A B O U T St Joseph’s School Gilgandra

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Term 3 Week 7 5 September, 2019 Thought for the Week

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

WORKING BEE Friday from 12:00 p.m. to set up stalls, put up tents, tidy playground etc. We are short on helpers from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. - many hands make light work! FETE ROSTER is again with today’s newsletter. Thank you to everyone who has offered to help. There are still a few gaps, particularly ticket sellers, the chocolate wheel, canteen, BBQ/drinks selling, popcorn, gladiator, wrecking ball, soccer ball dart board and trike rides,. If you can help out on the day, please do so. Our fete is one of our major fundraisers and one where everyone can help in some way. So while the children enjoy all the activities, maybe Mum or Dad could help out on a stall for an hour or so. CAKE/PRODUCE, PLANTS, TOMBULI, ‘EVERYONE’S A WINNER’ We are still looking for donations for these stalls. All donations go towards a successful fete. OUT-OF-UNIFORM DAY Tomorrow is an out-of-uniform day. CANCELLATION If the fete has to be cancelled tomorrow due to the weather, an alert will be placed on the school app and the cancellation will be broadcast on Radio 98.9 War FM

FABULOUS FATHER’S DAY STALL A very successful Father’s Day Stall was again held at school last Friday due to the generosity of our families and the hard work of our parents. Many thanks to Jessica Howard who coordinated the stall and to all her helpers who helped wrap the presents at the working bees and man the stall on Friday. We also appreciate the generosity of Rohr’s Home Timber & Hardware, 3D’s Butchery, Diggs Butchery, Johnson’s Butchery and the Armatree Hotel for their donations to our raffles. The lucky winners of the raffles were: First Prize – Harry, Ella & Mia Mudford, Second Prize – Evie & Oliver Peart, Third Prize: Hannah Meers, Fourth Prize: Lucy, David & Thomas McIsaac. Winners of the class raffles were: Kinder – Luka Van der Walt , Year 1 – Oliver Peart, Year 2 – Mia Mudford, Year 3 – Sophie Gilmour, Year 4 – Hudson Duffy, Year 5 – Beatie Davis, Year 6 – Harry Mudford.

COONABARABRAN HORSE SPORTS Congratulations to our fourteen students who represented our school at the Coonabarabran Horse Sports last Thursday and Friday. Thank you to Ashleigh Mudford and Stacey Thomas for being our team managers. There were over 200 children in attendance from primary and secondary schools throughout the diocese. All children from Joey’s rode well and competed with great spirit and sportsmanship in events including; dressage, campdrafting, sporting, stock horse challenges and rider classes. A special mention to Clancy Larkin from Kinder who took home Champion of the 5 year old age group. Thank you to St Lawrence’s Coonabarabran for hosting such a great event. Thank you also to all the parents for preparing the children and the horses for this event.

CONGRATULATIONS DAKOTAH Congratulations to Dakotah Gilmour who has received third prize in the Bathurst Diocese for her Christmas Artwork. Dakotah and her family travelled to Molong yesterday for the special presentations. Her prized artwork will now go to Sydney for the state judging! Well done Dakotah! GUEST SPEAKER – SAM BAILEY AT GILGANDRA HIGH

SCHOOL Our Years 5 and 6 students have been invited to Gilgandra High School tomorrow morning to listen to guest speaker, Sam Bailey. Sam suffered a spinal injury in a car accident at 19 years of age, leaving him a C6/C7 quadriplegic. He has overcome many challenges to become a farmer, ultralight pilot, public speaker and best-selling author. This is a fantastic opportunity for our students to listen to this inspirational man and we thank Gilgandra High School for inviting us.

ICAS WRITING & SPELLING COMPETITIONS The ICAS Writing Competition will be held next Tuesday, 10 September and the ICAS Spelling Competition on Thursday, 12 September for those children who have entered these competitions.

‘SCIEN-TASTIC’ SCHOOL PERFFORMANCE All children from Kinder to Year 6 will attend our school performance ‘Scien-tastic’ on Monday, 9 September. This fun filled show will get our scientific brains working. It explores many aspects of science through a range of thought provoking and wacky science experiments with loads of laughs thrown in.

ST JOSEPH’S SCHOOL ANNUAL CONCERT ‘A Million Dreams’

Gilgandra High School Hall – Wednesday, 18 September Our annual concert involving all students from Kinder to Year 6 will be staged on Wednesday, 18 September at the Gilgandra High School hall at 6:00 p.m. The students and staff put a lot of time and effort into the concert and it always promises to be a great night’s entertainment.

