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- St Joseph's Primary School Newsletter 4/6/2020
- School Reports
- Administration Office Refurbishment
- Promotion
- SRC Surveys
- Enrolments : 2021
- Uniforms
- Prayer for Reconciliation
- Acknowledgement of Country
- Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Whole School Approach to Positive Behavior
- Religious Education and the Sacraments
- Students Art Work
- Dates for Your Diary
- NCCD Information Sheet
St Joseph's Primary School Newsletter 4/6/2020
Dear Families
On Tuesday our Gr 3/4/5/6 students return. Yeah! We are looking forward to having everyone back and returning to some sort of normality. It is a new type of normal with a big focus on cleanliness and personal hygiene.
Return to onsite schooling: please remember to send your child to school with a drink bottle (drinking fountains will not be in use), a cake of soap and a hand towel. Regular hygiene will be practiced at school. Please also remember to return any school equipment (technology or musical instruments) that you borrowed before remote learning.
Carline will operate a little differently at the beginning of the day. We ask parents to stop and drop your child/ren off at the back gate. There is no access to the school at the front side carline gate or the front gate. At the end of the day teachers will bring the children out to car line in families and ask them to keep a safe distance. If you are not using carline and walking to pick your child up, we suggest you pick your child up before 3.30pm or, any time after 3.00pm, is fine. You will need to ring the office, 56 331151 and ask for your child/ren to be taken to the parish side gate and we will meet you there. The School Crossing Supervisor will be on duty from 3.00pm to 3.45pm daily in the coming weeks before the school holidays. Parents are asked not to congregate in small groups around the school. We ask that you remember safe social distancing at all times.
Reports:
As you are aware, we have four formal ways of communicating assessment to families and we spread these four times over the school year. In Term 1 we have interviews early in the year for parents to tell the teachers about their child. At the end of Term 2 we have written school reports which will go home on Wednesday 24th June. Then in Term 3 we have parent/teacher/student interviews in week 6 (Thursday August 20th) to keep tracking your child’s progress.
Finally, in Term 4 we have written school reports again. Please know that this is the formal process but you are of course, very welcome to check in with your child’s class teacher any time. Please remember it is best to make an appointment.
Administration Office Refurbishment
Administration Office Refurbishment:
Our refurbishment has started and hopefully it will be finished before the school holidays. Vicki’s new office will be relocated in the front meeting room. The refurbishment is about meeting child safety standards. During the refurbishment the front gate and door will be out of bounds for us (this will be the builder’s access). We will need to use the side parish gate to enter the school and the back gates will be used for carline operation.
Promotion:
Remember we are on Facebook, search St Joseph’s Primary School Trafalgar. Our virtual tour is on there. Please share this with your friends and recommend it to other people. During this pandemic, this is the best way to promote our school.
Please Like Us on Facebook!
SRC Surveys:
As part of our ongoing improvement strategy we send out surveys to collect data on what you think about our school. We usually send these out in the first few weeks of Term 2 but this year they were postponed because of the pandemic and now will be sent out in weeks 2 & 3 of next term, that is, Monday July 20th through to July 31st. We ask that you participate in this improvement strategy next term.
Enrolments for 2021 are now open:
If you have a child in 4 year old kinder we ask you to collect an Enrolment Pack from the office and complete the Enrolment Form at your earliest convenience. If you have any friends with a 4 year old please invite them to have a look at our school. I really appreciate your help in this space.
Uniform:
Remember the School Advisory Committee has approved grey pants and shorts for the uniform, so that both girls and boys can wear them. We are looking at different T-shirts. The first thing we need to do is decide on the fabric. So next term, you will have a chance to say which fabric you prefer, then we will put out a brief survey for everyone to vote.
Please find attached an information letter to parents about the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD) on School Students with Disability. This happens each year and helps governments plan for the needs of students with disability.
May God continue to bless and guide us in our learning.
Trish Mulqueen
Principal
Prayer for Reconciliation
In the midst of conflict and division,
We know it is you
Who turns our minds to thoughts of peace.
Your spirit changes hearts:
Enemies begin to speak to one another,
Those who were estranged join hands in friendship,
And nations seek the way of peace together.
Let your spirit be at work in us.
Give us understanding
and put an end to strife,
Fill us with your mercy
and overcome our denial.
Grant us wisdom and teach us to learn
from the people of the land.
Call us to justice.
