St Joseph’s Primary School, Red Cliffs

Newsletter 5

Term 1, Week 6

6th March 2017

Phone: (03) 5024 1654 Fax: (03) 5024 2042

Principal: Mark Gibson

email: admin@sjredcliffs.catholic.edu.au

Web: www.sjredcliffs.catholic.edu.au

Address:17 Fitzroy Avenue, Red Cliffs, 3496.

Page 1 School Vision: As partners collaboratively educating our students to ensure they learn at high levels,

we are inspired by Christ and our Catholic Faith & Tradition as we pursue fullness of life for all.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Parents,

Last Wednesday we celebrated with the parish community Ash Wednesday which marks the first day of Lent, a season of fasting, repentance and prayer. Thanks to Mrs Hawkes, Mrs Divola and Ms Leamon who put much work into a fantastic celebration and to the children for their fantastic participation.

The Red Cliffs Schools swimming carnival is on tonight at 5:45 p.m. at the Red Cliffs Swimming Pool. Good luck to Annamieke, Abby, Cooper, Riley. G, Rustyn, Ella, Katie and Taylah who are participating.

On Wednesday from 2.20pm-3.20pm the Grade 3 students will have their 1:1 iPad Launch. At this launch children will receive their new iPad. Parents are welcome to attend this launch.

From next week Prep students will need to attend school every day. If children are struggling to adjust to the full time format, please don’t hesitate to talk to Mrs Williams.

Accompanying the Newsletter today is an information note regarding our 2017 Footy Tipping Competition.

We had fantastic Community Club and School Advisory Council meetings last week. We plan to send out over the coming weeks a detailed calendar outlining social and fundraising events for our school in 2017 so that families can start planning. Thanks to those that are taking active roles within our school community.

We had some discussion at our School Advisory Council meeting about possibly starting an Out of School Hours program. If this was to happen we would need suitable interest. A note will be sent home taking expressions of interest to gauge the level of demand for this service.

On Wednesday evening at 7pm in the Hall Meeting Room we are having a sub-committee meeting of the Community Club to begin organization of our Community Club Trivia Night fundraiser. The Trivia Night is scheduled to be held on Saturday 29th April from 7pm. We encourage any parents who are willing to contribute to the planning of this event to attend this meeting. Money raised from this event will go towards a new Nature Based Playground that we hope to build in 2017.

Each Thursday from this week until the end of Term Two we are conducting a ‘Music and Movement for Munchkins’ program. This is a free pre-school music program. More details are being sent home with the newsletter. Please encourage others to experience our fantastic music program.

On Friday we have our external School Auditor’s visit and they will work with Trish while they ‘audit’ our 2016 financial year.

This Friday the Grade 2/3 class will be leading us at Assembly. We look forward to seeing some of the work they have been doing in class.

We hope everyone has a relaxing and enjoyable ‘Labour Day long weekend’.

Mark Gibson

School Calendar

The following dates are scheduled for the near

future. Make sure you are aware of the ones that

are applicable to you.

MARCH Mon 6 Primary Schools of Red Cliffs

Swimming Carnival 5.45-8pm

Wed 8 Prep Rest Day Wed 8 Grade 3 1:1 iPad Launch 2.20-

3.20pm Thur 9 Music for Munchkins 2.30-

3.30pm Fri 10 Assembly – Grade 2/3 Mon 13 Labour Day Holiday Tue 14 Fr Ray Sanchez – Sharing Our

Faith with Our Children 7-9pm @ Sacred Heart Church

Thur 16 CEOB Speech Pathologist Visit Thur 16 Music for Munchkins 2.30-

3.30pm Fri 17 Fr Ray Sanchez –

Reconciliation & Eucharist 7-9pm @ Sacred Heart Church

Sun 19 Sacramental Program – Reconciliation Lesson 4 9am-10am

Sun 19 First Reconciliation 11.30-12.30pm

Mon 20 Parent/Teacher Interviews 2-5.30pm

Tue 21 Parent/Teacher Interviews 2-5.30pm

Wed 22 PSG Meetings 8am-5pm

Thur 23 Music for Munchkins 2.30-3.30pm

Sun 26 Grade 5/6 Class Mass 10am-11am

2017 School Closure Days The following dates are confirmed as school

closure days. No school will occur on these days.

24th May – Schoolwide Positive Behaviour PD

30th May – 21st Century Thinking Curriculum

6th November – Report Writing Day

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School Vision: As partners collaboratively educating our students to ensure they learn at high levels, we are inspired by Christ and our Catholic Faith & Tradition as we pursue fullness of life for all.

RE & PARISH NEWS Year 5/6 Class Mass: Sunday 26th March, Year 5/6 will lead the Parish Mass. Sacramental Program: The session over the long weekend is the Fr Ray Sanchez session described below for adult faith development. Parish Mission: Fr Ray Sanchez will give a Parish Mission during Lent this year from Sunday March 12 to Friday March 17. Fr Ray attended a Mission in Mildura last year with many parents attending from our Sunraysia primary schools and giving him rave reviews with the Church often being filled with many young parents. We strongly encourage parents, but particularly those of children who are celebrating their Sacraments to attend the Tuesday session on ‘Sharing our Faith with our Children’ and the Friday session ‘Reconciliation and Eucharist’. These sessions are held from 7pm-9pm at the Sacred Heart Church, Mildura. Further details are available from the Office.

GENERAL NEWS & UPDATES Breakfast Club Roster: Tuesday - Sarra Napoli, Wednesday - Jodie Pascoe, Thursday - Christina Everett, Friday - Fiona Diamantis

Library: If you have any overdue library books, please return these to the Library as soon as possible or see Mrs Needham on Tuesday. The Library has some new books which are now available for borrowing. Some titles include: Fiction: A most magical girl; Elizabeth and Zenobia; When the Lyrebird calls. Picture Story: Blue sky, Yellow Kite, Molly & Mae … and many more. Please return your overdue books so you can borrow these awesome new books.

