Week 9 - 24th March - St Joseph`s Catholic Primary School

Principal’s Message
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Week 9 • 24 March, 2014
Have you ever wondered what the
5 highest positive impacts on your
child’s learning progress at school
are?
Research from John Hattie (2012)
involved synthesising the results
of millions of samples of data
relating
to
evidence
based
research.
This meta-analysis
provided a list of what actually
works in schools to improve
learning. The following list is the
top 5 positive impacts on a child’s
learning progress at school:
1. High expectations for
student learning
2. Piagetian programs (ways
of thinking)
3. Teacher credibility
4. Providing formative
evaluation
5. Micro teaching
IGA Soccer for Kids (During
HPE) – Thursday 27th March
Literacy Fun Day (Prep/Yr 1) –
Thursday 27th March at
9.15am
Isis High Visit (Year 6/7) –
Thursday 27th March at
9.00am
Hervey Bay Aquarium Visit (Yr
1/2) – Friday 28th March
P&F Meeting – Wednesday 2nd
April at 7pm
Music Students Term 1
Performance – Thursday 3rd
April at 2.10pm
Last Day of Term 1 – Friday 4th
April
First day of Term 2 for
Students - Wednesday 23rd
April
Come in and ask me how St
Joseph’s is attending to these 5
high impact areas.
NRL Tipping Competition
A ‘St Joseph’s School’ tipping
competition has been registered
at http://tipping.nrl.com/
St Joseph’s School community
are
invited
to
participate.
Registration is via the website
above. Our tipping competition
code is SNVJJRH4.
The cost is $20 which is due by
round 5 of the NRL competition.
Further details regarding the
split of prize money will be
released after round 5.
Warmest regards,
John Hinton
PS John Hattie (2012) has also
measured
the
impact
of
composite/multi-age classes on
student learning. It may surprise
you to know that they actually
have a positive effect on student
learning (it should be noted that
the
positive
effect
is
very
minimal).
Warmest regards,
BRONCOS BANNER
St Joseph’s Footy
Tipping Leaders are:
Wild Hair
The Harney’s
Henny
Chocolate Frog
New School Classification
In the most recent Teacher Industrial Agreement, Childers has
been reclassified as a IPRASS (Incentive Payments – Remote Area
Staff Scheme) centre. Four other BCE school have also been
reclassified. This classification leads to much additional funding
for our school and two additional ‘travel leave days’ for our
teaching staff. This will mean our school cannot open to students
on these two days.
Cross Country
Congratulations to Wira, who were able to beat the best
team (Djaagan) at the recent Cross Country carnival.
Congratulations to Age Champions.
Pam Betts (BCE Executive Director) has considered the impact of
these travel leave days on all of the IPRASS BCE schools involved
(Childers, Murgon, Gayndah, Nanango and Kingaroy). The most
likely days for two travel leave days will be the first day of term 2
and the first day of term 3. If you would like to discuss this with
me further please make contact.
rd
First day of term 2 for students will be Wednesday, 23 April.
School Board Update
rd
At the end of 2013, Julie Bonanno completed her 3 and final
year as Chair of the School Board. Julie’s leadership of the School
Board over these 3 years provided continuity, stability and
progress. St Joseph’s School acknowledges Julie’s service and
thanks her for the positive impact on our community. Julie
continues as a full participating member of the Board.
IGA Soccer for Kids
As a part of HPE, students at St Joseph’s have been
learning soccer skills. Our sincere thanks to Phoyx for
imparting his knowledge of soccer.
Stacey Harney is our new School Board Chair and Jody Blake our
new Deputy Chair. We warmly welcome Stacey and Jody to these
roles.
If you would like to participate as a member of the Board, please
contact the principal directly.
Parents and Friends Update
The March P&F meeting has been rescheduled for Wednesday,
nd
2 April at 7pm.
As a part of this month’s meeting, the P&F will discuss which
projects they will fund throughout 2014. In recent years the P&F
has funded the cold and filtered water taps, ipads, literacy
resources and an upgrade of the technology in the hall. Please
feel free to attend the meeting and be involved in the discussion.
