St Joseph’s School Newsletter 41 The Drive

Bardon Qld 4065

Postal: PO Box 2107

Ashgrove West Qld 4060

Phone: (07) 3369 3020

Absentee Line: (07) 3876 3701

Fax: (07) 3369 8437

Humility Care

Respect

www.stjosephsbardon.qld.edu.au pbardon@bne.catholic.edu.au 20 August 2015

P&F Meets 2nd Tuesday each month

Principal’s Welcome Dear Parents and Caregivers

Last Friday evening, our Senior Band competed in the Queensland Catholic Musical Festival at Villanova. Our students

were outstanding and received a Gold award as recognition. Thank you so very much to Mrs Linda Pendrith, Mrs Rosie

Zorzetto and Mrs Amy Luscombe who supported our students. Many thanks also to the wonderful parent support on the

evening. Our students are musical STARs and as a community we are very proud of their achievements.

On Monday and Tuesday, Mrs Luscombe and I had the pleasure of visiting our students who competed at the Zone

Carnival. Thank you to Mrs Christie Lewis, Mrs Bern Duggan, Miss Emma Russell and Mrs Louise Busby who supported

our students. Again, our students were STARs and displayed incredible skill and sportsmanship. They again did our community proud. Please see the

Sport Report from Mrs Lewis further in the newsletter.

Last night, our teaching staff worked as collaboratively as a professional learning community engaged in professional development in the area of

Behaviour Management. Peter Miles was our presenter and his informative and practical presentation was very enlightening. We will continue to walk

with Peter Miles on our journey in the area of continuing to develop positive behaviours for learning in our classrooms.

Today and tomorrow, I am away the North 4 Principal Cluster at Nanango. On Monday I will be away at the Leadership Forum.

Today St Joseph’s held a Seniors Showcase in partnership with Jubilee Community Care and it was an engaging learning

experience for our student community. Our students were again STARs in the way they welcomed, cared for and

interacted with our senior visitors.

This Saturday, we have three teams competing in the Tournament of the Minds Competition. Many thanks to Mrs Anne

Gole, Mr Mark Deegan and Miss Eireen Lorenzo for their leadership of these teams. We wish them all the very best for

this competition. These students will be practicing their performance for our school community this Friday at 11.45am.

I am very pleased to inform our community that our Prep enrolments for 2016 are well and truly on target. It is so encouraging to know that our school is

highly sought as we are committed to equity and excellence in education.

The Parents and Friends Federation would like parents to complete an online survey to gather the latest data about the activity of and commitment to

P&F throughout Catholic schools in Queensland to assist in future planning. I encourage parents to complete this survey on the following link https://

www.surveymonkey.com/r/KWPR25K

Some staff updates: Tomorrow Mrs Meghan Bach and Mrs Jane Robinson will take some well deserved long service leave. We welcome Majella

Deegan to cover this leave. Later in fourth term, Mrs Michelle Johnson will be going on maternity leave. For 2016, Mrs Meghan Bach will be on

maternity leave as she welcomes her second child.

Saturday week will be our much anticipated TRIVIA NIGHT. It is going to be an entertaining and fun filled evening. Please support this evening....and

get your 80s costume ready! Numerous thanks again to our supportive and well organised Parents and Friends team who are co-ordinating this event.

Next week, I will be holding another Master Plan 2016 - 2020 conversation on Tuesday 25 August at 3pm in the Star Room, all welcome.

Finally, an update on the monies raised during Catholic Education Week for Franciscan Friday. A donation of $522 was

presented to the School of the Air by Ellen (Year 6 Leader) at a special event at the EKKA. Well done St Joseph’s!

Yours in education

Fran

From the APRE Staff Professional Learning

As part of our ongoing goal to develop a common understanding and language of learning, and building upon the foundations of our

STAR Expectations, yesterday afternoon our teaching team participated in professional learning session with Peter Miles (an external

Behaviour Support expert). The learning intentions for teachers were:

To enhance self-awareness of personal behaviour management skills

To promote consistency of behaviour management practice across the school

To foster teacher resilience

Peter provided some feedback from observations he had made earlier this term. He affirmed that St Joseph’s has exceptionally well-behaved

students and that our teaching team have a vast array of proactive strategies for dealing with disruptive behaviour. Peter identified, explained

and provided practical examples of many low-intrusive, proactive behaviour management strategies – raising teacher consciousness of what

they already do, but possibly don’t name. In the coming weeks, our School Officer team will receive professional learning in this area

also. Research says, that consistent, whole-school approaches are needed for effective behaviour support, hence our commitment to investing

in building our staff capacity in this area.

