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Issue 27, Term 3, Week 10 Date: 11th September, 2012 Important Dates—Term 3 Week 10 September 11th - Prep Open Day September 12th - 14th - Principal Conference Week 11 September 17th - Regional Cricket September 17th - P&F Mtg September 17th - 19th - Prep Interviews - Year 4/5 Camp September 20th - Last Day of Term 3 September 21st - Pupil Free Day Term 4 resumes - Tuesday 9th October St Joseph’s Primary School 1 Week 9 Dear Parents, Integrity Here’s a story about the Baker and the Farmer: A Baker in a lile country town bought the buer he used from a nearby Farmer. One day he suspected that the bricks of buer were not full pounds, and for several days he weighed them. He was right. They were short weight, and he had the Farmer arrested. At the trial the judge said to the Farmer, “I presume you have scales?” “No, Your Honour.” “Then how do you manage to weigh the buer you sell?” inquired the judge. The Farmer replied, “That’s easily explained, Your Honour. I have balances and for a weight I use a one-pound loaf of bread I buy from the Baker.” Seems like a case of the kele calling the pot black, but in reality it’s a case of integrity being compromised by both the Baker and the Farmer. Integrity has been described in a number of ways: It is the compass within each of us; it points us in the direcon we need to follow. It is to do the right thing, rather than the popular thing. It is to do with the right thing for the right reason, regardless of who is or isn’t watching. The Baker and the Farmer fell short when measured against the third descripon. Unfortunately, our society can run low on integrity when corporate leaders misuse their posion of trust, when sportspeople cheat on their fellow competors by using steroids, when people in authority take bribes and allow criminal acts to occur. As usual, the main- stay of our society is the family and so the family must be the unit in which integrity is taught, nurtured and exemplified. A person by the name of Jackson Brown had this per- nent piece of advice to offer us when he said: “Live so that when your children think of fairness, care and integrity, they think of you.” Anyme we are interacng with our children we are teaching them something. Even when we fail in some aspect of endeavour, we sll teach our children through the manner in which we accept our failure and deal with it. No maer what we say, our children know what we mean. Perfect parents do not exist. Normal parents do get annoyed, frustrated and angry. It is beer to express genuine feelings even when they are negave. Children do not expect perfect parents but they do expect parents to be honest about their feel- ings. Likewise, children don’t want us to pretend to know things we don’t; they do expect us to keep our commitments to them; they do expect us to keep a confidence they entrust to us. Generally, our society tends to punish those who confess to wrongdoing. Punishment is an area where parents have to tread with cauon for, if we are not careful, we can teach our children to lie and mislead us as they try to protect themselves from punishment; in doing this they do damage to their own integrity. If we hold integrity to be more important than strict “law and order” then this will allow for less anxiety over rules and consequences and more room for spontaneous joy and love in our family. God Bless Aaron Wells Principal From the Principal’s desk... Welcome to Week 10 of Term 3! St Joseph’s Primary School Newsletter St Joseph’s Primary School Phone: (07) 46627850 , Fax: (07) 4668 9732 Principal: Mr Aaron Wells PO Box 467 www.chinchilla.catholic.edu.au A.P.R.E: Mrs Deonne Crowe Chinchilla, QLD, 4413 Email: [email protected] Secretary: Mrs Michelle Binding Next Monday we have a number of our year 6/7 students heading down to Toowoomba to par- ticipate in the Beyond The Stars Christmas CD project. This project sees our students join with other schools from around the diocese and well known artists to record a Christmas CD to raise funds for charity. Thank you to those parents who have offered to help with transportation. Parents are asked to meet School at 9:15am to ensure that we have the students at the Em- pire Theatre in Toowoomba by their recording time of 12:30. DATE CLAIMER St Joseph's Big Night Out Bull Ride Saturday 13th October In order to get into the spirit of the event students are invited to come to school dressed up as cowboys and cowgirls on Friday 12th of October. Prizes will be awarded for the best costumes!
