St Joseph’s School

Newsletter

10 Ina Avenue, Ottoway S A 5013

Telephone: (08) 8447 4969

Facsimile: (08) 8241 0380

Email: info@stjotto.catholic.edu.au

Website: www.stjotto.catholic.edu.au

Issue 11 Term 3 Week 2 3 August 2016

Uniform Shop

Open on Monday and Fridays

8.30 am to 9.30 am

Out of School Hours Care Daily

7.30 am to 8.30 am and 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm

Tuesday

2.45 pm to 6.00 pm

Bookings essential

Mobile: 0437 863 067

St. Maximilian Kolbe Parish

Priest - Fr Marek Ptak CR

Phone: (08) 8447 3223

Mass Times

Saturday 6.30 pm

Sunday 8.30 am English & 10.30 am Polish

Playgroup

Friday - 10.00 am to 11.30 am

In Year 2/3O we have been working very hard on developing our Mathematical skills and strategies

when investigating numbers and measurements. We have been using lots of different materials to

count in groups of 2’s, 5’s and 10’s. We have also been using a lot of informal materials to measure our

heights. It has been a lot of fun learning new ways of counting and measuring.

Sometimes we work in partners and small groups to support each other and sometimes we work

independently to engage in our own thinking and problem solving to take risks and build confidence.

Principal News

Dear Parents, Caregivers, Students and Friends of St Joseph’s

Last weekend Mr Matt Pick, Ms Jane Smith and 3 enthusiastic (and fit) students from St Joseph’s combined with riders from

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish School, Our Lady of the Visitation, and Whitefriars Catholic School to participate in the

team “Jet Pack” at the 2016 Pedal Prix race. Mount Carmel College (MCC) organised the facilities and races three vehicles

each year. MCC have a Boys team and a Girls team who raced.

The Pedal Prix is an endurance race for three-wheeled, pedal-powered vehicles. The race was held in the Adelaide

Parklands this year.

Thank you to Mr Pick, Ms Smith, students, Chris & Anna Harakos, Chris & Sarah Winter and Maria Pham for their

commitment and dedication leading up to and on the day.

Congratulations to Holly Winter, Vasili Harakos & Leticia Pham

TEACHING OUR CHILDREN TO BE ORGANISED

Some children seem to always have a schoolbag full of scraps of paper, overdue library books, outdated school

notices, stale remnants of lunch, a dirty sneaker. It is no coincidence that these same messy students often

underachieve at school and find it impossible to meet deadlines. They lack the organisation skills we all need to get through

our busy, complex days. Many children never develop these skills during their schooldays and struggle in their first years at

university or in a job. One of the best things we can do for them is give them ways they can organise their paperwork, get

started on time on tasks, keep track of books and projects, concentrate on what needs to be done, plan deadlines and

keep all their ‘school stuff’ in designated spaces. An impossible task? Not with the modern technology, colour-coded folders.

A desk and shelves at home and a weekly plan for what lies ahead.

SOME IDEAS

Make use of phones and internet programs to organize a calendar, send reminders, and sound the alarm. Boys

especially are amenable to using electronic means of organisation and can base their whole life around their

organisers. Both girls and boys are likely to go into jobs where they are expected to use message and calendar systems.

Keep a large, clear family calendar in a visible place like the kitchen and use different coloured pens for each member of

the family.

Keep a filing shelf with a coloured folder for each child. File all notices, projects and important material for that child’s

activities. Children can also keep coloured folders for their subjects at school which they update every day.

Establish daily routines for mealtimes, TV/computer time, homework, leisure, bedtime so your children already have structure

to their day. Spend a set time every day checking on dates and deadlines.

Discuss classroom routines with your children’s teacher so you can follow and reinforce them at home. Discuss ways the

teacher thinks your child could work at improved organisation skills.

Share your own planning and organisation tips. What applies to work, usually works with school as well. Model tidiness, a

place for important things like bills and keys, a routine to getting your own tasks done.

Show your children ways to make a start on a task, how to break it up into manageable chunks, how to prepare a

mind-map to plan each step.

Share how in your own life you take big tasks one step at a time. This should help save your child from being daunted by

what seems an impossible set of demands and build confidence in their own capacity to get things done.

