Principal’s Address
Welcome to Week 3, Term 3!
Monday, 20 July 2015
Thank you to the parents who attended St Joseph’s Parent Information Night: Mathematics with Anita Chin last Tuesday.
Due to the positive response, the night was a great success. It was wonderful to watch the sheer amazement of parents as
they learnt old concepts in a new and creative way. Today’s approach to learning Mathematics convinced many a parent
that mathematics can be fun, easy to learn and very rewarding when taught correctly and passionately. Please click on our
website to view some great photo s of the night:
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www.stjosephsquirindi.nsw.edu.au
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Parent fun: Anita Chin Information Night
Congratulations to our Term 3 elected Student Representative Council members. I look forward to working with you this
term as your peers’ voices.
Infants:
Kaitlin Rheinberger
Year 3&4:
Emily Dent
Year 5&6:
Luke Wilson
A reminder that this Thursday St Joseph’s is hosting a Movie Night for all students . Students are invited to bring
a drink and popcorn to enjoy as they watch a movie with their friends. Supervision will be provided allowing parents to
attend St Joseph’s final information Night for the Year: Protective Behaviours . The Movie night and parent session will both
run from 6.00pm -7.00pm.
In coming weeks as part of the Protective Behaviours units the children will be discussing with you appropriate safety
networks of people they can trust. Please take the time to sit with them, look at the mater ial and discuss appropriate adult
friends and family members that can join their network
On behalf of St Joseph’s I would like to welcome Zachary Morris (Kindergarten) and his family to the St Joseph’s
community. The family is new to Quirindi and looks fo rwarded to being welcomed with open arms by St Joseph’s.
Woolworths Earn and Learn program has once again started. If shopping at Woolworths please collected your token and
send into St Joseph’s. Each year sports equipment for the children has been purcha sed from this program.
Have a great week!
John Clery
Principal
“We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished and protected.” Pope Francis
Please remember to visit our website: www.stjosephsquirindi.nsw.edu.au
Canteen for Term 3
Linda McCulloch has put out a new roster
for the canteen for this term. Please read
through it and let us know if you can fill in
any of the available dates. We appreciate
your support.
Thank you to the 30 parents, grandparents and
friends who attended mass and morning tea
last Friday. It was an absolute joy to see so
many visitors lining up to sign in at the front
office and catching up for a chat at the same
time.
School Sport - Hots Shots
Program starts this week.
The Hot Shots Tennis Program
will begin this Thursday..due to
the rain… and running through
to and including the 3rd of
September.
Sports day is now Thursdays until the 27th
of August.
Netball development officer: The children
will have a wonderful opportunity to learn new
skills with a netball development officer this
Friday the 31st of July here at school.
Children will need to wear Sports uniform
on this day as well.
Willow Tree Campdraft. 19 th and 20 th
September first weekend of the school
holidays.
Helpers will be needed from:
Saturday; 6am-4.30 pm
Sunday; 6am – 3.30pm
Linda McCulloch has offered to do the
ordering and the set up, but will need
someone to volunteer to do the cleanup as
she has other committments. Again we will
need volunteers to help.
Protective Behaviours Session
Joan Shanahan from the Catholic Schools Office
is conducting a parent information session this
Thursday night. This will be an invaluable
session and we hope to see as many parents as
possible in attendance. A supervised movie will
be playing in one of the classrooms for the
children.
National Tree Day Planting
This Friday the children will be
planting 4 trees in our
garden….one for each class.
Thank you to Rikki Tetley for
organising the trees from
the local native nursery.
Congratulations to
The Bishop has changed the date for
Confirmation to the 25th of October and
Reconciliation lessons will start the following
Tuesday.
our Term 3
Student
Representatives.
Luke Wilson, Jade
Wilson and Kaitlin
Rheinberger
PT&F Meeting – 5 th of August at
6.30pm. Please brave the cooler weather
and come to this meeting to be part of our
wonderful school community.
Surveys:
The satisfaction surveys will
open on the 3 rd of August.
More
information was emailed to you today
about these surveys.
Head Lice Alert – Please check your
children’s hair and treat if required.
Family Focus Parish Mass
9 th August
Dates to remember…
Week 3
29th
SRC Meeting
30th
Sports Day - Tennis
Parent information evening 6pm
Protective Behaviours Session
31st
Netball Development Officer
National Tree Day Planting Activities
August
Week 4
3rd
Satisfaction Surveys Open
Patty Cakes; J Gamble, N Dent, K
Stackman
th
6
Sports Day – Tennis
7th
CENSUS Day
Canteen; K Kelly
9th
Children’s Focus Mass
Week 5
10th
Principals Meeting
Patty Cakes; L McCulloch
11th
Principals Meeting
13th
Sports Day – Tennis
17th
Board Meetings are usually held on the;
3rd Wednesday of each month.
Awards for week 2
Principals Awards; Respecting quiet times
and places. Will Bartholomew, Georgia
Fleming, Clare Canham, Tazmin Darnell.
Student of the week awards; Cody Pain
for
positive
contributions
to
class
discussions.
Jasmin Stackman for
excellent listening skills. Amelia Ralph for
fantastic participation and responses in all
KLA’s. Lisa-Rae Tetley for trying extra
hard to complete all tasks this week. Steve
Forsyth for excellent participation during
class discussions.
Jack McCulloch for
taking initiative and
preparing sports
equipment in his own time.
Patty Cakes; J Gamble
19th
Board Spirituality Retreat
Board Meeting
20th
School Photos
21st
Diocesan Athletics
Canteen; H Guinery
24th
Patty Cakes; E Partridge, R Tetley
31st
Willow Tree Horse Sports
September
4th
Canteen; L McCulloch
7th
Patty Cakes; T Miller, K Stackman, M
Carroll
P T & F Meeting
11th
Canteen; M Carroll
th
14
Patty Cakes; R Aspinall, J Gamble
16th
Board Meeting
18th
School Term 3 ends
Canteen; H Guinery, K Kelly
Cake Containers; we have an ever
increasing supply of cake tins in the
hallway outside the Y4 classroom. Please
take the time to collect you containers this
week 
Dates are subject to change if required.
Sacramental Dates for 2015.
Confirmation - Date from the Bishop is Sunday
25 th of October.
School supervision is from 8.30am until
3.45pm. Please do not leave your children
at school outside of these hours as they
will be unsupervised.
Notes; please make sure that all notes are
named and dated.
Mass is usually on the Friday of every even
week.
PT&F Meetings are usually held on the;
1st Wednesday of each month.
NB: School SMS messages can only
be sent out in bulk so we can not
reply to individual messages….but
thank you to those people who do
reply 
Attachments; The Saving Word, W illow Tree
Camp Draft, Canteen Note, Handwriting