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Issue 27, Term 3, Week 10 Date: 11th September, 2012
Important Dates—Term 3
Week 10 September 11th - Prep Open Day
September 12th - 14th - Principal Conference
Week 11 September 17th - Regional Cricket
September 17th - P&F Mtg
September 17th - 19th - Prep Interviews
- Year 4/5 Camp September 20th - Last Day of Term 3
September 21st - Pupil Free Day
Term 4 resumes - Tuesday 9th October
St Joseph’s Primary School 1 Week 9
Dear Parents, Integrity
Here’s a story about the Baker and the Farmer: A Baker in a little country town bought the butter he used from a nearby Farmer. One day he suspected that the bricks of butter were not full pounds, and for several days he weighed them. He was right. They were short weight, and he had the Farmer arrested. At the trial the judge said to the Farmer, “I presume you have scales?” “No, Your Honour.” “Then how do you manage to weigh the butter you sell?” inquired the judge. The Farmer replied, “That’s easily explained, Your Honour. I have balances and for a weight I use a one-pound loaf of bread I buy from the Baker.” Seems like a case of the kettle calling the pot black, but in reality it’s a case of integrity being compromised by both the Baker and the Farmer. Integrity has been described in a number of ways: It is the compass within each of us; it points us in the direction we need to follow. It is to do the right thing, rather than the popular thing. It is to do with the right thing for the right reason, regardless of who is or isn’t watching. The Baker and the Farmer fell short when measured against the third description. Unfortunately, our society can run low on integrity when corporate leaders misuse their position of trust, when sportspeople cheat on their fellow competitors by using steroids, when people in authority take bribes and allow criminal acts to occur. As usual, the main-stay of our society is the family and so the family must be the unit in which integrity is taught, nurtured and exemplified. A person by the name of Jackson Brown had this perti-nent piece of advice to offer us when he said: “Live so that when your children think of fairness, care and integrity, they think of you.” Anytime we are interacting with our children we are teaching them something. Even when we fail in some aspect of endeavour, we still teach our children through the manner in which we accept our failure and deal with it. No matter what we say, our children know what we mean. Perfect parents do not exist. Normal parents do get annoyed, frustrated and angry. It is better to express genuine feelings even when they are negative. Children do not expect perfect parents but they do expect parents to be honest about their feel-ings. Likewise, children don’t want us to pretend to know things we don’t; they do expect us to keep our commitments to them; they do expect us to keep a confidence they entrust to us. Generally, our society tends to punish those who confess to wrongdoing. Punishment is an area where parents have to tread with caution for, if we are not careful, we can teach our children to lie and mislead us as they try to protect themselves from punishment; in doing this they do damage to their own integrity. If we hold integrity to be more important than strict “law and order” then this will allow for less anxiety over rules and consequences and more room for spontaneous joy and love in our family. God Bless
Aaron Wells
Principal
From the Principal’s desk... Welcome to Week 10 of Term 3!
St Joseph’s Primary School
Newsletter
St Joseph’s Primary School Phone: (07) 46627850 , Fax: (07) 4668 9732 Principal: Mr Aaron Wells PO Box 467 www.chinchilla.catholic.edu.au A.P.R.E: Mrs Deonne Crowe Chinchilla, QLD, 4413 Email: [email protected] Secretary: Mrs Michelle Binding
Next Monday we have a number of our year 6/7 students heading down to Toowoomba to par-ticipate in the Beyond The Stars Christmas CD project. This project sees our students join with other schools from around the diocese and well known artists to record a Christmas CD to raise funds for charity. Thank you to those parents who have offered to help with transportation. Parents are asked to meet School at 9:15am to ensure that we have the students at the Em-pire Theatre in Toowoomba by their recording time of 12:30.
DATE CLAIMER St Joseph's Big Night Out
Bull Ride
Saturday 13th October
In order to get into the spirit of the event
students are invited to come to school dressed
up as cowboys and cowgirls on Friday 12th of
October. Prizes will be awarded for the best
costumes!
St Joseph’s Primary School 2 Week 9
From the A.P.R.E
Disability Action Week: 9th – 15th September
Beatitudes of Acceptance
Blessed are you Who take time to listen to speech that may be slow, for you help me to
know that if I persevere, I can be understood.
Blessed are you Who walk kindly by my side, for in your friendship I feel good to be
myself.
Blessed are you Who never bid me to hurry up; and, more blessed, you who do not snatch a task from my hands and do it for me, for often I need time
rather than help.
Blessed are you Who stand beside me as I enter new and untried ventures, for I may
surprise myself and you.
Blessed are you Who ask for my help and realize my gifts and abilities, for you help me
to believe in myself.
Blessed are you Who help me with the graciousness of Christ, because I sometimes
need help for which I cannot ask.
Blessed are you Who, in all ways, assure me that what makes me an individual is not my
particular difference, but my God-given strengths and virtues which nothing can confine.
Rejoice and be glad,
For you affirm my value as a gifted person and your understanding and love have opened the doors of love for me.
Australian Catholic Disability Council
This Friday Mrs Trudy Tronc and a band of volunteers will be guiding St Josephs students through a variety of activi-
ties designed to increase awareness of what it is to live with a disability, e.g. impaired sight, loss of mobility, hearing loss etc… These activities will be set up in the school hall and we thank Trudy and her helpers in advance for the wonderful work they do within our school and the local community to encourage and support inclusive behaviours and policies for those amongst us with disabilities.
Deonne Crowe
DATES FOR FIRST RECONCILIATION 2012 ENROLMENT SESSION: Wednesday October 10th, EITHER 3.30 p.m. OR 7.30 p.m. in the Church 3 PARENT SESSIONS @ 3.30 p.m. OR 7.30 p.m. at St Joseph’s upstairs meeting room:
Thursday 1st November
Thursday 8th November
Thursday 15th November THE CELEBRATION OF RECONCILIATION will be Monday 19th November @ 7.00 p.m.
Assembly Briefs
TERM 3, WEEK 9
Birthdays: Quincy Booker Workers of the Week
Prep: Isabella Blampied, Mia Buya Yr 3: Hayley Underwood Eliza NItz Yr 4: Mason Paerau & Blake Moore Yr 1: Ben Waters Yr 5: Alexus Ahu-Foliaki Yr 2: Lauren Brennan
Why is it so? - Money in Marked Envelopes
On many occasions we have to send money to school to pay for a whole range of activities. Quite often this money appears at the office all at the same time.
