Welcome to Week 4. I hope all the mothers in our community had a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday. A big thank you to all our mums and Nans that joined us for our Mother’s day Paint and sip on Friday afternoon, it was a lovely afternoon, with some great portraits painted.

Please keep Fr Joe in your prayers, he is currently in Indonesia to be with his family. His younger brother Francis died suddenly on the weekend, so we will continue to keep him in our prayers and thoughts.

Our next Community Council meeting is this Wednesday17th May at 6 pm (agenda included in this newsletter). Thank you to all parents who completed the uniform survey. The results of the survey will be presented at the meeting.

Term 2 school fees should be sent out to families this week. Please remember that BPay is our preferred method of payment for school fees. The best way to ensure that you do not use Compass Pay for fee payment is to use your banks website and use BPay to make your payment. If you go through the compass app it will automatically use your stored card details and use Compass pay where the school will be charged a high transaction fee. All other events and excursion payments will be via compass pay. Please contact office staff if you have any queries regarding compass payments and consent for events.

St Joseph’s staff have been busy with Professional development over the last couple of weeks. We have had our High Impact Teaching Practice Coach visit and work closely with staff. Initial lit staff and the Senior Literacy Officer from Catholic Education have also been in the school to observe Initial lit practices and offer feedback.

We wish Billy Roche and Kruz Annetts the best of luck for Friday, where they will participate in the Archdiocese Cross country.

Kirsty Beavan

Principal

Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to all our St Joseph’s mums! It was lovely celebrating at school together on Friday. We hope you enjoyed our ‘Paint & Sip’ activity. The portraits turned out beautifully! 

 

It is also fitting that we celebrate Mary, the mother of Jesus, during the month of May. In the Catholic Church, May is traditionally dedicated to Mary and many people devote themselves to special prayers to honour her. 

 

Catholic Voice

 

Did you know St Joseph’s featured in the March edition of the Catholic Voice paper? Please see below for our article! 

You can read the current edition online at: https://www.catholicvoice.org.au/current-edition/

 

Upcoming Mass Dates

• Year 2/3 will present Mass on Tuesday 30 May at 12pm. 
• K/1 will present Mass on Tuesday 20 June at 12pm.

All families are more than welcome to join us.

 

Stacey Braun

Religious Education Coordinator

Adelong Liturgy Roster - January - June - 2023

Keep up to date with events happening at St Joseph's via our electronic school calendar (please note dates can be subject to change).

If any of our families are in need of any uniform items, we have been notified that there is a collection of St Joseph's uniforms at The Golden Treasure Chest in Adelong. 

You will find this Bpay biller code and reference on your statement or please contact the office if you have any questions.

We thank you for your co-operation in this matter.  Please make an appointment to see Mrs Beavan if you need to discuss your fee payments.

K-6 will go on an excursion to the Wagga Civic Theatre on Friday 19th May to see The Twits live stage show at 10am. Children will travel over by bus.
They need to be at school no later than 8.05am for departure at 8.15am. 
The bus will pick up at the Yaven turn off on the way. Please let the office know if your children will be boarding the bus at the turn off. These students need to be at the turn off by 8.15am.

The cost of this excursion will be $40.00 per student. This will be added to your school fees. Please see comass for any additional details.

Our next community council meeting will be held on Wednesday 17th May 2023 at 6pm. Please see attached agenda for this meeting. 

REMINDER:

The only food available for ordering in the lunch orders this week (Monday 22.05.23) is Pizza.  

The pizza options are:

Hawaiian
Cheese
Meatlovers

1 Slice - $3.50
2 Slices-$6.00

If your child wishes to order please place your child’s name, class, order and correct money in an envelope on Monday mornings.

We had a great time on Friday afternoon celebrating our Mums and Nans at our paint and sip Mothers Day event! Thankyou to everyone who came and participated.
We hope everyone had a lovely Mothers Day on Sunday!

Our wonderful Yr 6 students have been organizing and leading games at Monday lunch times. They have been teaching students how to play some traditional games as well as fun games that they may not have played before. Great work and leadership Yr 6.

Congratulations to one of our School captains Sam Robson who
was selected in the Canberra Goulburn Rugby team today. Sam
is off to Forbes to play in the McKillop trials in June. A fantastic
achievement Sam, well done, we wish you all the best!