St Joseph’s Primary School 1 Week 9 - Issue 9 - 23 March 2016

Joey’s Journal

St Joseph’s Primary School Phone: (07) 4662 7850 , Fax: (07) 4668 9732 Principal: Mr Aaron Wells PO Box 467 www.chinchilla.catholic.edu.au A.P.R.E: Mrs Deonne Crowe Chinchilla QLD 4413 Email: chinchilla@twb.catholic.edu.au Admin Officer: Mrs Bronwyn Cookson

Dear Parents, St Joseph’s Day Last Friday we held our annual celebrations for St Joseph’s day. It was an extremely enjoyable day and I would like to thank everyone who made it such a success. A big thank you to Mrs Crowe for putting together such a moving mass and to Mrs Wells and Miss Rookas for their class contributions. I am sure that I wasn’t the only person who left the Church with goosebumps. I would like to congratulate all of the students for the way in which they supported each other and worked together during the activities. Our Year 6 students were tremendous role models and helpers at each of the activity stations. Well done! The End of an Era Well it is the end of an era for the Joey’s Journal as we more to our digital Schoolzine newsletter next term. Please ensure that the office has your up-to-date email details to avoid missing out on the link in your inbox each fortnight. You can do this via the Skoolbag App - change of details e-form or by phoning/emailing the office. Alternatively, if grandparents or other members of the family wish to receive our newsletter each fortnight you can subscribe at the following web address: http://sjpschinchilla.schoolzineplus.com/ Tuckshop The P&F are calling for expressions of interest for anyone or organisation that may be willing to take on the operation of our school tuckshop. For further information please contact me at the school or Terry O’Leary (P&F President) on 0409 657 563. School Fees Just a reminder that Term 1 School Fees are now due, we still have a number of outstanding accounts, so if these could be finalised prior to the end of Term it would be greatly appreciated. Introducing School Student Protection Contacts The safety and wellbeing of our students is of the highest importance at St Joseph’s School. As with all non-state state schools, we have nominated School Student Protection Contacts who are staff members that students can raise concerns of abuse, harm or inappropriate behaviour by a staff member. At St Joseph’s, our School Student Protection Contacts are: Miss Bianka Rookas Mrs Cecilia Guymer All school staff receive regular training and information to be able to respond to student protection concerns. Please contact th e Principal should you have any queries regarding student protection processes at St Joseph’s School. More information around our student protection policy and procedure can be found at: http://www.twb.catholic.edu.au/Board/Pages/GuidelinesSP.aspx Easter As we observe the events of Holy Week through liturgy this week, we must remember to not simply focus on the “big events” that occur over Easter and forget about the life of Jesus before these momentous events. Jesus’ attention had been focussed on offering fellowship to the poor, the marginalised, the outcasts and it was from these groups that he chose the people who were to be the leaders when He was no longer there. Jesus’ work now continues though us Christians—Christ followers—who, in the Mass and the Eucharist, eat and drink with Him after He has risen from the dead. For Christians, Easter is the matchless remedy for all forms of hopelessness. The Resurrection of Jesus is the basis for the deep trust that cultivates our faith and love. Easter is never over, Jesus lives on in all Christians; it is in us that His presence is in the world. I wish you all a loving and restful Easter break and I will see you all safe and well on Monday the 11th of April. God Bless Aaron Wells Principal

St Joseph’s Primary School 2 Week 9 - Issue 9 - 23 March 2016

Staff Footy Tipping Comp Leaders after round 3 Mrs Nitz - 18 Mrs Crowe, Miss Walsh, Mrs Hart, Miss Bowdler - 16 Mr Wells, Miss Rookas, Mrs Stark, Mrs Lenihan, Mrs Lees - 15

Our Lady Help of Christians Holy Week Mass Schedule

Holy Thursday - 6:00 pm Good Friday - Stations of the Cross - 10:00 am - Passion - 3:00 pm Easter Vigil - 6:00 pm

UNIFORM SHOP HOURS

Mon 8.30 - 9.00am Wed - 2.45 - 3.15 Uniform Co-ordinator is: Susan Smith Mob: 0407 132 092

Dates to Remember

Week 9

Mar 20 - Palm Sunday Mar 21 - Concert Band Performance - Term 1 school fees due Mar 24 - Holy Thursday - Stations of the Cross - Whole School - 9.30am - Final day of Term 1

School Resumes for Term 2 on Monday 11th April.

