It was wonderful to see so many mothers and grandmothers (and a few dads too!) at the

Mother’s Day Mass and morning tea last week. Thank you for your attendance and to the

P&F for providing the macaroons.

The P&F meeting held in the afternoon was fairly well attended. Alternative sports shirts

were presented and options discussed. Consultation concerning these will continue. See the

attached P&F minutes for other items of discussion.

Mrs Thom has constructed a website known as a Weebly. The St Joseph’s Weebly contains

class pages that the teachers are developing to support the children’s learning. It also

contains support pages for Mathematics and Library. Much of the information contained in

last week’s EMU presentation is contained in the Mathematics support page. Children from

Kindergarten to Year 6 are concentrating on Maths games for homework that support their

conceptual development in Place Value.

The canteen will be online for lunch orders from June 1st. If you haven't yet registered with

Schools24, it would be a good idea to do so as soon as possible. More details inside.

Children are now required to be wearing the full winter school uniform. Please ensure your

child is wearing the correct uniform. Summer uniform returns in Term 4.

A Staff Development Day is planned for June 5th. If you require supervision for your child

you must contact the school office by the end of this week.

My door is always open if you have any questions or concerns.

Michael Gallagher

Principal’s Message

I n s i d e t h i s

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RE News

Curriculum News

2

Library News

School News

Canteen News

3

Student Awards

Office News

Important Dates

4

Sunday’s Gospel Reflection

St Joseph’s Newsletter 1 3 t h M a y , 2 0 1 5 W e e k 4 , T e r m 2

S p e c i a l p o i n t s

o f i n t e r e s t :

P&F Minutes attached NAPLAN this week Years 3&5 Full Winter School

Uniform St Joseph’s Weebly website

Then he told them:

Go and preach the good news to everyone in the world. Anyone who believes me and is baptized will

be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe me will be condemned. Everyone who believes me will

be able to do wonderful things. By using my name they will force out demons, and they will speak

new languages. They will handle snakes and will drink poison and not be hurt. They will also heal sick

people by placing their hands on them.

After the Lord Jesus had said these things to the disciples, he was taken back up to heaven where he

sat down at the right side of God. Then the disciples left and preached everywhere. The Lord was with

them, and the miracles they worked proved that their message was true.

Mark 16:15-20

The Ascension of the Lord

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Catholic

Schools in the

Diocese of

Broken Bay

exist to

educate and

form young

people in

Catholic

discipleship:

offering them

experiences of

following

Jesus as

members of

the Catholic

community.

Religious Education News

Family Mass Our next Whole School Parish Family Mass is just around the corner. This special celebration, which is being led by Year Three and Year Four classes will be held on Saturday 23rd May at 5:30pm. As this is our celebration of Pentecost, it would be lovely to see as many people join our Mass wearing red! Pull out your favourite red jumper or long sleeved shirt to join in the spirit. We look forward to seeing many families in attendance and sharing in this special celebration of our faith. Sacrament of Eucharist Children within our school community continue on their journey toward making their Sacrament of Eucharist. This week’s focus is around the connections that we can make in Eucharist to the Jewish Passover, The Last Supper and Life-Death-Resurrection. May we join them at this special time in their faith formation, by sharing in a family meal at home. Maybe you could give a few of these ideas a try; Treat the family meal table as special place, using beautiful plates or cutlery. Create a calming mood at the meal table by using candles as light. Arrange one or more symbols in the centre of the table, for example a cross, cup, and vase

of flowers or bread. Stef Thom Religious Education Coordinator

Curriculum News Well it’s NAPLAN time – again (bit like Groundhog Day really!!!). Year 3 and 5 students are undertaking NAPLAN this week and yesterday they completed the writing and language conventions component. It is a criterion-referenced test that shows what children can do and enables standards of performance to be compared from year to year.

NAPLAN is only one form of assessment but analysing the data that it provides is a valuable professional development opportunity for classroom teachers. It provides the school with an overview of current achievements of this particular group of children and gives a comprehensive understanding of their performance. Along with other forms of assessment it can be used to help with whole school planning. It also shows the growth that each student achieves from Year 3 to Year 5 and in the last couple of years we have also been given access to our past students Year 7 results.

Careful analysis of NAPLAN results can help schools to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses for students. This can help determine future programming decisions for the whole school.

Brenda Paul Assistant Principal

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Library News

REMINDERS!

3 WEEKS until ALL LUNCH orders need to be placed online! June 1st deadline. Children MUST have a Sticky Beaks Lunch bag (unless they’re in Year 6). Otherwise please write out a paper bag order and send it in with your child. We can see that an order has been placed online thus the no cash in their bag. Bags need to be returned to the classroom or canteen for their next canteen order. Items on the menu can not be changed and no substitutions made.

The Canteen is in need of some no longer used silverware - spoons, forks, knives. Feel free to drop them off at the canteen at any time.

