The last week of term has come around so quickly.  It has been another busy term with lots of school and community events with most importantly lots of learning.  I hope that all of the students have a great break and use the two weeks to recharge the batteries and take some time out before the last term of the year.

The calendar has been updated to include some important dates for the end of the year.  We will trial a new format for the end of year mass and awards ceremony.  This year it will be held during the day on Thursday 12^th December at 12 noon.  It will be followed by a simple bbq which will be provided by the Community Council.  By giving families plenty of notice it is hoped that those with work commitments may be able to rearrange their schedules in order to attend.  Our end of year lay will take place the following week on Tuesday 17^th December at the Adelong S&C club commencing at 6pm. 

We are very excited to announce that Mrs Baxter is expecting her second bub next year.  We congratulate Jac, Brad and Izzy and wish you all the best for your growing little family.  Next term we will advertise for teaching positions for 2020.

Naplan results went out last week and next term staff will be analysing the data.  Whilst Naplan is a tool that the government uses to track student progress nationally, it is one assessment tool that is a snapshot in time – one test on one particular day.  Students can become anxious during test conditions, the test format was online this year and was not free from incident, all of these things should be kept in mind when looking through your child’s Naplan results.  There are some great tools that staff will be using to gain a clearer picture of how we are tracking as a school, year levels and individual students and their growth.  Daily assessment tasks, conversations, conferences, work samples and class discussions paint the bigger picture of student achievement and how they are progressing.  Often systems and governments can place a heavy emphasis on Naplan results rather than using it as a tool to gain a snapshot of how we are travelling or to look at the processes used in learning rather than just the results.

It was fantastic that there were many areas that our school performed above the state average – Year Three numeracy, Year five numeracy, writing and spelling – a great achievement.

Have a great week and holiday and I look forward to seeing you all in Term Four.

Kind Regards

Kirsty Beavan

REMINDER:  TERM 4 PUPIL FREE DAY - FRIDAY 8th NOVEMBER 2019

Students will return to school for Term 4 on Monday 14th October.

McAULEY 2020 YEAR 7 ORIENTATION DAY - FRIDAY 8th NOVEMBER

MONDAY CANTEEN:  A roster for Term 4 will be out soon.

Please contact Lauren Roche if you are able to help with Monday Canteen for Term 4.  At this stage our volunteers numbers are dwindling and the canteen will not operate on a weekly basis unless we have more helpers.

Western Region Choir - Thursday 17th October

Permission notes went out this week for the Western Region Choir Competition next term, please remember to return your note by tomorrow.  Parents are welcome to come along on the day to watch the choir competition which will commence around 11:40am.

Cultural Day - Friday 18th October

Please remember to also return your permission note for the Cultural Day to be held at the Adelong Park.  Thanks to Adelong Preschool for organising this great day.

Cricket Gala Day

Yesterday the Primary Class participated in the Adelong Public and St Joseph’s cricket day. This event was brought to us by the Sydney Thunder Club. Our class was divided up into three teams and each team participated in 4 games. During each game we had to rotate so everyone got a go at  fielding, bowling and batting. We enjoyed our time playing cricket, meeting the cricketers and having a good time with the students from Adelong Public School.

Sports Captains- Seamus and Anna

Next term for Weeks 1-4 we will again have Zac from the Brumbies Rugby development squad coming to run more Rugby sessions with the children.  Students will need to wear their sports uniform on Wednesday and Friday.

K-1-2 have loved getting outside in the sunshine and using sand and water to explore volume and capacity.

The Primary Class have been looking at collecting and representing Data using a number grid between 0-13. They have been looking at the chances of rolling particular number with the two dice and finding the mean, mode, median and the average of their group’s data.

St Joseph's display at Lanterns on the Lagoon looked fantastic, thank you to Mrs Dean for all her work with the display and the children for making our recycled lanterns.  

Year 2 enjoyed a Writing Celebration with students from Lake Cargellico recently. The two schools ‘zoomed in’ with each other so that the students could see each other on the whiteboards. It was fantastic to hear the variety of published work and meet new friends from ‘The Lake’ - one of the furthest schools in our Diocese.

It was great to have our 2020 Kinders join us on Tuesday, we look forward to seeing you again next term.

Term 4 Orientation Sessions:

Tuesday 15th October - 12:30pm - 3:10pm

Tuesday 29th October - 12:30pm - 3:10pm

Reconciliation Lessons

Reconciliation lessons will be held on:

Thursday 26th September.

Lessons will be held at school from 3:15pm to 4:15pm in the K/1/2 room.  Mrs Murray will provide afternoon tea.  

Reconciliation will be held on Wednesday 23rd October in St James Church at 6pm.

Please contact Mrs Murray on 6946 4453 or elizabeth.murray@cg.catholic.edu.au if you would like to enrol your child for this sacrament.

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