Week 9 Term 2 2024

Dear Families,

Early next term I will have the opportunity to spend some time with our Kindergarten students for 2025 and their parents during their interviews. It will be a joy to have one-on-one conversations with our pre-schoolers. I love their enthusiasm, excitement and initial understanding of all that big school holds. It will also provide a wonderful opportunity to talk to our current and new parents. I am particularly interested to hear why people chose St Joseph's for their child. From their responses, we will get a snapshot of our school from the outside looking in. We get to know how some of the community feels about the teaching and learning; the inclusiveness; the values; the community and the Catholic ethos that permeates all.

We continue to strive daily to make St Joseph's the best school it can be, and in that process, we always welcome and value your input. A reminder to our current families who would like to enrol siblings for next year, we are enrolling students now. You can enrol online on our School website.  I hope to commence enrolment interviews in Week 3 of Term 3 (5 -9 August 2024). Junior Joeys will begin on Wednesday 21 August (Week 5 of Term 3). Please spread the word to friends and relatives looking to start their child in Kindergarten in 2025. 

Last week I visited our school at Woodburn for a building meeting. I hadn't been for a few weeks and was truly excited to see how far the building work had come and absolutely delighted with the realisation that, 'going home' for us is getting closer and closer. 

Next week  Tuesday- Thursday (2-4 July) St Joseph's will be involved in a School Review.   Over the 3 days, a Lead Reviewer from ACER  (Australian Council for Educational Research) and two Principals from schools within our Diocese will visit and review our school around the following nine domains:

• Driving an explicit improvement agenda.
• Analysing and discussing data.
• Promoting a culture of learning.
• Targeting school resources.
• Building an expert teaching team.
• Leading systematic curriculum implementation.
• Differentiating teaching and learning.
• Implementing effective pedagogical practices.
• Building school-community partnerships. 

It will be a reflective and informative process that will result in affirmations and commendations for areas of the above domains. There will also be recommendations that will go into forming our Strategic Plan for the next 3 years. 

We have organised a timetable over the 3 days to ensure that everyone has input into our Review  On Day 1 Tuesday 2 July, I have dedicated the timeslot of 2.30pm - 3pm as  an open invitation for parents.  I encourage parents to join the Review Team in the school for a group chat to provide their thoughts about our school. We truly appreciate you taking the time.

KINDERGARTEN SHARES MRS MCMANUS' NEWS

Kindergarten made a surprise announcement at assembly on Tuesday afternoon. During the day on Tuesday, they discovered the wonderful news that Mrs McManus is having a baby.

As only Kindergarten could, they kept it a secret all day and made the grand announcement to everyone at the afternoon assembly. A lot of cheering from all followed the news. 

We are so excited for Sarah and her husband Scott and wish them all the best for this wonderful time. 

SEMESTER 1 REPORTS ON COMPASS

Semester 1 Reports will be available on Compass next Monday 1 July 2024.  The reports are designed to be read in a quiet setting with your child focusing on the positives and looking at the future goals. Parent-teacher interviews will
be held in Week 2 of Term 3, (Tuesday  30 July). Bookings will be made through
Compass and will be open in Term 3 Week 1. Further information about the reports can be found in the Assistant Principal's section of this Newsletter. 

SRC PYJAMA DAY

Our Student Representative Council (SRC) Fundraiser for this term will raise money for the St Vincent De Paul Winter Appeal.  Huntah, Rose and Bella (The SRC Presidents) have asked me to let parents know that the SRC fundraiser day will be held next Monday 1 July 2024. The theme is PJ or warm clothes day and all students are invited to wear their pyjamas or warm clothing. The SRC decided they
needed a chillout PJ day. Students may wear their warm and cosy clothes to school and are asked to bring a gold coin donation. Each of the Stages will be doing varied activities between lunch and recess.

The following days have been set down as Staff Development Days for St Joseph's for 2024. We thank you for supporting us in our Professional Development/Learning 
opportunities.

