Dear St Joseph’s Families and Friends,

Today we have organised this special Mother’s Day Picnic Breakfast celebration of fun, food and laughter not only to pamper and entertain our Mum’s but most importantly so that lots of special memories could be made!

Our staff and students all had a special part to play in the celebration. They did an outstanding job and should be proud of their achievements. Thank you also to Fluer and Mathew Kirk who provided the amazing breakfast grazing boards.

We also appreciate and understand that some mums had to work today and couldn’t be with us. To ensure you feel part of our celebrations we have sent home a small bag of goodies from today.

We also have a special gift that the children will bring home this afternoon ready for a Mother’s Day surprise on Sunday. This gift was part of the ticket cost or for those who couldn’t attend who paid $10.

As a school community, we are deeply blessed by the level of support we receive from our parent body, especially the Mums and it is something that we never take for granted.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the mothers and grandmothers and other special ladies in the school community, a very Happy Mother’s Day!

We will be putting up lots of photos of the morning on facebook.

Tuckshop News

I am sad to inform our St Joseph’s community that Cindy Andresen will no longer be our tuckshop convener. Cindy stepped up into the role when we were in need and has been an outstanding Tuckshop convener. Thank you Cindy, we will miss your delicious food and great sense of humour. We wish you well in your new role and hope to have you back on staff in the future.

 Due to these changes there will be no Tuckshop next Monday 9/5/22 and Tuesday 6/5/22. PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILDREN BRING LUNCH TO SCHOOL THESE DAYS.

Parent and Friends AGM

Parent participation and engagement is an essential ingredient for student success at any school. We are in need of parents to become part of our P&F committee to ensure we continue to thrive. Please step up and join the executive. It is not a demanding role and lots of fun. The main role of the St Joseph’s P&F is to decide how the levy is spent in the school and to organise some ‘fun raising’ events. Very little fund raising is done and meeting are monthly. Please join for the benefit of your child.

Our next AGM will be held on Tuesday 17th May at 7-8pm in the school staffroom. I hope to see you there.

Formation of the St Joseph’s School Board

This coming Monday 9^th May at 7pm, we will be holding a parent information night in the library, about the school board and taking nominations for membership. Please come along if you are interested.

God Bless,

Megan

An Irish blessing for Mother’s Day

There is but one and only one,
Whose love will fail you never.
One who lives from sun to sun,
With constant fond endeavor.

There is but one and only one
On earth there is no other.
In heaven a noble work was done
When God gave us a Mother.

NAPLAN 

During week 4 and 5 the students in Year 3 and Year 5 will sit the online NAPLAN assessment.  

Our NAPLAN schedule is as follows 

Week 4 

Tuesday 11th May – Writing 

Wednesday 12th May – Reading 

Thursday 13th May – Language Conventions 

Week 5 

Wednesday 19th May - Numeracy 

NAPLAN is an annual assessment for students in Years 3,5,6 and 9. It provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy.  

Later in the year, you will receive your child’s personal NAPLAN report.  

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact your child’s teacher or myself.  

Stay & Play 

Next Friday, 13th May we will hold our first stay and play for children who do not yet attend school. Play & stay will take place in the Prep classroom after assembly until 10:30am.  

Many thanks 

Amanda Rowe 

Middle Leader – Learning & Teaching 

HPE NEWS 

Cross Country  What a great event we shared last Thursday as a community.  The track was smooth, the students ran early, every child finished their race.  Best of all was the Team spirit shown by everyone and how they displayed resilience and determination.     I was extremely proud of everyone’s efforts during the day and am thankful to have such a supportive team of parents and staff who helped out immensely.     Special mention to our Yr 6 leaders who were awesome on the day in their running effort but also their spirit and encouragement on and off the track.

Peninsula Cross Country Trials   Congratulations to Tremaine Tapim, Luke Wright and Jackson Reynolds who have made the Cape team to represent our school in a few weeks in Cairns.  We will continue training and we wish them all the best down there.   Fantastic effort boys!

