 21st Feb - 25th Feb |
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| Mon 21st: | Radio - Toby & Arthur |
| Tues 22nd: | Opening School Mass |
| Wed 23rd: | Kindergarten Rest Day |
| Thurs 24th: | WR Swimming |
| Fri 25th: | Swimming - Yr 2-6 |
| Week 5 - 28th Feb - 4th Mar |
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| Mon 28th: | |
| Tues 1st: | |
| Wed 2nd: | Ash Wednesday Mass - 12:30pm |
| Thurs 3rd: | |
| Fri 4th: | Swimming - Yr 2-6 |
Grounds Maintenance Roster
Following is our mowing roster for 2022, thank you to all our families for keeping our grounds so beautiful.
| Section A | Section B |
| Bowden family | Bhardwaj family |
| Singh family | Campbell family |
| Leake family | John Corbett family |
All students who carry a Ventolin puffer in their school backpack will need to have a current Asthma Action Plan, we need to have these updated each year.
Every student in Canberra/Goulburn Archdiocese schools signs an acceptable use agreement in order to use technology in their school. The student agreement is for children in Kindergarten to Year Six.
Thank you to all our families who have signed and sent back their Student Acceptable Use Agreement. Following is a link to the policy we would appreciate if all families could read this and familiarise themselves with the policy.
Congratulations to our students who received Principal Awards & Student of the Week Awards for week 2.
| Date | Reader | Liturgy Leader | Cleaning | Mowing |
| 2022 | ||||
| February | ||||
| 20th: | Trish Roche | Jean Roche | ||
| 27th: | Arthur Roche | Liz Murray | Lucy Roche | N Hughes |
| March |
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| 6th: | M Reynolds | Jenny Toole | ||
| 13th: | Jan Kendall | Doreen Hughes | Carmen Cribb | |
| 20th: | School | Sue Roche | ||
| 27th: | Doreen Hughes | Sue Roche | Judy Kuhn | S Murray |
Following is a copy of the roster from January - June 2022
Piano/ Keyboard Lessons: Individual 30min lessons available at the school during school hours on Mondays .
Year One students and up. Creative kids vouchers can be used towards fees.
If interested please contact Vanessa Hall for more info. Ph 0448609479
Tumut Basketball Association
Team nominations are made online this season, Information on how to enter your team nominations for the 2022 Autumn competition are available from our website www.tumut.basketball.net.au or Pie in the Sky Bakery and Sports Power.
Active kid’s vouchers can be redeemed for mini ball and basketball.
Team nominations for kindergarten age boys and girls through to men’s and women's teams close on 23rd February 2022.
Any registration inquiries can be made to the registrar, Trish Day on 0427474768 or through the Tumut Basketball Facebook page. Further information for the up and coming comp can be found on the website or on the Facebook page.