APRE
Catholic Education Week
On Friday we celebrated Catholic Education Week and the Spirit of St Joseph Awards. Thank you to the Year 1 class for presenting one of their favourite hymns Come and Follow Me, and Year 3 for presenting the Gospel echo for Matthew’s Gospel which focused on the Greatest Commandment- to love your God and love your neighbour. The prayer space was set beautiful by Year 4 using the artworks created by classes and the readers did a wonderful job. It was great to see the families of the Spirit of St Joseph Award winners be present to see their child receive their trophy. A big congratulations to the following students who keep the Spirit of St Jospeh alive every day through showing love, compassion and humility to others.
| Prep | Tasheena.A |
| 1A | Lola.S |
| 1B | Melia.D |
| Year 2 | Addison.L |
| Year 3 | Aniyah.S |
| Year 4 | Jed.H |
| Year 5 | Philemon.A |
| Year 6 | Evan.A |
A lovely morning tea was shared afterwards and all the children received a cupcake to celebrate Catholic Education Week. Thank you to Veronica Ah Shay for preparing the lovely cake and cupcakes.
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day
On Thursday it was National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day. What a great day to celebrate during Catholic Education Week as learn about all the cultures which are a part of St Joseph's. The theme for 2022 is My Dreaming, My Future and time to reflect on the deep listening that takes place to care for Country and the hope for the future. We celebrate the strengths and culture of the Aboriginal and Torres Islander people and are grateful for the knowledge and wisdom that is passed onto the children.
PB4L- Positive Behaviour for Learning
Our school behaviour matrix is a visual tool that outlines the expectations of behaviours we expect all children and staff to learn, practice and demonstrate. They allow us to teach proactively and to provide the students with a positive message about behaviours for learning at school. One way in which we teach the expected behaviour is through our weekly PB4L assemblies. With a focus on only one behaviour, as a school we look at what these behaviours might look like, sound like and feel like. There are always lots of images and videos shown of students doing the expected behaviour.
The focus of this week was; we are respectful in the Church.” This coincided with our Liturgy held in the Church on Friday. The students were aware of the expected behaviours before attending and were able to attend and particpate respectfully.
This week, our focus will be: We are respectful when using sporting equipment.