Students do not attend school on these days

TERM 2
Friday 5th of July	School Review- where to from here
TERM 3
Monday 22nd of July	New Curriculum
Friday 27th of September	New Curriculum

• All of our students for their participation, determination and effort in the 2024 Athletics Carnival. 
• For the Sports Captains and their wonderful leadership of their Sports Houses at the Athletics Carnival. 
• Mrs Barnes for organising and running our amazing Athletics Carnival- thank you!
• Our parent community for helping out at the Athletics Carnival and supporting the children, we couldn't have done it without you! Thank you.
• The Stage 2 students and staff for presenting a terrific Assembly today. 
• Our Student Award Winners for guiding us this week!
• Our SRC Presidents and class Representatives for organising our fundraiser for next week and providing a voice for our students. 

As this will be the last newsletter for Term 2, we wish you a wonderful holiday break with the children. 

Regards

Jeanette Wilkins

 Principal

Congratulations to the 2024 Athletics House champions Gurraman - Yellow.

Point score results:

Blue - Burubii -  288

Yellow - Gurraman - 394

Green - Gahgan - 346

Thank you to all of our Athletics Carnival volunteers. From timekeeping, to measuring at long jumps or raking the sand, we appreciate your time and effort. 

Congratulations to our Sports House Leaders- your leadership and organisation skills helped our carnival run smoothly.

St Joseph's Woodburn

2024 Age Champions

Richmond Zone High Jump and Discuss Nominations

An email was sent to all families regarding nomination for High Jump and Discuss at the Richmond Zone Athletics Carnival. There are no trials at school for either of these events. Students wishing to compete in either Discuss or High Jump, are required to self-nominate. These nominations will close on 3rd July 2024. All nominations must be endorsed by your accredited athletics coach.

Richmond Zone 1500m Nominations 

The 1500m has been introduced as a representative pathway in Athletics. Participation in this event will be by nomination only.  Only two students (boys and girls) in each age group can be selected. If you wish to nominate for the 1500m at the Richmond Zone Carnival please see Mrs Barnes. Age groups are as follows: 8/9/10 year old, 11 year old and 12/13 year old boys and girls. Students are encouraged to nominate if they have displayed excellence in cross country. If we have more than 2 nominations we will hold a school trial. Nominations close 2nd July 2024

If needed our school trial will be held on Thursday 4th July 2024 - Week 10 - Thursday

St Joseph’s Woodburn Richmond Zone Athletics Squad.

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected to attend the Richmond Zone Athletics Carnival on Thursday 27th July, at St John’s College Woodlawn. Please refer to the compass event that has been published today.

Our Athletics Squad is listed below:

Important Sport Dates

1st August - Thursday - Richmond Zone Athletics - Woodlawn -

13th August - Tuesday  - Diocesan Athletics

30th August - Friday - Richmond Zone Gala Day - Soccer, Netball and Multi-sport

CONGRATULATIONS

Hello there St Joseph’s Woodburn family, Cassie here from the Family Connect in School program. I'd like to introduce “Family Connect in Action’, a new addition to the school’s fortnightly newsletter. Each edition will give you links to information and resources to help you on your parenting journey.

My first edition is to let families know about the school Student Broadband Initiative (SSBI) which can provide:

Free internet for eligible families

The Australian Government has introduced the School Student Broadband Initiative (SSBI) to provide free internet access to eligible families. The SSBI provides internet access to up to 30,000 families with school-aged children who are currently unconnected. The free internet access will be provided until 31 December 2025.  

Am I eligible?

Eligible families:  

• have a child living at home enrolled in K-12 at a NSW school
• have not had an active National Broadband Network (NBN) internet service for the previous 14 days. Having a mobile internet service does not affect eligibility. 
• reside in a premise that can access a standard NBN service
• will undergo a suitability assessment conducted by the National Referral Centre (NRC). This is just a phone call or online application.

If you require any further information or assistance with an application, contact Cassie from the Family Connect in School program at 0427620667 or  contact the National Referral Centre – run by Anglicare Victoria – on 1800 954 610 (Monday – Friday, 10am – 6pm AEDT), or visit:  https://www.anglicarevic.org.au/student-internet/

All orders need to be on paper bags with the child's name, class and what they would like to order clearly written on them with the money enclosed.