We encourage you to check these dates each week, as from time-to-time there will be additions and changes.

From the Sporting Field South West Swimming Congratulations to Andee Moore who participated in the State Swimming Championships in Brisbane over the weekend. Andee had an excellent swim meet with a 2 second PB in her 50m Freestyle Event. We are all very proud of her achievements in making it to the State Championships and competing against the States elite swimmers.

South West Soccer Trials Congratulations to Logan Flynn, Bella Bodkin and Nicola Watson who were successful in being named members of the Chinchilla & District Boys and Girls Soccer Teams. Logan, Bella and Nicola will participate in the South West Soccer Trials to be held in Chinchilla at the Recreation Grounds on Friday 15th April. If the students are successful at the Trials, they will become members of the South

West Teams to compete in the State Soccer Carnival in Stanthorpe from 9th to the 12th June. Cross Country The Annual St Joey’s Cross Country is fast approaching. Students are continuing their preparations for the Cross Country event which is scheduled for Wednesday 20th April. As indicated in the previous Newsletter article, a comprehensive timetable will be included in next terms first Newsletter. I hope all our families have a wonderful Easter break and enjoy quality family time together with your children. May you all have a safe, happy and fit holiday! Mrs Hart

Mr Wells will be leading our whole school

assembly Thursday 2.30pm The choir will be performing

St Joseph’s Primary School 3 Week 9 - Issue 9 - 23 March 2016

Today we held our Rice Day and sold cups of rice for 50c at big lunch. Thank you to the students who brought along money to support Mini Vinnies and took time to think about those less fortunate than themselves. With the money raised today and from the good works we completed last year, Mini Vinnies would like to make a contribution to the overall fundraising efforts of the school for Project Compassion by donating an additional $500. This will be presented to Mrs Crowe at our final assembly tomorrow. We are continuing to sponsor our child through World Vision, George-Mikael who is from Indonesia. We have received updates from him including drawings and letters to thank us for our sponsorship. The Mini Vinnies Committee are working on a package of letters and drawings to send back to him. We would like to thank everyone for their continued and generous support of Mini Vinnies. We look forward to performing lots of “Good Works” throughout the year.

By Cobi Zerbst, Lauren Brennan & Holly Sperling

St Joseph’s Primary School 4 Week 9 - Issue 9 - 23 March 2016

St Joseph’s Day Activities Bubble blowing

Sand play Skipping Play Doh

Building blocks Skipping

And many more...

St Joseph’s Primary School 5 Week 9 - Issue 9 - 23 March 2016

Greetings from the Year Five classroom! I hope you enjoy reading about what we have

been up to in Year Five this Term.

In English, the students have been working to improve their reading and comprehension skills

as well as building on their knowledge of different spelling rules. The focus text type for this

Term has been persuasive texts and the students have enjoyed choosing a position and

writing to persuade. Each Friday, the Year Five students have loved participating in buddy

reading with the students in the Year 1/2 class.

Maths this Term has seen the students concentrate specifically on working with six-digit

numbers, different multiplication strategies, elapsed time and decimal fractions.

In Religion, the students have focussed on communities of believers. They have looked at

Catholic communities and pioneers in our faith throughout history, concentrating specifically

on Saint Mary MacKillop and her life.

Geography has required the students to research about the countries in both Europe and

North America and evaluate the effects that the human and environmental characteristics

of these places have on each other.

In Science this Term the focus has been all about light. The students have enjoyed looking at

what things give us light, how light helps us to see, how light travels and

how far it travels, as well as what a shadow is. In doing so,

Year Five have participated in a range of

experiments and investigations.

The students have also been enjoying their

lessons in Physical Education with Mrs Hart,

Library with Mrs Bowman and Indonesian with

Mrs Maclean.

I wish everyone a

safe and restful

holiday,

Miss Rebekah Bowdler

St Joseph’s Primary School 6 Week 9 - Issue 9 - 23 March 2016

From the APRE

EASTER REFLECTION

The story is told of a rabbi (a Jewish teacher) who gathered all his students together very early in the morning while it was still dark. He asked them: ‘How can you tell when the night has ended and the day has begun?’ One student answered: ‘Maybe it’s when you see an animal and you can tell whether it’s a sheep or a dog.’ ‘No,’ the rabbi said. A second student answered: ‘Maybe it’s when you are looking at a tree in the distance and you can tell whether it’s a fig tree or a peach tree.’ ‘No,’ said the rabbi. After a few more guesses the students demanded the answer. The rabbi replied: ‘It’s when you look on the face of any woman or man and see that she is your sister and he is your brother. If you cannot do this, no matter what time it is, it is still night.’