AFL Lessons  Matt and Kieran have been teaching AFL skills to each grade the last 2 weeks.  Lots of active games and skill development include The Handball Challenge and Kick Race with Yr 4/5/6.   The Kicking Goal challenge for Yr 2 & 3 and for P to 2 was the 10 point skill challenge!  Seeing the students kick balls around and just have fun while learning skills is such a pleasure to watch. The growth in confidence with ball handling skills has been amazing.  The students have 3 more lessons this term.    AUSKICK AFTER SCHOOL ON A WEDNESDAY  Our school has registered close to 70 students for the afterschool AUSKICK program.  WOW!  Great fun and building on the skills we are learning in PE lessons.

DATECLAIMERS TERM 2:    Week 4     13th May          Crusader Cup AFL     Yr 5 & 6  Week 5     20th May          Peninsular Cross Country in Cairns  (3 students)  Week 9     15th June        Qld Cricket PE lessons  Week 9     17th June        Cricket Cup  Yr 4-6  Week 19   22nd June       Athletics Carnival   (whole school)

ATHLETICS TRAINING STARTS WEEK 6 before school at 8.00am   -sprint training  -long jump  -high jump  -long distance (800m and 400m)    More details to follow.

Yours in Spirit and Sport, 

Libby Lange     HPE teacher 

We have had a wonderful start to Term 2!  We have celebrated Anzac Day, participated in our first school cross country, attended the school leadership Mass and this week we will celebrate the caring women in our lives at our Mother’s Day breakfast. 

• This term in English we are learning to combine visuals and written text and identify characteristic features of narratives e.g. beginning and end. Using nursery rhymes and fables, we will engage with rhythms and sound patterns in oral and written language.  Of course, we are also continuing to develop our knowledge of letter and sound combinations, writing simple sentences, using familiar words and our beginning writing knowledge. 
• In Maths, we are ensuring that we are counting fluently with a stable counting order. We are also using Answers to yes/no questions to collect information and make simple inferences. We are learning to copy, continue and create patterns with objects and drawings. 
• In Science, we are involved in observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in the weather.  
• HASS this term begins our exploration of geography.  We will describe the features of familiar places and recognise why some places are special to people.  We will look at how places can be represented on maps and a globe. 

• Design and Technology gives us the opportunity to explore force and motion. We will also investigate how this applies to Transport – including the movement of people and goods.   

We are looking forward to a fantastic Term! 

Hello Families! 

Term Two is underway and what a busy term we have had so far. 

Last week saw the children participate in the Cross Country Race. We started early to beat the heat and the Grade One’s should all be very proud of themselves for showing resilience and never giving up! Thank-you to the parent helpers who ran with the children and assisted in any way on the day, many hands make light work and we appreciate all of your help. 

During English this term we are continuing with our Initial Lit lessons and beginning to learn some long vowel sounds. The children are working hard during these explicit lessons and during their reading rotations. Students are excited to be learning about narratives this term and creating their own stories. 

(Insert English photos 1303, 1070,1071, 1072, 1073 ) 

During Maths this term we are continuing to use hands on activities to assist with our learning, as learning by doing is so much fun! So far this term we have been learning to use different strategies for addition and subtraction, we are strengthening our place value knowledge and learning about capacity. 

HASS this term is Geography and it sees us looking at the different features of places and categorising them into natural, constructed and managed. Students will be asked to bring in some photos of their favourite place in Weipa so please keep an eye out for SeeSaw messages or E-mails. 

Kind Regards, 

Mrs Tash Tapper. 

Welcome back everyone to Term 2! 

What a fantastic, event filled couple of weeks we have had already. We had such a great time at our annual Cross Country race last Thursday. Everyone demonstrated great resilience and persistence throughout what was a warm and fun filled day. Thank you so much to the parent helpers who were able to offer some time to come along and lend a hand where needed. 

