ST JOSEPH’S PRIMARY SCHOOL 28 SANDHAM STREET ELSTERNWICK 3185

NO. 39 6/12/2016

2016 – PUBLIC HOLIDAYS & OTHER NOTABLE DATES

7 December (Wednesday) P&F Meeting & AGM @ 7:30pm

16 December (Friday) Last day of School for 2016 – Dismissal @ 1:00pm

PHONE: 9528 1614 FAX: 9523 0221

Email: principal@sjelst.catholic.edu.au

Web Site: www.sjelst.catholic.edu.au After School Care: 0417 231 301 (Voicemail/SMS Bookings)

St Joseph’s Saturday 6:30pm

Sunday 9:00am & 10:30am

Holy Cross Sunday 10:00am

UNIFORM SALES UPDATE

Uniforms can no longer be purchased via FlexiSchools

You may close your account at any time by going to the My Account tab when logged into the desktop site and selecting Pay My Balance Back to Me. This will close the account and trigger a full refund of any outstanding balance.

There will be one final sale of uniform after assembly on Friday 9th December. More details to follow.

Hats can still be purchased from the Office for $11.50 (same price as Nicholls)

After the sale, Nicholls will be the only supplier of our uniform.

Thank you Di Hermus

TERM 1 2017

Wednesday 1 February – Friday 31 March

IF YOU WERE A SUCCESSFUL BIDDER IN THE SILENT AUCTION, OR WON ANY

RAFFLE PRIZES ETC, PLEASE COLLECT ANY PRIZES FROM THE OFFICE ASAP

P & F and School Board Combined Drinks Tonight 7pm

Parent Helpers Thank You Morning Tea Wednesday 7th at 11am

P&F AGM Wednesday Evening @ 7:30pm

End of Year Mass Friday 9 December @ 3pm and Picnic 4-7pm Principal’s Award: A focused approach and attitude despite the end of year nearing. Dear Families,

It’s going to be a very busy couple of weeks as we have much to finalize in the coming days before we close out our amazing school year. Whilst most staff are firmly focused on report writing details, behind the scenes we have campers away, preparations for our end of year mass celebrations and Year 6 Graduation and continue plans for 2017. In all this busyness (4 staff, 8 parents and 100 students away on camp), I must congratulate our staff who have invested many hours writing, analysing data and consulting with many prior to submitting their exceptional comments. The staff know the children so well and have indeed encapsulated a terrific year of academic and personal growth. Reports will go home early next week.

On Thursday, the students celebrated an exciting ‘stepping up’ day, and need to be congratulated for the positive manner in which they welcomed their new teachers and embraced this transition in readiness for 2017. We also warmly and officially welcomed Miss Opasinis and Mr Culpepper onto our staff and remain most confident that they will be wonderful additions to our dynamic teaching staff.

Determined to see how much we can fit into our remaining weeks, our Year 3 & 4s have headed off on school camp. Despite long Term 4 fatigue, the students were thrilled to be away on camp with their friends. It’s worth noting that our staff were equally as excited, although time will tell upon their return. We must thank our generous staff and parent helpers for offering up their time at this busy time of year.

Mrs Tobin’s message: “All good down here. No dramas over-night. Cloudy this morning but we are in for another sunny day. The kids are having the best time.”

BOARD & P&F DRINKS 7PM – 6TH DECEMBER

This Tuesday, our two formal parent bodies will gather for drinks to celebrate another successful year at St. Joseph’s building and strengthening community. We are blessed to have these rich and diverse parent bodies so generously offering their time, expertise and energy.

PARENT HELPERS’ MORNING TEA WEDNESDAY 7TH DECEMBER AT 11AM

Each year, the staff prepare a special morning tea to thank our many helpers in our community. This is a small token of thanks for all the generous hours offered up by our parents. Although the timing is not great, we hope that parents are able to attend.

END OF MASS & BBQ FRIDAY 9TH DECEMBER AT 3PM

All families are welcomed and encouraged to attend our final school mass for 2016. This coincides with pick-up, so we anticipate many families will be able to attend this year. Don’t miss a seat as we farewell families, acknowledge our senior students and congratulate our new leaders for 2017. Thanks Miss O for preparing the mass. Look forward to seeing you at our wonderful end of year mass and picnic celebration, Simon Collis Principal Important afterthoughts…

We still have a number of outstanding items left over from fete. E.g. umbrellas, shade marquees, eskies, platters. We ask if these could please be picked up by the end of the week.

Year 3Br – “Happy Campers” at the Zoo’s Roar & Snore

Year 4 – Exploring the Rock Pools at Camp Wyuna

LOST – Honda Car Keys (AT THE FETE)

A set of Honda car keys was lost during the fete on Saturday. If anyone has found these, please contact the school office.

FOUND – Child’s Handbag (AT THE FETE)

This handbag was found after the fete on Saturday. If this belongs to you, please contact the school office.

OWL KITS – ONLY $2 EACH

Would your children like to make these cute little owls? Owl kits available for sale at the school office for $2 each

The VCAL students at Star of the Sea College have joined with BASP (Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project) to raise funds to support asylum seekers in our community. Together we believe that every

person, irrespective of age, race, gender or religion has the right to live safely, free from persecution. We have created a social enterprise to raise awareness and provide funds for the project to support their clients. Our business name is W.I.S.H, which is an acronym for our motto ‘We Invest in Strength and Hope’. Our symbol for this business is a dandelion, representing the idea of making a wish. For more information go to: http://basp.org.au/ or http://bit.ly/baspWISH or email: wish@starmelb.catholic.edu.au

AVAILABLE FOR SALE WEDNESDAY MORNING ON THE GATE OR AT THE OFFICE –

ONLY $8 EACH

The victorious Grade 5 girl’s, basketball premiership team. They have worked really hard this season and have been rewarded for their commitment and should be very proud of their achievement.

