Term 2, Week 1, 19th

April, 2017

April

21 Yr 6 Leadership

Day Nanango

24 ANZAC DAY

Liturgy 9.30am

25 ANZAC DAY

Holiday - Parade

At RSL 9.15am

28 Cross Country

May

1 Labour Day

HOLIDAY

4 Edmund Rice

Liturgy 9.30am

8 Mother’s Day

Stall each day

9 NAPLAN

Principal’s News

Welcome back to school and the start of Term Two.

I do hope that you had a wonderful holiday and enjoyable Easter. I managed to have a few days of leisure, in between moving house and catching up on doctors, dentist and all those appointments you delay until holiday time.

It was wonderful to share the important events of Easter with my family and the St Joseph’s community. I thank Fr Subin and his team for the special church celebrations over the Easter period. I also thank Easter Bunny for the special treats.

This term will be a busy term of developing, learning and achieving. We continue to focus on improving the reading levels of all students and develop the crucial comprehension skills, essential to future success. Teachers will also be focusing on the development of sentences and paragraphing, ensuring our students become competent creators of text. This will also assist those students in Year 3 & 5, who will be engaging in Naplan testing in May. This test of course, is a point in time test and, whilst it provides valuable information for future development of literacy, teachers have a more accurate knowledge of student’s level of understanding and development.

To enhance our literacy and numeracy knowledge and understanding, St Joseph’s provides an additional teacher in classrooms during these subjects. This means the extra teacher can work with those students who require guidance. We also have support staff to take individual students for additional assistance. We have high expectations for each student and we believe that each student can achieve, if given the appropriate opportunities to learn. You can assist in your child’s success by ensuring they engage with reading at least 4 times per week and that they practice writing as often as they can.

Current understanding in the literacy field, indicates that reading and writing mutually reinforce each other. It states that instruc-tion may be more effective when teachers combine the two in classrooms. Research shows that teachers who develop high achiev-ing readers and writers integrate the two. (Samuels, S. and Far-strup, A., 2001).

This strategy is used in all our classrooms, ensuring students engage in learning through text, and that reading and writing complement each other. Students engage in reading and writing every day and often, multiple times each day.

Principal’s News continued

The four paintings you see before you tell four different Marist stories. And yet, viewed all together, these four

paintings tell us one story - the story of the mission of Marists in the way of St Marcellin Champagnat: to make

Jesus known and loved.

Two of these paintings, La Valla and May Miracle will be on display in our library from Monday 24th April for one week as they journey around Australia, after beginning this journey during a Commencement Mass at Santa Teresa, 40kms from Alice Springs, on 16th February 2017.

What’s happening this term? 21st April-Leadership Day for our senior students.

24th April-Anzac Day celebration at 9:30am at school.

25th April-Anzac holiday and students are asked to march in the parade.

28th April-Cross Country.

1st May-Labour Day holiday.

4th May-Edmund Rice Liturgy.

8th - 12th May-Mother’s Day stall.

9th - 11th May-Naplan.

12th May-Mother’s Day Liturgy at 2pm.

15th May-QC Netball-senior girls.

19th May-Domestic Violence March.

25th May-Under 8’s day activities and All Hallows visit.

26th May-Sorry Day.

6th June-Marcellin Champagnat Liturgy

15th June-Athletics Field Events.

16th June-Athletics Day-School Reports sent home.

20th - 21st June-Parent/Teacher conferences.

21st - 23rd June-St Rita’s visit and school holidays begin.

Fourviere Pledge The Dying Boy La Valla May Miracle

Principal News continued

Respect Club

Positive behaviour for Learning (PB4L) is a systematic approach to achieving expected behaviour standards in the school environment. PB4L is an on-going school wide approach to discipline, where there is a clear set of positive expectations and a procedure for teaching those expected behaviours. At St Joseph’s, behaviour management is a system approach with behavioural rules based on RESPECT, NUTURE and FAITH. Each class formulates their classroom rules, complimenting the school values. At times, some students forget the rules and display behaviour that is not respectful. These students are asked to join the Respect Club during break times, for the period designated by the staff member. During Respect Club, students engage in literacy activities that promote respectful behaviour. These range from discussing their behaviour, listening to stories that show respectful actions, creating posters on respect or engaging in sentence construction that reflect the value of respect. You may receive a sheet that you are required to sign, showing the action your child is going to engage in when being respectful. This approach allows staff to teach the expected behaviours to those who require it, without interrupting learning time. If you would like any additional information, please contact me.

Welcome

It is with great pleasure that we welcome to our St Joseph’s family, baby Jasmine Francis. We congratulate David (Guidance Counsellor), Amanda Francis (Media Officer) and big sister Lily.

