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SJLE Calendar

Junior Joey’s 11.30-12.30pm

2020, Term 1

Week 4

17th Feb

Ash Street, PO Box 833

LEETON NSW 2705

sjle-info@ww.catholic.edu.au

Prayer

Phone 02 6953 3248

Fax 02 6953 5080

web.sjleww.catholic.edu.au

Term 1, Week 3 Friday 14 February 2020

19th Feb

Kindergarten Rest Day

Stage 3 Information Evening 6pm

Diocesan Principals’ Meeting (St Joseph’s)

20th Feb

Deanery Swimming Carnival (Leeton)

From the Principal

Fundraising at our school, like every school, provides additional resources to enhance our students’ learning and improve our school environment.

At St Joseph's we tend to get plenty of helpers on the day of events, but are short on people to set events in motion. Currently a small band of enthusiastic parents are coordinating and running fundraising, but this is unsustainable.

Last year our P&F association held a special meeting to discuss fundraising for 2020 and a new fundraising model was decided upon. Beginning this year, the families of students in Year Two will become the fundraising committee. This committee is NOT expected to do all the work. Their role is to plan and organise fundraising events for the year and call on families across the school to lend a hand.

The fundraising leadership role is for JUST ONE YEAR, before it is handed over to the next year’s Year Two committee. In this model, the work is shared fairly among the parents/carers, as each year a new Year Two fundraising committee is formed.

Letters have been emailed to all 2020 Year Two families, inviting them to a meeting on Tuesday February 25 at 6.30pm in the staffroom. (Families with children in other classes are also very welcome to come along.)

St Joseph’s 2020 Swimming Carnival Following our swimming carnival last week, the age champions are as follows:

Junior Boys Age Champion - Jamie Woods Junior Girls Age Champion - Emme Dowling 11 Years Boys Age Champion - Sebastian Rees and William O’Bryan 11 Years Girls Age Champion - Charlotte Mallamace Senior Boys Age Champion - Cooper Jones Senior Girls Age Champion - Caitlyn Webb

In addition to this the following students received the School Spirit Award: - Bree Gillespie - Alistair Fattore-Mandaglio This award recognises students who go above and beyond to support their house. Many thanks to Mrs Flagg and Miss Kane for their planning and preparation of the carnival.

2020 Student Representative Council Each year students in each primary class vote to elect a Student Representative Council leader.

This year’s elected SRC representatives are: 6R: Shyla Harmer 5C: Charlotte Mallamace 5P: Domenica Piccolo 4F: Ben Dawe 3CH: Annica Su 3I: Ella Tyrell Congratulations to each of these elected leaders.

Diocesan Principals’ Meeting Next Wednesday, 19th February from 1.45pm, we will welcome all principals from across the diocese of Wagga (both primary and secondary) for a meeting here at St Joseph’s. Please make these guests to our school welcome, if you have the opportunity. Also please be aware that this will impact on parking for the afternoon pick-up on the day.

MaryJane Simms

Principal

15th Feb

Stage 2 - Third Saturday Vigil Mass 6pm

All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures.

Fill us with peace, that we may protect the world,that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction.Help us to recognise that we are profoundly united with every creature.God of love, show us our place in this world as channels of your lovefor all the creatures of this earth.Amen.

Pope FrancisLaudato Si

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PARISH MASS TIMES St Joseph’s Parish Leeton: Saturday Vigil - 6:00pm

Sunday - 10:00am

Reconciliation:

Friday - 4.45pm - 5.15pm

Saturday - 5.30pm - 5.50pm

St Patrick’s Parish Yanco: Sunday - 8.00am

WELCOME JACQUI

Hello! My name is Jacquie Birch and I am your new School Wellbeing Practitioner. I am so excited to be working with the staff, students and parents of St Joseph’s and I am looking forward to what the year will bring. A little about me:I am from Narrandera and married with two beautiful children aged 5 and 3, and a fur baby aged 4. I love reading, watching movies, anything Harry Potter and going koala watching with my kids. I am a social worker with experience in youth work, counselling and trauma informed care. I will be at St Joseph’s each Tuesday from 8:30 till 4:30 and Wednesday 8:30 till 12:30. You can contact me via my email birchj@centercareswnsw.org.au or mobile 0427 292 613 between these times. I look forward to getting to know you all and being part of the wonderful community of St Joseph’s Leeton!Jacquie Birch School Wellbeing Practitioner

COOLIBAH STREET PICK UP Each afternoon families can choose to pick up their children in Coolibah Street. This pick up location operates as a drive through pick up option. Students are walked by a teacher to the Coolibah gate at the bottom of our school grounds and are directed to their family car as it arrives at the front of the queue. We ask that you DO NOT park on Coolibah Street, school side, after 2:45pm. This is to prevent confusion for those using the drive through pick up option, as they presume any cars along this area are waiting in line to move forward. If you are using the Coolibah Street pick up you are asked to have your family name on the front passenger side visor. This assists our staff to efficiently get each child to their car. Our office staff are happy to make one for you.