Write every event, target and project in large letters on a calendar in their work area and have a short daily discussion

about what can be crossed off, what progress is being made and any looming deadlines.

SCHOOL HATS

From 1 September hats again became compulsory for all playtimes and learning activities outdoors. For families new to our

school, our school is a Sunsmart Accredited School, which means we abide and embed sunsafe recommendations put

forward by the SA Cancer Council. Thus from 1 September until 30 April each year, it is compulsory for all children and staff to

wear hats when outdoors. No Hat - No Play will apply to all children not wearing a hat for playtimes and they will also have

to “sit out‟ outside activity lessons.

2017 PRESCHOOL ENROLMENTS

Places are filling fast. If you have or if you know of anyone who has a child please complete and lodge an enrolment form

at the Front Office.

2017 RECEPTION ENROLMENTS

Places are filling fast. If you have or if you know of anyone who has a child please complete and lodge an enrolment form

at the Front Office.

Working in Partnership,

Chris Platten

PUPIL FREE DAY

Pupil Free Day – Friday 5 August

APRIM News

Dear Parents and Carers,

Parents and Parishioners are invited to join us for Andrew’s Concert! Andrew Chinn Concert: On Wednesday August 10, Australian religious songwriter and singer, Andrew Chinn, will be visiting our

school to share his songs with our children. Andrew’s songs, such as “These Hands”, “Rainbow” and “An African Blessing” are

used in classrooms and liturgies around Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada. Parents/parishioners are warmly invited to

be a part of the celebration of faith and fun.

There is no charge for adults. The concert will take place in Tenison Woods Centre at 2.00 pm. No cost to parents and

parishioners.

CD sales: Towards the end of the concert, if parents are present, there will be CDs ($20) DVDs ($20) and Picture Books ($20),

available for special sale prices ($2-13 off RRP). Andrew looks forward to seeing you there.

Working in Partnership

Lin Low

APRIM

School Fees

Term 3 school fee accounts will be sent out via the post and should be re-

ceived by all families early next week. As this is the final account for the

year all outstanding balances must be finalised by the due date or further

action will be taken.

Due date for final payment of school fees is Friday 2 September. If you think

you will experience difficulty paying your

account by this date please contact Karyn Burlow to discuss payment ar-

rangements.

School Card applications are closing for 2016 so if you think you are eligible

for a reduction of fees based on your combined family income please

complete a ‘School Card Application Form’ which is available from the

Front Office. For example if you have one child and your combined family

income is less than $37,015 you may be eligible for School Card dis-

counts. New application forms must be submitted to the Department for

Education & Child Development each year for approval and late approv-

als are not granted.

Andrew Chin in Concert

At St Joseph’s

Wednesday 10 August 2:00 pm

School Calendar

Term 3

25 Term 3 begins at 8.45 am

August

5 Pupil Free Day - Bookings required for OSHC

8 Mass - Mary of the Cross

School Board Meeting at 7.00 pm

10 Whole School Concert - Andrew Chinn

11 Cross Country Carnival Yr 4 to Yr 7

Reception to Yr 3 Excursion to SA Art Gallery

and Museum

15 - 19 National Science Week

15 Children University meeting with Luca 11.30

am to 1.00 pm

22 - 26 Book Week

22 Choir to Loreto College 8.30 am to 1.00 pm

24 Book Week Assembly at morning assembly

St Patrick’s College Bank at 2.00 pm

25 Assembly

26 Recess & Lunch Book Week Activitiy

ATSI Dinner

29 - 2 Literacy & Numeracy Week

31 Father’s Day Stall

September

1 Father’s Day Stall

12 School Board Meeting at 7.00 pm

20 Children’s University Ceremony 6.00 pm

21 Mt Carmel College Parent Evening/Transition

26 Catholic Schools Music Festival

29 Assembly at 2.30 pm

30 School Finishes at 3.00 pm

Catholic Schools Music Festival

St Joseph's are performing on

MONDAY 26 September (Monday, Week 10). The performance begins

at 7.30 pm and is at the Festival Theatre in the City.

Tickets are currently on sale through the front office.

They are $29.00 each for an adult and $20.00 for a concession

(student, pensioner).

This is a special discounted price that will be available

until MONDAY 22 AUGUST.

After this date, tickets will only be available through

BASS and will be more expensive.