Alternatively, make contact with a member of the P&F Executive
to put your ideas forward (2014 Executive members were
announced in the previous newsletter).
In term 2 there are plans to have the AFL Auskick program,
as well as visits to the Isis Bowls Club during HPE lessons to
further expand childrens knowledge of a variety of sports.
ANZAC Day
Please be aware that ANZAC Day falls on the first Friday of term 2.
We do not yet have information relating to the 2014 Childers March.
However, assuming there are no changes, the following paragraph
provides some information.
St Joseph’s will be participating in the local March in 2014. Children
are encouraged to attend and march with the school group – school
uniform and school hat are to be worn. Children participating are
asked to assemble on the corner of North and Churchill Streets at
9.45am. The march is scheduled to commence at 10am.
Woolworths Earn and Learn Resources
Thank you to families who participated in collected shopper dockets
for the Woolworth Resources for School program. As you can see
from the picture, we received our resources and have allocated
these to classrooms.
Help our school to win a set of iPads
The Bundaberg NewsMail is running a competition giving schools a
chance to win a set of 10 iPads. All you need to do is collect the
token in the paper and hand them into the schools office. And
what’s great is that all schools stand an equal chance of winning, as
they’ll pro-rata entries across the number of enrolled students to
st
determine the winner. Competition closes Monday, March 31 .
Jo-Anne & Nigel Allwood
91 Churchill Street, CHILDERS 4660
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Tuckshop Special
This week’s Special – Orange Poppers 50c
APRE News
Upcoming School Mass
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Friday, 4 April, the Year Four/Five Class will be leading
our First Friday Parish Mass. This mass will begin at
9.00am. We invite all parishioners and families to join us
as we celebrate the end of term one.
Easter Reflection
This year our school community will be hosting an Easter
Musical in the last week of term. Twila has been engaging
with all students during their singing lessons on a different
part of Peter Cotton Tail’s Easter Musical. Classes as well
as individual students are practicing their part to share the
Easter Story as a community. We sincerely thank Twila for
her time and efforts and we look forward to hearing the
story next week.
Class News
This term Prep students have been discussing God's
creation and Year One have been discussing the story of
Noah's Ark. Students have been busy recalling
information from both stories and creating symbols that
are on display in their classrooms. The Year One/Two
Class students have been learning about different images
of God that are identified in the Old Testament and
discussing/ creating their own images of God which are
displayed around their classroom. The overarching idea/
focus for our Year Three Class has been moral living.
Students have used the Beatitudes and the Ten
Commandments as a basis for their discussions and
activities. This term in the Year Four/Five Class, students
have been composing their own prayers using the you,
who, do, through prayer strategy. In small groups, they
also led the class in a prayer liturgy each day, choosing a
theme, relevant psalm, scripture passage and prayers that
they had composed. The Year Six/Seven Class have been
using an interactive Learning Byte produced by Brisbane
Catholic Education to explore the Catholic Church in the
Land Down Under. Congratulations teachers and students
on your efforts this term!
Happy Birthday
Damon Carige
Joseph Chung
Timothy Chung
Ethan Chung
Selena Russo
Prep/1
CHRISTIAN
VALUES
Sebastian Russo
CATHOLIC
FAMILY
Yr 1/2
Brody Dodds
Yr 3
Yr 4/5
Yr 6/7
Gabrielle Bonanno
Bridget Woodman
Year 6/7 Class
Callum Nugent
24/03
24/03
24/03
24/03
24/03
INDIVIDUAL
GROWTH
Phynn Boase
Sophie Bretherton
Jodie Dodd
Luke Maroney
Bill Banting
Katelyn Carige
Thank you to Graham Truscott (Grandad of Jamie Yr 3) and Kelly Ross (Mum of Finn Yr 2) who have volunteered
to assist with volunteers grounds person responsibilities.
Date
26.3.2014
2.4.2014
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Val Walkington, Bernadette Williams, Graeme Truscott, Tanya Gilbert