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ST JOSEPH’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
Telephone: 02 6959 2238
Fax: 02 6959 3006
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sjnww.org
5th November 2014
SJS CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Week 5
Thursday 6th November
* Active After School Sport
* Bendigo School Banking
* Kinder Transition
Friday 7th November
* Dance Education Ensemble
Week 6
Monday 10th November
* Year 3 Transition
Tuesday 11th November
* Active After School Sport
Wednesday 12th November
* Life Education Van Visits
Thursday 13th November
* Active After School Sport
* Bendigo School Banking
* Kinder Transition
* Life Education Van Visits
P.O. Box 248
68-74 Audley Street
NARRANDERA NSW 2700
NEWSLETTER 34/2014
Spring Fair
Despite the inclement weather a wonderful atmosphere was
present at the recent Spring Fair. I would like to thank the
organisers for all of their hard work and anyone who contributed
to the Spring Fair.
Naplan Results
I have now had the opportunity to look more closely at our 2014
Naplan results using authentic data. The children have made
significant growth from Years 3 to 5 in Spelling, Grammar and
Punctuation, Reading and Writing. This is a great result. Well
done boys and girls and teachers, K to 6.
School Council
A number of School Council Members will be required to stand
down as they are approaching the end of their term. You may be
tapped on the should by a current member and asked if you
would consider standing for membership. If so, please give the
request serious consideration. Being a School Council member is
not a time consuming and difficult task. From what I am told, it is
an enjoyable experience.
Graeme Urquhart,
Principal
Week 7
Monday 17th November
* Life Education Van Visits
Tuesday 18th November
* Active After School Sport
BOOK CLUB
Book Club Orders are due back to
School by Friday 21st November.
RELIGION
Reconciliation
Year 2 have started preparing for the Sacrament
of Reconciliation. The children will receive this
Sacrament on Monday 17th November at St
Mel’s Church. Afterwards there will be a shared
supper in the Hall. You are most welcome to join in this Celebration with Year 2 and if you
would like to share supper with us please come along and bring a plate.
Parish School Mass
On Saturday 22 November at the 6:00pm Parish Mass there will be a School Mass. Stage 3
children will be responsible for the readings, offertory and other parts of the celebration,
however all the children and families from our school are welcome to attend.
Mass Times at St Mel’s
Saturday 6:00pm
Sunday 9.30am
Julie Flynn
Religious Coordinator
SPORT
NSW Primary Schools State Team
Lilly Hewitt is selling raffle tickets to help with the cost of attending the National Athletic Titles in
Tasmania this month.
Price: $2.00 each
Prizes: Ist Laptop Notebook Computer
2nd LED TV ( approx. 25’’)
3rd ipod shuffle
4th ipod shuffle
5th ipod shuffle
Prizes Drawn: 15th February 2015
Money needs to be in by the 30th of November.
If you would like to support Lilly by buying a ticket, please put your money into envelope and
send it to school labelled; Lilly Hewitt National Titles, Your name and the money inside and Lilly
will write you out a ticket/s and return them in the envelope to you.
Thank you, it would be wonderful to show our support for her in this way.
Marie O’Brien
Sports Coordinator
School Concert
I would like to thank you for supporting our recent school concert. We were totally booked out on both
evenings. I would also like to thank everyone who helped make the concert the spectactular event it was.
In particular I would like to thank Mrs Walsh. It was a wonderful night enjoyed by everyone, particularly
the children. Well done one and all.
Graeme Urquhart
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School Concert
School Readers & Books
We all love it when you take books and readers home for pleasure or practice. However
now is the time to riffle through your bookshelves and under the bed to find any books
stamped with St Joseph’s School. You never know what you will find!!
Thank you
Mrs Smith
Calendars - Spring Fair
A big thank you to all those people who ordered a calendar, diary or cards at the Spring
Fair. Once again the children showed us what creative kids we have at our school as their
artwork looked fantastic. If you missed out on placing on order, it's not too late. I will be
sending the parcel away this Friday so please ring me if you still wish to place an order.
Remember that the personal photo's are always on option. Give me a call and we can
organise that too.
My mobile number is 0409 695999.
Kate Hall
Spring Fair Update – that’s a wrap!
Despite the weather, what a fabulous day!
There are many people to thank! Please take the time to read to the end, because each of these people
donated time and effort, and in many cases, personal funds to maximise our fundraising at the Spring
Fair. All the fundraising benefits all of the children at our school.