CONCERT REHEARSAL Wednesday, 11 September

Our one and only full concert rehearsal at the Gilgandra High School Hall will be held next Wednesday, 11 September. It is very important for everyone to be at school on this day so we can practise on the stage with the microphones etc. As this is a full dress rehearsal the children will need their costumes by this date.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS SPORTS DAY The Catholic Schools Sports Day is a day held each year with the participating schools including St Joseph’s Gilgandra, St John’s Baradine and St Brigid’s Coonamble. This year the sports will be held in Baradine NEXT FRIDAY, 13 September. The sports day is for ALL STUDENTS from Kinder to Year 6 and includes a march, war cry, class races, ball games, novelty activities, relays, and tug-o’-wars. THE CHILDREN ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR SPORTS UNIFORM. Our full sports uniform includes: school sports shirt, maroon sports shorts (boys) or maroon sports skirt or skort (girls), school sports socks, white shoes, school hat. For the march the children MUST WEAR JOEY’S SPORTS SOCKS OR ALL WHITE SOCKS AND ALL WHITE JOGGERS. They may change into joggers after the march if they wish. The children will be required to assemble in the designated area at the Baradine Oval by 9:00 a.m. to get ready for the march which will begin at 9:30 a.m. The children will then be walked to the marching assembly area in

Tomorrow, Friday, 6 September 3:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Wellington Street. The march will conclude at the Oval. The day will conclude at 2:00 p.m. We will be hiring a bus and a note will go home early next week regarding travel arrangements.

CONFIRMATION Sunday, 22 September – 9:30 a.m.

The excitement is certainly building in anticipation of the upcoming celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation. The Sacrament will be administered by Bishop Michael McKenna on Sunday, 22 September at 9:30 a.m. This is such an important event at our school and we really encourage everyone to be at church on Sunday, 22 September to celebrate with our Year 6 leaders. It would be fabulous to have lots there for this great occasion. We would also like to invite all children from St Joey’s to attend the Confirmation Mass to sing in the choir. If your child is interested in singing in the choir, please see Mrs Banks upon your arrival at the church. Please keep our Confirmation class in your prayers: Billie Allan, Jett Chandler, Cameron Davis, Alana Elsom, Hayden Ferguson, Ryan Ferguson, Casey Gaff, Nick Gale, Paige Gilmour, Lucas Gleadhill, Ben Harland, Lucy Kilpatrick, Lucy McIsaac, Ava Meyers, Harry Mudford, Samantha Naden, William Spora, Ben Standing, Nick Tancred, Jett Tarrant, Elten Walker, Grace Winter, Jasmine Zell.

CONGRATULATIONS MISS SEAMAN Congratulations to Miss Seaman and her partner, Jake Morrissey, who announced their engagement last week. We extend our very best wishes to Jess and Jake for their future happiness.

HEAD LICE We have had reports of head lice at school. Could you please check your children’s hair and treat appropriately if required.

MERIT AWARDS Congratulations to the following students who received Merit Awards at Assembly on Tuesday: KINDER: Darcy Adams for a conscientious effort in Reading, Estelle Hazelton for using her imagination to write a super story about Mog the cat, Layla Walker for trying hard to sound out words in Phonics and Caitlin Younghusband for drawing an amazing portrait of her dad. YEAR 1: Indy Thomas for a super effort in Comprehension, Thomas McIsaac for great work in Maths, Milla Morris for being a kind and helping friend and Oliver Peart for neat handwriting. YEAR 2: Cooper Lummis for great sketching of dinosaurs in Art, Ryder Larkin for being a champion worker in ‘Mini Lit’ groups, Elsie Adams for great comprehension in our Literature unit, ‘Dinosaurs’, Elsie Mudford for working more independently in Maths and Ruby Ryan and Jacob Fordham for fabulous enthusiasm during concert practices. YEAR 3: Sophie Gilmour for always having a positive attitude towards her work, Kenedi Hazelton for sensational work in Spelling, Lara Younghusband for taking great care with her work at all times and Te Mana Diamond for being an active contributor during Maths Warm Up. YEAR 4: Lucas Fong, Hope Jones-Copelin, Eliza Mudford and Orlando Ryan for an outstanding effort during concert practice. YEAR 5: Sam Dunn for working hard on percentages in Maths, Blake Fairey for completing Problem A Day and Operations with speed and accuracy, Alison Mudford for great work in Problem A Day and Operations, Jordan Neeves for showing persistence when working on Essential Assessment activities and Grace Tancred for asking clarifying questions when working on Essential Assessment. YEAR 6: Cameron Davis for writing a creative text with a twist in Power Writing, Jett Chandler for his enthusiasm during marching practice, Ben Harland for his consistent positive approach to all learning areas and Nick Gale for his excellent focus and contributions during Comprehension Groups.

