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We hope to see you all tonight at our Annual Starry Starry Night from 5.30pm. The P&F are selling roast beef and gravy rolls, chicken strips and sauce, soft drinks and poppers. The Cent Sale will also be on again this year. Don't forget to bring your chairs and picnic blankets.
We keep Mrs Megan Pearce in our prayers as she is unwell. We wish her a speedy recovery back to full health.
Josh Arnold from Small Town Culture
What an incredible week for the children at St Joseph’s to have Josh Arnold return to write our road and bike safety song. This initiative is supported by funding from the Queensland Government's Community Road Safety Grants scheme which St Joseph’s was fortune to receive. The week started with brainstorming ideas around how to get to school safely whether it be by car, bike, scooter or walking. Josh worked with students to turn their ideas into a song with a great beat. We also liaised with Weipa Police to identify road and bike safety issues in the Weipa community and how we can overcome them.
A group of 25 students were recorded and filmed around the Weipa community to send out a strong message about getting to school safely. We can't wait to share the video with you all and thank Josh, Jason and Tash for your work this week.
We also had Josh work with a group of children to film a verse of Christine Anu’s Island Christmas Song. This is part of the ABC Compass program and their Christmas special hosted by Christine Anu. This will be aired on the 21st December. Keep an eye out for it in the school holidays.
Remembrance Day Liturgy
Thank you to the parents and family members who attended the Remembrance Day Liturgy on Thursday. We continue to pay our respects to those people who have fallen. We will remember them. Lest we forget.
Thank you to the families who shared images of family members who have served in war, thank you to the Anderson Family for representing St Joseph’s at the Weipa RSL Remembrance Day Service and thank you to Corporal Keegan Brooker visiting the school and addressing the school.
Bump Up Day
On Monday 15th November students will be meeting their teacher for 2022. The session will run from 9:00-10:40am. A list of classroom teachers for 2022 will be sent out to parents before Monday.
The School Board Formation Meeting for those interested in becoming a member was scheduled to take place on Monday 15th November. This meeting has now been cancelled.
We are still taking nominations and will take them into consideration for when the meeting is rescheduled in 2022.
Week 7
Monday 15th November - Bump Up Day - Meet the 2022 teacher
Monday 15th November - School Board Formation Meeting - POSTPONED - Due to be rescheduled in 2022
Friday 19th November - Year 6 Graduation Dinner - from 5.30pm
Week 8
Monday 22nd November - End of Year Mass - 9.00am
Tuesday 23rd November - Awards Night - 5.45pm at the Storm Shelter
Friday 26th November - Farewell Assembly - 2.00pm - Please note time change
Friday 26th November - Last day of school
2022 Dates
Monday 24th January - First day of school
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Welcome to Week 6, how the Term is flying. It is another very busy and exciting week with our Starry Starry night Concert this Friday and Josh Arnold visiting St. Joseph’s, Weipa this week.
Personalised Learning Plans (PLPs)
The teachers are in the process of writing Personalised Learning Plans (PLPs) and will be meeting with Parents over the next few weeks. Personalised learning is a process that supports a wide range of students with additional learning and support needs. This includes students who may require support in one or more of the following areas: learning (including high potential learners), behaviour, social/emotional, cultural/language (including international students, boarders and learners of English as an Additional Language or Dialect) and those who have educational support needs arising from disability. Teachers, with the support of the Leader of Diversity, and in consultation with parents, collaboratively decide which adjustments and/or goals are to be targeted and determine appropriate strategies and supports to be implemented. It is the teacher’s responsibility to implement these planned strategies in order to support students to meet their goals. Teachers will direct School Officer support and plan for adjustments on a weekly basis. Teachers communicate weekly with School Officers regarding student progress and make adjustments as needed. Evidence is collected regularly and uploaded to ENGAGE. PLP meetings are set 6 monthly and will determine if current goals have been achieved before setting further goals.
Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum
This term in Health the school is implementing the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum for students all grades, Prep – Year 6. This curriculum is based on the principles of best practice in child safety education and centres around three key messages: Recognise, React and Report. A collaborative approach between schools, families and the community is the best way to provide safety education to children. Information about the Daniel Morcombe child Safety Curriculum can be found at www.education.qld.gov.au/child-safety-curriculum.
Respectful Relationships Program
Last week Tosca Grainger - Dee our School Counsellor visited us again in Weipa providing her service to St. Joseph's School and the students in Year 5 and 6 participated in the Respectful Relationships Educational Program.
The Respectful Relationships Program facilitators were Tosca Grainger Dee (Counsellor), Hannah Chapman (Manager of Counselling and Psychology) and Ann Barr (Student Protection Officer) and teaching staff were also present during the sessions.
The program aims to provide a safe environment in which Year 5 and 6 students can discuss and learn about their rights and responsibilities in relationships and look at ways to access support when needed. During the sessions, the students are encouraged to support their friends by utilising safe, healthy and proactive strategies.
If you have any questions please feel free to make contact with myself at a convenient time that suits. My email address is mturner@cns.catholic.edu.au
Kind Regards,
Melanie Turner
Hello Prep Families,
English:
Students demonstrated their fantastic writing and recall skills. They listened to the story, recalled, and wrote three things that happened in the story. Students then used their technological skills to record themselves retelling their story to share with the class.
Maths:
Students have been showing their fantastic addition skills adding big numbers to 20 together. They have been using different representations and of numbers and matching these together to extend their number knowledge.
Religion:
Students have been learning about the how Christmas is celebrated in the church. We use different decorations like advent wreaths, candles, stars, the nativity and angels. Students used their knowledge to plan where and what decorations we could put up in our Catholic classroom.