Could you please send your Children’s University Passport to school with your child

this week so that we can do an audit and count of what hours have been

completed. If passports have not been received by then end of the week hours will

not be totalled and students may not graduate this year as we need to provide a

list this of students to the organisers. This process may take a few days so please

understand that you will not have passports during this time.

Luca, from Children’s University is coming to the school on Monday 15 August to talk

to graduating students who have met the required hours by this date. Hours

completed after this date will count towards the next year’s graduation ceremony.

This year’s graduation ceremony is Tuesday 20 September More information

regarding the graduation ceremony will be provided closer to the date.

If your child attended the graduation ceremony last year and they will be graduating again, $16.50 (inc GST) is payable in order to graduate this year. Students will not be permitted to graduate unless payment is made. Please complete a “Permission Form” available from the Front Office and send with the money to school as soon as possible.

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Pupil Free Day Friday 5 August 2016

Please make a booking by Thursday am 4 August, if you have a need to use OSHC. If there are not enough bookings the

OSHC service will not be open on this day. I will let parents know of the decision.

Skoolbag app – Parents this app is being used by the school as reminders and parent information. I have it on my phone

and find it to be useful as a reminder with all the important things children are doing at school.

Please feel welcome to visit OSHC, a place where children are in a safe supervised environment, while children play, have

fun, and make new friends, learning happens.

All bookings can be made by ringing or messaging the OSHC mobile on 0437863067. If there is no answer, please leave a

message on the service. I will call or message you back. Making a booking helps us keep the Child/Staff ratio in line with

legislation. 24 hours’ notice is necessary when cancelling a booking or charges will occur.

Many parents continue to request our OSHC service providing, Before School Care earlier than 7.30 am

This is a possibility only if there is enough feedback from parents wanting to use this service, some parents have completed

this form. There is only a few interested and I ask again if any parents have an interest and if we can provide care for their

child/ren in this service and does it help if we are open and starting earlier. Please complete the form below and return to

OSHC.

Thank you for your cooperation. Have a great week.

Mieke

OSHC Coordinator

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

To: Mieke

OHSC

Parents name __________________________________________________________________________________

Child / Children names _________________________________________________________________________

Before School Care

I have a request for using Before School Care if it can start earlier in the morning. At present Before School Care starts at

7.30 am and I request that if possible it starts at _________________

(CIRCLE WHICH APPLIES)

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 (Christmas holidays)

Days of the week care is needed

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Please return to OSHC or the school office by Friday 12 August

OSHC News

Day at Pedal Prix

I woke up at 6 am to get dressed for this awesome day. When I finally arrived at the racetrack I was looking

at my car Jetpack when I saw a few friends at my old school and we talked for quite a while. My time finally

came up, 10:45 I was so excited I jumped in and pedalled real fast and just as I was shifting gears I heard

this peculiar sound so I looked down and… the chain fell off! I was so stunned, so I pedalled fast then

realized the vehicle wouldn’t go faster so I drifted to my pit and had a quick change over.

It was a real bummer and I had to wait ANOTHER 3 hours for my next turn. 3 hours later. Yes it’s finally my

shot so I wasted no time getting in the cart. As soon as I was out of the pit lane I was speeding like a cheater

I was on my second lap when I heard the same sound as I did last time and then it came to me in no time…

the chain fell off AGAIN!!! So I shouted some bad words and I had to pull over and wait for a marshal to

come over and fix the problem. Ok I was back on the road and about 40 seconds later someone thought it

was a smart idea to smash their cart into mine so I shouted some more bad words and rammed mine into

his.

Now it was my last lap and I gave all I had to finish off the job. Half way there I had a near miss with a cart

because it braked in front of mine. Once I pulled into my pit I got out and…..rested! I was so tired after

doing three laps. I did the math and I had done 6.5 kilometres the whole day. 1 lap=1.3 kilometres.

I didn’t stay the whole time but just as I was getting up to leave I heard this loud screech and it turned out

someone flipped over! So I stayed a bit more and saw 2 carts crash into each and someone’s feet went

through the floor! The person was rubbing his ear as well! And just as I left the race course I heard this

deafening, long screech of cardboard and fibreglass on the hard surface on the track! This was the perfect

way to leave the track.