ALL SAINTS DAY PRAYER…..
We thank you, God, for hardworking saints;
Whether hard-hatted or steel-booted,
Head ragged or aproned,
Blue-collared or three-piece-suited
They left their mark on the earth for you, for us, for our children to come.
Thank you, God, for the tremendous sacrifices made by those who have gone before us.
Bless the memories of your saints, God.
May we learn how to walk wisely from their examples of faith, dedication, worship, and love.
Dear Parents,
I hope everyone enjoyed the extra-long weekend and that you backed a winner if punting on
Cup Day.
Sun Smart School
At last we have some warm weather!! Please ensure that your child has their school hat as
it is a requirement that it is worn during recess and lunchtimes and when classes are out in
the yard for P.E. or any other activity.
Christmas Concert
This year we will be hosting a Christmas Concert / Family Picnic evening on Friday
December 9. More details will come home once we have finalised the finer details but
please mark the date on your calendar.
Cultural Day
This Friday is Cultural Day at St Josephs. The children can wear casual clothes in the
colours of either China or Italy. Ms Grace has put a lot of time and effort into the planning of
the day and I’m sure it will be a great success.
Parish Family Picnic
I’d like to remind everyone about the Family Mass on Saturday evening at 6:30pm, followed
by a picnic dinner at the courts. This is a great opportunity to gather as a parish community
and I hope to see lots of families there to share the evening.
Kind regards,
Mary Kearney
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
NOVEMBER
Wednesday
1.
MELBOURNE CUP
HOLIDAY
2.
6.
7.
8.
9.
PEB AGM 7:30pm
13.
Year 3/4 Family Fun
Night!!!!!!
20.
14.
15.
16.
21.
27.
Vision Portraits
Year 5/6 Family Fun
Night!!!!!!
28.
Xavier College
Orientation Day
22.
2017 Prep
Orientation Day
29.
23.
Grade 5/6 excursion
to Science Works
30.
Tuesday
DECEMBER
Wednesday
Sunday
Monday
4.
5.
11.
12.
Chess make-up
lesson
6.
Portfolio Open
Morning 9-10am
Northcote High
School Orientation
13.
Graduation Mass &
Supper 7pm
Thursday
Friday
3.
WHOLE SCHOOL
MASS – All Saints
Day
10.
2017 Prep
Information Evening
17.
Book Fair
4.
St Joseph’s Cultural
Day
24.
11.
Prep & Gr 4D Class
Mass 9:15am
18.
2017 Prep
Orientation Day
25.
Thursday
Saturday
5.
PARISH FAMILY
MASS & PICNIC
6:30pm
12.
19.
26.
Friday
Saturday
1.
2.
3.
7.
Chess Presentation
2:30pm
8.
Yr 6 Fun Day at
MSAC
Class Mass 3A & 3K
9.
Christmas Concert Family Picnic
Reports Home
10.
14.
End of Year School
Mass 9:15am
Creative Music
concert 3:45pm
15.
Last Day for
Students. School
finishes at 3:15pm
16.
School Closure Day.
17.
MONDAY ASSEMBLY & CLASS MASS
ROSTERS
Please click HERE for the class roster for
Monday’s assemblies.
Please click HERE for the class Mass roster.
Children’s Liturgy - Advent
In the lead up to Christmas, the Children’s Liturgy at 10:30am Mass will have an ‘arts and
crafts’ focus. The children will be making things to decorate the Church with during Advent.
It would be great if lots of children could attend to help out with this! If you are late to Mass,
Franca will leave the side door to the community room open so that you can join in.
Rosary
A big thank you to the Year 6 students for leading the whole school
in praying the rosary for the month of October, supported by Miss Maria.
The students now know more about the prayers that are said and the
meaning of the Rosary. Well done!
Class Mass
Don’t forget our next class Mass on Friday November 11th at 9:15. The Preps and Year 4s
will share this Mass together. The Year 5s and 6s will celebrate their Mass the week after
on Tuesday, November 15th.
Lauren Taffe
Religious Education Leader
5th November 2016
Dear Parishioners, we are planning a Saturday evening Family
Mass at 6.30pm followed by a BYO picnic at the Parish Centre
afterwards.
The intention is to bring the community together. We hope you
can attend and feel free to invite your friends or neighbours.
See attached FLYER
--------------------------------------Parables of Mercy - Art Exhibition and Reflection
The Parish will be celebrating Pope Francis' Jubilee Year of Mercy with an art
exhibition. We warmly invite you to experience this unique Exhibit which will be in our
Parish from 23 November to 6 December. The Exhibition is located in the Church itself
and will be open 25th November and 2nd December. Hours 2.30pm - 7.30pm.
Cost: Free Enquiries: 9489 8008
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Next week we will complete our learning about the relationship between Mary and
Elizabeth, and John the Baptist and Jesus Christ. We will make links to how our own families are like that of
Jesus’
READING: Next week continue to focus on retelling simple fiction texts using the SUMMARISING HAND which
has the following key words to help the students retell/summarise a fiction text - ‘Someone, Wanted, But, So,
Then.’ This week we will begin learning about the letter blends that make a ‘LONG U Vowel Sound’.