Science:
Students have been doing an investigation of the way things move. They observed different ways that objects moved and compared the objects before deciding on which would be best for playing a rolling game based on the way it moved.
Thank you everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes, the students made sure I had a fantastic day at school!
Kindest,
Anneka
These past two weeks have been very busy in Year 1. We’ve been practicing our two class songs for Starry Starry night as well as some whole school ones too. It will be such a great night on Friday evening and will are all looking forward to it!
Last week in Mathematics we revised patterns using colours and shapes. Here are some great patterns we created.
We have been developing a new skill in Year 1. We have been started typing! Our keyboards attach to your child’s ipad which has made a great transition into learning all about a new hardware technology. Using the correct finger for the correct letter can be tricky but Year 1 have been resilient and patient learners.
Hi families of Year 2,
As the term comes closer to the end, the students have been amazing in showing their knowledge and understanding by completing assessments! We have written persuasive texts, solved tricky math problems, collected, and represented data. We are still working through our Music program, as well as continuing our meditative prayer practice in Religion.
This week Josh Arnold and his team have been working with us to create a Road Safety song. We are all looking forward to Starry Starry Night on Friday evening. The students have been practising our songs each day at school, and we have even thrown in some simple actions.
Thank you all for the support throughout the year, I look forward to ending the term with lots of laughter and smiles!
Emily
Wow, it is hard to believe we are at the end of week 6 already! . This week Miss Sinnamon has unfortunately been absent but we have still been working very hard in her absence. The Grade 3's have been busy completing lots of assessment tasks this week.
In Science, the students conducted a melting experiment with ice and chocolate. They had to predict which one would melt first and examined what the solids looked like after timed increments. The results surprised some of them and luckily we have some nice warm weather in Weipa to be able to conduct the experiment effectively.
Students also received their water bottles with their names on it this week, thank-you parents for completing the school survey.
The Grade 3's have also been working very hard on our Starry, Starry Night performance with Josh Arnold. The students came up with their own actions to Dino-Mite and I look forward to watching their performance on Friday evening. The students have also been working on a road safety song with Josh and his crew.
Enjoy the last couple of weeks with your children before we break for the school holidays.
Tash Tapper.
Hello Year 4 families,
As the term comes closer to the end, the students have been showing lots of resilience and eagerness to learn as they work through assessment tasks to finish the year on a high! We have written persuasive texts, analysed and represented data and examined how forces affect our lives. We are still working through our Music program, as well as continuing our lead up to Christmas by learning about Advent in Religion lessons.
This week Josh Arnold and his team have been working with us to create a Road Safety song. The whole school will once again be a part of this song with some dancing and students doing some singing. We are very lucky to have Josh visit and really excite the children about creating a song with a message. It was a lovely surprise for the students when Josh came and sang with them on Tuesday morning instead of listening to a recording! The students have been practising our songs each day at school, and we may even surprise everyone with some simple actions for one of the songs.
Thank you all for the support throughout the year.
Justin
These past two weeks the Year 5 students have really shown they can be great leaders. The number one habit of leadership we learnt about that is sticking thick at the moment is “Work hard and then play.” Everyone has been putting in 100% effort to get their work completed and they are doing with grace.
During our Religion we have looked at Mary in the scripture, her roles and how she is portrayed in images. Students were asked this past week to create a prayer card about Mary and didn’t they show their artistic flair. So many great representations and in her life were created.
Our plans for a recipe book is going to be something to treasure for years to come. Not only will we look at these recipes and think of the moment that the Year 5’s shared but also the wonderful feedback that the students gave to each other. This allowed us to grow as learners and acknowledge what a great job we did these past weeks with our preparations.
This week has definitely been a busy week with Josh Arnold here. The Year 5’s played a massive role in ensuring that the road safety campaign video was a success. We sung, we danced and put our acting shoes on. What a fun week and to wrap it off with a concert on Friday night with our family and friends.
The end is near but there is still so much to do. Our ‘Bump Up’ day will be on Monday where we hope to experience time as a Year 6 student and potentially meet our teacher for next year. We also have our end of year mass, awards night and many other fun in class activities to do before the end of the school year.
The last week or so has been pretty crazy! Last Thursday was our Respectful Relationships session and this week we have had Josh Arnold here. We are striving to continue to be strong leaders in the school and remember to follow the 4 R’s.
Our 2 committees are in full swing and it is all action stations!
The Mission Committee has been working hard to make stress balls, pom-poms and angels in preparation for our Mission Day stall. We are making everything ourselves from donated materials and all the proceeds will go towards the RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service).
Please see our poster to see what we will be selling. We will be going around each class next week and explaining it to classes further. We are also making cupcakes to sell on the day. We are very excited and working really well as a team to make this happen!
The Recycling Committee are really proud of the success so far with collecting lunchbox items to take to Containers For Cash. Every day after lunch, we count, tally and bag up the containers. Then clean the tubs and have them ready for the next day. It is our job to take them out every day and bring them in (without being reminded too!) so it has given us extra responsibility and a sense of achievement. We are working better as a team now and sharing the load. The money raised will be donated to the RFDS.
In class we finished writing our Yr 6 class song which is pretty cool. Then we wrote our own song lyrics which we are proud of achieving. We have worked hard in Maths on our problem-solving skills and strategies and of course, assessment tasks. It has been hard work but only 10 days until we finish primary school!
We are now focused on our Graduation and getting ready for that. Award nominations, speeches to write and our own slideshow to prepare. We are getting excited.
