Day for Daniel - Friday 30th October 2020

Dear Parents and Caregivers,  

Our last term of Prep has started very well, with lots of learning and fun! 

In Literacy we have been practicing writing a retell of a story that we have read, including 3 Billy Goats Gruff and Giraffes Can’t Dance. This week we have also read Little Red Riding Hood and created a story map which we are integrating with our Digital Technology Unit. We have also introduced new phonograms /wh/ /oo/ and /ng/. 

The students were very excited to be introduced to the Ozobots in Digital Technologies, we have learned about simple coding and used the Ozobots as the characters for our story map that we created in Literacy. 

In Maths we have introduced addition, subtraction and sharing and learned to use strategies such as number lines, counting forwards and backwards. 

In Health with Mr Simmons the children have been participating in the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety program, please refer to email sent to parents on Thursday for more details on what they are leaning. 

Our library day is Wednesday, please encourage your children to bring their library bag to school on this day, they will bring two readers home, please read with them as often as you are able to assist in developing their reading skills.  PE will continue on Thursday this term so students can wear their sport uniform on this day. 

We are looking forward to a fast but eventful term, as always please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. 

Andrieka Knight 

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Hello Parents, Families and Friends, 

Over the past few weeks, Year 2 have been busy learning about collecting data and displaying data using graphs. The students had to design their own inquiry question and collect data from all the students in the class. Some topics included favourite ice-cream, take-away and game! Students then drew a bar graph and represented their data to answer their inquiry question.  

Year 2 also had the pleasure of presenting on assembly last Friday. We talked about how God can be our lighthouse. The students came up with fantastic answers, for example “he guides us in the right direction” and “he shines bright for us to see”. We also sang ‘My Lighthouse’ by Rend Collective and the students did a fantastic job with their singing and the actions! They should be very proud of themselves.  

Just some reminders: 

• Homework is due every Friday 
• AUSLAN is Thursday with Miss Newell 
• Health is Thursday with Mr Simmons  
• PE is Thursday with Mrs Turner 

I hope you all have a lovely week.  

Warm Regards, 

Emily  

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Just a few gentle reminders 

•  Homework has commenced and will need to be submitted every Friday.  
• Students need to bring in a piece of fruit to eat during crunch and sip in class and a drink bottle.  
• Laptops should be coming to school charged and ready for learning every day. 

In faith, 

Mrs Michelle Gear 

Dear Parent and Guardians, 

Welcome to Week 4, the Term is certainly flying by. We are busily practising our Christmas Concert songs for Starry Starry night and also our Assembly Prayer for Week 5. We are making a Slideshow for our Assembly Prayer so if you have any photos of your family helping out others, being kind or raising money for charities please email them to mturner@cns.catholic.edu.au to be part of the Slideshow. 

Geography 

For Geography homework last week, the students had to choose a natural resource and create a poster to encourage members of the community to use this resource more sustainably. 

Reminders 

Library and Homework 

Library Day is Wednesday – please ensure Library bag is packed on that day and Homework is due in each Thursday and will be sent out on Friday 

Health and Physical Education 

Teacher: Melanie Turner (Thursday) 

Physical Education is Thursday – please wear Sports Uniform on that day 

Health Lesson 

Teacher Simmons (Thursday) 

Daniel Morcombe Program 

Fact sheet for Parents 

The Department of Education and Training, in partnership with the Daniel Morcombe Foundation, has developed the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum for Queensland students. 

The Curriculum consists of classroom lessons across three phases of learning: Prep - Year 2, Years 3 - 6, and Years 7 - 9. 

The Curriculum, available to all Queensland schools, aims to develop student knowledge and skills to recognise, react to and report unsafe situations. The Curriculum is aligned with existing curriculum frameworks and was developed in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders including Queensland Child Safety Ambassadors Bruce and Denise Morcombe. 

How the curriculum will be taught 

The Curriculum is based around three key messages: Recognise, React and Report. 

• The Recognise message encourages students to be aware of their surroundings and to recognise warning clues. 
• The React message helps students to consider choices that may keep them safe or help make them safe again as quickly as possible. 
• The Report message encourages students to report unsafe incidents to an adult. 

Teachers use a variety of materials, including interactive whiteboard activities, worksheets and safety books, to deliver the Recognise, React and Report messages. Developmentally appropriate scenarios are also being used to explore and discuss safety situations that children and young people may encounter in the home, at school or in their environment. 

Students are encouraged to share the resources they complete in class with their families to help keep parents informed about the content being discussed and to promote discussion about safety in the home. 

Resources for Parents 

Parent Guides for each of the phases are available online at www.education.qld.gov.au/child-safety-curriculum. 

