Dear Parents

LEARNING CONVERSATION PREPARATION Last week and into this one have been busy weeks as the students sat with their pastoral teacher to decide how they would like to explain their work to you, the parents and carers, in their Learning Conversations next Term. Each student from Kindergarten to Year 6 is involved. And let me tell you, they are very aware of themselves! I listened in on discussions for a number of students and they could tell their pastoral teacher, with unbelievable accuracy, just how they are progressing at school. I heard the positives they want to celebrate and some areas where they know improvement is needed. They could articulate what is hard for them and where they could try harder. They were also very honest about behaviour, collaboration and their ability (or not) to be organised and ready to learn. Along with the capabilities report, these will be presented to parents and carers in Week 1 or 2 next Term at your Learning Conversation. During that conversation you will have a chance to discuss what the student (your child) feels and together map out the Semester 2 plan. This information will then be scanned into our system and you will receive a copy home - signed by all present. Just a note here: The Learning Conversation will happen only ONCE for each student so in cases of split families we are asking you to decide how you will manage this, bearing in mind you are coming together for the benefit of your child. To book in you will need to go to www.schoolinterviews.com.au and use the code: 2jy5u. Find your child’s Pastoral Teacher (if unsure who this is then please ask your child prior to booking) and make a time to meet with them. You will receive an email to confirm your booking. Bookings will close on Sunday, 19 July at 2pm. (In another note: Book now!!! We will not be reopening bookings for anyone.) If anything Covid-19 related impacts on this, we will change to Zoom meetings.

FUN SPORTS Our Fun Sports afternoon will be held this Friday. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 restrictions, parents are unable to attend. Your children will be competing in fun old-fashioned activities like tug-of-war, ball games, crazy hurdles, throwing fun and relays. As there is no Athletics Carnival this year, we decided we should all enjoy a bit of fun together. Your children may wear their House colour shirt to school on Friday!

KickIt GROUPS This year we are approaching our Personal Development aspect of the curriculum differently by using vertical groups (K-6) to build the knowledge. We have given Year 6 the task of presenting the information to their small vertical group with a staff member as a support person. The lessons themselves are programmed by Mrs Seymour. Usually she then meets with the Year 6 students before KickIt groups to plan the presentations. During Covid-19 blended learning, the task of preparing some lessons was handed over to S3. They had access to the programmed lessons but were tasked with preparing their own style of presentation for their vertical group. Last Friday, the first of these lessons were presented by Year 6 with Year 5 support. We would like to say CONGRATULATIONS to our KickIt leaders for a fantastic afternoon of learning about why we need Rules & Laws in our world. This Friday, prior to our Sports afternoon, the KickIt groups will focus on SHARING.

WELCOME TO OUR NEW FAMILY We will welcome the Tanzini family next week. Olive will join us in Kindergarten and Ethan in Year 2. We welcome them and their parents, Deborah and Mark, to our school.

WELCOME BACK Next Term we will welcome back two staff members after long leave due to illness and extended leave. Mrs Jennifer Slattery will return for Thursdays in Stage 3 as Enrichment Tutor. Meghan Kingsford will be working Wednesday and Friday from Term 3. Mrs Nikki Wagner will be returning on Tuesday and Thursday morning to work closely with our high potential learners in Stage 2 and Stage 3. We are really grateful that both these ladies are returning to Joeys again.

JUNE Tuesday 23

Proclaim Lismore Wildfire artwork entries CLOSE

Confirmation, 6pm - POSTPONED

Thursday 25 Junior Joeys begins - ENROLMENT DAY 1

Friday 26 Non-competitive athletics

at school Term 2 Fees DUE - refer

to C.S.O. letter dated 3 April, 2020 available on our school website.

JULY

Thursday 2 Last day Term 2 for

students Junior Joeys -

ENROLMENT DAY 2 Friday 3 - Staff Development

Day - First Aid. PUPIL FREE Sunday 19 - Learning

Conversation Bookings CLOSE at 2pm. Go to: www.schoolinterviews.com.au Code: 2jy5u

Monday 20 - Staff Development Day - PUPIL FREE

Tuesday 21 - Students return Term 3.

Learning Conversations in Weeks 1&2, Term 3.

Thursday 23 - Junior Joeys return in Term 3.

AUGUST

Thursday 6 - FREE Parent Assembly Webinar: Michelle Mitchell - Resilience & Mental Health, 7pm. Register:

https://bit.ly/2C7cWRk Tuesday 11 - School Photos

rescheduled. Friday 28 - Family Day

SEPTEMBER

Tuesday 1 - Recommencement of approved, deferred school fee payment arrangements.

11 Perry Street Alstonville NSW 2477 ( PO Box 265 ) Phone: 02 6628 1009 www.alstplism.catholic.edu.au Email: alstp@lism.catholic.edu.au

WEEK 9

Home this week……

Bookclub Issue 4 orders were sent home yesterday.

