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Tuesday 13 October 2015Tuesday 13 October 2015Tuesday 13 October 2015

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In Brief…

No assembly this week.. Even week

OCTOBER

Wednesday 21 October—Book Club

orders due

Thursday 22 October—Stage 3

Choir to Ballina Council Meeting 9am

Friday 23 October— 2.20 pm Kinder

Liturgy & Assembly in hall

Monday 26 October—Friday 30

October—Intensive Learn to Swim ES1 & S1 Students

Friday 30 October—Soctober

Liturgy @ 11.15am

NOVEMBER

Monday 2 November—Digifest 2015

entries due

Friday 13 November—S2 Mass

11.00am in the Church

Friday 13 November—Sunday 15

November—Joeys Golf trip away

Thursday 19 November—School

Disco

DECEMBER

Tuesday 1 December—School

Christmas Celebrations

Saturday 5 December—Joeys Golf

Christmas Party @ The Pioneer Tavern

Sunday 6 December—MOVIE

NIGHT from 4.30 pm

Tuesday 8 December—PSF Dinner

at Eltham Pub

Monday 14 December—2016

Swimming Carnival

Wednesday 16 December—End of

Year Whole School Mass

Wednesday 16 December—Last

day for Year 6 students

Coming Events

Messages from the Acting Principal

Dear Parents & Carers,

MEET AND GREET ON WEDNESDAY

14 OCTOBER Kinder 2016 will meet with the Year

5 students in the Hall from 9am till

11.30am tomorrow. Year 5 students have

participated in a number of training ses-

sions with Mrs Seymour to learn how to be

“Better Buddies” and are eager to put their

skills to work with next year‟s Kindergar-

ten group. The parents are invited to the

staffroom to also meet and greet. They will

learn more about the open classroom setup

at St Joseph‟s as well as navigating the

school‟s website. We will also give parents

tips for how to help with home reading

tasks to make it an enjoyable and success-

ful experience.

After meeting Zachary Binder and

Lucy Pereira (our newest St Joey‟s village

members) last week and with a new Kin-

dergarten starting soon the poem below

reminds us of how quickly our children

grow up. My „baby‟ turned 21 last week!

The Last Time Don't forget...

There is a last time for everything.

There will come a time when you will feed

your baby for the very last time.

They will fall asleep on you after a long day

and it will be the last time you ever hold

your sleeping child.

One day you will carry them on your hip,

then set them down,

And never pick them up that way again.

You will scrub their hair in the bath one

night and from that day on they will want to

bathe alone.

They will hold your hand to cross the road,

They never reach for it again.

They will creep into your room at midnight for

cuddles, and it will be the last night you ever

wake for this.

One afternoon you will sing 'the wheels on the

bus' and do all the actions, then you'll never

sing that song again.

They will kiss you goodbye at the school gate,

the next day they will ask to walk to the gate

alone.

You will read a final bedtime story and wipe

your last dirty face.

They will one day run to you with arms raised,

for the very last time.

The thing is, you won't even know it's the last

time until there are no more times, and even

then, it will take you a while to realise.

So while you are living in these times,

remember there are only so many of them and

when they are gone, you will yearn for just

one more day of them

For one last time.

Author unknown

HSIE FOCUS TERM 4 Last term in HSIE we focused on In-

donesian culture and finished the term with

cooking and Batik fabric painting. It was a

fabulous way to end the term and we had lots

of mums and grandmas come in to help out.

The HSIE focus for term 4 throughout

the school will be on a „Let‟s Celebrate‟

theme. Students will be setting goals, explor-

ing ways that people celebrate events and

achievements, the reasons behind specific

celebrations and comparing celebrations

from different cultures. The students will

revise their own goals throughout the term

and we plan to acknowledge their successes

at the end of the term through our end of

year events.

WEEK 2

Scholastic Book Fair

Friday 6 November— Wednesday 11 November

Our school will benefit with book donations from Scholastic

from the proceeds of your personal shopping. Books make great Christmas gifts!