NUDE FOOD DAY EVERY MONDAY

Every Monday will be Nude Food Day. On Nude Food Day, our aim is for student lunch boxes to be wrapper free. The purpose of this is to raise awareness of ways we can reduce waste/packaging and also to keep the healthy food profile high. We want our students to be informed about how we can be stewards of God’s creation. This is a practical way to show that each of us CAN make a difference to the amount of waste created. Thank you for your support.

YEARS 7-12 DAY & WEEKLY BOARDING

CO-EDUCATIONAL COLLEGE

Enrolment Applications for 2021 are now being taken. Enrolment Packages are available upon request by phoning the College Office on 02 6953 3622 or

download from the College Website at www.sfcww.catholic.edu.au or email briggsd@ww.catholic.edu.au

OPEN D A Y

Tuesday 10 March 2020

All prospective students and parents are invited to attend one of two Information Sessions, 9.30am & 4.00pm.

If interested in attending a Session, please RSVP to the College Office by Friday 6 March 2020

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SPORT St Joseph’s 2020 Swimming Carnival Congratulations to all students who participated in our swimming carnival last Thursday. It was a fantastic day, displaying so much talent from everyone. A big congratulations to the winning house O’Mara. Students who have progressed onto the Deanery carnival, should have received their notes on Monday. If there are any queries in regards to this, please see Miss Kane. The Deanery carnival will be held on Thursday 20th February, at the Leeton Pool. Congratulations to the following students who were awarded Age Champion last week. Junior Boys Age Champion - Jamie WoodsJunior Girls Age Champion - Emme Dowling 11 Years Boys Age Champion - Sebastian Rees and William O’Bryan 11 Years Girls Age Champion - Charlotte MallamaceSenior Boys Age Champion - Cooper JonesSenior Girls Age Champion - Caitlyn Webb

Miss Belinda Kane Sport Coordinator

 

Sport Week 3 

 St Joseph’s 2020 Swimming Carnival Congratulations to all students who participated in our swimming carnival yesterday. It was a fantastic day, displaying so much talent from everyone.  Students who have progressed onto the Deanery carnival, should have received their notes on Monday. If there are any queries in regards to this, please see Miss Kane. The Deanery carnival will be held on Thursday 20th February, at Leeton Pool.  Congratulations to the following students who were awarded Age Champion last week.  Junior Boys Age Champion - Jamie Woods Junior Girls Age Champion - Emme Dowling  11 Years Boys Age Champion - Sebastian Rees and William O’Bryan  11 Years Girls Age Champion - Charlotte Mallamace Senior Boys Age Champion - Cooper Jones Senior Girls Age Champion - Caitlyn Webb  

 

 

 

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MUSIC Instrumental Lessons We are underway and the students are beginning to sound great! Students are to be reminded to bring their instrument, and music book on their allocated lesson day so that they can make the most of their lesson. If students forget their instrument, they are still required to attend their lesson. If there are any changes to the timetable, I will post a message on our school Facebook page.

Just a few reminders for parents and students, fees are now paid through Compass and if you have any questions about this, please contact Kate Jones through the office. In addition, if you need assistance with payment plans or methods please don’t hesitate to contact us about that too.

If your child no longer wants to continue their lessons for any reason, please make sure you contact me with a formal email or written note so I can pass on this information to the Catholic Schools office. We generally encourage students to stick out each semester or even until the end of term.

Choir Thank you to those students who came to our Deanery Mass last Thursday and our Opening Mass on Friday. Your help was greatly appreciated! We are looking forward to attending many more Masses and events. A reminder that choir is on Thursdays at the second half of lunch in the music room.

Eisteddfod 2020 If you or your child is interested in entering the eisteddfod this year, please let me know and I will send a note home with your child about the different sections and possible dates.