(Adapted from the Preface of the Eucharistic Prayer for the Mass of Reconciliation 11)
Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Prayer Card, 2006
Permission for use granted by ACSJC.
Acknowledgement of Country
As we gather on this sacred land, let us acknowledge that we are standing on Country for which the members and Elders of the local Aboriginal community and their ancestors have been custodians for thousands of years; land on which they have performed age-old ceremonies, celebrations initiations and renewals. We acknowledge their living culture and their unique role in the life of this area today.
As we gather on this sacred land, let us acknowledge that we are standing on Country for which the members and Elders of the local Aboriginal community and their ancestors have been custodians for thousands of years; land on which they have performed age-old ceremonies, celebrations initiations and renewals. We acknowledge their living culture and their unique role in the life of this area today.
"Let us do without hesitation
Whatever good lies at our hands."
- Blessed Frederic Ozanam
Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - Friday 19th of June
Our Mini Vinnie’s have been busily home schooling for most of this term and have not had much opportunity to outwardly connect to our community. In saying this, we know at St Joseph’s that their efforts and assistance around the home is equally as important throughout these trying times.
With our Church’s Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus fast approaching and with our Mini Vinnies back at school next week, we thought it time to turn our attention outward and look at supporting (as we originally intended), Bushfire affected regions in East Gippsland.
Noreen Plozza, a talented parishioner (and Ben, Noah and Josh’s Nan) has kindly donated this wonderful quilt to raffle off. Luckily, we have CDF Pay and if you would like to support this cause; https://www.gerf.org.au/ please donate online via CDF Pay, $2 per raffle ticket and please quote your name and phone number in the reference field.
On the 19thof June, our Mini Vinnies will draw a winner for this beautiful quilt and contact you to arrange collection. On Friday the 19th June we also ask that students bring a non-perishable food item to school to help stock the St Vincent de Paul, Trafalgar pantry. Our local St Vincent de Paul Society assist locals in need.
Thanks again for your support of those in need. We truly appreciate it.
Mini Vinnies - Trafalgar
Whole School Approach to Positive Behavior
Whole School Approach to Positive Behavior (WSAPBS)
At St Joseph’s Primary School, we have adopted a whole school approach to supporting behaviour in a positive manner. Our Whole School Approach to Positive Behaviour Support (WSAPBS) is an evidence-based framework that outlines a school wide system that clearly defines social and behavioural expectations as well as providing explicit teaching to support the development of these key relationship skills.
This approach ensures that all members of our school community are familiar with our School Wide Expectations (SWE). We believe that acting on our SWE helps us to build strong and positive relationships as well as to build effective communication skills.
Our four School Wide Expectations are:
- RESPECT
- RESILIENCE
- INCLUSIVENESS
- TEAMWORK
At St Joseph’s School, we understand that these expectations are to be used 100% of the time and by all members of our school community. We look for opportunities to explicitly teach each of the SWE, what it means and how it looks in our school, family and in the wider community. The SWE are considered extremely important as we continue to build our school community and move forward, together in a positive manner.
Religious Education and the Sacraments
Religious Education and the Sacraments
At St Joseph’s Primary School, we support the faith development of all. Our Catholic school, ‘through its defining culture, its curriculum and its classroom-based Religious Education programs, plays an important formative role in support of families in the Religious Education of those to whom it ministers.’ (To Live in Christ Jesus, Catholic Education Office, Sale, 2018)
An important element of supporting faith development is to provide the opportunity to celebrate and receive the Sacraments of Initiation. These sacraments include Reconciliation, First Eucharist and Confirmation. We also encourage and support any person or families who choose to become members of the Catholic Church through the sacrament of Baptism.
Every year the children in Grade Three, who have been baptised into the Catholic Church, are invited to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Children in Grade Four who have been baptised are eligible to receive the Sacrament of Eucharist and every two years the children in Grades Five and Six are invited to celebrate and receive the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Art Work
The students at St Josephs have been creating a great variety of art works whilst learning remotely from home. The focus has been on drawing and colouring with pencils, fine line pens and textas. The depth and quality of the artworks is fantastic.
JUNE
Mon 8th Public Holiday
Tues 9th Grade 3/4/5/6 students return to full time schooling.
Wed 10th PE (instead of Thurs) Students to wear sports uniform please.
Mon 22nd School Advisory Committee Google Meeting 4.00pm
Wed 24th Written School Reports sent out.