Code: 2jy5u

UNIFORM in Term 3 Everyone has had a lot of fun with hair colouring and lightning bolts cut into hair, nail polish etc. during our blended learning. When we return in Term 3 we all need to return to normal uniform expectations please. That means no trendy haircuts or hair colouring; wearing correct shoes AND SOCKS; no earrings except sleepers or studs; no jewellery. We think it is time to get back to normal uniform expectations! STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY On Friday, 3 July, we will be completing our First Aid including CPR training for all staff. There will be NO school on this day. Thank you to a number of parents who did let us know they had no concerns for this day. We are presuming now that all families have sorted care for their children for 3 July. A reminder that school does not resume until Tuesday, 21 July, for students. Staff will be completing training on Monday, 20 July. FAMILY WEEK & Our Reading, Writing & Art Festival next Term…… The school continues to plan for our very special Family Week fun next Term. For this year it is a really elongated bit of fun. We are going to focus on Reading and Writing with our students and this will form the focus of Family Day on Friday, 28 August. Put this day on your calendar. Although our family celebrations may need to be different to other years, we don’t want you to miss the fun! During the week leading up to Family Day we will have a host of activities with the focus on Reading and Writing. On the Thursday after Family Day (3 September), we will host celebrated author, Megan Daley, for a parent night in the Hall (once again subject to restrictions) and we hope everyone will come along to hear her talk on the importance of Reading for everyone. Amongst the other activities we will delve into include: Indigenous storytelling, graffiti art, fun Writing activities, chalk art for telling stories and other exciting fun. There is also a Writing competition with fabulous prizes!!! (See the back page of this newsletter for more information.) JUNIOR JOEYS - ENROL NOW Junior Joeys Enrolment weeks begin on Thursday. We are welcoming our Junior Joeys students for the first time as we begin the transition to school for 2021. The Junior Joeys students will complete an enrolment before beginning Junior Joeys and receive their Big School T-shirt. They will join us from 9-11am each Thursday. If you know of anyone contemplating enrolling their child at Joeys for 2021 please tell them to contact us really quickly. Places are limited!

Therese Seymour

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Leader of School Evangelisation - Mrs Julia Meyers MASS ONLINE: Please click on the following link to Bishop Homeming ’s celebration of Mass for the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time held on Sunday 14 June, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-iKaf1GHYQ

All library books (student and parent loans) are now due back to the library. Please send all loans back to school on your student’s scheduled day. Holiday borrowing will be available to students in Stages 1 - 3, during lunch and before school.

Happy reading! Ms Ros Kingsford

Library Manager

Our Junior Joeys busy in 2019!

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AWARDS Congratulations to the following students who

received Gold Awards at school last week.

Stage 1

Lincoln Andrews Melodi Nolan

Finlay Baker Lara Tuckett

Wyatt-Allan Burton-Schmetzer

Stage 2

Harrison Beare Lucy Gooley

Jayden Bennett Penny Hodge

Peter Carroll Zoe Nall

Gabriel Ducler des Rauches

Malaki Gannon Bailey Titcume

Stage 3

Bryson Boonham Nakkita Kubils

Grace Dougherty Joseph Price

Damian Lutze Bruce Savage

Malekai Kubils Lilly Vickrage

Our Lady of the Rosary Alstonville & St Patrick’s Wardell Catholic Church Masses Mass is available again on site. We have now ceased the drive-through communion option. Current Covid-19 restrictions limit us to 50 people in the church at any one time. People are required to book the time they wish to attend Mass so that these limits can be managed and adhered to. Permanent and casual bookings are being taken. Please advise the parish as soon as possible if you have made a booking but are unable to attend on that day to allow your place to be made available for someone else. Please phone the parish on 66283047 or email: alstonvillewardellcc@gmail.com to make a booking. Bookings must be made by the preceding Friday.

Weekend Mass is available in the following four time slots: Alstonville: Saturday 6pm Sunday: 8:30am (booked out) 9:30am Wardell: Sunday 5pm

Please bear in mind the following procedures when entering the church…

Sanitise your hands on entry

Record your name, address and phone number on the Record of Attendees sheet,

Maintain social distancing (1.5 metres), and

Before leaving the church, wipe down the areas you have touched with the disinfectant wipes provided by church helpers.

Stage 1 went on a 2D shape hunt and justified their reasoning.

Stage 2 used the Virtual Reality kit on Friday to explore Space and the Great Wall of China!

We all loved it.

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The following children have celebrated their birthday since our last newsletter:

Hudson Hipkins, Tyler Starkey & Maya Patch

Happy Birthday from all of us at joeys

CANTEEN

Wednesday and Friday special Cheeseburger sliders $3 each

Add bacon 50c Slider bun, homemade beef patty (no onions or green bits!), cheese and your choice of a combination of or one of the following: BBQ, tomato burger sauce or mustard. There will be a treat day on the last canteen day for this Term, Wednesday 1 July. Lots of yummy goodies will be available from .50c.