WHAT’S ON

WEEK 7 Friday, 6 September - GHS Guest Speaker – Sam Bailey – Years 5 & 6 - Fete WEEK 8 Monday, 9 September - ‘Scien-tastic’ School Performance – 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, 10 September - ICAS Writing Competition Wednesday, 11 September - Concert Rehearsal Thursday, 12 September - ICAS Spelling Competition Friday, 13 September - Catholic Schools Sports Day WEEK 9 Tuesday, 17 September - ICAS English Competition Wednesday, 18 September - ICAS Maths Competition - Concert Thursday, 19 September - Little Athletics visit – 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. (4 x 30 min sessions) Friday, 20 September - Preschool Visit Sunday, 22 September - Confirmation – 9:30 a.m. WEEK 10 Wednesday, 25 September - Saturday, 28 September - Moorambilla – boys and girls Thursday, 26 September - Year 2 Liturgy – 10:30 a.m. - Junior Joey’s to Cooee Lodge Friday, 27 September - Last day Term 3 - Portfolios home

AROUND THE CLASSROOMS KINDER This week in Kinder we have been busily working on writing recounts and including elaborations to make our writing more interesting. We enjoyed a visit from our preschool friends yesterday and loved reading them our book, “Meg at Sea”. In Maths we have been revising tricky teen numbers and modeling addition number sentences on our 10 frames. We painted some very groovy witches and wrote a description of them. We are getting ready for our concert practice next week so please bring along your costume in a bag with your name clearly labelled on each item. Have a great weekend.

Mrs Alison Newstead YEAR 1 Congratulations Year 1 on celebrating a lovely Liturgy today. Thank you to everyone who came to join us. In class we have been adding numbers to 10, drawing pentagons and octagons and describing number patterns. In Phonics we have been revising sounds and our Grammar focus is adverbs. We are still busily preparing for the Concert. Our whole school dress rehearsal is on Wednesday please make sure all costumes are at school on this day. We are all looking forward to celebrating the fete tomorrow, thank you to those parents who have offered their time to help at this important school fundraiser.

Mrs Melinda Morris & Mrs Mia van der Walt YEAR 2 Only one more sleep until the Joey’s fete and we can’t wait! Hopefully Year 2 students/parents have been busy cooking cakes and slices for the Infants Cake Stall. Marching and ball game practices have been in full swing in readiness for next week’s sports day at Baradine. Please check your child has white shoes for the marching. In Maths we focused on 3D properties, subtraction and addition and reading the calendar. During Spelling and Phonics we revised the ‘j’, ‘dge’, ‘ge’ sounds. The writing focus is Information Reports and we wrote great reports on the lifecycle of a ladybird. See you at the fete – and have a great weekend. Miss Lisa Harvey YEAR 3 has had another busy week. During Maths we have looked at multiplication, division and giving directions. In our Literature unit we have continued to read our novel, “The Magic Finger”. While in Text Types this week we have been writing a book review on “The Twits”. We have looked at what makes a good review and how this can influence others on reading certain books. During Science we became taxonomists and studied some of the living animals found on the playground. Our concert rehearsals are coming along really well. We encourage everyone to start bringing in costumes for our full dress rehearsal next Wednesday. If you are having trouble finding something then please let us know. We look forward to the fete tomorrow. It’s bound to be a fun afternoon! Have a great weekend!

Mrs Donna Colwell & Mrs Meichelle Schier YEAR 4 is very excited about the school fete tomorrow! Thank you parents for sending in some donations for our ‘Tombuli’ stall, we really appreciate it! I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there and enjoying themselves! Our concert rehearsal is next Wednesday and we have been busily perfecting our performance in preparation. Students should be very proud of their efforts, it has been fantastic to see it all coming together! We have also been practising marching as the Catholic Schools Sports Day is quickly approaching. Year 4 has started completing portfolio tasks to bring home at the end of term and show parents what we have been learning. We’ve also been studying decimal place value and square metres in Maths. Have a great weekend.

Miss Prue Giffin YEAR 5 Another busy week has flown by in Year 5. During Maths we have been working on decimal place value, multiplication and making 3D objects and nets with matchsticks and blu-tak. We have continued to work on our speeches this week, with lots of interesting topics being explained, we can’t wait to hear them. We began a new topic in Religion, ‘Celebrating the Sacraments’, where we watched some insightful videos by Fr Rob Galea. We are looking forward to the fete tomorrow. Thank you to all of the Year 5 families who have donated prizes or their time for a fun afternoon. Mr Tim Keady, Mrs Dominica Banks & Mrs Nikkola Thomas YEAR 6 Wow! Isn’t the time flying! Year 6 is busily preparing for Confirmation, having made many community connections through their Service Projects. With the concert fat approaching, we have spent quite some time perfecting our lines and getting those dance moves down pat! Don’t forget to ring in your costumes so we can get organized! We are eagerly awaiting the fantastic fete tomorrow and look forward to all the exciting activities. Don’t forget your footy tips! Have a safe and wonderful weekend. The bottle lid count this week is: K – 207, Yr 1 – 515, Yr 2 – 103, Yr 3 – 90, Yr 4 – 303, Yr 5 – 362, Yr 6 – 721, Office – 541, Weekly Total – 2842, Grand Total – 14,141! Miss Jess Seaman CANTEEN ROSTER Friday, 6 September – Canteen Closed – Fete Monday, 9 September – Nadine Hutchison & Amandeep Kaur Wednesday, 11 September – Rees & Sussane Gilmour Friday, 13 September – Catholic Schools Sports Day - Baradine ALTAR SERVERS ROSTER Sunday, 8 September – Lucy McIsaac, Dakotah Gilmour, Grace Winter