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ACTS OF KINDNESS Congratulations to Anna Prodger and Matilda Howe

who received the Acts of Kindness Awards at assembly last

Friday for consistent kindness and generosity towards others.

WHEELCHAIR SPORTS We are lucky to have Rick Engles visit the school on

Thursday from the Wheelchair Sports Roadshow. Each stage

will view a presentation on Road Safety and participate in a

game of wheelchair basketball to give them a taste of the

sport and to experience what it is like to be in a wheelchair.

PRAC STUDENTS We are fortunate to have with us Ellen Henry in Stage 3 and

Patricia Jones in Kinder from Southern Cross University with

us for their Practicum experience (for the next few weeks).

We welcome them to our village and hope their time with us

will prove to be valuable on their journey to the teaching pro-

fession.

Michelle Bratti

And suddenly it‟s Term 4 – hard to be-

lieve! Our LAP students and tutors have

been very busy with many different activi-

ties over the past terms. This year we wel-

comed on board Michael, Carmel McK,

Donna, Veronica & Julie; all keen to give

some time to help out with our LAP programme. Unfortu-

nately, Veronica and Donna have since had to leave the

programme due to work and study commitments, but we

sincerely thank them for the time they were able to give.

We feel very lucky to have had our other new tutors join

the programme and hope that they are enjoying their time

with us. Also, we look forward to welcoming Danielle to

our team this term. Thanks for offering your help Danielle!

Our thanks, as always, to our seasoned tutors, Carmel K,

Gabbie, Louise, and Glen. We also send our thanks to

Sarah McG and Vaughan S who helped out with the pro-

gramme earlier in the year in Term 2.

We are always ready to welcome more tutors on board, as

we have a number of students waiting to join the pro-

gramme. So if you, or someone you know, have an hour to

spare each week and would enjoy working with our won-

derful students, please contact the school and we will be

happy to provide more information about this great pro-

gramme.

Finally I would like to share some of our LAP Snaps from

previous weeks to showcase the different activities our

young LAP-ers are enjoying. Our students gain so much

from the programme and keenly look forward to their LAP

sessions each week.

Looking forward to bringing you more LAP news

Jennifer Slattery LAP Co-ordinator

Congratulations to the following children who received

Awards at the last week’s assembly.

Joseph Price, Verity Paulsen, Matthew Bell, Alyssa Wil-

son, Ethan Robb, Cohen Duncan, Zara Corkery, Anthony

Bell, Milly Paulsen, Aliyah Tamlin, Niamh Thompson,

Sarah Fivaz, Damon Dwyer, Mary Parry, Lucas Woolven,

Holly Oates, Ryan Alley, Sophie Price, Anna Prodger,

Caitlyn Baxter, Rani Hogan-Sporne & Murray Fivaz.

Children’s Sunday Liturgy Sunday 18 October: Rochelle Penhey Sharron Lloyd & Margie Kelly

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The following children have celebrated their birthday since our

last Newsletter:

Ruby Parker & Danyan Jones

Happy Birthday from all of Happy Birthday from all of Happy Birthday from all of us at St Joeysus at St Joeysus at St Joeys

ALTAR SERVERS ROSTER Saturday 17 October: Tamara Pavez, Josh McWilliam, Katerina Pavez, Andrew Payne, Grace McWilliam Sunday 18 October: Matthew Benecke, Maddelyn Benecke, Jack O’Toole, Molly O’Toole & Danny O’Toole

Jumping Joeys Playgroup

Each Tuesday during School Terms

9.30am-11.00am Come and dance, sing, play with dough, read a story

and do craft with us. All pre-schoolers are welcome

with their Mum, Dad or

Carer. Please bring the

children a snack, drink

bottle and a gold coin

donation to cover craft.

