A short week this week with the long weekend on Monday.  I hope that everyone enjoyed the extra long break.  Staff have been busy with Professional learning again over the last two weeks with Numeracy visits from Chris Higgins and Matt Sexton, Data Analyst days and Instructional Leadership workshops and Challenging Learning workshops.

It is a busy time for teachers who are writing individual reports.  Reports will be sent home on Friday 28^th June and the following week we will have Parent teacher interviews.  A note will go out next week regarding times with the main day for interviews being Tuesday 2^nd July.

A friendly reminder to return permission notes for the Western Region Athletics Carnival that will be held in Cootamundra on Friday  28 June, 2019.  If notes could be returned by tomorrow it would be greatly appreciated.

We are keeping the students who are preparing for their First Communion in our prayers.  They will celebrate the sacrament on Sunday 30 June and we look forward to celebrating this special day with them.

Have a great week

Kind Regards

Kirsty Beavan

Keep up to date with events happening at St Joseph's via our electronic school calendar (please note dates can be subject to change).

Friday 21st June in Adelong.

Donations of home baked cooking and potted plants etc., are greatly appreciated to make the street stall a success.  Please email Krystal on sjasecretary1@gmail.com or call the school if you can assist on the day of the stall for an hour or two.  Please find following a roster.  Thank you for your continued support.

On the roster we only have helpers for the following spots:

Enrolment forms are available for children attending Kindergarten in 2020.  These forms are available online or at our school.  There is an option to fill enrolment forms out online and it will be sent through to the school.  Please follow the attached link.

Open days

Thursday 4^th July - 11:30am -12:30pm

Tuesday 23^rd July - 10:00am -11:00am

Parent Information Night                                    

Monday 12^th August - 6pm

Orientation Days                                                   

Tuesday 10^th September - 9:30am -11:30am

Tuesday 24^th September - 9:30am -11:30am

Tuesday 15^th October - 12:30pm - 3:10pm

Tuesday 29^th October - 12:30pm - 3:10pm

Friday 9th August 2019. 

Information packs for Mt Selwyn Ski Trip were emailed out yesterday to families in Years 3-6.  Money and forms need to be returned by Wednesday 3rd July (Wk 10).  Please contact the school if you require a printed form.

During week 10 teachers will conduct Parent Teacher Interviews, this will follow reports sent out at the end of week 9.  Details will go out to parents in the next week with times.

Painting - Adelong Golf Course

As part of last years very successful Golf Day fundraiser, the Community Council has committed to do a small painting job at the Golf Course in lieu of our use of the grounds. If anyone would like to help out, we will be painting on Wednesday June 19^th. If you able to help out, just contact Jess Campbell or Lauren Roche for more info.

Meeting date

Next Community Council meeting will be held on Wednesday 19th June.  Thank you to everyone who came along to our meeting last night.

Attached is the Agenda for the next meeting.

Woolworths Earn & Learn program is currently running and will end on the 25th June.  Please don't forget to collect your stickers and place them in the box at Woolworths or send into school. 

Our school greatly appreciates the stickers collected as we receive valuable resources from the program.

Primary students are required to bring their own device to school every day and they are responsible for the device at school.  Students need to make sure the devices are charged.  We understand there are some children's devices that are broken and they can use the school's devices if necessary.

Today Chris Higgins from CE visited the Primary Class to work on Mathematics. He demonstrated an open ended task that can be used for different age groups. The students were very engaged and enjoyed creating patterns from the problem posed. Thanks for visiting us Chris!! 

Our School Games

At school at the moment we have a great game happening in the sand pit.  So I went and asked about what was happening there. All seems happy in there but this would make some great entertainment for our parents/ guardians.

“In the sand pit we have dug out some gold mines. We have built a war base and one parliament house.  It's a big construction with all the little groups working everywhere. Come play at the sand pit and see all of the activity.”   - Charlie MacDougall

Thank you to Charlie for giving us some information.

Congratulations to our Week 6 Students of the Week Preston, Charlie, Mitchell and Lochie, well done boys!  Birthday wishes to Ted, Taylani, Taylor and Sydney.  Thank you to the classes for presenting their great work and to the parents who came along to join us for Assembly.

Some great work happening in our Primary class this week during Science.  They have been experimenting dissolving salt in water.

Mortimer Shield

Year 5 and Year 6 from St Joseph’s joined with McAuley and St Patricks to participate in Mortimer shield in Tumut.  In the first round the McAuley1 girls team won all three games. The McAuley 3 girls team (Isliah and Matilda) who were coached by Miss Braun lost all their games, however they played very well and demonstrated great sportsmanship.  The boys who were with St Patrick’s won 1 game, lost 2 games and drew 1 game.  A big thank you to the parents that transported u to practice and to the day.  A big thank you also to Donna Robson who was a great help on the day.

The McAuley 1 team (Anna, Eliza and Zoe) qualified for finals in Wagga on Tuesday. We lost the first game against South Wagga 2-0. In the second game we played Franklin and we won 4-1.  In the quarter final we played Sacred Heart Cootamundra and tied 1 all.

We had a great time and thank you to Lauren Roche who took us to Wagga.  Thank you also to McAuley and Miss Cole for letting us participate in such a great day.

Parish Roster

We plan on entering some artwork into this year’s Lanterns on the Lagoon which will be held on Saturday 21 September.

The theme for this year is “Water: Our Lifeblood”.

For our pieces of artwork we will require:

• Blue and white bottle lids (e.g. from milk, soft drink or water bottles)
• Large plastic bottles (1.25L or 2L soft drink or water bottles)
• Fishing line
• Old beads (white, blue or clear)
• Old metal watering cans or buckets

If you have any of these items at home that you do not need any more please drop them into the school.

Thank you for your support.