Friday, September 4, 2015

Dear Parents and Friends, Next week is Queensland Child Protection Week, and will mark the beginning of our whole school implementation of the Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum, a series of nine lessons focusing on protective behaviours, cybersafety and identifying our safety networks. We will also be engaging students and parents in a number of workshops over the coming week to support the important safety messages of this curriculum. As part of this important week, on Tuesday we will host the combined P and F and School Board initiative – a parent workshop on cybersafety, presented by Senior Constable Nigel Dalton. This presentation will be highly valuable to all parents, with research indicating that parents who are proactive in learning about digital technology and responsible use having a significant impact on their children developing good habits to support them as they grow and interact in the digital world. The workshop will run from 6-7.30pm in the Library, with drinks and nibbles provided. Over the past few weeks we have been breaking open the three key messages in the curriculum: Recognise, React, Report. This week we will explore the final key message of the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum: report. REPORT We encourage children to REPORT when they have been in a situation that is unsafe or recognised the signs of feeling unsafe. In this phase, they are taught to report what has happened to an adult. Even if a child has been able to make themselves safe, it is vital that they still report what has happened. Adults need to know about unsafe situations so that some action can be taken to help the child be safe again or ensure it doesn’t happen again. Students are encouraged to make a list of adult safety helpers. These are adults the children nominate whom they can talk to when they are feeling unsafe or have experienced an unsafe situation or feel they are at risk of something that may cause them harm. This list will include a selection of adults who live in and outside the home.

Report also includes telling an adult about unsafe or inappropriate incidents which may occur when children or young people are online. This might occur when surfing the net or using social media sites like Facebook and Instagram, and can include cyberbullying, viewing or receiving inappropriate images or messages or communicating with unknown contacts.

It is important that the key safety messages of the Daniel Morcombe Child Safety Curriculum: Recognise, React and Report are reinforced, both at school and home. I encourage you, wherever possible, to talk with your child about safety to help them stay safe now and in the future.

TUCKSHOP Just a reminder that the new Tuckshop days are Thursday and Friday each week. The Tuckshop will be closed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. ANDREW CHINN CONCERT – FRIDAY 11 at 1.20pm A school favourite of ours, Andrew Chinn, will be visiting St Joseph’s next Friday 11 September. Andrew will engage all students in music workshops throughout the day, including working with our new choir. He will then perform a concert at 1.20pm for our school community. All families and friends are welcome to join us for this great event.

Prep R Levi Savage

For your responsible behaviour while we were on our Stripey Excursion. It was wonderful to see you having fun dancing and singing during the show.

Prep W Lily Byrnand-Trappes For taking a risk and proving to yourself that you can do it. Your self-confidence is riding high! Well done Lily!

1B Lucie Barrett For your impressive narrative you wrote and then published into a digital picture book all by yourself. Fabulous work Lucie.

1E Susie Sun For your enthusiastic and cheerful approach to all your work. Well done Susie.

2D Tess Radke For the amazing effort you put into producing quality written work each week. Fantastic Tess.

2S Brayden Nemitz For working so hard on your handwriting. You have shown great improvement. Keep up the fabulous work Brayden!

3R Nyah Anderson You are such a blessing to have in class. You are a quiet achiever who always listens well and is focused in class. Thank you Nyah for your great efforts this week.

3RM Zac Jesinowski For being prepared and ready to learn each day. You are a great role model in our class.

4B Orlando Corrie For your enthusiastic approach to your persuasive letter writing. Your use of persuasive language and ‘bossy words’ is fantastic.

4CF Ethan Haddow For the maturity you have shown when practicing for the eisteddfod. Thank you Ethan.

5D Kadence Fricke For her amazing and inspiring oral presentation about Nick Vujicic. I am very proud of your effort and enthusiasm to the tasks. Well done Kadence!

5H Liam Heywood For being a kind and considerate friend to all of your classmates and a responsible student in 5H. Thank you Liam.

6B Jesika Lett For your motivation and organisation with your major assessment pieces.

6GG James Neivandt For being so efficient in your approach to all your assessment tasks.

MJR AWARD Cooper Bell For taking pride in our school and tidying the school oval. Thank you.