Miss Cirillo Music Coordinator

ST JOSEPH'S MERIT AWARDS TERM 1, WEEK 2 2020

Zion S KB

Nixon F KB

Hudson L KM

Chelsea F KM

Harriet M 1W

Hargun K 1W

Kane F 1W

Olivia O 2I

Will D 2I

James A 2I

Phoebe S 3CH

Bobby J 3CH

Frankie N 3I

Jack C 4F

William F 4F

Sadie R 4F

Nate D 5C

Rusty M 5C

Macey S 5P

Isabella P 5P

William O 5P

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Be You Quality Award Week 2

“Choosing Kindness”

F: Sophie, Lucille, Lilly

M: Annica, Adele, Aria, Olivia

B: Charlotte, Israel, William, Callum

Congratulations to the award recipients!

The Be You focus next week is: Choosing

Learning

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Clean Team News; Let’s Clean Up!  Anyone who knows me knows that I am passionate about doing what we can to make this world a better place. And I believe that it begins with education and for a lot of children, it begins here , with what we do at school. We need to set up a system at this school that is in line with our global responsibilities and give our students the knowledge of how to be more respectful and responsible with our waste disposal. Last year, we had the Enviromentors come to our school and show us just a few ways that we can work together to deal with our waste better. Since then, a group of interested students have come together to form a group. They are called the CLEAN TEAM. We have looked at what is working well at this school, such as Friday clean-up and having different areas for stages to clean. But they have pinpointed a lot of areas that are of concern. For example, did you know that on the ovals, some children stuff rubbish inside the drain grates? The water caught by these drains is used in the sprinkler system to water the grass. This blocks them and can lead to other problems such as flooding. We will attempt to address this problem and others throughout the year. Since the beginning of the year, I have been introducing new bins to the school, at this stage, Paper Recycling boxes and Return & Earn bins have gone out. The money raised will go back into the school and getting resources aimed at reducing our footprint on the world. On Thursday Domenica Piccolo spoke to the school about the worm farm that her sister, Maria, introduced and how we can help. I have also been working with the caretaker to set up the compost bins (which will be set up behind the chook house) and looked after by the CLEAN TEAM. When the school gets chickens, the scraps collected can be used to feed them. Early next week the CLEAN TEAM and I will address the school as a whole. The presentation will be about which bins are for what and a pep talk about keeping our school tidy. If you are interested in helping out in any way or have any questions, let me know! Thank you. Lizabeth Quarisa- Tynan

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St Joseph's Canteen Menu SUMMER - Term 1 2020

Sandwiches or Wrap

Ham & Cheese $3.50 Ham, Cheese & Tomato $3.70 Salami & Cheese $3.50 Chicken, Cheese, Lettuce & Mayo

$3.70

Chicken & Cheese $3.50 Cheese $3.00 Salad $4.00 Meat (Ham, Chicken or Salami) & Salad

$4.50

Vegemite & Cheese $2.50 Vegemite $2.00

Toasted Cheese Sandwich Toasted Chicken & Cheese Sandwich Toasted Ham & Cheese Sandwich Toasted Ham, Cheese & Tomato Sandwich Sausage Rolls Pies Chicken Nuggets Chicken Burger (Chicken, Lettuce, Mayo) WEDNESDAYS ONLY

Sauce

$3.00 $4.00 $3.50 $3.70

$ 3.00 $ 3.50

.60c

$4.50

.30c

Popcorn Fruit

Cheese & Bacon Rolls Cupcakes Muffins

Donuts Cheese and Biscuits

Honey Soy/Sea Salt Chips $1.50 Shaky Shake $2.30 Popper Apple/Orange $1.50 Frozen Yoghurt $2.00 Chocolate Milk $2.50 Cyclone $2.30 Strawberry Milk $2.50 Callipo Mini $1.00 Icey Twist Smooze Dixie Cup

$1.20 $1.50 $1.00

Ever Changing Items from list below $2.00 or less, eg

Daily

Cold Lunches

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SCHOOL PHOTOS - TUESDAY 3 MARCH 2020

Online Order link: https://www.advancedimage.com.au/keycode/keycodefinder.aspx?keycode=DZ45BH4GB

Individual envelopes will be distributed next week. Sibling envelopes are available from the office.

Dear Parents,

School photographs are scheduled to be taken by advancedlife. Whilst an envelope and flyer will be distributed shortly, if possible it is our preference that ordering be completed online to reduce administration and potential security issues related to the return of cash and envelopes on photo day.

Orders for packages and sibling photographs can be placed securely online at www.advancedlife.com.au using our school’s unique 9 digit advancedorder code. Portrait and group package orders are due by photography day.