WRITING: We will focus on forming our letters correctly from ‘top to bottom’. We will also focus on writing on
lines.
MATHS: We continue to learn about MONEY. We hope to set up a Prep V shop. Watch this space!
INQUIRY: This week we continue to learn about the DESIGN PROCESS, specifically focusing on TESTING
AND MAKING CHANGES to our design.
REMINDERS:
 On MONDAY, the Preps can bring their favourite toy to school. (Don’t worry, I can keep these safe in the
classroom during recess and lunch time.)
 If you have any empty boxes, plastic bottles (recyclables in general), please send them to school so the
students can use these during our INVENTING times.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: We will be exploring the story ‘Only One Said Thank you’. We will be role-playing
the story and thinking about the difficulty or ease we have with people who are different from ourselves.
READING: We will be focusing on CAFE strategies that help us to become better readers. We will be
exploring the CAFE strategy ‘Tuning in to Interesting Words’. We will be looking out for new and interesting
words within our texts and will attempt to use these words more often when speaking and writing.
WRITING: We will continue exploring the structure of a Procedural Text. We will be beginning our final copy
for our personal ‘potion’ procedural text. We will be focusing on using our planners to guide us with writing our
final copy.
MATHS: We will be continuing our unit on Fractions. We will be reviewing our learning that the denominator
tells us what is being counted and the numerator tells us how many parts we have. We will be exploring
creating fraction strips with a variety of different fractions.
INQUIRY: We will be continuing our Inquiry unit ‘Will It Change?’. We will continue to attempt some simple
experiments and will predict and record how the different materials and objects may change through these
experiments.
REMINDERS:
 Please sit down to read with your child for 10-15 minutes a night.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: We will relate The Prodigal Son and other forgiveness stories to ourselves and others
in our lives.
READING: We will work towards our personal goals during reading time. We will begin to read texts that explain
how or why something happens.
WRITING: We will begin to write explanation texts about how or why something happens. We will think about the
structure and formal language of explanation texts.
MATHS: We will continue to think about the meaning of the numerator and denominator in fractions, and look at
different ways that a fraction can be represented.
INQUIRY: We will use the scientific method to conduct experiments, and learn about recording observations
accurately.
REMINDERS:
 Students are to read for 10-15 minutes a night. Please encourage your child to sit down with you each day
to complete and log their reading.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: We will continue to explore the ‘40 years in the wilderness’ part of Moses’
story.
READING: We will continue to practise the skill of inferring by reading short stories and answering
questions about them, ensuring we have evidence to support our answers.
WRITING: We will continue to explore editing using ‘C.O.P.S’ as a guide. We will edit a variety of
student writing samples as a class.
MATHS: We will be learning how to calculate change required to the nearest 5 cents and applying this
skill to real life problems.
INQUIRY: We will be exploring the way different materials change from solid to liquid at different
temperatures.
REMINDERS:
 Please check with your child whether they still have all the necessary stationery in their pencil
case, and whether their pencil case is at school. We are finding lots of children have taken their
pencil cases home and do not have the required materials for school each day.
 Homework is due Thursday 10th November.
 Here is a great website with some fun games to practise your Times Tables
https://goo.gl/NTLU1E
REMINDERS:
 Please check with your child whether they still have all the necessary stationery in their pencil
case, and whether their pencil case is at school. We are finding lots of children have taken their
pencil cases home and do not have the required materials for school each day.
 Homework is due Thursday 10th November.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: This week we will focus on ‘The Visitation’ narrative. The students will
complete a data chart to develop their understanding of the characters and events of this story.
READING: We will continue to identify authors in different text types they read. They will research
authors they are curious about to find out ‘why’ they use particular genres to share their creative ideas.
WRITING: We have created observation data tables and typed up our science experiments.
This week writing will be linked to our inquiry learning.
MATHEMATICS: We will continue our unit on ‘Chance’. Students will engage in activities with dice
and coin tosses. They will discuss and record different possibilities and random events.
INQUIRY: Students will conduct experiments, make observations and record reactions and change.
We will also investigate how solids, liquids and gasses change state and whether these changes are
reversible.
REMINDERS:
 Student diaries are to come to school each day, and be signed by parents weekly
 Home learning this week is reading for 20 minutes each night. Please record books read in
student diary
 Home Learning is due Thursday November 10th November. This term the students will
participate in a Bike Education Program. Their PE sessions will be Monday and Wednesdayplease wear sports uniform on these days.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Students will read scripture related to the Seven Sacraments. They will
continue with their group work and locate and read passages from scripture.
READING: Students will continue to read extracts around the Inquiry Learning unit on “The Weird, the
Wacky and the Insane” concentrating on inventors, scientists and their creations. They will continue to
read examples of procedural texts and follow the instructions or procedures set out.
WRITING: Students will concentrate on the Recount text type. They will do this by focussing on
Biographies. They will identify the main features and structures of a Biography such as past tense and
third person narrator. They will plan and compose a biography of an inventor or scientist of their
choice.