Contact: Libby Spash

0411 271 243

MATHS CHALLENGE Sport News

Using each of 1, 2, 3,4, 5, and 6

once and only once, fill in the

circles so that the sums of the

numbers on each side of the three

sides of the triangle are equal.

Ten white and ten red discs are

lined up as shown.

Switching just two adjacent discs at a time, what is the least

number of moves you can make to achieve the white, red,

white red, …. arrangement shown here? Explain the strate-

gy you used to solve the problem.

Richmond Zone Summer Sports Trials A number of students from St Joseph‟s Alstonville will be

participating in the Richmond Zone Summer Trials in Touch

Football, Softball, Basketball, Cricket and Tennis at various

venues around Lismore on Thursday 29 October 2015

(Term 4 , Week 4) commencing at 4.00pm. (Back Up Date

Thursday 5 November 2015).

Parents will need to organise their child‟s transport to and

from the venue. Children participating at this level will need

to wear appropriate clothing for their sport (cricketers are to

bring their own ball and all necessary protective gear – hel-

met ,protector etc ) and have appropriate sun protection. It is

also advisable that they bring their own drink bottle.

Wheelchair Sports NSW Roadshow This coming Thursday 15 October the Wheelchair Sports

Roadshow will be visiting St Joseph‟s Alstonville. The

Roadshow is an exciting, informative and interactive display

of wheelchair sports. Costing for this presentation is $1.80

per student.

The program consists of a 20 minute presentation on Road

Safety and the consequences of taking risks, disability sport

and living with a disability. The talk will be made more

powerful by the fact that the presenters can explain first hand

what life is like living in a wheelchair.

A 40 minute game of wheelchair basketball with the students

will give them a taste of wheelchair sport plus an idea of

what it is like to be in a wheelchair, if only for a short time!

The program is innovative, thought provoking and interac-

tive. It will give the students a powerful talk on the conse-

quences of taking risks by using personal stories. It will also

give the students an understanding of disability sport and the

“abilities” of people with a disability.

Infants Swimming Program Students in Kindergarten, Year One and Year Two will all

be involved in a 5-day Swim & Survive Programme at the

Summit Sports Centre Goonellabah. This program will com-

mence on Monday 26 October (Week 4). A letter regarding

this was sent home today. Please ensure payment for this

compulsory activity has been made before Wednesday 21

October.

Paddy Wilde—Sports Co-ordinator

Joey's Golf is this Sunday (18 October) at

Lismore Golf Course. Tee-Off is 7:15am.

Meet at the Pioneer Tavern at 6:15am if

you wish to car pool.

Also a reminder that the Dad's Golf weekend away to the

Gold Coast is Friday 13th November until Sunday 15

November. Golf on Friday will be at Tweed Heads Golf

Course and Saturday is yet to be confirmed. Numbers for

accommodation will need to be confirmed and a $100 depos-

it paid shortly.Thanks.

Joey's Golf Committee.

Joeys Golf News

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Canteen News Wednesday Specials…. Rice Paper Rolls $6.00

Fish & oven baked Chips $4.20 Ham & Cheese Croissants $3.00

Student $3.50 Adult $4.50

PRICE INCREASE Please note, there has been a price increase on all pies and sausages rolls from our supplier, therefore we have had to pass on the increase to you effective Wednesday 14 October. The new price for these items are:- Mini Meat Pie $2.50 Meat Pie $3.80

Sausage Roll $3.00

CANTEEN HELPERS There are a number of gaps on the Canteen Roster. If you could assist in the Canteen on any one of these days, it would be very much appreciated. Friday 30 October Friday 6 November Wednesday 11 November Wednesday 18 November Wednesday 25 November Wednesday 9 December Wednesday 16 December

Leanne Harris

CANTEEN ROSTER Open Wednesday & Friday

Leanne Harris Coordinator Ph 66281990

Date Duty Starts at 9.00am Healthy Snack Donation

Wednesday 14 October

Nerida Woolley Janine Duncan

Friday 16 October

Denise Robinson Janelle Woods

Wednesday 21 October

Kerry Dougherty Jane Kent

School Banking at St Joseph’s Primary School!

