Thank you to all the families who have volunteered to man our street stall this Friday or those planning to bake or donate goodies.  A big thank you also to Jim and Nicki Pearce for generously donating the load of wood and to Lisa and Joe Carmody for donating the fruit and vegie box also to be raffled.

The date has been set for the St Joseph’s family golf day.  If you know of anyone who may be interested in sponsoring a hole or who would like to come along for a great day out – please spread the word.

We look forward to our Book Week celebrations next week.  The book fair will be set up all week and all are most welcome to attend.  Our parade is on Thursday 22 August and will commence at 10 am.  We are very excited to have the preschool join us and look forward to seeing some fabulous costumes.

It has been a busy week for Professional Learning for St Joseph’s staff – REC meeting in Young, Aboriginal contact day in Cootamundra and I am currently at Grenfell for the WR Principals meeting.

Have a great week!

Kind Regards

Kirsty Beavan

Congratulations!

A very overdue congratulations to our superstar principal Mrs Beavan who recently completed her Masters degree in Special Needs passing with a Distinction!!

Well done Mrs Beavan, all the staff here at St Joseph's are very proud of you!

Friday 23rd August

Pick up & Drop off:     Adelong Public School

Departure time:         8am (please be there for roll call by 7:50am)

Return time:              5pm-5:30pm (leaving Selwyn at 4pm)

Reminder  -  The Premier's Reading Challenge closes on the 30th August so any students that are participating must have their books recorded online before then.  Please see Mrs Dean if you have any questions.

Each week we will feature students who will share books they are enjoying reading.

Fred:  "The Treasures of Fairytales" I have just started this book and I am reading Jack and the Beanstalk. I like reading the giant's part with expression "Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum"	Faith:  "Magic - Animal Friends" This story is about a bunny named Mia who lives in the snow and has a lot of adventures.  Mia does ballet and wants to dance in the Winter Show.
Ainslie: "The Kensington Replitarium by N.J. Gemmell" The book is about 4 kids who lived in the Australian Central Desert and they liked to aim their slingshots at the Police.  Their dad went missing and they had to move to London to live with their Uncle... who hates kids!!  This book was great 'hooking' chapter titles and descriptive words.	Nate:  "KidGlovz by Julie Hunt" This book is about a boy who plays piano really well.  His uncle takes him away to make him famous but doesn't look after him very well.  The book has really good illustrations.

During lunch time on a Wednesday, the boys have been practising for Trent Barrett. A big thank you to Paul Roche for coming in to train the boys. Trent Barrett is on the 28th of August in Gundagai.

Next Thursday 22nd August, there will be a NRL skills session with Adam Perry.  We would like to thank Adam for coming to run this session at St Joseph's.

We had our last rugby session yesterday with Southern Inland Rugby. Yesterday we learnt how to kick properly and had a kicking competition. We loved doing these rugby sessions and can’t wait to do more next term.

Our Book Week parade is next Thursday, 22nd of August. The parade will start at 10am. Everyone is invited to come. The theme this year is ‘Reading is my Secret Power’. The library will be open before and after school all of next week for the Book Fair.

For Father’s Day this year, we are doing a tabloids sports afternoon on Friday 30th August. All Dad’s will be sent their invitation with more details next week. We hope everyone can come!

- by Sports Captains - Seamus McMahon and Anna Roche

Important dates for our 2020 Kinders:

Term 3 Orientation Days:

Tuesday 10^th September - 9:30am -11:30am, Tuesday 24^th September - 9:30am -11:30am

As part of our Integrated Studies unit on how technology has changed our world, K-1-2 were lucky enough to get the opportunity to explore some items from “the olden days”. Many thanks for Jess Campbell for organising her friend John to bring his collection of items in for the children to have a play with.

Some of our Primary students have delivered their speeches to the school this week. We have listened to some fantastic speeches and look forward to hearing the rest of them at the start of next week.  Speech topics this year are:

Yr 3: Best Friends

Yr 4: Good Advice

Yr 5: Don't Try this

Yr 6: The View from the Top

In Library this term we are reading books shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Awards.

After reading 'The Dress Up Box' by Patrick Guest, many of the students chose to have fun with the dress up box themselves!

In lunch time library sessions students are creating a range of artwork to decorate our doors for Book Week. We look forward to seeing the wonderful dress ups for the Book Week parade.

Community Council Street Stall - Friday 16th August

Thank you to Jim & Nicki Pearce who have donated the load of wood for the raffle and to our families who will help out on the stall for the day and all the beautiful home baking.

Could we please ask anyone dropping off baking to the stall tomorrow please label the ingredients and price the goods.

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