SPELLING: Students complete the next spelling activities and dictionary work. They will continue
concentrating on words that begin with the prefix - ir e.g. irregular, irrational etc. Some students will
cover other words with the prefix - pre.
GRAMMAR: Students will continue their work on phrases and complete activities on locating phrases
in sentences.
MATHS: We will be continuing the unit on Data and will concentrate on interpreting data from a variety
of more complex graphs
INQUIRY LEARNING UNIT: “The Weird, the Wacky and the Insane”
Students will continue to work in their group on an inventor or scientist. They will research and read
about different inventors and scientists and will be asked to collate their information.
Quote of the Week
“A smile is the universal language”
- Anonymous
Maths Problem...
Greta's Grocery Store
At Greta's Grocery Store, three bananas and two kiwifruit
cost $2.30. Five bananas and six kiwifruit cost $4.90.
What is the cost in dollars and cents, of four bananas and
four kiwifruit?
I am RESPONSIBLE, I am RESILIENT and I am RESPECTFUL certificates
Congratulations to the students who received a I am RESPONSIBLE, I am
RESPECTFUL or I am RESILIENT certificate last week.
Prep:
Xavier Smith
Year 1:
Kevin Truong
Year 3A:
Vito Lin
Year 3K:
Pippa Hills
Year 4:
Ada Ryan
Year 5:
Jordan Green
Year 6:
Victoria Zogogiannis
This week’s Michael Grose article is titled
“Earning the Right”…
Please click HERE for this week’s Michael Grose article
Andrea Wals
Wellbeing Leader
Tomorrow, November 4, we will be holding a Cultural Celebration Day.
Ms Grace has organised a fantastic day in which the children will participate in rotational
activities focussed on the Chinese and Italian cultures. In the afternoon there will be a
performance called – “Spectacular Spettacolo”… an Italian show focussed on - “Tasty
Tunes”…
On this day the children may wear casual clothes in the colour on one of these countries
(red and yellow for China and green, white and red for Italy)…
SUNSMART SCHOOL
A reminder that all children are required to wear their school hat during recess and lunch
times, as well as during physical education/sport lessons this term.
What’s happening with the Fete?
As many of you know our last school fete was in March 2015 with the expectation that the
next fete would be held in March 2017. What you may not know is that the 2015 fete only
took place due to a couple of individuals stepping up and taking on the task of coordinating the event. A fete committee was then created and as a result our fete was an
amazing financial success and a fantastic night for our school community.
Moving forward we have decided to have our next fete on Friday 17 th November 2017.
This will be a Friday night twilight fete and will follow the format of our last fete.
We are a small school and as a result we are relying on everyone to pitch in and help. The
reality is – we can’t do this unless everyone lends a hand, this can be as simple as working
on stall for an hour on the day.
We are having our first fete planning meeting on Tuesday November 22 nd at 7.30pm in the
staffroom and are keen to see some new faces. Hope to see you there.
Aruna and Geanette
VISION PORTRAITS The Parents and Friends have booked Sunday 27th November for a Portrait Fundraising Day to be
held at school. An opportunity for families to update that family photo! Photographs will be taken
here at school, bookings may be made online. As we are only able to cater for a limited number of
families on the day – it is best to book early to secure your preferred time. We are sending home
today an information leaflet.
For further information please contact Tanya Chisholm 0418 491 472 or the school office.
Batman Park Kindergarten Vacancies
BATMAN PARK KINDERGARTEN have limited vacancies for the 3 Year Old Pre Kindergarten Program in 2017. Batman Park Kindergarten hold sessional Kindergarten
and 3 Year Old Kinder is a great opportunity to see if sessional Kindergarten suits you and
your child’s need. 3 Year Old Kinder is 3.5 hours a week. Please contact Batman Park
Kindergarten on 9481 0237 for more information.
Extend OSHC at St Joseph's Northcote
LET’S RAISE 100 BLOOD DONATIONS!
Extend is coming together as a community with a goal to raise 100
blood donations by the end of October this year. To encourage everyone
to get on board, Extend Director Stevenson will complete one of three
possible dares if we reach 100 blood donations! Visit darrensdare.com
to watch our launch video and see further information.
We encourage all families to make an appointment TODAY!
Visit darrensdare.com for further info.
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Weekly recap.....
Welcome back! We home everyone had a great long weekend. On Wednesday afternoon the children
enjoyed a mixed media still life provocation. On Thursday we look forward to making a podcast
together, by brainstorming common interests to come up with a topic and then using a professional
recorder and software for the production. On Friday we will be enjoying exploring trajectory games,
by building catapults with loose parts. There is a big group of children who have been busy working
on their flower shop which is now called Lily & Lavender. They have extended the scenario and now
sell bookmarks and flower boards, and each staff member of the shop has a specific job.
- Cat, Megan & Molly.
What’s on this week:
Monday 7th November:
Cooking veggie tacos
Tuesday 8th November:
Garden observational sketches
Wednesday 9th November:
Loose parts Lego World
Thursday 10th November:
Writing the score for the podcast
Friday 11th November:
Print Making