Raffle winners:
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Major Raffle winners: 1st Betty Dolan, 2nd John Hoban, 3rd Fraser Family
Hutcheon A&G header raffle won by: Amanda Pearson
Cake raffle won by: 1st Paul Little, 2nd Rachel Pearson
Jelly Bean guessing won by: Bernadette Irvin
Spinning Wheel winners:
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Greg Lawrence
Donna McPherson
Tom Ryan
Kellie Craze
Kelly Smith
Drinks & Popcorn: a note from Leanne Trengrove “On behalf of James and myself, I would like to say
how much we have enjoyed running the drinks and popcorn stall over the past 8 years. We would like to
thank our helpers, especially Elaine Odgers and the Narrandera District Hospital for donating the ice.
Many thanks to Toni and Dean Kerr for continuing to run the stall and we wish them well for future
years.” And the rest of us would like to sincerely thank Leanne and James for being the least fuss stall
captains ever. Nothing was ever a problem, it always just ran like clockwork.
Mitchell’s Super Surprise: thank you so much to the entire Mitchell family for their creative and
interesting activities – and GOOP – over the past six children! They haven’t been able to have a stall every
year, but it has been a very popular event when they have.
Cake Stall: Cleo Fraser would like to especially thank everyone who was able to donate cakes, slices and
other produce. We are very lucky to have such generous people. Thank you to the cake stall helpers –
Vanessa Hoffman, Debbie Paterson, Linda Ball and Aki Brew for her donation of sushi. A big thanks to
Zarah Curtis for her wonderful creations for the cake raffles.
Major Raffle: Special thanks to Annette Perry, Sue Harrison and Linda Maskus who volunteered their
time to sell raffle tickets.
Rotary BBQ: Ann Vearing would like to thank ex-Mum Donna McPherson for working alongside her all
day. Thanks also to all the Rotary volunteers who came and made our jobs so easy, plus Darren Gray and
Christy Morton for hours of preparation.
Morning Tea: Thanks from Ruth, Toni and Lynda to the ladies who gave up their time on the day;
Narrandera High School for the loan of their coffee machine which enabled us to sell ‘real coffees’; Trent’s
Café for coffee beans and the loan of coffee mugs; Manildra Flour Mill for scone mix; Coles for their
generous donation.
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Spring Fair Update – that’s a wrap!
Plants, Show Bags and Jelly Bean Guessing, Nail & Hair Fashions, Face Painting, Homemade
Goods, Calendars, Spinning Wheel, Lucky Dips, Mr MC and Treasury, Pony Rides:
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Robyn Morrice, Pat Hayllar and Plant Stall helpers
All the members of the Ostler family who manned their own stall and were everywhere else too
Emma Sergeant, Sally Gillespie, Kelly Smith and their team
Roz and Jaz Demamiel
Jessica Forrest and Amelia Gillespie for making items to sell and manning their own stall
Kate Hall for organising the calendars and everyone who had a turn manning the table
Fire Brigade members who sold lots of spinning wheel tickets (and bought lots from the BBQ)
Cyd and Clancy Ryan and Jasmine Fraser for manning the lucky dips
Matt McLellan for sterling work on the mike in trying conditions
Bridey Hugo for floats and money management
Erin Anderson, Kate Parry and their helpers and ponies
Chris Kschenka for brilliant sound as always
Rooster and Sue Forrest for a special trip to town delivering Corobimilla Fire Brigade tents (which came
in really useful)
Staff Activities & Stalls: Books, badges, bags, balloons and recycled goods! Thank you all for giving up
your Saturday to provide all these activities. Thank you to the Year 6 volunteers who helped to run the
Book Stall, and thanks to Mrs Darrington for ongoing help with collection of goods, cakes, raffle tickets,
finding keys, copying, etc, etc.
Fusion: Thank you to Eiley Armida and the volunteers from Fusion who stayed around to outlast the
weather and who managed to run some great fun activities once the rain eased up.
Dragonfly Entertainment: Shame about the weather as it meant we didn’t get to enjoy enough
bouncing (particularly the grown-ups).
Site Set-Up / Shut-Down: Thank you to all those families who arrived from 8am to start setting up and
to those who stayed after the fair to pack it all up again. This was made harder because of the rain, but
everyone kept on going. There were many husbands of stall captains, but instead of naming some and
missing others … a BIG THANK YOU to one and all.
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Spring Fair Update – that’s a wrap!
Sponsors: Thank you to those local businesses who supported the Spring Fair by way of Spinning Wheel
vouchers, cash donations and goods. Please help to support these businesses that support our school.
Thanks also to businesses that helped with selling raffle tickets.
