ST JOSEPH’S WOODBURN

Dear Families,

Throughout the world Christians are observing the week leading up to Easter with special devotion. Holy Week is the final time of preparation for the greatest feast day of our Church year - EASTER.

The events of next week follow the last days of Jesus‟ life leading up to his death. On the weekend our readings, songs and actions recall the triumphant entry of Jesus into the city of Jerusalem. The Last Supper and the arrest of Jesus are commemorated on Holy Thursday, his trial and crucifixion on Saturday evening/Sunday morning.

As Christians we are called to celebrate these great events by joining with our faith community to celebrate the Christian Passover, coming from death to life in the spirit of the risen Christ, and finally joining with the whole Church in proclaiming the great ALLELUIA. Details of St Joseph‟s Parish Mass times for Holy Week and Easter are being sent home today with this Newsletter. Please try to get along to these services with your children at this, the most important time in the Church year.

SCHOOL HOLY WEEK CELEBRATIONS This week students have been re-enacting the events of Holy Week. On Monday we saw the Infants‟ re-enactment of Jesus‟ triumphant entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and yesterday we saw the washing of the feet and the Last Supper by our Stage Two students. Today Stage Three acted out the Stations of the Cross.

NEWSLETTER

Our Parish Holy Week Ceremonies are:

Thursday, 28th March Holy Thursday, Coraki - 6.00 pm

Friday, 29th March Good Friday, 10.00 am Coraki: Morning Prayer of the Church, followed by Stations of the Cross.

10.00 am Woodburn Church: Open for Private making of Stations of the Cross 10:00 am Evans Head: Morning Prayer of the Church, followed by Stations of the Cross (led by Sr Jenny Hartley) Woodburn - 3.00 pm MAIN GOOD FRIDAY CEREMONY Solemn Commemoration of the Passion and Death of the Lord (incorporating Holy Communion)

Saturday, 30th March Easter Vigil, Woodburn - 6.30 pm

Sunday, 31st March Easter Sunday: Evans Head - 7.30 am Coraki - 9.15 am I wish all our families and friends of the school the blessings and hope of the Easter Season.

No. 8 28th March 2013

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PARENT FORUM NEWS PARENT FORUM COMMITTEE Congratulations to our 2013 committee: Chairperson—Kandy McElligott Vice Chair—Jodie Sauer Secretary—Sue Bell Treasurer—Naomi Robinson I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Naomi Robinson for her leadership as Chairperson and Belinda Coombs as Treasurer over the last three years. Their contri-bution has been invaluable!

HOT CROSS BUNS AND LAMINGTON DRIVE Thank you to Tracey Bodley for co-ordinating our Hot Cross Bun and Lamington Drive and to Kandy McElli-gott, Judy Lollback and Karen Westerman for assisting with the orders. Great job ladies!

EASTER RAFFLE Thank you to all families who have donated Easter eggs, etc for our Easter raffle. The raffle was drawn today—the winners were: Blake Yager, Bella Stanley-Jones, Annie Zorzo, Jaak Schneider and Alex Yager.

ANZAC DAY MARCH Advance Notice Anzac Day this year falls in the last Thursday of the school holi-days. I fear that this may cause some issues with our attend-ance at the Dawn Service and the Anzac March in Woodburn as students will still be on holi-days. St Joseph’s has always been extremely well represented and I hope that this will be the case this year. I ask that you give careful consider-ation to your child’s participation in this very spe-cial celebration and I urge as many students as possible to again represent St Joseph’s in these community events. The RSL Club has again asked that we lead the National Anthem at both of these services. Details are outlined below. Dawn Service: Line up at 5.15 am outside the library at Evans Head. March begins at approximately 5.20 am. Full school uniform (minus hat) to be worn.

Woodburn March: Please meet our school group at 9.50 am at the Post Office. March begins at 10.00 am Full school uniform and hat please. If your child/children are able to participate please complete the note at the end of this Newsletter and return to school by Wednesday, 10th April.