New Menu Item! 2 Minute Noodles - Beef or Chicken flavour will be available starting Friday! This is another hot option for your child to have during some of the colder days. (Please note that the hot water will be discarded before your child is given the cup. We don’t want anyone to get burned.)

Next week we will have Meat Pies! All natural Aussie Beef pies will be in stock as an option for your child. Served with or without Tomato sauce.

School News

PRC: During Library this week Kindergarten enjoyed Grandpa and Thomas (Book id 12292) and Stage 1 followed Little Cat’s bus journey in Little Cat and the big red bus (Book id 54033). These can be added to your child’s Premier’s Reading Challenge online log. Redgum Book Club: All orders for this must be in by next Monday 18th May. Remember you order these online. Do not send orders to school. Helpers: The Library is in need of helpers to shelve books. If you have a spare 10-15 mins on a Monday or Tuesday morning at 9am, or on a Monday or Tuesday afternoon before pick up at 2.45-3pm your help would be greatly appreciated. Fran Jones Teacher/Librarian

St Joseph’s Weebly Weebly is a web-hosted service, that allows teachers to drag-and-drop to create a website, that is interactive and contains different online/multimedia objects that link to their class learning. Our St Joseph’s Weebly is accessible from both PC and handheld devices such as iPads, Tablets and iPhones. To access the school’s Weebly you simply have to enter the following information; URL- www.stjosephsnarrabeen.weebly.com

Password- joseph We ask that the password is not shared with those outside our learning community for privacy reasons. The St Joseph’s Weebly will be updated and added to throughout the term, so ensure that you take time to check in with your child from time to time. The Weebly offers a range of online learning tasks that are aimed at a variety of learning levels through links to Studyladder, Spelling City and other interactive tasks. If you have any further questions or queries please do not hesitate to ask.

Canteen News

Students of the Week

Important Dates

W e e k 4 , T e r m 2 P a g e 4

Kindergarten

Mathew F: for a great job in his language lesson. Alicia L: for trying harder to

listen in group time.

Year 1

Harper T: for working hard to improve her writing. Rohan Massey: for always applying himself to tasks given.

Year 2

Abi B: for her ability to settle arguments quietly. Ethan B: for working quietly and doing his best.

Year 3

Aaliyah V: for her safe and caring nature toward all she meets. Amber C: for her outstanding problem solving of ‘Hard Thinking’ with Multiplication.

Year 4

Ollie B: for his efforts

visualising what he is reading.

Charlotte T: for hard work

during writing.

Year 5

Mau A: for being organised and

helpful in Mother’s Day

activities.

Sofia M: for being organised and helpful in Mother’s Day activities.

Year 6

Kynan F: for enthusiastically

applying himself to the

science tasks.

Abby N: for always being on

task to complete her work

well.

St. Lucy’s Startright 1 Rachel S: for working well in Maths groups. Ashley D: for participating in Drama. Startright 2 Brendan W: for excellent improvement in letter and number recognition.

Office News

Term 2 Saturday 23rd May Whole School Family Mass at 5.30pm

Friday 29th May School Disco

Friday 5th June Staff Development Day ( Pupil Free )

Monday 8th June Queen’s Birthday Holiday

Friday 26th June Last day of Term 2

School Term Calendar Correction

ALF Regional Final (Centennial Park) states 21/5

Correct date is 28/5

We would love to come to the Glow in the Dark Disco, enclosed is

$ 10 per person for our Family Name _______________________________________

Childs Name Class ______________________

Childs Name Class ______________________

Childs Name Class ______________________

Please give this slip to your teacher, in an envelope with the money. Thanks

Dress up in your favourite fluro outfit

Friday May 29th

All Years from 6pm - 8pm

Ticket $10 Includes : slice of pizza, bottle of water & glow stick

Important Information: All children must be accompanied by an adult. No kiss and drop permitted.

108 Ocean Street, Narrabeen NSW 2101 Telephone: 9913 3766 Facsimile: 9970 7627

ABN: 71 921 607 268 Email: sjn@dbb.catholic.edu.au

Parents & Friends Association

Meeting Minutes – Thursday, 7 May 2015

Meeting Commenced: 2 pm

1. Welcome - Michelle Grice

2. Opening Prayer - General “Take Time - ‘There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven’ Ecclesiastes 3:1”

3. In Attendance -

Executive Committee: Michael Gallagher, Michelle Grice, Emma Cassidy, Catherine Strbik Rita Auer, Sally Miles, Sarah Ross, Katie Page, Emma Crossley, Vanessa Hill, Nichole Cook, Rebecca Pomponio, Bern Clarke Apologies – Caroline Hinson, Fiona Kelly, Desiree Larizza, Phoebe Custer, Donné Tizzard

4. Minutes from previous meeting – General

Adopted: Nicole Cook Seconded: Katie Page

5. President’s Report – Michelle Grice

Mother’s Day – Beautiful Mass to celebrate, great attendance.

