The staff and students have had a wonderful start to learning this term.

Challenging Learning continues to be a focus at St Joseph’s with the staff currently focusing on ‘Talk Moves and Questioning’. Staff guide the students to a deeper level of understanding through strategies such as ‘Revoicing, Restating and Reasoning’ during their lessons. The learning challenge teaches people how to learn as well as what to learn.

Congratulations are extended to Mrs Parker and our School Choir who sang magnificently in the Western Region Choir competition, taking out third place. Work on the School Play has already commenced and we thank Mrs Parker for her creative abilities writing the play along with the help of our Year Six leaders.

On Friday we look forward to celebrating Mission Month with ‘A Day of Many Colours’. Students are invited to wear colourful clothing to school and make a gold coin donation to the missions. During the day we will pray the Rosary for children around the world who need our help and prayers.

Wishing everyone a happy week ahead.

Kind Regards

Liz Murray

Scholastic Book Club

Book Club catalogues were sent out last week, orders will close next Tuesday 29th October.  Lots of great Christmas gift ideas.

Please order via the LOOP app

MONDAY CANTEEN:  Thank you to our Mums who have volunteered to help out on Canteen this term.  If you can help in week 8 and 9 please let Lauren Roche know.

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

Staff will be attending a Spirituality Day.

McAULEY 2020 YEAR 7 ORIENTATION DAY - FRIDAY 8th NOVEMBER

First place was a team made up of Phillip Hayes, Midge Richards, Jane Hockey and Anne Hockey

Best Junior Boy- Seamus McMahon

Best Junior Girl- Culley Reynolds and Ainslie Campbell

Longest Drive- Kurt Fifield

Closest to the Pin- Henry Roche

Best Dressed Gent- Jim Pearce

Best Dressed Lady- Jess Campbell

Best Dressed Team- PRD 1 (Trev Masters, Tommy Arragon and Rory Arragon)

There will be one more session this term on Tuesday 29th October 12:30pm-3:10pm.  Please bring along lunch, water and a hat.

Last Friday, St Joseph’s students split up into 12 groups and participated in some Cultural Day activities.

Some of the activities were African drumming, boomerang throwing, oaka painting, pat the elephant, sheep toss, Mexican dancing, Chinese writing, making feathered hats, stone toss and volleyball game.

We all enjoyed participating in the Cultural Day with the Preschoolers and Adelong Public and we thank the Pre-School for inviting us to this beautiful day. We also thank Shane and Tayleah and the African Drummer for joining us and teaching us lots of new skills.

- From Taylani and Matilda

In Maths, we have been learning about place value and learning different strategies to help us work out sums mentally. We have been learning about number patterns and working out the rule to go with these.

In Literacy, we have been looking at word rules, grammar and punctuation to help us improve our writing and spelling.

This month is World Mission Month and the whole school have been praying for the different countries around the world. We will be participating in ‘A day of many colours’ and we have to dress up in White, Red, Blue, Green and Yellow to represent these countries. We will be raising money for the Nazareth Home. Some Primary Students have organised activities for us to participate in. We have integrated this into Religion by learning about The Rosary.

In Integrated Studies, we have been focusing on Earth’s Place in Space. Yesterday we made tornados in jars. We put water in a jar and added vinegar, dishwashing liquid and glitter to this. We put the lid on and then swirled it around in a clockwise direction and it made a tornado.

- From Taylani and Matilda

Last Thursday St Joseph’s hosted the Western Region Choir Competition (WRCC). The day ran very smoothly thanks to Mrs. Beavan’s organisational skills, thanks Mrs Beavan!  Thank you to Mrs Parker for all your time and effort you put into ensuring our voices sounded beautiful and in tune on the day! Thanks also to Vanessa Hall for generously donating her time and skill to accompany us on the key board. Seven schools competed in the competition; Trinity - Murrumburrah came First, St Mary’s War Memorial School, West Wyalong came second and St Joseph’s Adelong came third. Well done to the students for their great effort. Thank you to McAuley for allowing us to use their beautiful hall to host the event.

Congratulations to Culley, Fred, Lochie and Nicholas who received the sacrament of First Reconciliation last night. Thank you to Father Namora for celebrating the Liturgy and to the families, staff and parish members who supported the children on their faith journey.

During Reconciliation lessons the children learn about ‘Good Choices’ and ‘Poor Choices’. The reconciliation children talked at assembly this morning about the ‘ripple effect’, both the positive and negative impact that their choices have on others. At St Joseph’s we continue to instil in the students a sense of fairness, kindness towards others and how to show respect towards one another through our words and actions. The Reconciliation children showed us the beautiful rocks that they had decorated for their Liturgy, to remind them of the ‘Ripple Effect’ of their actions.

WORLD MISSION MONTH

On Friday we will celebrate Mission Month with   ‘A Day of Many Colours’ and the Mission Rosary.

The Mission Rosary is a special form of prayer to encourage us to pray children around the world – especially the poor and vunerable. Each child will receive a set of Mission Rosary beads which are made up of five different colours, each representing a different continent: Green for Africa, red for the Americas, white for Europe, blue for Oceania and yellow for Asia. As the children pray each decade, they remember children in that continent and understand that they belong to a Universal Church that shares God’s love with our global family.

All students are invited to wear colourful clothing to school and bring a gold coin donation for the Nazareth Home for God Children in Ghana.

St Joseph's will celebrate the end of the year with some special occasions so please mark your calendars:

7th December - Carols by Candlelight - 6pm-8pm

12th December - End of Year Mass & Awards - 12:00pm

17th December - End of Year Play - 6pm

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