The guide outlines what students will learn in the safety lessons in school. It also provides advice to parents about how safety messages can be reinforced at home and suggests some suitable resources to use with children. For more information about the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum go to our website at www.education.qld.gov.au/child-safety-curriculum. 

Auslan 

Teacher: Meg Newall (Friday) 

Communication 

If you have any questions or queries, please email us on 

mturner@cns.catholic.edu.au and sulanas@cns.catholic.edu.au 

and we will endeavour to return your email within 24 hours. 

Regards, 

Mrs T and Ms U. 

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

These past two weeks have flown by. Our religion lessons have been all about scripture from the bible. The students have been looking at different parables and how we can make them a little more modern so that we can all understand the meaning behind them. The Year 5’s will be taking the opportunity to share a parable with a younger student that they have modernized this week. I can’t wait!  

In our Math it has been all about Chance and Area. The students are grasping the concept that area means the inside surface space compared to the perimeter/ or the outside measurement. We conducted plenty of experiments with coins, dice and cards. It was unpredictable at times.  

We have delved into our Natural Disaster investigations with enthusiasm. This coming week the students are going to be starting their research project on their chosen Natural Disaster. Each child has chosen different Natural Disasters that have occurred in the past 100 years. I know we’ll learn a great deal from all the different types of disasters.  

We have also look at creating and programing either flood gates or helicopters that assist in search and rescues. The students worked in groups to complete the task using our Lego We-Do kits and iPads. There was a great deal of collaboration, problem solving and critical thinking. They found the task a little challenging to start off with but are up for a new challenge this week.  

We have many things happening and to look forward to this term. Please keep an eye on the calendar/date announcements.  

Regards, 

Stacey

After such an amazing camp, all Year 6 students came back to school feeling reenergised and new friendships have been formed.  As their teacher, I saw the value of individual students taking on different roles as part of the Leadership challenges on camp.   Every student had the opportunity to shine in their own individual way, no matter what the challenge.  Every student was on an equal level and no matter what the obstacles, I saw comradery and solidarity.  Values that are important at St Joseph’s and that we will speak of often over the next few weeks.  

In the last ten days we have visited WCC for our Transition days twice. Lots of different emotions happening with the students, but a very positive feeling overall.  The WCC Yr 7 staff were so welcoming and positive about the students who will be attending next year.

The following comments are from our Yr 6 students regarding transitioning to Year 7:

WCC year 7 will be awesome because the teachers are so nice to us, and the students are kind. I can't wait to go there so we can do wood work and home economics. 

The first day we went we made a cool key ring out of plastic, then we made choc chip muffins which was pretty cool. We then went to the lunch area to eat lunch. At lunch we played touch footy. Then we walked back to school. 

Luke and Liam

Transition days are going well and on the first day we got to make a keychain for our bags out of acrylic in manual arts. Then we went to cooking class and made chocolate chip muffins. We even got to wear aprons and hair nets. In the cooking class everyone had a blast and at the end had to clean the dishes and then put them back where they went. Then when the high schoolers went for second lunch we walked home.

Jess and Sienna

Food studies

Two weeks ago Grade 6 went to WCC and we got an idea of what food studies is like there. We were given a bunch of ingredients to use according to the recipe. We were making a batch of chocolate chip muffins. Once we finished cooking them in the oven we tried them and they were delicious. Then we packed up all our muffins into our food boxes and we left back to St Josephs. 

Tom, Jake and Charlie

On transition day we did three different activities such as food art, manual art, and core group. Let's talk about manual arts. For manual arts we made keychains out of acrylic. How we did it is we filed it down and then we sanded it making it very smooth. After that we buffed it down and Sir drilled a hole in in it using a drill press. Then we put it in an oven to make it flex a lot and bend but not break it then we got welding gloves and plies to twist it then we put it in cold water to make it stay twisted. After that we put a key chain in it and turned a normal  of acrylic into a keychain.

Overall it was a great transition and it was very fun.  

Angus Kai and Kyan

During lunch time at WCC we had an amazing time. 

We ate our lunch near the tuckshop then sat down at the croc stage. Then the girls (Jess, Jasmine, Sophie, Sienna, Ramona, Kayla, Ava) decided to have a wonder around the school. We eventually got lost and saw some WCC students and asked them where we were. They just laughed and sadly didn't help. We then saw Miss Agnew, our previous teacher and asked her what our next class was. Our next class was home ec so Ava showed us where our other class was. Then we went back to the tuckshop and found the rest of our class.

Sophie and Jasmine

Next year I will be moving to Brisbane and I will be going to Iona College at Wynnum.  When I went for my transition day I had a tour around the school, I met some teachers.  It is way bigger than Weipa. I am looking forward to manual arts and I got to use a microscope and look at fish scales in the science lab.

Jaiden