In the classroom, we have been straight back into our learning with effort and enthusiasm. We are very much looking forward to Dance this term for our Arts subject with Miss Libby. During Maths, we will continue to develop our counting and number sense, while exploring other topics including shape, money, time, decimals, data, addition, and subtraction to name a few. Check out the pictures below to see some hands-on learning action during Maths rotations this week. Writing this term will see us exploring Narrative and we look forward to coming up with lots of exciting stories to share with you. We also look forward to continuing AUSLAN, PE, Religion, Design and Technologies, Health, Science and Geography, as well as SEL (Zones of Regulation and Second Step).  

A friendly reminder that PE will be held on Wednesdays this term so sports uniforms on this day please, and homework and library folders will be required on a Tuesday as per last term.  

We look forward to another great term of learning, friendships, and fun in 1B! 

Many thanks, 

Kate Backhouse

Hi families,  

Well done everyone for their great efforts and participating at Cross Country. It was a great day!   

We finally finished our boat ramps after last Terms efforts! Here are some photos. 

I’m excited to see what our next Technology lessons will involve.  

What’s new in Year 3? 

This term in HASS we are learning about Captain James Cook. The students have recently researched Captain Cook’s journey to Australia, first landing in Botany Bay and then being ship wreaked on the Great Barrier Reef and having to stop and repair the Endeavour in Cooktown. Our class has been learning about Captain Cook declaring Australia as ‘Terra Nullius’ (no-man’s/nobody’s land). We have formed some interesting opinions about why Captain Cook declared ‘Terra Nullius’ and how is affected Australia’s First Nation’s people. 

Hello families of Year 4, 

We have had another great start to the term! We have been busy making special gifts for our Mother’s Day Picnic. I hope you all enjoy them, we had so much fun making each one!  

Over the past few weeks in maths the students have been learning and practicing calculating change to the closest 5c. We set up a small class shop, and each student had the chance to purchase and give change.  

In English, Year 4 are writing information reports on different animals. We have looked at language features, text structures and what makes a great paragraph. Each week we will have a look at our learning road and see what we are up to and what we need to do next to reach our end goal! 

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and a Happy Mother’s Day to all the mums and mum-like people in our lives.  

Kind Regards, 

Emily 

We have been busy being leaders in the Hub these past few weeks. Our Year 6 students with support from the Year 5 students, successfully lead our Cross Country Carnival. Each and every one of them gave their race a ‘red, hot go’ and then supported the rest of the students in their races. We saw students assisting those with their run by being by their side, cheering them on and even helping calm the nerves. It is a long way to run and our Seniors showed the St Joey’s Way all carnival. Thank you to our parent volunteers for helping us get over the line on the day. Kylie Argent, Paul Giradi and Mrs Tiffany Barber really helped push us to perform well.  

The Year 6 student then continued their leadership journey by participating in their leadership retreat day and then their Induction Mass. We were fortunate enough that Fr Dariusz could be here to bless their badges as we officially welcomed them in as leaders. This is just the beginning of what we hope to be a successful year for our Year 6 students and their leadership within our school.  

During our writing lessons our focus has been on creating engaging opening statements when creating persuasive texts. There has been much debate on which pet is better than others with many examples of why they believe that their chosen pet is truly the best. We have worked on making sure that we do include rhetorical questions which in turn gets the reader on our side.  

Maths lessons have been all about 3D objects. Students have been given the challenge to design and build a 3D robot. They do have strict height requirements and how many different 3D objects should be included in their build. So far looking at the 2D sketches, students have shown a clear understanding of shape and I can’t wait for them to bring them to life next week.  

Days to keep an eye on: 

Wednesdays- Homework, Library and PE days 

Week 4 & 5- Naplan Tests: Writing-Tues 10th, Reading-Wed 11th, Language Conventions- Thurs 12th and Maths- Wed 18th 

Friday Week 4: Crusader Cup- AFL Gala Day