Emma Thrum

Competition to Design a Print for an Eco Shopping Bag!

Wouldn’t it be exciting to see your drawings and designs on a shopping bag in our community?

The Environmental Group and the Garden Club have teamed up to give you this exciting competition - CREATING A DESIGN FOR AN ECO SHOPPING BAG! To enter, you just need to draw or design something original. It could be anything you like. Maybe your design might capture the beauty of our planet or even promote sustainable living. Be creative and have fun!

You can pick up an entry form from your classroom teacher. Entry fee is just .50c per design. The prizes include a $30.00 Gift Card and your design printed on reusable bags!!! You can enter as many designs as you want. The competition closes at the end of the Term.

We are looking forward to seeing all of your AMAZING designs!

Any questions please see Mrs Donohoe, Mrs McCall or Miss Gauci.

From the Garden Club and the Environmental Group

Above: Samples of previous winning entries. (The blue bag was designed by Emily from ASPECT here in Alstonville.)

In Stage 3 we have been learning about the Gold Rush era. In this topic we watched a clip about life in the 1850s Goldfields: Sovereign Hill, Ballarat, Victoria. From there we could choose a topic from

that clip, e.g. housing, transportation, culture and more, but I chose to do clothing. In the picture it shows a lady’s dress who would have been in the Higher class. She would have been a bit lower than the others as of how many layers her dress has and has no puffy sleeves.

Evie Delman

STEM News with Mrs Anna Moloney & Mrs Dana Crosby

Learning about Hats of Faith

Kindergarten had some special visitors come to STEM last week, to teach us about different hats of faith. We learnt that many different hats are symbols of love for God. We look forward to zooming with Sister Anne next week!

STANDARD COLLECTION NOTICE

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The school (the Diocese both independently and through its schools) collects personal information, including sensitive information about students and parents or guardians before and during the course of a student’s enrolment at the school. This may be in writing or in the course of conversations. The primary purpose of collecting this information is to enable the school to provide schooling to the student and to enable them to take part in all the activities of the school.

2 Some of the information we collect is to satisfy the school’s legal obligations, particularly to enable the school to discharge its duty of care.

3 Laws governing or relating to the operation of a school require certain information to be collected and disclosed. These include relevant Education Acts and Public Health and Child Protection Laws.

4 Health information about students is sensitive information within the terms of the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act. We may ask you to provide medical reports about students from time to time.

5 If we do not obtain the information referred to above we may not be able to enrol or continue the enrolment of your son/daughter.

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The school from time to time discloses personal and sensitive information to others for administrative and educational purposes. This includes to other schools, government departments, the Catholic Schools Office, the Catholic Education Commission of New South Wales, your local diocese and the parish, schools within other dioceses/other dioceses, medical practitioners, and people providing services to the school, including specialist visiting teachers, (sports) coaches, volunteers and counsellors.

7 The school from time to time may also collect and disclose personal and sensitive information about current or prospective students to others if it is required to satisfy the school’s legal obligations under Part 5A of the Education Act 1990 (NSW).

8 The school may disclose and/or receive relevant personal information to/from debt collection agents and credit reporting agencies.

9 Personal information collected from students is regularly disclosed to their parents or guardians. On occasions personal information disclosed to a school counsellor may be disclosed to others who have a legal obligation to receive it without betraying a confidence. However, there will be some occasions where it is necessary to directly pass on material which relates to the wellbeing of a student of

10 Schools may also disclose information under public health and child protection laws or in circumstances where there is a serious threat to an individual’s life, health or safety.

11 The school may store personal information in the ‘cloud’ which may mean that it resides on servers which are situated outside Australia.

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Parents may seek access to personal information collected about them and their son/daughter by contacting the school principal. Students may also seek access to personal information about them. However, there will be occasions when access is denied. Such occasions would include where access would have an unreasonable impact on the privacy of others, where access may result in a breach of the school’s duty of care to the student or where students have provided information in confidence.

13 The Dioceses’ Privacy Policy also sets out how you may complain about a breach of privacy and how the school will deal with such a complaint.

14 The school from time to time engages in fundraising activities. Information received from you may be used to make an appeal to you. It may also be disclosed to organisations that assist in the school’s fundraising activities solely for that purpose. We will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent.

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On occasions, information such as academic and sporting achievements, student activities and similar news is published in school newsletters and magazines and on the school’s intranet. Photographs of student activities such as sporting events, school camps and school excursions may be taken for publication in school newsletters and magazines and on our intranet. The school will obtain separate permissions from the students’ parents or guardians prior to publication if we would like to include photographs or other identifying material in promotional material for the school or otherwise make it available to the public such as the internet.

16 If you provide the school with the personal information of others, such as doctors or emergency contacts, we encourage you to inform them that you are disclosing that information to the school and why, that they can access that information if they wish and that the school does not usually disclose the information to third parties.

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