Hot Cross Bun Drive: Community Club is again running a Hot Cross Bun Fundraiser through Banjo’s Mildura as it proved very popular last year. Order Forms are being sent home to each family today and are due back with money by 15th March. Orders can be collected 24th March.

Easter Raffle: Community Club are once again doing an Easter Raffle. Please be selling tickets and donating quality chocolate Easter Eggs.

Parent & Teacher Interviews & PSG Meetings: ‘Parent & Teacher Interviews’ will be held on Monday 20th March and Tuesday 21st March from 2pm-5.30pm. Parents will get an opportunity to share information about their child and to look at learning goals that have been set for their child. For our funded students who need to attend PSG meetings they will be held on Wednesday 22nd March from 8am-5pm. Information sheets with instructions to book your meeting time is being sent home today. Please contact the office if you have any queries.

Pastoral Care / Chaplaincy Forms: There are several families who have not returned a signed Chaplaincy / Pastoral Care Form - Students who have not returned their forms cannot take part in the specific support programs Felicity is running with our students, such as Drumbeat group and Managing Feelings programs. Felicity is also available daily to support students individually or in pairs if something has happened to upset or worry them. As it is not possible to predict when something might happen that upsets your child, it is much simpler if the form is already in place. Felicity or the class teacher will contact you and let you know if there needs to be any follow up in regard to the child’s concerns.

Irymple swimming club: Annual Primary School Swim Meet is on again this year. Thursday 17th March, starting at 5.30pm at the Irymple swimming pool Students will need to enter online at www.irympleswimmingclub.com.au. More information can be found on our school notice board.

Sunraysia South Division Tennis: Congratulations to both Alex and Ivan who competed in this competition last Tuesday. They should both be very proud of their achievements. Alex finished with a 3rd place overall and Ivan a 4th. Well done boys.

Notes Distributed

The following notices have been distributed over

the last week. If you missed them, copies are

available from the school office.

Grade Prep/1W

No notes sent home

Grade 2/3F

6/3/17 Grade 3 iPad Launch Invitation

Grade 4/5M

No notes sent home

Grade 5/6H

6/3/17 Letter for Gr 5 parents about SJC visit

Whole School

6/3/17 Easter Raffle Books – 1 per child

6/3/17 Parent Teacher Interviews & PSG Meetings

6/3/17 Hot Cross Bun Order Form

6/3/17 Out of School Care - Expression of Interest

6/3/17 2017 AFL Footy Tipping 6/3/17 Music for Munchkins Flyer

The following students/staff celebrate birthdays

over the next week.

7th March – Ashton

10th March - Domenic

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School Vision: As partners collaboratively educating our students to ensure they learn at high levels, we are inspired by Christ and our Catholic Faith & Tradition as we pursue fullness of life for all.

JUNIOR UNIT NEWS & UPDATES

The Junior Unit would like to offer their sincere congratulations to Riley, Hannah and Violet following their Baptism!

This week the Year 1-3 students begin their unit of work on addition having completed their first Place Value unit for 2017. The preps continue to work on place value and counting.

On Fridays P/1 are learning about 3D shapes. It would be great if students could bring in real life examples of cones, cubes, spheres, cylinders or rectangular prisms to create a 3D shape Museum. Any ‘special’ items brought in will be returned at the end of Term.

Please keep sending in donations for the recycled art project. Grade 3 parents are welcome to come along to their iPad Program Launch this Wednesday from 2.20-3.20pm. Sorry for the late notice in regards to this but children are very excited about the prospect of receiving their iPad.

SENIOR UNIT NEWS & UPDATES

Well done to all the students who worked hard this past week despite some very big changes with teaching staff. With Mrs Manuel and Mrs Hawkes away, they were very pleased to hear that the students behaved exceptionally.

This week children will begin Addition in numeracy and begin their new spelling program, ‘Spelling Mastery’. This approach is rooted in oral language and spelling patterns and we are excited to see how it can assist us to be even better spellers in 2017.

Well done to grade 5/6 class on their assembly presentation last week. It was wonderful to see your musical talents on stage once again!

The pancakes we had were yummy and fluffy,

I gobbled mine up in one big hurry.

I wanted more but I couldn’t be sure,

people were spilling them all over the floor!

We’re at school to learn but I like pancakes better,

I’m writing this poem while Ellesciah writes a letter.

This has to be my favourite day of school so far,

I think Gabby S would have preferred a Mars Bar!

Ruby-Rose (Grade 4/5M)

Winners

Term 1 Week 4: No. of students who reached individual

target Prep/1W 16/19 Grade 2/3F 21/23 Grade 4/5M 17/20 Grade 5/6H 20/21

The following students won awards last week: Grade Prep/1W - Elijah - for quickly settling into our school routines. Grade 2/3F - Lily & Georgina - for outstanding progress in story writing Grade 4/5M - Zaneesha - for making Mrs Manuel proud when she is away Grade 5/6H - Hope- for being a self-less and caring person Music - Natalie - for working well with her group to compose and record a melody in music. P.E.- Ivan Wan and Alex Diamantis- For a great effort representing our school in the Division Tennis. Digital Tech -Danita Yan- For the lovely manners she used when making and cooking pancakes during Food Tech this week.

Everyone has the Right to Learn… Junior Unit Rajdeep- for having a positive attitude to learning Senior Unit Jareece - for always being someone who works in a focused and productive manner with others

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School Vision: As partners collaboratively educating our students to ensure they learn at high levels, we are inspired by Christ and our Catholic Faith & Tradition as we pursue fullness of life for all.