Blessings to you all,

Tracey Gerrard Acting Principal

ANZAC

St Joseph’s will celebrate Anzac Day next Monday 24th at 9:30am in the school covered area. You are welcome to attend this celebration. Our school will march in the Anzac parade on Tuesday 25th April at 9:30am, meeting at the Murgon Services Club at 9:15am. All students are encouraged to march in school uniform.

WEEKDAY MASSES

5.30pm Wednesdays - Wondai

5.30pm Thursdays - Murgon

9.30am Fridays - Murgon

SUNDAY 30TH APRIL

Murgon 8.00am

Goomeri 10.00am

SATURDAY 29TH APRIL

Proston 8.00am

Wondai 6.00pm

Parish Mass Times Phone Fr. Subin Thomas mcbs, Parish Administrator

SATURDAY 22ND APRIL

Proston 8.00am

Murgon 6.00pm

SUNDAY 23RD APRIL

Wondai 8.00am

Cherbourg 10.00am

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." ~ Emilie Buchwald

APRE News

Welcome back to Term 2!

I hope that the holidays were filled with special family time and an opportunity to enjoy the change from the

routine of school.

With the unscheduled early finish to Term 1, we had to postpone our Holy Week Prayer Walk. This morning we

celebrated this Easter season – a time of grace and thanksgiving in our Church. We are reminded that no matter

how young or old we are, what a remarkable story it is. The fact that Jesus persevered in doing God’s will in his

life ought to give us hope in our own lives. Easter celebrates the promise of life in the face of death. Easter cele-

brations also reflect on peace and forgiveness, which has come out of aggression. Let us focus this Easter Season,

on the meaning of the Resurrection — New Life and New Beginnings. Thank you to our senior leaders who lead

us through the Stations of the Cross.

Project Compassion

Thank you for all your support for Project Compassion this year. We have raised a total of $297.35 which will be

sent to Caritas. This money will go towards helping those who are less fortunate in our world. Thank you for

making a difference in the lives of others.

Year 6 Leadership

This Friday our Year 6 leaders will be spending the day with the leaders of St Patrick’s Nanango. They will be participating in a leadership development day with Luke McKenna from Unleashing Personal Potential. The day is structured with dynamic activities, whole cohort team builders, initiative and problem solving activities which are interspersed in each session with a servant leadership theme. We look forward to hearing how their day goes and seeing what action will take place in our school afterwards.

Anzac Day

We will remember them.

Next Monday 24th April, we will remember those who have fought in wars and who continue to serve our

country. Please join us for our memorial service at 9.30am.

A Prayer for Anzac Day

God of love and peace, We bring our thanks today for the peace and

security we enjoy,

We remember those who have served our country in times of conflict.

We give thanks for their courage, devotion and sacrifice for others.

We pray for their families who lost so much.

Help us to be people who believe in the importance of peace, compassion and love and who

strive to live in peaceful ways each day.

We ask this prayer through Jesus, who showed us how to be people of peace. Amen

APRE News continued

Upcoming dates

Monday 24th April – Year 6 Faith

Group Prayer Assembly and

Welcome to the La Valla and

May Miracle Paintings 2.30pm

Tuesday 2nd May – Year 1 vis-

iting Castra

Monday 8th May – Year 6 Prayer

Assembly 2.30pm

God Bless,

Jess Marshall Acting Assistant Principal – Religious Education

Sports News

Today, 19th and tomorrow 20th of April, Bundaberg play host to the Wide Bay Touch Trials for both Boys and Girls aged

10 – 12 years. This year we have three boys representing our school and the South Burnett. They are Thomas Currin, Na-

than Roderick and Fletch Prendergast. We take this opportunity to wish them all the best as they play other teams from

the Wide Bay Region.

Next week, 26th and 27th of April, these three boys along with Trent Aubrey and Lachlan Greenwood will travel back to

Bundaberg to compete in the Wide Bay AFL Trials for Boys Aged 10 – 12 years. This is a great effort by our school, having

five boys playing in this team. We wish Thomas, Nathan, Fletch, Trent and Lachlan all the best for next week, as they do

battle for a place in the Wide Bay Team.

Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Gemm Lucht 19th

Sydney Ziebell 12th Darius Costello 22nd Billy Palmer 30th

Shelleah Fisher 7th Quinci Costello 17th Brooke Purcell 10th

Miha Costello 4th

Lara Kapernick 3rd Sadie Chapman 18th Yuna Olbes 23rd

Trent Aubrey 7th Lachlan Greenwood 11th Sophia Purcell 28th

Tom Currin 13th

Happy Birthday to our April Birthday Students

Tuckshop News

Tuckshop day is Friday. Please see our New Menu for April to September,

coming home today with the Newsletter. Please place orders on

brown paper bags. (See back of the Menu). Thank you for supporting our Tuckshop.