ST JOSEPH’S PRIMARY SCHOOL TRAFALGAR

Independent, collaborative And innovative learners

Newsletter No. 14 31st August 2018

Dear Families, We are very grateful for the Religious Education Conference that the staff attended last week.

Mr Paul Spence from the Archdiocese of Melbourne lead our staff and we stayed at the Mary MacKillop Centre in East Melbourne. It was a great opportunity for us to develop positive relationships with each other so that ultimately we can work together particularly well and deliver the best learning opportunities for our students.

Staff outside ACU Melbourne with the statue of Mary MacKillop - 2018 First Holy Communion

This weekend a number of our Gr 4 students will receive the Sacrament of Eucharist for the first time at mass at 6pm on Saturday. We remember these children: Lucy Cathomen, Sieanna Paul, Jye Lister, Isabella Brown, Josh Upston, Blake Dunston, Justyce Word and Matt Balfour, and pray for their families at this time. We will have a special celebratory morning tea on Tuesday with the children and the staff at school at 11am.

Pasta Lunch We thoroughly enjoyed our pasta lunch on Wednesday. Thanks to Jane, Fran, Lauren and Rosie for preparing this for us. We raised over $200 from this fundraiser and it was de-licious! Emergency Practice Procedures

Each term we practise our emergency procedures to make sure that we all feel comfortable and know what to do in the case of an emergency. On Tuesday, we practised a ‘Lockdown Procedure’ when the students were outside playing. When the emergency alarm sounded, the students came into the school buildings and remained inside until the all clear was given. The students and teachers reacted calmly and completed the practice in an orderly fashion. You might like to talk to your child about the importance of listening to instructions when you hear the emergency siren. Safety continues to be paramount in our school. Father’s Day Stall

A big thank you to Jane, Lauren, Kylee, Melissa Nardone and Melissa Lister for organising and running our stall this year. The students love going shopping for Dad at school. Your help is very much appreciated.

58 Waterloo Road, Trafalgar 3824 Ph. 03 56331151 E: office@trafalgar.catholic.edu.au Website: www.trafalgar.catholic.edu.au

Father’s Day

We thank God for our Dads and we appreciate that they play a very important role in our families. On Monday September 3rd we will gather at school at 8am for a special breakfast with our Dads and at 9am we will celebrate a liturgy in the Mary MacKillop room. We hope you can join us. Order forms (attached to newsletter) for breakfast have already been sent home. To get into the special feeling of this day we are encouraging children to come dressed as their Dad to school on Monday. There is no donation

required and the breakfast is free. Trafalgar Football / Netball Club. Trafalgar Senior Football Club will be playing in the Grand final on Saturday September 8th and the A grade Netball team is playing this weekend in the Preliminary Final. We have asked our very talented footballers and netballers to come and run lunchtime clinics for us next week. At this stage I am still waiting to know which day this will be. As soon as I know I will let the community know. The children could wear their PE uniform this day. We wish our local club all the best in the finals. Melbourne Writer’s Festival

Yesterday four of our talented writers attended a writer’s workshop in Melbourne. Adele Diwell-Fowler, Justyce Word, Ciele Towb and Stella Chapman participated in 3 workshops. We thank Anne, Adam, Lauren and Mick who went with the students. At St Joseph’s we strive to be our best and this is an example of further developing our talents. Police Parenting Night

On Wednesday September 5th our local Police are running a Parenting Night at our school at 6pm till 7.30pm. We will start with wine and cheese at 6pm and the presentation will start at 6.30. Our police officers are happy to answer our questions. Topics included: Family and Home Safety, Cyber Safety. We aim to support each other in our very important roles of parenting. Please feel especially welcome to attend and bring a friend. Everyone is welcome. Please see the attached flyer. School Raffle We were lucky enough to win a UHU glue stick competition. We won $1,000 in vouchers and we are using the vouchers as prizes for our school raffle. First prize is $500 in travel vouchers, Second prize is $300 in travel vouchers and Third prize is $100 in travel vouchers. A raffle book has been sent home and we are encouraging everyone to try and sell the tickets. The raffle books need to be returned whether they are sold or not as we have to account for each ticket. There is a prize in each grade for the student who sells the most amount of tickets. The raffle will be drawn after the Fun Run on Friday October 26th. May God continue to bless and guide us in our work.

Trish Mulqueen Principal

We take First Aid seriously at St Joseph’s

and we will call you or your emergency contacts should any incident arise that needs

further medical attention. It is timely to encourage you to update these

contact numbers and any Asthma and Allergy/Anaphylaxis Plans, along with new

photos of your child; (plans are to be updated every 12 – 18months). In addition, if

your child needs medication at school, we require you to complete our ‘Permission to distribute medication’ form with our office

staff. Thank you

St John’s Parish: St Vincent de Paul Society Contact – Marie Somerville

Phone: 0409 790 540

https://www.vinnies.org.au/

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

SEPTEMBER Sat 1st Sacrament of Eucharist – St John’s 6pm Mon 3rd Father’s Day breakfast 8am and Father’s Day Liturgy 9am Wed 5th Parenting Night – wine and cheese 6pm (Family and home safety) Thur 6th Grade 6 Service Prog. 2.15 – 3.15pm Frid 7th Rugby Touch Football Workshop G3/4/5/6 2pm Wed 12th West Gipps. Athletics Carnival Joe Carmody Track *rescheduled Cooking with Rosie G 5/6 Thur 13th & 14thGrade 4 Camp Mill Valley Ranch Frid 14th Rugby Touch Football Workshop G 3/5/6 2pm Mon 17th School Advisory Com. Meeting 5pm Tues 18th Andrew Chin – Music Workshop Whole School Wed 19th Cooking with Rosie G 5/6 Thur 20th Grade 3 Sleepover Sport Dress up day & Hot Dog Lunch Fri 21st Last Day of Term 1pm Finish

NOVEMBER Nov Mon 5th Report Writing Day – No School Tues 6th Melbourne Cup Day – No School

DECEMBER Thur 6th Marist Sion Orientation Day Mon 17th Grade 6 Graduation

A Father’s Day Breakfast will be held this Monday 8am

and we are seeking helpers to cook and serve.

Thank you

PHOTOS FROM OUR

SCHOOL COMMUNITY

Colin and the kids working on our ‘Cheer me

up chair’ – Thanks Colin for all you do!

Elly assisting as a reading helper – ‘Thanks

Elly for your time and commitment, we enjoy

you listening to us!’

Thanks Mrs Grass for sharing Polly with us

all!

Our new furniture – put to good use !

Our Grade 3/4 class making Eucharist Bread

End of Term Three – Buses A reminder that buses will run from 1.45pm on our last day of Term 3. If you want to collect your child at 1pm and NOT catch the bus this day, please let

our office staff know in advance. Thank you

‘Father’s Day is a wonderful

opportunity to reflect on how men

shape the lives of their children.’ –

Michael Gross Father to father:

7 tips for fathering success

Father to Father - 7 tips to parenting success - Michael Gross