St Joseph’s Primary School Wingham
http://www.wingham.catholic.edu.au
Church Cres
Wingham NSW 2429 P 02 65534774
Welcome to the Week 8 update...
Friday 17th March 2017
Term 1, Week 8
Dear Parents/Guardians
Coming Events:
 Parent/Teacher
Interviews
 Pupil Free Day 24 April
 Phil Kettle : Author visit
 Holy Week Liturgy
 Easter break
What a week of wonderful rain! Hasn’t it been
glorious? Well our Year 6 students have
returned from camp this week full of
excitement and goodies purchased along the
way. A fabulous trip was had by all and a big
thank you to Mrs Cleaver, Mrs McEwen and
Mr Stepowikow for providing such a wonderful
trip.
Last week we had our school cross country and
I would like to commend all of our participants
who gave it everything they had to either run
2km or 3km. Great team spirit was evident as
runners were cheered and supported. Congratulations to the aged champions and those
selected to go onto DIO level. A big thank you
to
As part of our ongoing plan to improve
facilities and resources for our school, the P
& F are running a Cadbury® Fundraiser Drive
this Term. Each box contains 50 x
chocolates at $1.00 each. Boxes are due
back to school by Monday 3rd April
School News…..
As part of our PBS system we acknowledge that the following
students, Savannah Jordan and Kaylla Lulham have reached 100
Gotchas, Lucianna Hartley has reached 200 Gotchas and Jackson
Barry has reached 300 Gotchas!! All by following the ‘3 Wise Is’
Well
done!
parents who were able to help out with time
keeping and cooking the BBQ lunch. Well done to
Mr Knoke on his first time organising our school
carnival! After our carnival we then continued to
celebrate Catholic Schools Week by inviting
parents into our classrooms, having a shared
lunch and buying goodies from the Year 6 cake
stall. We really appreciate all of the support
parents gave us to ensure that this event was a
success, so thank you parents! In total we raised
$194 from the cake stall which will go towards
helping others. St Joey’s is certainly an amazing
school community of care and support!
Please note that parent-teacher interviews are on
28 & 29th March and this is a great way to catch
up on your child/ren’s progress at school and
what you can do to further support them. If you
can’t make these times please contact your class
teacher to negotiate a time to meet.
Have a fabulous week!
Emma Timmins
Principal
Early Departure/Late Arrivals
Please note that it is extremely important to
sign your child/ren in or out of school. This is
required for legal reasons, as well as allowing
teachers to mark the daily roll. When your
child arrives late or leaves early they will receive a slip to be handed to the teacher explaining their partial absence. This must be
handed to the teacher by the parent if leaving early. Thank you for ensuring the continuance of great communication.
Year 6 camp to Sydney
Year 6 students had a wonderful 3 day trip to Sydney this week.
First stop was Sydney Aquarium which was awesome. In the evening they had dinner at Chinatown and then experienced a
“birds eye” view of the city from the Sydney Eye Tower.—it was sparkling!
Next day they took a ferry ride over to Taronga Zoo - there were 2 cruise ships in town—it was a great sight!
The rain held off to enjoy the zoo and in the afternoon we had a great time on Bondi beach, eating yummy fish and chips
and finishing off at the Opera House.
Last day was fun shopping at Paddy’s Markets before heading home.
Thanks Mrs Cleaver, Mrs McEwen and Mr Stepowikow for a fantastic time.
School Fees
School fees for Term 1 have now
been issued. If you are entitled
to a HCC discount please ensure
you provide a copy of your card
to Mary for processing. These
fees are important for our
school’s financial viability and
we appreciate your on-going
commitment.
Please contact the Principal, if
youPage
need
to discuss your
2
account for 2017.
Important Events:
Week 9
21 March
Harmony Day
Week 10
Week 11
Term 2
Week 1
28&29 Mar
7 April
Parent Teacher Interviews
Holy Week Liturgy
24 April
25 April
26 April
PUPIL FREE DAY
ANZAC Day Town March
School Liturgy ANZAC Day 10.45am
The Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) News:
Week 9 Focus: I use my manners
Week 10 Focus: I listen during assembly
Our Cross Country was held last Friday and everyone
participated very well. Congratulations to the following
students who will represent our school at the Dio Cross
Country in May;
Emma Letheren, Tahzrae & Leyna Sheather, Jake Guppy,
Dillon McGreal, Jack Cox, Celeste McDermott, Claire
Downie, Amara Hilton, Rory Byrne, Charlie Pereira,
Bailey Timmins, Alex LEtheren, Jackson Barry, Drew Cini,
Sharlee Hurley, Sierra Borserio, Lara Bryant, Yazmin
Shepherd, James Swierczynski, Zakari Windle-Ison and
Bradlee Xuereb.
We also celebrated Catholic Schools Week on Friday
with Open Classrooms, a BBQ picnic lunch and Cake
Stall. It was a wonderful community day. Thank you for
those parents who donated goodies and to everyone
else who helped out in their own way contributing to
the day's success.
LITERACY & NUMERACY
The State Action Plan: Literacy & Numeracy (SAP Project) is up and running at St Joey’s this
year. It is a Government funded project that provides us with support in focusing on quality
teaching in Literacy and Numeracy.
Our focus for 2017:
Assessment: use school wide and class assessments to fine tune how and what we teach.
Resources: provide targeted and appropriate resources for students
Maths: continue with our Flexible Learning Groups to support and extend students in the
area of Whole Number, Addition & Subtraction, Multiplication & Division and Fractions
& Decimals.
Writing: use NAPLAN data, quality resources and effective teaching strategies to improve
students’ writing.
Ensure best practice to support quality teaching and learning in English and Maths.
Leading Teacher:
My role as Leading Teacher is a new one this year. I teach Kindergarten for the first half of the
week as their classroom teacher and then Miss Grace Mullen takes over for the rest of the
week and I move into the Leading Teacher role. I work mainly with K-2 students, their classroom teachers and the Learning Support Assistants to support them with the above focus
points. You might find me in a different classroom, meeting with teachers or Learning Support
Assistants, finding resources to target specific needs of students or teaching small groups of
students. This role is certainly one that is different from what I am used to and hope that everyone working together will help us, as a school, achieve our goals.
Carolyn Long
Year 2 are working hard here in their Flexible Learning Groups
for Maths. This week we have been working on multiplication
and division”
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Pupil Free days
Term dates 2017
Happy Birthday
Term 1: 30 January—7
April
wishes ………………….
PUPIL FREE DAY—24
April
Term 2: 26 April—30
June
Caitlin Watters and Paige Newby turn 7; Jett Bliss and Indianna
Macmillan turn 8 and Charlie Pereira turns 10.
Term 3: 17 July—22
September
Term 4: 9 October—15
December
CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 1 2017
Week
Week 9
TUESDAY
FRIDAY
JUDY FORSTER
NATASHA SEATHER JANINE McLOUGHLIN
21 & 24 MAR
ANN McDERMOTT KRISTY
HELEN HOUSEN
Week 10
NARELLE BARRY
NARELLE BARRY
28 & 31 MAR
HELEN HOUSEN
KRISTY NOWLAN
CRYSTAL BLISS
HELEN HOUSEN
Music Opportunity
If anyone in Year 3 and
above is interested in learning how to play an instrument in 2017, please
contact Mary for more
information.