IMPORTANT DATES

SEPTEMBER

8 Combined Board and P and F Parent Cybersafety Workshop 6 - 7.30pm 7-11 Child Safety Week

11 Andrew Chinn Visit 14-18 Yr 6 Melbourne Excursion 18 END TERM 3

OCTOBER 5 Labour Day Public Holiday 6 FIRST DAY TERM 4

LITURGY NEWS: 7/8: Father’s Day Liturgy: 6GG 8.40am 11/9: Mass 2D & 5H Midday 18/9: 1B Mercy Liturgy 8.40am Mass PR & Year 6’s Midday

ST JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC PARISH OF NORTH MACKAY & NORTHERN BEACHES SACRAMENTAL PROCESS 2015 / 2016

Preparation for the Sacraments of

Reconciliation (First Confession), Confirmation First Eucharist (First Holy Communion)

Family Workshop 2: Eucharist Sunday 13 September 10am or Wednesday 16 September 7pm

For further details, contact Parish Office 4957 4855 Monday to Friday 9:00am – 12:00pm.

Andrew Chinn Concert Appearing at St Joseph’s School Hall, Friday 11th September Whole School concert 1.25pm to 2:40pm ALL WELCOME

FATHER’S DAY

Happy Father’s Day to all our St Joseph’s fathers and grandfathers. We hope you have a wonderful day on Sunday.

SCHOOL FEES

School fees for Term 3 are now OVERDUE.

If you have not received your account please contact the office. We would like to thank those families who have paid. It would be appreciated, if you have not finalised your account, to attend to this matter as soon as possible. If you are experiencing difficulties, please contact Di on 4957 3355.

CENTREPAY

St Joseph’s is now registered to accept Centrepay deposits to help pay for school fees. Centrepay is a free bill-paying service offered to customers receiving Centrelink payments. Through Centrepay you can choose to pay bills by having a regular amount deducted from your payments and transferred electronically to the school at no extra cost to you. Please call the office if you would like more information on this service.

WOOLWORTHS EARN & LEARN This year we will be participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Through this program we will be able to get new educational resources for our school/early learning centre – and all we need you to do is shop for your groceries at Woolworths. From Wednesday 15th July to Tuesday 8th September, we are collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers. You will get one Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker for every $10 spent (excluding liquor, tobacco and gift cards). Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and when it’s complete, the Sticker Sheet can be dropped into the Collection Box here at the school or at your local Woolworths. At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and offers lots of items ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, Science and some fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, Sport and for our library. If you’d like to know more visit woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn

TUCKSHOP NEWS

TUCKSHOP ROSTER

Thurs 10th September Nyomi Davidson, Kyllie Zeglio, Melanie Kay

Friday 11th September Kylee Kister, Anne Fehlhaber, Kate Wilschut, Jackie Hansen

HOMEBAKE ROSTER

Thurs 10th September Belinda Edgerton, Alicia Wardrop

Friday 11th September Lynnie Harris, Anne Fehlhaber, Cindy Searle

TUCKSHOP NEWS A huge thank you to our volunteers who have opened our tuckshop this week. The new menu seems to be a success. Today, we have had parents using the old menu and pricing. Please order from the NEW MENU only. It can be found on our website and facebook page and will also be at the end of this newsletter. Also, when placing an order through flexischools please order your child’s drink with the food order to save yourself transaction fees. EG. Lunch – Order your pie and popper on the same order and AFTERNOON TEA – Slice and popper on same order. Kindest Regards, Nyomi Davidson. 0404 057 678 Nyomidavidson@icloud.com

TOUCH

St Joseph’s Tornados V Fitz Red Rovers 3.30pm Field 7

NETBALL GRAND FINAL 13C St Joseph’s Topaz 11.45am 13D St Joseph’s Diamonds 8.00am The very best of luck to both teams competing in their Grand Finals on Saturday. Congratulations to our St Joseph’s 10 and Under Netball players who will be playing the curtain raiser for the Premier League Grand Finals at 5pm Saturday afternoon at the Basketball courts.

YEAR 6 MELBOURNE EXCURSION

REMINDER – The final payment for the Yr 6 Melbourne excursion is due Thursday 10th September. All payments must be up to date by this time. Thank you.