National Senior’s Week – St Joseph’s Showcase

St Joseph’s, in partnership with Jubilee Community Care, hosted a Seniors Showcase in our school hall today. 13

senior citizens from our Parish area set up displays and shared their wisdom, special interests and life stories with our

Year 4, 5 & 6 students. The showcase aligns with the Religious Life of our School as our students gave witness to the

wider community through hospitality and welcome. A highlight of the day was our Year 5 Choir singing And the

band sang ‘Waltzing Matilda’. The Senior Citizens were most impressed with the energy, enthusiasm and respect of

our students and left our school this afternoon feeling valued and appreciated.

Upcoming Class Mass Times

As part of the Religious Life of our School our students and teachers lead Parish Mass on Tuesday mornings at

9am. Parents and Parishioners are most welcome to join the leadership team and class parent representatives after

Mass for a Cuppa and Conversation.

Upcoming Community Prayer

As a Christ centred and welcoming learning community, we invite all who are part of St Joseph’s to join in prayer on the first Friday of the

month (during school term). Our next Community Prayer will be held on 4 September at 8am in the Church and will have a focus on Fathers. I

encourage everyone, especially the special men in our children’s lives, to join us in prayer on this morning, as we honour and celebrate God’s

gift of fathers..

Parish Confirmation and First Eucharist

We continue to hold the children preparing for Confirmation and First Eucharist in our Parish in our prayers. On Wednesday 9th September,

these children will participate in a retreat with candidates from our sister Jubilee schools … more information coming home soon.

Woolworths Earn and Learn

DOUBLE STICKERS this weekend – Friday, Saturday and Sunday!

Parent Portal

If you have not yet logged into the Parent Portal – please do! In the coming week we will be sending a follow up invitation

with log-in details to those who have not yet accessed our Parent Portal.

Feature of the Week: Calendar

The Calendar tile of the Parent Portal will take you our school calendar which includes regular events, special events,

excursions etc.

Orange Sky Laundry

On Monday’s Assembly, St Joseph’s presented over 500 pairs of socks to Lucas from Orange Sky

Laundry.

Amy Luscombe

Assistant Principal (Religious Education)

Date and Time Class Special Focus

25 August 9am Preps, Year 5 and 6 Buddies - Creation

1 September 9am Year 2

8 September 9am Year 4 Sacraments of Initiation

15 September 9am Year 1 Grandparents

Australian Girls Choir School Assessment Workshop

We wish to advise that a representative from the Australian Girls Choir will be at school this coming Monday 24 August at

9am to conduct an Assessment Workshop. Forms to take part in this workshop were previously sent home.

Student Class

Indiana H Prep B

Tashi W Prep G

Louis S Prep W

Adelisse P 1B

Lucinda S 1G

Patrick O 1W

Chloe L 2B

Emma F 2G

Alexander J 2W

Jordan C 3B

Sebastian D 3G

Emily G 3W

Ruby L 4B

Angelos S

(last week Emily D-M)

4G

Tayla W 4W

Elizabeth C 5B

Ella C 6B

Have you changed your contact details?

If you have had a change of details, please contact the office via the

Parent Portal or email pbardon@bne.catholic.edu.au to ensure that

your details are up to date.

St Josephs Secondhand Uniform Shop

MONDAY 31st of AUGUST

When - 8-9am

Where - the usual spot outside Bardon House Please note that this is a change from the usual Friday morning.

Everything $2!

St Joseph’s Bardon Market

Showcasing the wonderful sustainability program and

practices that take place at St. Joseph’s.

Students, parents and community memebers are invited to

the Bardon Market.

When: Wednesday 16th of September from 7:45am.

Where: Green space between the edible garden and the Year 1

classrooms.

