Principals Message

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Due to the current COVID restrictions for schools, we are unable to finish the year with our usual School Christmas performance and attendance at the local Christmas Carols as a School. However, in order to have some form of celebration of finishing the 2021 School Year we have decided to have a family Christmas Picnic at the  School on  Wednesday 8 December 2021.  

Please accept this as a welcome invitation to attend. It will be held from 5.3opm - 8.30 pm. Families are invited to bring their own food, drinks (NO ALCOHOL), blankets and or seats. There will be Christmas songs and music playing and hopefully, some very jolly person in a red suit will be making an appearance.

At this stage we do have to abide by all the current COVID regulations on the night, that is, everyone must QR code to enter and all who attend must be double vaccinated. 

We hope this will provide a  great opportunity for us to get together, to celebrate that we made it through, and to eat, talk, laugh and say goodbye to 2021. 

Congratulations on your courage and effort Year 5!

The elected School Captains and Vice Captains will be announced at the Assembly next Monday morning. 

Next Tuesday  7 December, we will have a step-up morning. During the first 2 hours of the school day, 9.10 am- 11.10 am, the students will spend 'getting-to-know-you' time with their teacher for next year. The step-up day is an opportunity for students and teachers to get to know each other, their interests, goals and learning style.

It is that time of the year when we say thank you to the Parent Forum and in particular the Executive for their continued and consistent effort to be with us and support us yet again, through another very interesting year.  Unfortunately, we were unable to have our meetings in Term 4 due to the COVID guidelines in place. 

This year we sadly say goodbye to three of our Parent Forum Members. Tracey Bodley has been President of the Forum for the last 7 years and a Parent Forum member for 13 years. Gil O'Neill has been an Executive member for the last 7 years in the roles of Treasurer and Secretary and finally Helen Grissell who has been a consistently supportive member working closely with the Executive for the last 7 years.  

On behalf of the St Joseph's community, I thank you all for your tireless support, effort, input and promotion of our school. The last couple of years have been extraordinary years of cancellations, postponements and missed opportunities but through it all, you managed to help make St Joseph's a better place to be.  We truly have been blessed to have you and will remain grateful for all that you have done and given.  WE WISH YOU ALL THE BEST FOR THE FUTURE. 

IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE REMAINDER OF TERM 4

The students in Years 1-6 will be required to attend the school for a Maths Assessment Interview on one of the first two days of school: Tuesday 1 February 2022 and Wednesday 2 February 2022 . Each student assessment takes approximately 30 minutes. All parents have been sent an email with instructions on how to book the MAI assessment online. 

The Best Start Testing for 2022 Kindergarten students will occur during the same time,  the MAI is included in that testing.
All students Kinder-Year 6 will commence normal classes on Thursday 3 February.