To help make the processing of forms and money easier, it is good practice to follow these steps.
1. Put all money in an envelope 2. Clearly label - Family Name, What for, Total enclosed 3. Put the envelope in the letterbox in the office or get your child
to give it to their teacher To help make this easier the school has purchased pre-labelled en-velopes for parental use. These envelopes can be found on the front counter of the school office desk so feel welcome to take a bundle home and use as needed. At times they will be stapled to letters where payment of money is required for a particular event.
REALLY HARD.
Last Weekend’s Gospel from Mark 7:31-37 tells us about a
deaf man with a speech defect. The deaf man’s friends
asked Jesus to heal him and Jesus took the man aside, put
his fingers in the man’s ears and touched his tongue with
spittle. Then Jesus prayed “Be opened.” We are told that
the man’s ears were opened, and that he spoke clearly.
How will each of us make an effort this week to really hear
what others are saying? To really understand others’ point
of view? We pray: Open my ears, Lord. Help me to hear
your voice. Open my eyes, Lord. Help me to see your face.
Open my heart, Lord. Help me to love like you.
Next weekend, Mass will be on Friday 14th at 5.30pm
Please remember the Illoura Bring and Buy next Saturday from 11am to 3pm. There will be a jumping castle and lucky dips for children. We would appreciate donations of cakes, craft, plants and second-hand goods. Thank you to those who have offered their services to help with a stall.
St Joseph’s Primary School 3 Week 9
Tuckshop
Tuckshop roster for Friday 14th September — Naomi Mitchell, Danielle Causer, Michelle Isles & Lynda Sale
UNIFORMS The uniform shop will be open Wed Morning from 8.30 - 9:00am and Thurs afternoon from 2.45-3.00pm Uniform co-ordinators are: Ann Welke Ph: 4668 9580 Mob: 0409 643 758 Cathy McLatchey Ph: 4669 1904 Mob: 0404 013 218
REGIONAL CRICKET Thomas Bannister, Jack Olm and Brenton Bender, members of the Chinchilla and District Cricket Team will trial this Sunday and Mon-day 16th and 17th September at the Recreation Grounds. We wish the boys all the best as they try out for a position in the South West Team to travel to Bundaberg in November. BALL SKILLS Students from Prep - Year 7 continue to concentrate on their Ball Skills Unit, incorporating our batting skills also. We have been en-gaging in game situations and it has been great to see the progres-sion with individual students, particularly in the lower school. SWIMMING Our Swimming season is fast approaching and will commence after the September school holidays. We will once again be looking for the invaluable assistance from our parent helpers. If you could spare a couple of hours with your children it would be greatly ap-preciated. A timetable for our swimming sessions is as follows: WEDNESDAY THURSDAY P/Year 1 9.00am - 10.30am Year 6/7 9.00am - 10.30am Year 4/5 11.15am - 12.45am Year 3 1.30pm - 3.00pm Year 2 1.30pm - 3.00pm
If you could consider these days and times we would love to see you next term. A Parent helper slip will be included in next week’s Newsletter. Parents please note the following changes:.
P.E. lessons for Prep, Year 1 and Year 3 for this week have been moved to Friday instead of Wednesday.
Active After School Care for 4-7’s will move from Wednesday to Thursday afternoon next week due to year4/5 camp.
From the Sporting Field with Andrea Hart
Grounds and Maintenance Team Thanks to our families on our grounds roster who contrib-ute to our school by keeping the school grounds neat and tidy.
Families Rostered for September, 2012
Oval Ron Merritt
Stuart Family
Lunch area & Front of School Buya Family
Unfortunately, since the start of the year we have witnessed a de-cline in the number of parents/volunteers willing to assist in the tuckshop on a Friday. It is getting to the stage where we may need to look at a fortnightly arrangement. This would be a real shame as the tuckshop offers convenience for parents and also enjoyment for the students. If you are able to help out or know of someone please contact the school office or our Convenor Petrina O’Sullivan
MINI VINNIES Mini Vinnies are going to hold a lolly guessing competition as our fundraiser for the term. You can start guessing on Wednesday 12th Sept and finishing Thursday 20th Sept during Morning Tea & Lunch. The small jar costs 20c per guess and the big jar costs 50c per guess. It will be held under the main building. The winners will be announced on the last day of school for this term. The money will go to Assist a Student or the Mary MacKillop Foundation. Penny Crothers (Secretary)
Chinchilla Junior Cricket
Any families interested in playing junior cricket
commencing 4th term please please contact Graeme
Hartwig as soon as possible on 46627719. Please
leave a message and he will contact you. No prior
experience or equipment necessary, but numbers
needed as soon as possible.
Local,grass fed beef, pork & lamb
Private kill specialists
Oven ready, prepared meals
Ham & bacon prepared on
premises
Frozen fish & seafood products
6 Inveria Road Chinchilla
Phone: 07 4668 9235 Fax: 07 4668 9735
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SUPPLIES
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4669 1244
*Hydraulics *Filters *Tools *Welding* Nuts &
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