A very special night for Ainslie and Tom as they celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation with their families tonight.

Confirmation celebrates God’s presence in our lives as the Holy Spirit comes to guide, strengthen, and empower us to witness the Good News of Jesus Christ. 
Confirmation completes Baptism, by which in the laying on of hands and the anointing with Chrism Oil, which first happened at Baptism, we are confirmed with the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

During Confirmation, the children will receive the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit: Wisdom, Understanding, Right Judgement, Courage, Knowledge, Reverence (Piety), Wonder and Awe and confirm their commitment to the promises their parents made on their behalf at their Baptism. Confirmation is the final Sacrament of Initiation into the Catholic Church.

We wish Ainslie and Tom a wonderful night as they receive this special Sacrament.

Vinnies Winter Appeal

Don’t forget to dress up in your scarves and beanies next Thursday 24^th June as we support the St Vincent de Paul Society in their annual Winter Appeal.

We will be collecting donations of any winter clothing – new or in clean, used condition, blankets or non-perishable food items to give to those in need in our community. All donations will be given to the Tumut branch to distribute.

Students are asked to wear their school uniform as usual and pop on a beanie and  / or scarf to support this great cause.

- Liz Murray

Religious Education Co-ordinator

Pupil free day first day back Monday 12th July – all staff will be attending our Staff Spirituality day and will be joining with staff from St Patricks and McAuley.

Students return on Tuesday 13th July.

Last week our COMPASS Kiosk was installed for parents to sign students in and out of school.  Any student who is dropped off after the bell rings needs to be signed in by a parent.  This also applies for students who are departing the school early.  

The Kiosk is very easy to use and staff are happy to assist if you have questions.  After selecting drop off or pick up you will be prompted to search for the students name and select the student once their name appears.  Select a reason for late arrival or early departure and select yourself as the parent.  

Cars need to leave space to allow the buses access first, otherwise buses will not come into the grounds to pick up the children and they will wait at the bus stop. 

We thank you for your co-operation.

Please ensure your child/ren have a warm school jumper or jacket with them at school, we are encouraging students to put their jumpers/jackets on when they are heading outdoors.  If you could please make sure they also have their name on them.

Now we have finished Gymnastics, students will wear sport uniform on Friday's again.  Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.

Yr 2/3 were busy practising their dance for their performance today.

In the past couple of weeks in Maths, the 4/5/6 class have been learning about length and how to work out perimeters and areas of different spaces. They have also been learning about chance and data and have learnt how to create graphs and explored the language of probability.

In literacy, the class were amazed to come to class one day and find that their chairs had quit! They then had to apply everything they had learnt about persuasive writing to convince their chairs to come back. Mrs Dean was very impressed with their writing and the chairs did come back the next day.

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