LIBRARY NEWS Calling all young writers! Entries are now open for the Young Writers Award, a unique opportunity for children aged between 9 and 13 to become published authors. The award provides a platform for young writers to showcase their story telling abilities in the form of either a short story, or a picture book. The winners in each category will enjoy the thrill of seeing their story illustrated and printed as both a hard copy and e-book. More information can be found here. http://www.youngwritersaward.com.au/

Mrs Gardiner will be co-ordinating this writing opportunity for any St Joseph’s student turning 9 this year up to the age 13. Please encourage your child to visit her in the Library for more information about this exciting opportunity and the possibility of seeing their work published. Book Club Change In our last newsletter I advised that I would not be handing out Issue 6 Book Club due to our Carnival Book Fair in Week 9. Upon receiving this issue, I feel there are many great choices for purchase and I know many families rely on this club to source quality titles for their children. With that in mind, I have decided to hand it out. Please look for this in your child’s bag this week. Issue 6 will run for a short time only and orders must be back at school by Thursday the 21st of August (Week 7) Teacher Colouring Competition As you walk past the Library windows this week, you will see some Book Week colouring on display. These are the efforts of our teachers. Please take the time to view them, then pop into the Library and vote for your favourite. These are numbered as the names of the owners will only be revealed when the winner is announced during Book Week! Thank you Amanda Gardiner Teacher Librarian

Music News

Why teach music in schools?

“Music educators have long recognised the substantive contribution that music education can make to the

development of unique aesthetic and intellectual abilities as well as the acquisition of relevant life skills such as

time management, decision-making, goal setting, personal planning, critical thinking, self-directed learning,

interpersonal skills and self-confidence.” Extract from Music in Action.

Choral festival News

Not long now for our Year 5 students performing in our Choral Festival concert on Tuesday 15th September at

7.00pm at St Francis Xavier Primary School, Goodna.

Information for parents about the night, directions to the venue as well as a bus permission form for the day time

rehearsal only will be sent home closer to the date. Tickets will be available also closer to the date from the school

office. Keep learning those words Year 5’s and the actions for the 21 songs that you will be singing on the night.

St Joseph’s Senior Band

Congratulations to our wonderful Senior Band who scored a Gold at the Catholic Colleges Music Festival at

Villanova last Friday night. Well done to all of the students playing and to Mrs. Pendrith their fabulous conductor.

Well done everyone! Many thanks to Mrs. Burke who organized the bus for transport to and from the venue and to

Mrs. Luscombe for her support on the night.

Dress Rehearsal will be on Thursday 27th for the whole school at 2.00pm in the hall. – this is a week before the

musical performances. Please make sure students are in their black long pants, black socks and shoes with their

musical t/shirts for the day. Students with costumes will change into these at school. No make –up is required on

this day – some main characters are having trial make-up done on this day. There is no after school rehearsal for

Preps to Year 3’s with Year 4’s , 5’s and 6’s rehearsing until 4.15pm as previously advised. This will be the

last after school rehearsal for these children.

Thank you to our wonderful School Officers and parents who have been busily making and sewing for our school

musical. We appreciate all your efforts and your time so much.

Stay tuned!

Rosemary Zorzetto

ZONE ATHLETICS

Congratulations to the 56 students who represented St Joseph’s Bardon at the Zone Athletics

Carnival this week at Leslie Patrick Park, Arana Hills. The boys and girls were a credit to the

school and all competed with enthusiasm and great effort. A big thank you to the eight Year

4 boys who competed in older age groups for St Joseph’s team points. There were so many

fantastic individual results unfortunately I cannot name them all as it would take up the whole newsletter. St

Joseph’s Junior Boys (8 and 9 years) won the track category and St Joseph’s finished 1st in the overall field

events and after the 2 days overall in the ‘B Schools’ competition we finished 2nd – great team effort

everyone.

