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FRIDAY, 14 t h November, 2014
Week 6 Term 4
PRAYER FOR THE WEEK
Father in Heaven, we praise you for the many gifts that
you have given us. Amen.
OUR HELPING HANDS – ST AGNES’ PARISH
CHRISTMAS HAMPER APPEAL
Our school community once again demonstrated immense
generosity in donating to the St Agnes’ Parish Christmas
Hamper Appeal today. If you have any last minute
donations, please send them in early next week as we’ll
send our baskets over to the Parish on Tuesday.
remembering the true meaning of Christmas. The P & F will
need helpers on the evening to man stalls for the BBQ, battery
operated tea-lights, glow sticks and fingers as well as cold
drinks. Please contact the Office if you are able to volunteer!
The iPad raffle will be drawn on the night - good luck!
INITIATIVES FOR GOOD HEALTH
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Our Intensive Swimming Program will begin on
Monday for Kindergarten to Year 2. It is important
that children come with the equipment they need
every day to take full advantage of this possible life
saving program. Living in Port Macquarie, it is
essential that children become competent swimmers.
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In the interest of good nutrition and to maximum
learning and concentration, lollies are not allowed to
be consumed before recess. Our mid-morning ‘Crunch
& Sip’ is a great way to ensure your child eats a piece
of fruit or veg that may otherwise be overlooked
during busy play times. Please ensure fruit and veg is
prepared so that it is easily eaten in the 5-10 minute
break.
As we enter the festive season, it would be helpful to
minimise the amount of lollies sent to school and
preferable for children not to bring candy cane to
share with friends as the extra sugar is not conducive
to concentration or ‘strong’ and healthy teeth.
A ‘TASTE’ FOR THE NEW – K & 7 Orientations
Year 6 will attend their Orientation Day at either St Paul’s or St
Joseph’s Regional College next Friday. We are certain that the
students will return home excited about the prospect of
secondary school. Next week, our Kindergarten students for
2015 will attend their Orientation morning either on
Wednesday or Thursday. Parents and carers will attend an
Information Evening on Thursday from 7pm in the MPA. All
Kindergarten 2015 students will return to ‘big school’ the
following Thursday morning for their second Orientation
experience. There are some useful links on our website to
support your children and family if you are at one of these
milestone times- listed under Parent Education.
BAGO FAMILY A-FAIR LOOMS
We pray that we are bathed in sunshine next Sunday, 23rd
November to enjoy great company, music, food and
entertainment amongst the vines at Bago Winery. Thank you to
those parents and carers who have returned the green ‘Helpers
Slip’ and have offered to assist with the running of the day. We
encourage you to help for a little while on the day- it is a great
way to meet some new acquaintances and give someone a
break. While Bago is a wonderful social occasion, the P & F is
driving support to raise money to modernise and
contemporise our Hub furniture and settings to support our
children’s contemporary learning.
P & F AGM TUESDAY EVENING – 7 pm
You are invited to come along to the P & F AGM next Tuesday
evening. St Joseph’s is an outstanding school, where we are
continuing to build our home-school partnership for the benefit
of our children. The P & F is a great forum for hearing about
what’s happening at school, being able to input into plans as
well as providing essential social and fundraising events. We
hope to see you there!
NO SILENT NIGHT – Carols Evening, Wednesday, 3rd
December
St Joseph’s grounds will provide a great ‘chorus’ of voices when
we hold our Carols by Candlelight evening on Wednesday, 3rd
December. A flyer will go home on Monday with details of the
evening. Children will take turns to lead us in singing Carols and
Remember, if you have a concern, would like to
express your appreciation or are uncertain about
anything, please phone, email or call in and see us.
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POSITIVE PARTNERSHIPS PRESENTATION – A WHOLE
SCHOOL APPROACH TO SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH
AUTISM
The Positive Partnerships project is a Federal Government
initiative to assist schools develop a whole school approach to
supporting children with additional needs, particularly Autism.
Our school, through the collaboration of the Additional Needs
Team, Diocesan consultants, our whole staff and a wider
network of regional educators and allied health professionals
have ensured that our school has a consistent whole school
approach to supporting children with Autism. You are
encouraged to visit the Positive Partnerships website to access
many fantastic resources that can support the learning, wellbeing and parenting of all children. If you would like to find out
more about Autism Spectrum in particular, then complete the
‘Introduction to Autism’ module. Go to:
http://www.positivepartnerships.com.au/public/index.cfm
With every best wish,
Geoff Leary & Leisa Fisher
Principal – Mr Geoff Leary
Assistant Principal – Mrs Leisa Fisher
Email - [email protected]
Website – http://www.pmacjlism.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 6583 3848
Fax: 6583 6976
SUNSHINE CAFE ROSTER
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Monday, 17 November
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Tuesday, 18 November
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Wednesday, 19 November
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Thursday, 20 November
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Friday, 21 November
Week 7 Term 4
TRACEY PRESTON, HELP PLEASE!!
SARAH MORGAN, BEVERLY FORSYTH
DEBBIE DAVIS, CADY LOUGHLAND
HELP, HELP PLEASE!!