School Disco – Next fundraiser, to be held on Friday, 29 May. Manu Barlow and Simone Hinshelwood assisting with organisation. Disco has a ‘Glow’ theme. Hall decorations and WH&S report also generally discussed.

6. Secretary’s Report - Catherine Strbik

Nil to discuss

7. Treasurer’s Report - Tabled by Michael Gallagher on behalf of Caroline Hinson

Report attached. Michael reported that money made last year, current year to have limited fundraising. Discussed the $1000 overstanding from Clothing sales. Emma Crossley following up outstanding monies; additionally, mentioned the value of introducing on-line sales for clothing to avoid further issues. Michael agreed after Canteen established.

8. Principal’s Report - Michael Gallagher

Mother’s Day Mass – Amazing Mother’s Day Mass with Coffee Van following successful, any further feedback welcome. Michelle Grice passed on thanks to the School, on behalf of the P&F, for funding the Coffee Van.

Father Joseph - Welcomed Father Joseph, discussed his background and his positive values in relation to parental involvement with Children’s education.

St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School

Narrabeen

108 Ocean Street, Narrabeen NSW 2101 Telephone: 9913 3766 Facsimile: 9970 7627

ABN: 71 921 607 268 Email: sjn@dbb.catholic.edu.au

Deacon David – Deacon David has been allocated to support Manly/Freshwater. Morning Tea being held by the school on 27 May to recognise his wonderful contribution over the years to the St Joseph’s School community. Discussed acknowledgement by P&F.

School Community Awards – Four values to deepen in the school community. Current Value awards for ‘Respect’ presented at Mother’s Day Mass.

School Board – Described the purpose of the School Board, being to assist the Principal with supporting the mission goal; Faith, Community, Together. There are nine members with Father Joseph replacing Father Michael. Peter Rafferty, who assisted with the initial set up, is returning to discuss progress. The Board were involved with the welcome of St Lucy’s to St Joseph’s and are currently finalising their Statement of Purpose.

Enrolments – 29 enrolment applications received for Kindergarten 2016 (14 siblings). Enrolment interviews are currently being conducted.

Homework Survey – Survey completed last term, feedback received was varied. The next stage of the process involves consideration of the differing perspectives, along with input from Teachers and current research, with a proposal then forwarded to parents for comment. Sought feedback from Sarah Ross in relation to high school readiness, positive feedback provided. General discussion held about a consistent homework approach.

EMU Information Evening - Reported to be very valuable and a successful, well supported, evening. Further information provided on the School Weebly Website. Further evening information sessions to be conducted; such as, Gifted and Talented, Cyber Safety and Literacy information (targeting Kinder and Year 1). Information sessions relative to DPC focus of parental involvement.

Recognition – Thank you to new P&F Committee, Sub-Committees members and DPC representatives. Special thanks passed on to Katie Page for her great work with the Canteen.

9. Sub-Committee Member’s Reports:

Canteen – Katie Page On-line ordering is progressing well; additionally, the Sticky Beak bags for lunch orders are a huge success and following lunch are returning to the canteen as required. Katie also explained that new food items are being explored, particularly hot food for the colder months. Michael Gallagher explained that from 1 June the School will take over the payment of Canteen accounts from the School 24 funds, replacing payment by the P&F.

Clothing Pool – Michael Gallagher presented different options for the replacement sports shirt to the meeting, general discussion followed. Michael explained that it would be good to have a new option available for purchase for the 2016 Kindergarten children, though emphasised that any change would be phased in to limit unnecessary purchase of new uniforms and that a wide consultation would be undertaken before any replacement chosen. Further action required.

Diocesan Parent Council (DPC) – Katie Page Explanation of how the overall DPC focus is on the provision of tools to assist with parental engagement. It was noted that having knowledge for parents to be involved is in line with Father Joseph’s desire for parents to be active in child’s learning. The next DPC meeting will be attended by Donné Tizzard on 21 May 2015.

10. General Business

Trivia Night and other events – Michelle Grice Discussed a proposed date, being Saturday, 31 October 2015, and theme of “Halloween” for Trivia Night – date not confirmed. Agreed fundraising not a focus though will still have Class Art Work Auctions and will also auction a signed Sea Eagles jersey that has been donated to the School.

Proposed options for replacement sports shirt – See Clothing Pool Sub-Committee report.

108 Ocean Street, Narrabeen NSW 2101 Telephone: 9913 3766 Facsimile: 9970 7627

ABN: 71 921 607 268 Email: sjn@dbb.catholic.edu.au

Next P&F Meeting date – General discussion. Next meeting: Thursday, 30 July 2015, 9 AM.

Mother’s Day – Katie Page Reported the positive feedback received from the providers of the coffee following the Mother’s Day Mass.

Celebration of Sacraments – Michael Gallagher The Board has expressed a desire to have an event for children celebrating their Sacraments. Father Joseph has agreed that on the last Thursday of Term a whole School Mass will be held with the children able to dress up again in their Communion outfits and celebrate this positive achievement with the School community.

Meeting Closed: 2.55 pm

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