The team is listed below

8 Years – Rosie P, Ellen F, Stella T, Charlotte R, Ava M, Ella T, Blake P, Flynn H, Asher P, Aidan S, Sam L,

Will C

9 Years – Grace M, Aspen T, Emily F, Ella D, Zoe Q, Sierra M, Lachlan M, Alessandro B, Joseph W, Henry

O, Josh S, Charlie C, Charlie G, Tom H

10 Years – Libby H, Sophie H, Grace S, Elizabeth C, Lily B, Sofia M, Emily D, George D, Alex C, Michael H,

JJ G, Oliver F

10 Years running up in 11 Years – Ryan W, Jackson B, Denis S

10 Years running up in 12 Years – Flynn H, Luca T, Angelos S, Charlie S, Harry C

11 Years – Ellen G, Claudia L, Lily A, Lucy M, Mia S, Dylan S

12 Years – Siena D, Ella C, Jess K, Chloe D

Good luck to Siena D, Ella C, Claudia L and Ellen G who are competing for North West Districts in the

Regional Athletics Carnival next week, we wish you all the best.

Christie Lewis

PE Teacher

Musical Tickets Musical Tickets are now available for purchase. Please see below for payment options:

Musical tickets - $8 per seat

4 methods of payment

Direct Deposit to St Joseph’s School bank account BSB 064-786 Acc. 516376001 (state eldest child’s name,

class and night attending)

EFT at the office

EFT over the phone

Cash on the night at the door. (This is our least preferred option!)

Tickets will be issued from the office and sent home in envelopes. Please ensure you check your child’s bag for

tickets.

School Fee Statements

The due date for Term 3 fees is fast approaching (tomorrow 21st August). Thank you to the many

parents who have already forwarded payment. We would also like to advise that moving forward,

we will be emailing School fee Statements. The email address will be the same as that recorded in

the School’s Administration system for the registered fee payer. Could we please request, if you

DO NOT wish to receive your fee statement via email, that you contact the office.

Occasionally there may be issues with families receiving the email due to personal email settings for spam emails.

The sending address will be PBARfinance@bne.catholic.edu.au so we ask that you add this address to your safe

senders group if necessary.

Please contact Mandy Hodge (Finance Secretary) on 3369 3020 if you have any queries.

TENNIS COURT BOOKINGS

As you may know, one or both of our two (2) tennis courts here at St Joseph’s are available for hire at

the rate of:

$10 per hour during the day; or

$12 per hour when lights used

BOOKINGS

Online booking can be made:

Online at www.stjosephsbardon.qld.edu.au – see the link for TENNIS COURT BOOKINGS (under ‘Quick

Links’)

OR Email – stjoeystennis@gmail.com

The calendar of tennis court bookings can be found at :

https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=stjoeystennis%40gmail.com&ctz=Australia/Brisbane

The P&F are happy to share with you all our monthly meeting agenda a week prior to our meetings in the school

newsletter. The P&F are hoping that this will give you all the opportunity to view the meeting’s agenda items. We encourage

you also to provide any suggestions/feedback to the Committee on the agenda items. Come along to our meetings if there is a

particular agenda item that might interest you.

Meeting are held on the second Tuesday of term months at 7.00pm.

You can access the past minutes from P&F on the School website under the Parents and Friends Tab.

If you have any suggestions/feedback for our future agendas please email Denise Kerr on kerrdn@gmail.com .

Barista Training

Carolyn and Andrew Keogh would like to sponsor 5 parents to be trained as baristas for the school coffee machine.

The course will be held from 9-12pm on Tuesday 25th August. If you are interested in being trained as a barista and

would like to volunteer for the coffee cart at school, please email Andrew at andrew@calibrerealestate.com.au.

4th Annual Joey’s Race Day

Internet privacy in an

age of oversharing

We are holding an information session for

parents on:

Monday 7 September, 7pm

@ Mater Dei School, Ashgrove West.

Please register at http://www.trybooking.com/152673

Join in the discussion with an

ACMA Cybersmart expert.

Arm yourself with the knowledge of ‘what’s trending’ and how to assist your child navigate safety online.

www.cybersmart.gov.au

Netball News

Congratulations to the Year 6 students, Caitlin G, Isabelle M and Jessica K (who play for Valleys 21) for winning their game in

the Semi-Finals. Their team has now progressed to the Preliminary Finals, to be played this Saturday, 22 August at Downey

Park. Best of luck!