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Spring is just around the corner, so it has been lovely to welcome the warmer weather. We welcomed Ross Fox Director of Catholic Education Canberra/Goulburn on Friday. It was a great opportunity for Ross to be able to visit all classrooms and to chat with Ross about our wonderful achievements in learning and for him to see firsthand the wonderful students of St Joseph’s.
I was at Siloam last week (Principals retreat in Galong) and it is always a great opportunity to reflect with my colleagues and focus on different elements of leadership in a Catholic School. Two things that resonated for me was around the concept of Leadership on an Island of Sanity. That term basically means in times of craziness, uncertainty and many other challenges we need to create conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community and love to be evoked no matter what. I think this is pertinent for our Adelong community who continue to be resilient in extreme times of sadness and tragedy, and continue to support and build up those in our community.
St Joseph’s extends our heart felt condolences to the Hassett family and to George’s partner Aly and boys Oliver and Cooper. I know that our families and staff have been deeply impacted by this tragedy and we will continue to keep all in our prayers and thoughts.
Blessings for the remainder of the week.
Kirsty Beavan
Principal
Reconciliation
Please keep Barney, Bonnie, Brydee, Christopher, Eva and Reuben in your prayers as they prepare to make the sacrament of Reconciliation. The sacrament of Reconciliation will be celebrated on Tuesday 8th September at 11.30pm, followed by a whole school mass at 12pm.
School Mass - Sunday 17th September
Please let me know if you are able to come to our Parish School Mass on Sunday 17th September so I can distribute readings. It would be lovely to see as many children and families attend.
Many thanks,
Stacey Braun
Religious Education Coordinator
| Term 3 | |
| Week 6 - 21st August - 25th August | |
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| Tues 22nd: | |
| Wed 23rd: | Book week parade, Book fair |
| Thurs 24th: | |
| Fri 25th: | AFL, Community Council Street Stall |
| Week 7 - 28th August - 1st September | |
| Mon 28th: | Lunch orders (No Pizza) |
| Tues 29th: | |
| Wed 30th: | Kindergarten Parent Information Night 6.00pm |
| Thurs 31st: | |
| Fri 1st: | AFL, Fathers Day Sports afternoon 1.45pm |
| Week 8 - 4th September - 8th September | |
| Mon 4th: | Lunch orders (No Pizza) |
| Tues 5th: | Reconciliation Mass |
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| Thurs 7th: | |
| Fri 8th: | AFL, Archdiocese Public Speaking |
Grounds Maintenance Roster
Families please keep an eye on the grounds and when you mow, let the school know you have mowed and the office will contact the next person on the list.
| Section A | Section B |
| John Corbett Family | Cobden Family |
| Andrew Reynolds Family | McMahon Family |
| Adams Family | Pearce Family |
We would like if families could check if some of the areas in your allocated section need whipper snipping eg; around trees, rock/rockeries etc.
Please ensure you have re-filled the fuel tanks on the mower or whipper snipper after you finish and advise the school if we require more fuel.
| August: |
| 27th: | T Roche | S Roche | Carmen Cribb |
| September: |
| 3rd: | Bill O'Connell | Judy Kuhn | S Murray | |
| 10th: | Jan Kendall | T Roche | Trish Roche | |
| 17th: | School | School | ||
| 24th: | Jean Roche | M Reynolds | Chris Harrison |
Adelong Liturgy Roster - July - December - 2023
Mass times for Adelong: 8:30am - 1st & 3rd Sunday.
Keep up to date with events happening at St Joseph's via our electronic school calendar (please note dates can be subject to change).
Mrs Beavan has commenced Kindergarten enrolment interviews for 2024. If you have a child commencing in Kindergarten in 2024 and haven’t had a chance to confirm your interview time, please do so as soon as you get a chance. It is really important that we have all of our planning and systems in place in readiness for our new Kindergarten students.
Below is also a reminder of our orientation dates and times that are coming up!
Students in Year 2 – 6 have been very busy with Public speaking. On Monday 14th August St Joseph’s had a speak off with St Mary’s Batlow. The following students represented St Joseph’s
Year 3 Kruz Annetts and Edward MacDougall
Year 4 – Ollie Corbett and Alice MacDougall
Year 5 – Laura Reynolds and Lily Pearce
Year 6 – Fred Roche and Culley Reynolds
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Edward and Alice MacDougall and Laura and Culley Reynolds were the successful speakers making it to the next level and travelled to Young to compete against 5 other students from our region yesterday (Monday 21st August). Congratulations to these students who did a wonderful job at representing their school and for your outstanding speeches.
Alice MacDougall and Kruz Annetts are in Canberra today participating at the Archdiocese Athletics carnival. Alice is competing in long jump and Kruz in 100 metres – we wish them all the best.
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Upcoming Dates and Events
September 6th – Community Council meeting. This will be held in the 4/5/6 classroom, at 6pm, all welcome to attend. An agenda will be emailed to all families prior to the night. If there are any items you wish to add to the agenda please email sjasecretary1@gmail.com
September 8th – A working bee will be held at school from 3.30pm, followed by a sausage sizzle. Everyone is welcome.
October 21st – THE DATE IS SET! St Joseph’s will be holding a Golf Day at the Adelong Golf Course. Details of the day will be available soon, in the meantime, please see attached letter with information as to how you can help with this awesome day. Start thinking about organsing your teams!
Family Letter Golf Day 2023.docx - Google Docs
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| Student of the Week Award: Sebastian Williams, Barney Roche & Mitchell Brown |
Principals Award: Cohen Cobden, Frederick Roche & Eva Corbett |
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Student of the Week Award: Principals Award:
Brydee Bowden, Christopher Campbell & Culley Reynolds, Anna Adams & Braxton Bamblett Billy Bamblett |
| Birthday Awards: |
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| Harley Shiels |
In Religion this term, 4/5/6 are learning about leadership, social justice and Jesus’ “New Law”. Over the past week, students have been reading and unpacking the scripture Matthew 25:31-46. This scripture emphasises the message of showing mercy and compassion towards others. Some of the key words students picked out in the scripture were: king, angel, family, life, glory, foundation, righteous and trustworthy.
Maths
This is our second week doing Rocket Maths. Rocket Maths is a program where students practise multiplication sums daily both orally and written. It only takes a few minutes each day. Students all have individual goals and work each day to beat their goal. Once they beat their goal, they move on to the next level. The aim of the program is to build fluency and recall automatically.
Here is a video of the first part in action!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kyAQw4d97MPFDeXliEtG68M48IbRt3jH/view?usp=sharing
Students are beating their goals every few days which is great to see. Our top score is Lily with 67 written answers in 60 seconds!
The Resilience Project
In groups, students are working on making a video to present to other classes that show the power of empathy. We had so much fun dressing up!!
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SWAP IT is a free evidence-based healthy lunchbox program. The program supports parents and carers to SWAP what is packed in their child’s lunchbox from sometimes foods to everyday foods.
Reminder:
Please find the lunch order menu for Mondays from the Gold Rush Cafe.
Please note: Unfortunately there are no pizzas available until further notice due to faults with the pizza oven.
If your child wishes to order please place your child’s name, class, order and correct money in an envelope on Monday mornings.