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Ainsworth Hairdressers
Area Pre-mix
Auswild & Broad Accountants
Barbara’s Fresh Soft Serve Ice Cream
BodyShop (Amy Buchanan)
Coles Supermarket
Custom Music
Daly Movement
De Martin Engineering
Dream Candles (Karen Hands)
Duff’s Mitre 10
Expose Photography
GS & BD Electrics
Hairdilemma
Hope Candles (Cassie Jess)
Hutcheon A & G
Jo’s Store
Lake Talbot Swimming Pool
Landmark
Lions Club Narrandera
Manildra Mill
MD & NK Hoare Furniture Removals
Mulhall & Close Narrandera Pharmacy
Nadine Harrison’s PhotoBooth
Narrandera Auto Wreckers
Narrandera Bakery
Narrandera Community Bank
Narrandera Ex-Servicemen’s Club
Narrandera Gourmet Meats
Narrandera Jewellers
Narrandera Joinery
New Criterion
Petrol Pump Clothing
RK Fraser & Co
Rotary Club Narrandera
Soroptimists Club Narrandera
Sweet Never Endings
TA Ryan Electrical Contractor
The Early Opener
Trent’s Café
W Clarke & Sons
Thank you to one and all that helped the P&F to make the Spring Fair a success this year!
Tumut Gymkhana
Congratulations to Andrew, Jordan and Cohen Tunks. The boys, pictured with their prize ribbons,
competed at the Tumut Gymkhana last weekend.
Andrew (Year 4)
1st—Flag race
1st—Mug race
1st—Walk, trot, lead
2nd—Tyre race
3rd—Bounce pony
2nd—Teampenning
Jordan (Year 2)
2nd—Teampenning
Cohen (Kinder)
1st—Teampenning
2nd—Walk, trot, lead
2nd—Bounce pony
AWARDS
Congratulations to the following students who received awards last
week;
Year 6: Lara DeMamiel, Lilly Hewitt, Mackensie Dodwell,
Mahni Ireland, Lucy Litchfield
Year 5: Naomi Selten, Amelia Gillespie
Year 4: Lachlan Kerr, Rene McLeod
Year 3: Mia Manley, Cameron McLean, Lydia Murcia
Year 2: Ellie Hall, Daniel Harrison, Joe Foley, Clancy Ryan
Year 1: Lara Hoffman, Zoe Achison, Blake Kirk
Kinder: Ava Trimper, Alyssa Sweeney, Felix Warren-Porteous
To the following Students are celebrating their
birthdays over the coming week;
Archie Smith and Ben Pearson
We hope you all have a fantastic day!
CANTEEN HOURS (2014 TERM 4) - 8.30am—1.30pm
CANTEEN ROSTER
Friday 7th November
Monday 10th November
Vanessa Hoffman
Heather Ostler & Nicole Beard
The Bush Fire Danger Period has
commenced for the Local
Government Areas of Carrathool,
Griffith, Hay, Leeton,
Murrumbidgee and Narrandera.
With this in mind no fires are allowed to be lit
without a Fire Permit, including house hold
incinerators . Fire Permits can be obtained by
contacting your local Brigade Captain. If you
need their contact details, please contact the
Fire Control Centre on 6966 7800.
Fires with a Permit can be lit from 4pm and
must be extinguished by Midnight, Monday Friday. No fires are to be lit on Saturdays,
Sundays or Public Holidays.
For further information, go
to www.rfs.nsw.gov.au or contact the
Fire Control Centre on 6966 7800.
A ST VINCENT de PAUL
‘ SUMMER KIDS CAMP’
will be held at the Snowy River
School Camp site at
Tallangatta (Victoria) from
19th—23rd of January 2015.
Children 6—12 years of age are
eligible to apply. This camp is
designed to cater for children who do
not ordinarily get to enjoy an ‘away’
holiday throughout the year.
Information and application forms are
available at the St Vincent de Paul
Shop in East Street.
APPLICATIONS CLOSE
MONDAY, 14th NOVEMBER.
Allow four days for mail delivery of
application to St Vincent de Paul
Society in Wagga.
2014 School & House Captains’ Photos
School & House Captains’ photos are
available for anyone wishing to purchase
them at a cost of $15 each. The photos are
available to view in the office. Orders should
be received at the office no later than Friday
7th November.
Have we got your Email Address??
We send the Newsletters and often other
School information home via email. If
you are not receiving this information
please call into the office to update your
details.
If you or someone you know from our
School has participated in activities outside of school and you would like to share
it with us, please send your information
including a photo (if you have one) in
electronic form to
[email protected]
LIMTED STOCK OFFER
Schoolbag, Non elastic tie and Hat
Special Price $65.00
Offer Available only while stocks last.
The Life Education Van Timetable
Wednesday 12th November
Kinder & Year 6
Thursday 13th November
Year 1, Year 2 & Year 5
Monday 17th November
Year 3 & Year 4