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FEBRUARY Tuesday 19 - TONIGHT, PSF
meeting, 7pm, staffroom - All welcome.
Wednesday 20 Zone Swimming Centenary Meeting, 6pm,
staffroom. All welcome. Thursday 21 - Winter Sports
Trials, 4pm. Friday 22 - Assembly - Awards,
2:25pm Monday 25
Dance Fever Rugby 7’s Notes & payment
DUE Monday 25 - Wednesday 27 -
Kinder Best Start & MAI parent/teacher interviews
Wednesday 27 - Parent Information - Reconciliation, 6pm
Thursday 28 - Tech. Levy DUE
MARCH Friday 1
Diocesan Swimming Winters Sports Trials (back-up
date) Saturday 2 - START OF
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK Parish School Mass followed by “A Picnic in the Playground”.
Sunday 3 - Clean Up Australia Day, 9:30am, Elizabeth Brown Park.
Monday 4 - Dance Fever Tue 5 - Wed 13 - BOOKFAIR Wednesday 6
Ash Wednesday, Mass 9;15am. All welcome.
NO MEAT at the Canteen Friday 8
Assembly - S3 S2 & S3 STEM excursion
permission note & payment DUE
Monday 11 - Dance Fever Tuesday 12 - Rugby 7’s, Lismore Wednesday 13 - S2 & S3 STEM
Excursion to The Farm.
11 Perry Street Alstonville NSW 2477 ( PO Box 265 ) Phone: 02 6628 1009 www.alstplism.catholic.edu.au Email: [email protected]
WEEK 4
Dear Parents and Carers
Jamie Tanner is a local and a multi-medallist from the Invictus Games. Jamie and his partner, Leesa Kwok, a former parent of our school, have been in contact to request some help.
“Jamie and I are heading to Timor Leste at the end of the month. We'll be there for 2 weeks and will be visiting about six Catholic schools. We'd like to take donations of stationery supplies with us to give to the children we meet in the schools. Do you think there are Joey's families who would like to donate new, unused stationery items that we could take with us? Coloured pencils, crayons, textas, post it notes, stickers, writing books etc. We would need to be able collect the items by February 20 (which is World Day of Social Justice), as we are flying out on February 23. Now this might be a rush BUT, if you would like to help out, there is a collection box in the foyer. The box will be collected on Wednesday (tomorrow). Thank you in anticipation of your support.”
Clean Up Australian Day We have been invited to join the Alstonville Rotary Club in the Clean Up Australia Day event on Sunday 3rd March. We gather at Elizabeth Brown Park at about 9:30am and spread out around areas of Alstonville to assist in the clean up. While we know we have many busy families, this community service event is a wonderful way to instil in our young ones that caring for our environment begins with our own efforts. Anyone under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Anyone intending to join us will need a hat, gloves and walking shoes. To assist with catering for the BBQ the Rotary Club would like to know numbers of people attending prior to the day. Please let the office know if you are able to join us.
NSW Bus Safety Week, 18-24 February Over 1 million students in NSW travel to and from school each day, many by bus. In the last five years, three children were tragically killed after alighting form a bus and being struck by another vehicle. NSW Bus Safety Week runs from 18-24 February 2019 to highlight the importance of bus-related safety issues for all road users. It is part of the Be Bus Aware campaign which aims to improve awareness for how all road users can keep safe on and around buses.
Tips for keeping safe around buses:
Adults – Always hold your child’s hand when crossing the road.
Meet your child at the school or the bus stop – NEVER wait on the opposite side of the road and call them across.
Wait until the bus has gone then use a safe place to cross the road.
Supervise your child walking to and from the bus and when crossing the road, until they are at least 10 years old.
Drivers – slow down to 40km/h when the bus lights are flashing.
Visit www.BeBusAware.com.au to find out more.
Assembly this Friday- all are welcome to join us. Assembly begins at 2:25pm in the Hall. If you wish to collect your children from Assembly, please complete a “How I am Getting Home” form when you sign in at the Office. Please hand this to the class teacher before Assembly (as classes arrive in the Hall), so that teachers know who is leaving early and can organise this promptly for you.
My apologies, I will be absent from Assembly this week as I will be representing the school at the funeral of Colleen York’s husband, Bob.
ST JOSEPH’S SCHOOL
CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS 30 AUGUST—1 SEPTEMBER
2019
HOW I AM GETTING HOME To: Stage: Date: From:
Go to CAR PICK-UP today. Catch the BUS home today. With PARENT after Assembly.