ST JOSEPH’S FACEBOOK PAGE St Joseph‟s now has an official Facebook page. This page will be used to advertise upcoming events, to alert parents to postponements and cancellations, to remind parents of school events etc. If you are on Facebook have a look—we are open to comments and sugges-tions to make it more user friendly. A big thank you to Miss Egan for publishing this page for us.

INFANTS’ ASSEMBLY Our Infants‟ Assembly will be held at 2.30 pm on Friday, 5th April. Everyone is most welcome to join us.

COUNTDOWN TO OUR FAMILY BUSH DANCE Our bush dance is drawing closer and we would love to see as many of our school families join with us as we dance the night away to the band “Playin‟ Possum” You don‟t need to know the steps as they will be called on the night so come along and have some fun as we celebrate the end of the school term! A pre-ordered BBQ will be operational. A bar-b-que

order reply slip is attached to this letter and for catering purposes I ask that you fill this in and return with payment as soon as possible. We would love to see as many families as possible come along to share the evening with us.

RECONCILIATION Congratulations to our Year 3 students who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation

last week. A special thank you to Mr San-dral, Mrs Boyd, Miss Egan , Sr Jenny and Fr Richard for preparing the children at school and to our families for supporting the program through home activities.

CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Zack and Amity McMahon who were baptised at All Saints‟ Church in Woodburn on 16th March.

CONGRATULATIONS! Our congratulations to Mrs Dorrell on an excellent report from the auditors last week. Wappetts spent a day completing our annual audit and Lesley was congratulated on her very efficient and effective upkeep and maintenance of school finances and financial records. We thank Lesley for all her hard work and effort in ensur-ing that our budget and financial affairs are in order.

PROJECT COMPASSION MISSION BOXES CARITAS AUSTRALIA Each family was give a Project Compassion Mission Box. We sincerely thank the families who have gener-ously donated money to Caritas Australia and have re-turned their boxes. Could all families please return the contents of their boxes by Wednesday, 10th April.

Megan Boyd

DIOCESAN WINTER SPORTS TRIALS Last Friday students from St Joseph‟s Woodburn trav-elled to Grafton to compete in the Diocesan Winter Tri-als. We especially congratulate Kalani Moss and Alice Bradford who were selected in the Diocesan Hockey team and Max Fisher who will represent the Diocese in Rugby Union. These three students will now compete in the Polding trials next term.

LITTLE ATHLETICS STATE TITLES Congratulations to Natasha Wotherspoon, Alice and Nella Bradford on their performance last weekend in Sydney at the Little Athletics State Championships. The girls did not place but were proud of their achievement.

ST JOSEPH’S SCHOOLCROSS COUNTRY 2013

St Joseph‟s Cross Country will be held at the school grounds on Friday, 5th April commencing at 9.30 am and finishing at approximately 11.30 am. We have been training for this event through daily fitness activities each morning. Please encourage the children to involve themselves in walking/running at home if possible. Distances are:

2000 m (2 km): 8 yr, 9 yr and 10 yr olds

3000 m (3 km): 11 yr, 12 yr and 13 yr olds Children who are successful at the school Cross Coun-try will attend the Richmond Zone Cross Country which will be held at Evans Head next term.

If you are able to assist on this day please complete the reply slip and return to school by Tuesday, 2nd April.

CALENDAR TERM 1 - WEEK 10

Friday, 29th March GOOD FRIDAY

Monday, 1st April EASTER MONDAY

Tuesday, 2nd April School resumes

Wednesday, 3rd April Tuckshop

Thursday, 4th April Sport

Friday, 5th April Cross Country—9.30 am Infants Assembly—2.30 pm, Library

WEEK 11

Monday, 8th April Tuckshop

Tuesday, 9th April Sports uniform

Wednesday, 10th April Tuckshop

Thursday, 11th April Sport

Friday, 12th April Cinema Day fundraiser—casual day LAST DAY OF TERM

TERM 2 - WEEK 1

Monday, 29th April PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY - NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, 30th April Sports uniform

Wednesday, 1st May Tuckshop Zone Cross Country - Woodlawn

Thursday, 2nd May Sport

Friday, 3rd May

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Happy birthday to those who celebrate their birth-day last week and this week: Domanic Mason, Tara Blunn, Jordie Forsyth, Sebastian McIntosh and Lachlan Coates.

STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY

On Monday, 29th April all staff will participate in a Pro-fessional Development Day with St Joseph‟s Coraki and St Joseph‟s, Alstonville with the imminent launch of the Australian Curriculum. This will be a student free day.

SRC FUNDRAISER The SRC have organised a Cinema Day fundraiser for the last day of this term. There will be stalls at recess selling popcorn, cakes and ice-creams before the stu-dents will move into one of the three „cinemas‟ set up for the day. To assist with our stalls we are asking our infants students to provide small bags of popcorn (in zip seal bags), our Stage Two students to provide cakes, slices or biscuits and our Stage three students are or-ganising ice-cream and cones. These will all be sold for

50 cents each. Whatever is lefto-ver will be sold at lunch time. The students may wear casual clothes on the day and will be charged a gold coin for the privi-lege. Thank you to our SRC for there work in organising this day for our students.

VISITORS PROTOCOL It is both a legal requirement and a safety issue that all visitors report to the office and sign in and out in the visitor‟s book. If you are staying at the school you will also be issued with a visitor‟s badge. This is necessary in the unlikely event of a fire, evacuation, lockdown etc but more importantly for the safety of the students in our care. Thank you for your support in this very important matter.

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK TERM 1 – WEEKS 7 & 8

Class Week 7 Week 8

Kinder Ella Pearson Eli Lancaster Adrian Westerman Year 1 Alex Yager Taj Ferrier Year 2 Kade Williams Domanic Mason Year 3 Hayden Stewart Year 4 Daniel Westerman Year 4 Year 5 Kaitlyn Cook Jaiden McElligott Year 6 Eva McKinnon Year 6

CONGRATULATIONS!

OPEN NIGHTS Trinity Catholic College Lismore

For Year 7 students 2014 Thursday, 9th May, 2014

5.30 pm—Sausage Sizzle 6.00 pm—Meeting in Sports hall 6.30 pm— Tours, Displays, Exhibits

St John’s College Woodlawn

For Year 7 students 2014 Wednesday, 22nd May, 2013

6.30pm

Xavier Catholic College Ballina

Wednesday, 8th May, 2013 5.30 pm: Tours 6.00 pm: Sausage Sizzle 7.00 pm: Information Session

======================================================================================== ST JOSEPH’S CROSS COUNTRY HELPER - Friday, 5th April Please return by Tuesday, 2nd April I am available to be a helper for the St Joseph‟s Cross Country on Friday, 5th April 2013 (9.30 am to 11.30 am). Name:_________________________________ (please print) Phone No.:______________________

======================================================================================== ANZAC DAY Please return by Wednesday, 10th April My child/children _______________________________________ will be attending the Anzac Day celebrations on Thursday, 25th April as follows: (Please tick) Dawn Service, Evans Head, 5.15 am Woodburn March, 9.50 am Both the Dawn Service and Woodburn March Name:___________________________________ Signature:____________________________________

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BAR-B-QUE ORDER Please return to school by Wednesday 3rd April

FAMILY NAME: ____________________ (Money must accompany order)

Sausage Sandwiches ______ ($1.50 each ) Steak Sandwiches ______ ($3.50 each) Vegie Burgers ______ ($3.00 each) I have enclosed $ ___________ YES (Please circle) Drinks, chips, lollies, tea, coffee and scones will also be available throughout the night.

Signed: ______________________

TUCKSHOP ROSTER Wednesday, 3rd April Jodie Sauer Michelle Lohse (AM) Tanya Davidson (PM) Thank you, ladies!

THANK YOU! Thank you to all our children for their participa-tion in our St Joseph‟s Day celebrations held at Coraki last Thursday. Your behaviour was excellent and everyone joined in the activities with a sense of fun and

co-operation. We thank our friends from Coraki for their hard work and effort in ensuring that our day was filled with fun and friendship!