JACKIE SKINNER
If you are unable to attend on your rostered day it would be appreciated if you could
organise your replacement. This would really help Annemaree enormously!!
BOOKPACKS 2015
A note has gone home explaining the cost and organisation for Book Packs. Each child is required to have a Book Pack. The note is on
our website for future reference as it also lists the other equipment that children in each grade require. A reminder that we now have
EFTPOS available when you are settling your account.
OUTSTANDING BILLS
Parents/carers are requested to pay all outstanding fees for sport, any excursions and book packs as soon as possible. Statements have
gone home regularly, however there is a considerable amount of money still owing. Your assistance with prompt payment would be
appreciated as we only have a few weeks to pay all our creditors.
INTENSIVE SWIMMING – Kindergarten To Year 2 Students will need to bring their:th
swimmers, rashies, undies, towel, goggles and thongs/crocs every day during Intensive Swimming (Monday, 17 November until Friday
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28 November). Please make sure that every item is clearly labelled including the children’s school uniform and the swimming gear is
kept in a separate bag inside their regular school bag. K-2 will have altered recess and lunch times, so will not be able to order hot food
in lunch orders. The cost for the program is $72.50 and there will be a sports voucher lucky prize draw for those who have paid the full
cost of the program in advance. Otherwise, the cost per student is $6.70 per day. Please keep up to date with payments and seal the
correct amount of money in an envelope clearly marked with your child’s name and class.
KINDER SWIMMING
11:30AM-12:10PM
YEAR 2 SWIMMING
12:10PM-12:50PM
YEAR 1 SWIMMING
12:50-1:30PM
If you would like to observe your child’s progress through the program, it is advised that the best days to watch would be the 1st, 5th and
9th days. Spectator’s admission fee is $1. The K-2 fun swimming carnival will be held on Tuesday, 2nd December. For your
information the swimming carnival timetable is mentioned in our forward dates section.
P & F NEWS
Here we are coming to the end of another busy year
at St Joseph’s and I’m sure many of us are
wondering the same thing - where did the year go?
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Next Tuesday night, the 18 is our final P&F meeting
for the year. Importantly, it is also our AGM where
we look to elect the P&F executive for next year.
Anyone who thinks they may have an interest in
becoming involved with our P&F is encouraged to
attend the meeting next week. Don’t worry, you won’t
get given a job unless it’s something you feel like
having a go at. Having said that, we do encourage
anybody who may be considering taking on a more
active role in the P&F then we will be more than
happy to outline exactly what a particular role may
entail. If you don’t feel at the moment that you wish
to take on a specific role, please still feel very
welcome to come along to the meeting to get an idea
of what the P&F actually does. As always the more
helping hands we have, the easier everyone’s job is,
and the more we can accomplish for our kids. Hope
to see as many of you as possible next Tuesday at
7pm so we can make sure that the great work of our
P&F continues stronger than ever next year.
Directly following the AGM, there will be a short
regular meeting to discuss upcoming events at the
school and to make some early plans regarding
dates for school events next year.
Dear parents, it is that very exciting time of the year again. We get to
welcome new families into our school environment. Our new
Kindergarten children and parents will be visiting next Wednesday and
Thursday mornings. We have invited the new parents to join us for a
morning tea and tour of the school whilst their children are meeting the
Kindergarten teachers.
It would be really lovely if some of our current kindergarten parents and
other parents of our school could spare some time to also join us at the
morning teas to help us make our new families feel welcome. They will
start at 9.30am on both mornings.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Peta Rourke
Parent Assembly
Congratulations on the birth of beautiful Macey on Saturday, 8
November. Macey’s big sister is Annie Walker, 5B.