Following on from the geese story last week, I was shared a youtube clip of a soccer coach using the geese story with his team. I am placing it here as you might also find it useful to watch with your family. https://youtu.be/BJKJaktXNUU Kindergarten parents are invited to go online and book an appointment to discuss their child ’s Best Start and MAI results. Please follow the information below using the code: vcv3m S3 Canberra Excursion Booking Information & Commitment Note was due back at school yesterday. Please return this note TOMORROW if you have not already done so as we need to move ahead with bookings and finalise costs for this excursion. A copy of the note can be found on the School Website, “News & Notes/Recent Notes” tab. Our first Parish School Forum Meeting for the year will be held TONIGHT at 7pm in the staffroom. You are all invited to join us.
Jumping Joeys resumed today for 2019. Jumping Joeys is a FREE PLAYGROUP for local families which is offered here at St Joseph’s on Tuesday mornings from 9:30am to 11:00am during school Terms. This is a great opportunity to spend some time playing with your children and getting to know others in our community with young children of a similar age to your own child. Some structured activities to support early literacy and numeracy are included during the morning. All are welcome. Tell your friends and make it a regular chance to get together! (Note: this is not a child minding service, parent/carers are required to remain with their child.) Thank you to Karen Pilcher and Amanda Starkey, two of our St Joeys parents, both with a background in education, for volunteering their time to run the playgroup.
Therese Seymour
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Welcome back from the holidays.
Garden Club have been busy cultivating the garden ready to plant and bring fresh organic produce to Joey’s. Garden Shop will be open this Friday at 2:00pm with sauces and relishes made from the produce harvested over the break and a small selection of fresh herbs. We will have Sambal, Basil Pesto, Tomato Relish and Chilli Jam. Also, fresh rosemary, spinach, oregano and fresh chillies. On Friday in the Canteen we will also be selling fresh homemade ice cream in a cone for $1.00. If your child would like to be a part of Garden Club they just need to meet me outside the Kindergarten classroom (the Girls Toilet end), after they finish eating or tell them to come and see me about it.
Green Thumbs Up Mrs Lisa Donohoe
SPORT Zone Swimming Carnival The Richmond Zone Swimming Carnival will be held tomorrow, Wednesday 20 February 2019, in Lismore. NOTE AND PAYMENT WERE DUE LAST FRIDAY. Good luck to the following students who will be competing: Ava Allan, Claudia Barnes, Lachlan Barnes, Taj Bednall, Lilly Cluff, Oliver Condon, Grace Dougherty, Bella Duncan, Eva Gallagher, Nicholas Gannon, John Gooding, Ava Greensill, Kai Kubils, Amelia Lamas, Annabelle Mills, Van Mitchell, Ewan Murgha, Jasiah Murgha, Austin Newton, Amelia Paulsen, Matilda Price, Bruce Savage, Alyssa Starkey, Tyler Starkey, Lewis Trim, Jorja Wagland, Beau Yantsch and Ziggy Zubani. Zone Winter Sports Trials Good luck to those students who will be participating in these Trials on Thursday. Please ensure payment of the $10 Levy has been made to the school.
Sport Co-Ordinator, Miss Jessica Fitness
Assistant Principal Mission - Libby Spash
First Reconciliation Information Evening Wednesday 27 February
6pm All candidates and parents are required to attend this meeting as part of the preparation for the Sacrament. This is typically for students in Year 3 before they make their First Eucharist later this year. Candidates and parents will gather together in the staffroom for prayer to begin the session.
Catholic Schools Week 2019 Celebration Parish School Mass
Saturday 2 March 6pm
Come and join us for a celebration of Catholic Schools with our first Parish School Mass of 2019. Choir will be leading the music, children from all stages will be given roles to help in this celebration. This will be followed by a Picnic in the Playground. Bring a picnic dinner and meet new families to help build the community of St Joseph’s Alstonville.
STEM News with Mrs Anna Moloney
& Mrs Dana Crosby
S2 & S3 are studying local farms, the journey from paddock to plate and sustainability. This excursion supports their learning where they will see first hand how a farm operates, sustainable technologies and how to harvest chemical free vegetables.
Parent volunteers are required. Please email Dana at [email protected] to express your interest.
The excursion will cost $18. Permission notes will be sent home this week with further details. Please return notes and payment by Friday 8 March.
S2 & S3 STEM will be going on an Excursion to The Farm at Byron
Bay on Wednesday 13 March.