For John, as we will hear in his gospel this Easter weekend, Easter begins very early in the morning of the first day of the week while it is ‘still dark’. But he writes that ‘the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining’. But this is strictly on one condition: ‘Whoever loves a brother or sister,’ he says, ‘lives in the light.’

So we celebrate Christs resurrection this Sunday by rising from darkness ourselves. To truly see Christs light in others and to give it opportunity to shine from within ourselves. The Risen Lord, is asking us to ‘walk always as children of the light’, following in his footsteps, living by his message of love. (Taken from Fr Brian Gleeson's Easter Reflections http://www.passionistshobart.org.au/)

We pray our students and families enjoy a very Happy Easter with loved ones!

God Bless,

Mrs Deonne Crowe

Year 6 Easter Raffle

More than 4 prizes to be drawn Thursday 24 March.

Tickets $1 each.

Students can buy tickets at lunch time and after assembly.

Tickets are also available from the office.

St Joseph’s Primary School 7 Week 9 - Issue 9 - 23 March 2016

Year Six Curriculum Corner

It’s unbelievable how quickly this term has flown. Year Six have been working extremely hard all term and particularly with their assessment over recent weeks. Religion The students have been working on understanding the many ways faith is lived out by believers past and present to shape a socially just world. They have also participated in daily prayer and meditation exercises with much respect and enthusiasm. Science Our unit this term is ‘Marvellous Microorganisms’. The students have investigated our school grounds for any microorganisms they could find. Predicted and discussed the role of yeast in bread and what causes mould and bacteria. Geography This term students have discovered the wonders of Asia! Each student chose an Asian country to research and extend their knowledge of a country from another continent. This included detailed mapping skills.

Visitors to our Classroom Father Gonzo was invited to speak to Year Six about his role as a priest in our parish. The students were delighted to ask questions about his life as a priest. Father shared stories about where he grew up and past experiences. We hope to have Father visit our class on a regular basis throughout the year.

Mr Wells was invited to speak to our class after the students heard that he was a keen scuba diver! Our class was fascinated when Mr Wells shared his scuba diving experiences. We passed around a variety of equipment that he wears when diving. Mr Wells concluded his visit with a video of him

scuba diving at various places in Australia (which included sharks swimming nearby!!). Easter Raffle Year Six have raised over $700 for our Sydney / Canberra trip after successfully selling tickets over the last two weeks. Thank you for all the lovely donations and to those who have bought tickets. The raffle will be drawn this Thursday at Assembly. Well done Year Six! I would like to wish everyone a happy, safe and holy Easter. I’m looking forward to seeing you all in Term 2. Cecilia Guymer

St Joseph’s Primary School 8 Week 9 - Issue 9 - 23 March 2016

Mini Vinnies Term One Report

The term started off with Mini Vinnies position elec-tions taking place.

Congratulations to the following students who were elected in 2016.

On Saturday 12th March we volunteered our time to assist the Parish with their St Patrick’s Day Celebrations and Fundraising event. We ran stalls during the afternoon such as the Tombola stall, ice-blocks, face painting and colouring in table. We would really like the thank all of the families who donated bottles and goods for the Tombola stall. Without your help our stall would not have been such a success… THANKYOU!! Through our act of “Good Works” on the afternoon we were able to raise $204 for the Parish. It was a fun afternoon and we really enjoyed helping out.

Year 5 Year 6

President Maggie Maclean Briony Isles

Vice President Skyla Llewellyn Lucinda Geldard

Treasurer Jorja Cookson Jaimelee Clements

Secretary Tayla Bird Emma Watson

Media Andee Moore Lucia Sperling

Cobi Zerbst Holly Sperling

Lauren Brennan

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APRIL 2nd MASS @ 7.30P

MONTHLY

ROSTER March

Grounds John Bender Team

Sanctuary

Cleaning

P. Waldron G. Dwyer

Floral Sr Sue Brass ---- Linen

Cleaning G. Dwyer

Meals on

Wheels

4th Monday

Lorna Gadsby Val Bender Terry Gleeson L Fitzgerald

Bulletin

Typing

Deonne Crowe deonne.crowe@twb.catholic.edu.au

phone 0413 401 163 MASS

ROSTER 26th March 2016 Saturday at 6:00pm

Welcome

Readers

M Bourke*, D Crowe*, B Erbacher*, L Fitzgerald*, A Gorring

Organist A Gleeson Gifts M&C Weir

Special

Ministers

Visit to Sick: F Hicks*, V Hughes*

Altar

Servers

Zita Stark and Dickman Family

Church

Cleaners

P Grambower, L Lauder, M Achilles

Collection

Counters

J & G McQuaid

RESPONSE TO THE PSALM:

Upcoming Parish Events:

Sacrament of Confirmation

Friday 15th April 2016

7:00 pm

First Communion

Saturday 16th April 2016

6:00pm

Catholic Ball

30th April 2016

7:00 pm

Our Lady Help of Christians’ Parish, Chinchilla

March 20th 2016 - Palm Sunday (Year C)

Fr Jim Cronin: Ph 4662 7 031 Year C 30.6.13

Chinchilla Mass times:

Weekday masses: Tuesday and Wednesday

9:30 a.m.

Illoura Village: Every 3rd Thursday of the month –

9:30 a.m.

Next Weekend: See Holy Week Mass times

on back of this bulletin

Sick:

Tim Baynes, Gerald Collins, Fran Johnson, Joan Braithwaite, Dennis O’Sullivan, Marie Poppell, Alyson Gleeson, Maree Young, Terry O’Dea, Brother Ed Collins, Pat Parsons, Kevin O’Sullivan, Fr Jim Brown (Cleveland).

Anniversaries:

Marie Doherty, Joan Sweeney,

Ursula Maloney, David Brennan

Douglas Craine, Frank Rissman,

David Conway, Harold Fuller,

Ron Harding, Alex Rider, Mary

Flynn, Adrian Dwyer, Marjorie

Wells, Joseph Gill, Mary Barrett,

Jim Kearney, Thelma

MacGinley, Jack Gregory If you wish to add someone to the sick list,

please contact the bulletin typist, after

seeking permission from the person or a

family member. Thank you.

The new Anniversary of Death book is now at the back of the

Church. Please add the dates of those deceased you wish to be

remembered and included in our prayers. Thank you

Parish Administrator: Fr Gonzalo Garcia Duran Ph: 46 627 031 Email: olhcchinchilla@bigpond.com St Joseph’s School Principal: Mr Aaron Wells Ph: 46 627 850 Email: chinchilla@twb.catholic.edu.au

“My God, my

God, why have

you abandoned

me?”

A tin can collection box will be

located at the presbytery and the

school office for cans donated to use

as decorations at the Ball – tea light

candle holders! Please donate if you

can!!!

PARISH HALL BOOKINGS Contact Michelle Fraser

0417 797 292

Reflection on the Gospel - The journey of Jesus to the Cross.

We see Jesus in all humility and obedience choosing to surrender himself for the good of all creation. In his

journey he exemplifies God’s greatest gift: absolute love and mercy. In our culture, humility, obedience

and surrender are almost scorned as an affront to our independence and sense of self-mastery. It is easy to

lose sight of the deepest meaning of the terms and most profound truths contained within them, which

draw us closer and closer to God. In walking the path he did, Jesus abandoned himself completely into

God’s loving care and mercy. He shows us how to fall into the arms of God, trusting in God’s absolute

goodness. During this final week of Lent, are we willing to abandon ourselves into the loving arms of God

with trust and hope of resurrection?

“he humbled himself

and became obedient to the point of death—

even death on a cross.

Because of this God greatly exalted him

and bestowed on him the name that is

above every name”

Philippians 2:8-9

2016 Mass of the Oils St Patrick’s Cathedral, 21st March

5.30pm:

Parishioners from across the Diocese are invited to join with Bishop Robert and the Priests of the Diocese to celebrate the 2016 Chrism Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Monday 21st March at

5.30pm. During the Mass, the sacred oils used throughout the diocese are blessed

and the clergy renew their priestly promises. All are welcome to participate in celebrating this truly diocesan event.