Should you wish to purchase a sibling photograph online, the order must be placed no later than the day before photography day. Sibling photographs will only be taken if an order has been placed.

Should you have any queries concerning school photographs or online ordering, please direct them via email to enquiries@advancedlife.com.au

St Joseph's Primary School

ORDER NOW go to www.advancedlife.com.au and enter the codeDZ4 5BH 4GB

SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE TAKEN ON:

Tuesday 3 March 2020

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Note: - Information/dates for the Term calendar will be added each week as it is provided to us. Please check regularly for new updates.PD = Professional Development.

WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SAT/SUN

4 17Junior Joey’s Playgroup 11.30-12.30

18 19Kindergarten Rest Day

Diocesan Principal’s Meeting St Joseph’s

20Deanery Swimming Carnival

Blueearth Workshop

PD - Diocesan Principal’s Meeting Leeton

21 22/23

5 24Junior Joey’s Playgroup 11.30-12.30

25PD - Reading Recovery - Miss Dally

26Ash Wednesday Mass 9.15am - 5C

Kindergarten Rest Day

PD - Mrs Simms Wagga

27PD - Mrs Simms Wagga

PD - Observation Survey Training

28PD - Maths - Mrs Flagg

PD - Sue Larkey - Mrs QT, Mrs Vogel, Miss M Ierano, Miss Kane.

29/1

6 March

2Junior Joey’s Playgroup 11.30-12.30

3School photos

PD - STEM

4DIO Swimming Carnival

5Blueearth Workshop PD - Inclusive & Diverse Learning - Mrs Tavella

6First Friday Mass 12noon - 2I

PD - Music

7/8

7 9Junior Joey’s Playgroup 11.30-12.30

10PD - Reading Recovery - Miss Dally

11 12PD - Maths - Mrs Flagg

13PD - Digital Pedagogy - Miss B Ierano

14/15Confirmation & First Holy Communion Commitment Mass 6pm

8 16Junior Joey’s Playgroup 11.30-12.30

17 18Catholic Schools Basketball meeting 6pm

PD - Principal’s Meeting - Mrs Simms

19St Joseph’s Feast Day Mass 12noon - 5P

Blueearth Workshop

Athletics - SSP Primary

PD - Group 2 Learning Collaborative - Mrs Simms, Mrs Watson, Mrs McCrohon, Mrs Flagg

20National Day of Action against Bullying & Violence

PD - Mrs Simms Wagga

21/22

9 23Junior Joey’s Playgroup 11.30-12.30

24PD - Reading Recovery - Miss Dally

25 26Athletics - SSP Primary

PD - Inclusive & Diverse Learning - Mrs Tavella

27PD - Maths - Mrs Flagg

28/29

10 30Junior Joey’s Playgroup 11.30-12.30

31PD - ASPA

PD - Pastoral Care & Wellbeing - Mrs Tavella

1 2Athletics - SSP Primary

3SJLE Cross Country

4/5

11 April

6Junior Joey’s Playgroup 11.30-12.30

7PD - Reading Recovery - Miss Dally

8Whole School Holy Week Liturgy 12noon

9Athletics - SSP Primary

Term 1 ends

10Good Friday

11/12Sunrice Festival

TERM 1 SCHOOL CALENDAR 2020

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Centacare South West NSWWagga Wagga | Albury | GriffithFinley | LeetonPhone 1300 619 379

THE 1-2-3 MAGIC PROGRAM1-2-3 Magic is a behaviour management program which aims at teaching parents and guardians simple, precise and effective ways to manage their child or children, in approximately the 2 to 12 year age range.

With 1-2-3 Magic you will learn:

• How to get your kids to STOP doing what you don’t want them to do (arguing, whining, tantrums, sibling rivalry etc)

• How to encourage your kids to START doing what you want them to do (cleaning rooms, going to bed, homework)

• How to avoid the Talk-Persuade-Argue-Yell-Hit syndrome

• How to handle misbehaviour in public

• How to deal with the six kinds of testing and manipulation

1-2-3MAGIC

AND EMOTIONCOACHING

For further information or to register your interest please contact Centacare South West NSW 1300 619 379Or email info@centacareswnsw.org.au

Where: Centacare Griffith140 Yambil Street, Griffith

When: Tuesday 17th, 24th 31st March 2020 Morning Session: 10am - 12:30pm

Cost: Standard $30 Concession $15 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

Light refreshments includedFacilitator: Justine

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