Dear St Joseph’s families and friends,

Last week the school was a buzz with excitement as Josh Arnold shared his talent and joyful energy with our school community. The writing and performing of our St Joseph’s School Song was an amazing process of collaboration with the students and staff. Josh has not just helped us to write and performing our school song. His music has brought our school community closer together, reminded us of what we love about our school, our town and captured the true spirit of St Joseph’s Weipa. I may be a little biased, but I think our song could be the best song Josh has ever produced. We look forward to the finished product and there will be an official launch of the song in Term 4.

On Friday we held a Whole School Mass to celebrate the Induction of our Year 6 student leaders. Over the term and particularly this week, Year 6 have spent time exploring what qualities make a good leader? At St Joseph’s our student leaders focus on servant leadership. Which means learning that just as Jesus came to serve and not be served, so should we.

I look forward to seeing our Year 6 Leaders continue to step up and lead the way for the rest of 2020.

In the midst of such a busy week, visitors Luke Brown, Director of School Effectiveness and Rachel MacLean, Leader Formation continued to support with the development of the 2021-2023 Strategic Plan. As part of this process, capital works plans and an updated master plan are also being developed. I look forward to when the draft Strategic Plan is ready to be shared with our school community for feedback in Term 4.

It is an exciting future that presents itself here at St Joseph’s and I look forward to sharing the journey with all members of our community. 

As this is the last newsletter before the holiday break, I would like to take the opportunity to wish all our families all the best in taking some time to “Be Family” during the next few weeks. Enjoy every moment!

God Bless,

Megan Pearce