St Joseph‟s Primary School participates in the Com-

monwealth Bank School Banking program. The

program provides children with an opportunity to

make deposits into their personal Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver

account at school each week. The program is about how often your

child makes deposits, not how much they deposit.

To encourage regular savings behaviour the program offers an excit-

ing Rewards Program. Every deposit of any amount earns your child

a Dollarmites token. Once they‟ve collected 10 tokens they can re-

deem them for a reward. The Outer Space Savers rewards for 2015

include a handball, ET on DVD, Intergalactic Rocket, Glow-in-the

Dark Solar System, Invisible Ink Martian Pen, Money Box and Gal-

axy Glider!

When your child makes their first deposit at school they will earn

their first Dollarmites token and our school will also receive $5 com-

mission, as well as 5% commission for every deposit made at school.

The Commonwealth Bank will be holding an account opening ses-

sion at our school on Wednesday, 28 October at 8.30am.

If you are interested in opening a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver

account for your child please come along to this session and bring

along your driver‟s licence or another form of photographic identifi-

cation. Alternatively, you can open an account at any branch; by

calling 13 22 21 or online if you are an existing Commonwealth

Bank customer.

School Banking Day at St Joseph‟s Primary School is on Wednes-

day. Thank you for supporting our school and helping teach your

child the benefits of saving regularly.

RA MATERNITY HOSPITAL, FIJI A huge thank you to our wonderful school com-

munity for your generous donations to the hospi-

tal in Fiji. At the end of last term the goods were

boxed up ready to go to Gymea in Sydney ready to be

shipped.

This could not have happened without the generosity of Mr

Kerry Howe (Matilda, S2) who arranged for Flynn's

Transport to truck the boxes to Sydney. The challenge

arose when the boxes had to then travel almost another 60

kms from the depot in Wetherill Park to Gymea. This in-

curred a fee. Through the magic of Kerry the goods ar-

rived in Gymea safe and sound ready for the container

bound for Fiji. Several phone calls between Kerry, Fr Bri-

an in Gymea, and myself made this happen and I cannot

thank Kerry enough for his time and expertise otherwise

this social justice activity would not have hap-

pened. Thank you for your contribution to our village Ker-

ry and to someone else's village in Fiji.

Lyn Rowling - Values and Missions

SOCKTOBER Many parents should have had the strange request

from their child over the weekend that went some-

thing like this: “Mrs Rowling said we have to bring in

a sock and a peg to raise money for kids in Madagas-

car to have clean water”.

Yes, here we are at Socktober, a Catholic Missions initiative which

focuses on raising awareness in children of the plight of others who

are less fortunate than ourselves in other nations.

At assembly last Friday the students viewed a short DVD presenta-

tion about the lack of sanitation in a school in Madagascar and how

our donations can assist the children who are dying from preventa-

ble diseases due to contaminated water and lack of education

around personal hygiene etc.

Our school community is going to be doing the following:

Forming a sock “clothesline” in our classrooms so children can

place their coins and donations in. These sock lines will form

part of our liturgy in Week 4 and symbolise us working together

to Sock Out Poverty.

On Friday 23 October we will be having a Crazy Sock Day

where the students may wear socks of various kinds in various

ways with their uniform for a gold coin donation.

On the same day we will be holding a “Rock Your Socks Off”

lunchtime dance party in the hall for anyone who is interested.

The Social Justice team will be assisting with a Crazy Sock Col-

ouring Design Competition . The goal for our school is $500. This is only $2.50 per child. Do

you think we can reach that or surpass it? A Socktober liturgy will be held on Friday, 30 October in the hall

at 11.15am. Please join us on this day.

More Sock News next newsletter.

Lyn Rowling / Values and Missions