NEWSLETTER ~ TERM 3 ~ No. 2 ~ 30 July 2020

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK - Aaron Richards Learner-Led Conferences - Learner-led conferences provide children with an opportunity to celebrate their learning with their parents. The conferences take place on the 3rd and 4th of August. The Junior Teachers (Year 1-4) will contact parents to organise a conference time. An invitation has been sent out to the families of children in the senior team (Year 5-8) to make an online booking. Please note that children who have not been enrolled at school for at least one year will not have a conference. If parents of children in their first year at school would like to discuss their child’s learning, they should contact the homeroom teacher. Although conferences have been taking place at St Joseph’s School since 2008, and are common in schools around the country, I am aware that the conferences are a new experience for parents with younger children. To assist parents to prepare and participate in the conference, I have developed a Parent Guide for Assessing and Learning Learner Achievement. This is included in this newsletter. Written Report - The Mid-Year Written Report will be provided to parents at the Learner-Led Conference. The report is a brief summary of student achievement in the core subjects of Religious Education, Reading, Writing and Mathematics. A Parent Guide for Reading the Written Report has been developed to help parents understand this document. This parent guide will be sent home to parents and caregivers on Monday morning in preparation for the Learner-Led Conferences. Pop Up Penguin - On 4th August St Joseph’s School will host representatives from the International Antarctic Centre. During their visit the school will be presented Antarctic Academy Certificates for online and experiential learning. They will also be presenting a pop up penguin. The pop up penguin is similar to the giraffes that popped up after the Christchurch earthquakes. Over the next month the Year 7-8 students will be responsible for decorating the penguin. The decorated penguin will be relocated around the city to reinforce the message that it is an important time for animals on the ice during COVID-19. I would like to thank Miranda Satterthwaite, the staff from the International Antarctic Centre and the Year 7-8 collaboration for providing us the opportunity to have this honour of being part of this project.

Board News - The Board of Trustees welcomes Erin Kreft

to the Board. Erin will take up the Staff Trustee position.

Sporting Events - The Year 7-8 Winter competition started last week. The school has a number of rugby, football, hockey and netball teams that travel away from school every Friday. Last week the St Joseph’s school Year 8 basketball teams travelled to Pioneer Stadium to participate in the Christchurch School’s Basketball Tournament. The teams represented the school at a very high standard and should be proud of their efforts. Unfortunately the Christchurch Winter Sport tournament has been cancelled this year. With news of this cancellation St Joseph’s School Papanui and St Francis of Assisi School in Mairehau have decided to run their own winter tournament. This event will take place next Wednesday at St Joseph’s School. The tournament sees the top teams for hockey, rugby, football and netball play each other. Scout Scarf Day - It is Scout Scarf day on Monday 3 August. Children who attend Scouts can wear their scarfs at school on this day. Zone Cross Country - On Tuesday, representatives from St Joseph’s School participated in the North Zone Cross Country at Murchison Park. Considering it was a very chilly day all the children did very well and should be proud of their efforts. Congratulations to the following children who have qualified for the Canterbury Cross Country competition that will take place in a couple of weeks. A notice will be sent home with those who have qualified for this competition. Year 8: Adam Robertson, Cooper McDowall, Max Corry, Nick Weir, Jorja Rennell, Quinn Baker, Molly Maynard and Gabrielle Segar. Year 7: Lachlan Bendall, George Robertson, Christian Clark, Harry Gorman, Claudia Vivian, Matilda Maynard, Subin Bae and Annabel Skinner Year 6: Rory Webster, Samuel Roughan and Emma Corry. Year 5: Lachie Walsh, Grace Ford and Charlotte McLaughlan.

In Sympathy We offer our deepest sympathy to Annabel (McA4), Claudia (K1) and Phoebe (A1) Skinner on the death of their grandfather, and also to George Kneebone (McAuley 3) whose aunty

passed away this week. Our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families at this sad time.

Faith Fact - Week 2 ~ 27—31 July based on “Our Faith, Our Future” (a pastoral letter from Bishop Paul Martin SM) outlining his vision for the future of the diocese.

‘The courage I see in your lives as you embrace change, living in love through the pain of family and work transitions, gives me courage as your bishop to face necessary diocesan pastoral restructuring decisions.’

CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to the following learners who

received Merit Certificates at the end of last term:

Levi Arthur, Lucia O’Donnell, Mitchell Holtslag,

Ayla Kamo-Vertogen, Benjamin Fenemor,

Hannah-Grace Coxon, Nio Desquitado, Roman

Tamagushiku, Delacie John, Aaliyah Johnson,

Nathan D’Cruz, Maddy Porter, McKenzie Slee,

Ethan Angalot, Benj Kearns, Jonathan de Roo,

Ruslan Hill, Trisha Mae Benlot, Leo Porter, Fritz

Cantos, Evanne Balon, Carter Connolly, Gabriel

Tofilau, Randall Young, Sam Choi, Adam

Robertson, Georgia Crowther, Ameilya McIntyre

-Parisi, Kate Lee and Josh Franklin.

PMP We appreciate the help from the following families at

PMP next week:

Monday 3 August Abao Higgins

Tuesday 4 August Hill Salvan

PTA LUNCHES TOMORROW—Hot Dogs—$2.50 Thank you to our volunteer helpers —

Kala Zivkovic and Jude Pryce.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION MASS AT ST GREGORY’S CHURCH, SUNDAY 2 AUGUST, 10.00 AM

There will be 28 children from our

school celebrating their First Holy

Communion this Sunday. This is a

special time in their faith journey.

First Holy Communion is the third

sacrament that most of these

children will have received.

It is expected to be a full church for

this celebration in our Parish. All

welcome to attend, however, the front rows will be

reserved for the families of the First Communion

children. Please pray for these young people as they

embark on their lifelong journey of being Catholic.

Ethan Angalot, Sophie Austin, Imogen Baird,

Roree Balon, Rosa Baxter, Isla Bendall, Isaac

Boddington, Jayden Carr, Joseph Chapman, Lucas

Claridge, Tessa Corcoran, Nathan D'Cruz,

Jonathan de Roo, Liam Edmonds-Howse, Siddhant

Ekka, Marcus Fojas, Harry Forrester, Caitlyn Fraser,

Riley Garlick, Amarlie Graham, Zara Greig,

Harry Hubble, Katie Keats, Amelia Kelly,

Benjamin King, Madison King, Kiera Lynch, Maeve

Malone, Xander Milne, James Myers, Alana Park

Artunduaga, Zara Ribeiro, Olly Staiger, Sophia

Sutherland, Fatai Tatafu, Maxim Taylor and Earl

Vijuan.

ASHBY 1 LITURGY TOMORROW (FRIDAY 31ST) Ashby 1 is leading our school Liturgy tomorrow. The

first Liturgy is at 11:00am and the second one will be

at 11:45am. We invite whanau to come along and

support Ashby 1 at either time.

STEPPING UP AT MASS This term our school wide concept is ‘Step Up’.

It was wonderful to see such a great turn out at Mass

on Sunday from Ashby 2 and Timoney 2. Thank you

everyone who attended and participated in this

celebration. A special well done to the children who

stepped up to take on roles.