We would like to share some writing efforts….Congratulations to Grace in Stage 2. On a very cold and rainy day, Little Blue Riding Hood was making brownies for her grandma. The brownies had been cooked, so Little Blue Riding Hood put her blue jacket on and set off. Little Blue had reached the dark forest when she slipped and two of the brownies came out! Little Blue had picked herself up and she kept going. She reached the middle of the forest when a little person with a dead black coat approached her and then the person asked “Where are you going with those brownies?” they said. “To my sick grandma.” she said but before she could say anything else, the person was gone. Little Blue continued her trip. Finally she made it. So, she was going to give her grandma a hug when she noticed this hideous face and blood beside the pillow then Little Blue realised that it was a wolf! So she ran outside and home, never to come back there again. Grace Dougherty
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BOOK FAIR We are starting our school year with a bang in the Library! The Scholastic Book Fair will be arriving soon for our school community to purchase amazing books from a selection aimed at pre-schoolers to young adult. In line with our school focus on reading, we invite everyone to come along and bag a bargain!
Book Fair dates and times: Tuesday 5th March to Wednesday 13th March
8:30am – 3:30pm In the school library
Hope to see you all there Ms Ros Kingsford - Library Manager
STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT
Congratulations to the St Joseph’s Alstonville students who represented Ballina Touch Association at State
Touch Footy Cup at Port Macquarie last week. The boys were Charlie Collins,
Riley McKnight, Hudson McGarry and Isaac Spash.
Mrs Lyn Rowling - Wellbeing
Welcome to school for 2019!!! Time certainly hasn’t been wasted getting straight into our learning and activities around school.
For those who don’t know me, my role encompasses wellbeing, student and family support as well as social justice activities around school. I also co-ordinate LAP which stands for Learning Assistance Programme. This involves a volunteer working one on one with a student who has been matched to them which may support them socially, emotionally as well as academically. Volunteers are always welcome. You will see notices in the newsletter often from me so please take the time to read and feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
STAGE PARENT REPRESENTATIVES Our school is currently seeking enthusiastic parents to be class reps. It’s not a tricky task and usually involves organising a few social gatherings throughout the year, maybe arranging a gift for a family with a new baby etc. I would love to hear from you with any questions you may have about the role. If you are interested please contact me ASAP.
MUM’S NIGHT OUT It’s on again !!! Our first Mum’s Night Out for the year will be on Friday, March 1 at the Federal Hotel. Everyone is welcome especially our new mum’s to the school. This is an informal night where we order our own meals and drinks. This is an excellent way for you to meet others from school. Please let me know if you can make it just so I can book the correct amount of tables.
Enjoy your week, Lyn R [email protected]
RUGBY 7’S
North Coast Primary School Rugby Day will be held on Tuesday 12 March at the Lismore Rugby grounds. St Joseph’s will be entering one Under 12’s and two Under 10’s teams. A permission note, medical form and School Representative Behaviour form will be sent home today with players. The cost of the day will be $13.50. Please return notes and payment by NEXT MONDAY, 25 February. Mr Peter Slattery, School Rugby Co-Ordinator
ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, WOODLAWN ENROLMENTS FOR YEARS 7 to 11 in 2020
Open Night Wednesday 27th March at 6.00 p.m. Applications Close Friday 12th April Interview Day Sunday 5th May - 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Enquiries please phone Mrs Debbie Melino, Enrolments Secretary, on: 6626 2606
Chess Club Chess Club is available at school. All levels of chess players are
welcome. We meet every Monday at lunch time (with your lunch), in STEM room for casual playing and skill building. Inter-school tournaments are held once a Term but are not compulsory.
Contact Danielle Bullen by email [email protected] or phone 0420 425 822 with any enquiries.
Boom Gate Times
The boom gate is closed between 8:30am - 9:15am and 3:00pm - 3:40pm.
This is a necessary safety precaution which restricts vehicle movement at these very busy times of the day when children are arriving and leaving the school grounds.
Jumping Joeys Playgroup Tuesdays 9:30-11am
Come and join in the fun every Tuesday. Painting, playdough, songs and stories with two of our St
Joseph’s mums, Amanda Starkey and Karen Pilcher.
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ALTAR SERVERS ROSTER Alstonville Saturday 23 February: Lachlan Shirley, Lauren Kopp, Brighton
Wilson, Rhiannon Woods. Sunday 24 February: Lee Pagotto, Emerson Egan, Jacob Robinson,
Grace Dougherty. Children’s Sunday Liturgy Alstonville 8:30am: Rochelle Penhey Wardell 5:30pm: No Children’s Liturgy
UNIFORM SHOP
The Uniform Shop is open each FRIDAY between 8:30am - 9:30am and 2:30pm - 3:30pm.
If you are unable to make it during these times, you can purchase items by completing the order form (available on the school website Parent/Uniform tab or at the School Office) and sending it in to the office. Mr Fivaz, our Uniform Co-ordinator, will process your order and send it home with your child on the Friday.