WHAT’S ON NEXT WEEK
Monday
17th
November
Core Executive Meeting – 7:45am
Assembly – 9am – Hall
K-2 Intensive Swimming Program (all week)
Early Bird Reading & Homework Help – 8:30am
Band 8am and Music Tuition
Band Concert – 9am – MPA for Years 2-4
Kenny Little’s Fruit & Veg Platters – Crunch & Sip Break
Staff Meeting – 3:30pm – Mathematics
P&F AGM – 7pm – Staff Room
Professional Learning Community Meeting – 8:15am – Student Proclaim
2015
Drama – lunch time – Mrs T
Kindergarten 2015 Orientation Morning
School Review & Development – Mr Leary - Yamba
Joey’s Senior Glee Club – 8:10am – Hall – Mrs Hawkins
Early Bird Reading & Homework Help – 8:30am
Kindergarten 2015 Orientation Morning
Bago Kid’s Corner Working Bee – 2pm-3pm in the canteen
Kindergarten 2015 Parent Information Evening – 7pm
Penitential Rite – Year 4 – Father Amila
Sport
PAL Meeting – 7:45am – Mr Leary, Mrs Fisher & Mrs Preston
Staff Meeting 8:20am – Prayer & Pastoral Care
Year 6 Orientation to High School Day – St Joseph’s Regional & St Pauls
Diocesan Summer Sports – Lismore
NO Assembly
P&F Bago Family-A-Fair – Bago Vineyard
Tuesday
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18 November
Wednesday
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19 November
Thursday
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20 November
Friday
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21 November
Sunday, 23
November
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PRIMARY AWARDS
3C
4D
5B
6G
CHARLIE OSBORN
WILLIAM KELLY
HARRISON BROWN
ASTRID FAIRHURST
KHIARA BOURKE
GRADY BULL
JONATHAN SEDGWICK
3R
4S
5K
MASON MOORE
KYE HOFMAN
KODY BATTERSON
6P
DANIELLE WILSON McCUNE
JOSH DAVIS
AARON NGUYEN
HARRY COUTTIE
SOFIA SPINAZZA
NATHAN SMITH
KOBE ROSER
ELLA SHAW
JAYKE McCANN
JORGIEAH PERRY
OCIA CHAPMAN
KIARA HOUSTON
BRIDIE PARKE
KYLE CHAPMAN
Advance Dates
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Thursday 27 November
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Friday, 28 November
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Friday, 28 November
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Week 7 Term 4
Second Kindergarten 2015 Orientation Day
K-YR2 – Intensive Learn to Swim Program finishes
Indigenous Parents, Carers & Children Christmas Party –
2:30pm
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Sunday, 30 November
St Joseph’s Youth Mass – 5 pm – St Agnes’ Church
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Tuesday, 2 December
Infants Swimming Carnival
Timetable:- Kindy - 9:30-10:30am, Year 2 - 10:30-11:30am, Year 1 - 11:30am-12:30pm
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Wednesday, 3 December Christmas Carols Evening
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Friday, 5 December
Thank you to Volunteers afternoon tea 2pm followed by
Assembly - 2:30pm
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Wednesday, 10 December End of Year Mass – noon – St Agnes Church
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Monday, 15 December
Year 6 Graduation Mass & Dinner Dance
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Tuesday, 16 December
Year 6 Affirmation Ceremony 9:30am
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Tuesday, 16 December
Year 6 ‘Fun Day’
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Thursday, 18 December
Last day for students in Term 4
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Friday, 19 December
Staff Development Day – pupil free
Forward dates are noted on our School Google Calendar
which can be found on our Website.
NOTES SENT HOME THIS WEEK –
Permission notes and/or money must
be returned to school for a child to be
able to attend any excursion.
* School Photos
* Bago Family A-Fair info & helpers note
* Kid’s Corner - Joey’s mum’s Needed
note - volunteers needed for working
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bee 20 Nov and on the 23 Nov.
INFANTS AWARDS
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1K
1M
2K
2M
MILLA SWAIN
KEIRA DONOVAN
JACKSON FILIPEK
MARLAN WARDROP
DARCY McHUGH
SOPHIE HOLMES
SUMMER SHAFER
ANGUS FIRTH
ETHAN MUELLER
HARVEY SINCLAIR
TARA WINDSOR
MIKAYLA BERNE
JAYCE CAMERON
NICHOLAS HONEYSETT
JORJA PAINE
AIDEN LOUGHLAND
LUKE WILLIAMS
CHICKENPOX ALERT
A further 2 cases of chickenpox have been
reported to our school this week, 1 in
Infants and 1 in Primary.
Chickenpox (varicella) is a common viral
infection that can reappear later in life as
shingles. Symptoms consist of sudden
onset of slight fever, runny nose, feeling
generally unwell and a skin rash which
usually begin as small lumps that turn into
blisters and then scabs.
The rash appears over 3 to 4 days.
Please be vigilant in keeping your kids at
home if at all feeling unwell.
HELPERS NEEDED FOR BAGO
FAMILY-A-FAIR
Sunday, 23rd November
(Please refer to parent helper’s
note sent out this week)
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KID’S CORNER – HELP WANTED
Working Bee – Canteen Thurs, 20th
November from 2pm until 3pm
KID’S CORNER – 23rd November
Volunteers needed for baking
cupcakes, assist with setting up,
packing up and assisting with stalls
(please refer to Kid’s Corner helper’s
note sent out this week)
JOEY’S BUSINESS LISTINGS
We thank these
businesses for their
generosity in supporting
our School.
Please mention that you
saw their ad in Joey’s
Jottings.
Our services can help you
with your school
projects:
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School books
Stationery
Laminating
Binding
Scanning
Poster Printing
Colour copying & Printing
Opening Hours:
Monday – Friday 8.30am- 5pm
– Sat 9.00am – 1pm
Page 5 Office National,
150 Lake Road,
Port Macquarie 2444
Tel: 65811011 Fax: 65811081
Email: [email protected]
Ken Little’s Quality Fruit & Veg
35 Munster Street, Port Macquarie Phone: 6583 5685
Supplying both retail & wholesale customers for
30 years. Free home deliveries in the Port Macquarie
area for any orders over $10.
e-mail:[email protected]
If you would like to
advertise your business
on this page
please call the School Office
– we would be pleased
to assist you.