Religious Education and Faith

Dear Families,

Our Advent wreath will be placed in the atrium and, each week at assembly, we will light the advent candles to symbolise this important time as we wait for the birth of Christ.

CHRISTMAS APPEAL REMINDER

In addition to the food items suggested, toiletries such as shampoo/conditioner and the like, are also gratefully received. The Social Justice leaders have placed baskets in the atrium and we encourage you to drop off your items.

Kind regards, Peta Overbury - Religious Education Leader

Email: poverbury@sjelst.catholic.edu.au

Dates for the Diary

The following items would be fantastic: Plum pudding or Christmas cake

UHT custard or milk

Tinned fruit

Soft drinks/cordial/juices

Chocolate biscuits/shortbreads

Tinned ham

Sweets/chips

Tinned tuna

Tea/coffee/chocolate drink/sugar

Toiletries

Gifts

Toys/books and fun things the children have offered previously are also welcome. If you choose to donate these please don’t wrap items as this makes it easier for staff to distribute them accordingly. We aim to collect all items by Thursday 8thDecember to allow the St. Vinnie’s staff time to arrange the hampers and distribute them. Thank-you in advance for your kindness and generosity

Date Event

Friday 9th December End of Year Mass @ 3.00pm

Sunday 11th December Third Sunday of Advent

Monday 12th December Year 6 Graduation Mass @ 6pm

LITERACY NEWS

Do you have some fantastic books at home that are no longer needed or used?

Are you wondering where you could donate them and know they would be loved as much as you loved reading them with your child?

We would love your good quality books!!! St. Joseph’s would appreciate any books that are good quality, very good condition and still with lots of joy to bring. We would like to build our classroom libraries in 2017 and your contribution would really help.

We would like any;

Quality picture story books Fiction or nonfiction books Mini-series e.g. Hey Jack, Billy B. Brown, Zac Power etc Junior novels e.g. Boy vs Beast Novels Comic Cartoon books

It would be greatly appreciated if you could drop your books in the boxes outside Mrs Pepper’s office before Monday 12th December 2016.

Thanking you all in anticipation. Regards, Geraldine Pepper

P&F AGM MEETING – Wednesday 7th

December

The P&F Annual General Meeting will be held tomorrow night, Wednesday 7th December at 7:30pm in the staff room. All welcome - please come along if you’re interested in taking a position on the committee next year!

END OF YEAR PICNIC – Friday 9th

December 4:30pm – 7:30pm

Following mass on Friday 9th December we invite ALL families to join us for the end of year PICNIC. BYO picnic food & drinks. It’s a great way to celebrate the year and say thanks for all the hard work everyone has done for the fete - we hope to see you there!

THANK YOU – Fete Sponsorship

A huge thank you to one of our fete sponsors Sketch Building Design. Check out some of their amazing work at sketchbuildingdesign.com.au or call in and say hello to the team at their office, 554-556 Glenhuntly Road Elsternwick.

P&F NEWS

COMMUNITY NEWS

2018BURSARIES

A Catholic education for boys.

De La Salle College is offering bursaries to students in Years 7 to 12 in 2018. The purpose of all bursaries offered by De La Salle College is to provide a Catholic secondary education to students of families who would otherwise not be able to afford one. For this reason all bursaries are means tested and applicants will be asked to provide current financial documentation. Preference will be given to families with greater financial need. Applications are now open, closing on Friday 17 February 2017. Visit the bursaries page on our website for full details. Please contact the Registrar on (03) 9508 2186 if you would like to enquire further. 1318 HIGH ST MALVERN PH: (03) 9508 2100 EMAIL: enrolment@delasalle.vic.edu.au

BABYSITTER AVAILABLE

I’m a local, 19 year old Monash University Science student and swimming instructor. I have a Working With Children’s Check, first aid certificate, driver’s licence and car. I have flexible hours, so feel free to contact me to get more information.

Rachel Bainbridge Mobile number: 0405 270 827 Email: rachb27@bigpond.com

TERM FOUR – 2016

Assembly: Year Principal’s Award: A focused approach and attitude despite the end of year nearing.

WEEK 10 DEC

5 Mon Year 4 – Camp Wyuna Year 3Br Camp – Zoo (Roar & Snore)

6 Tue Year 4 – Camp Wyuna Year 3Br Camp – Zoo (Roar & Snore) (Returning) Board and P&F End of Year Soiree – 7:00pm

7 Wed Year 4 – Camp Wyuna (Returning) Parent Helpers’ Morning Tea – 11am P&F AGM @ 7:30pm

8 Thur Year 3Ba Camp – Zoo (Roar & Snore)

9 Fri Year 3Ba Camp – Zoo (Roar & Snore) (Returning)

END OF YEAR MASS @ 3:00PM & BBQ @ 4:00-7:00pm

Assembly: Year Principal’s Award:

WEEK 11 DEC

12 Mon YEAR 6 GRADUATION MASS @ 6:00PM

13 Tue

14 Wed Reports home

15 Thur

16 Fri END OF TERM 4 – 1:00PM DISMISSAL

END OF YEAR BREAK

2017 SCHOOL YEAR COMMENCES Wednesday 1 February 2017

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY