St Joseph's School, Tara eNewsletter

From the Principal

Dear parents and carers,

Preparing for Prep

Wonderful parent engagement sessions occurred this week. Parents of 2022 prep students received some great practical ideas from the school's counsellor and TCSO's Occupational and Speech and Language Therapists to help prepare themselves and their child, for the transition into Prep. Special thanks goes to our guest speakers.

Hear and Say

Free hearing tests for the early identification of hearing health problems were offered and conducted as well this week. The Hear and Say team provide a much needed service in the Tara area.

Choice and Affordability Funding

In the next two weeks all families will be notified of their funding allocation that will be credited to your account for fees or booklist items or uniforms.

Prep and other year level Transition Days

Our last transition day will be

Tuesday 23rd November - 8:40 am - 2:50 pm. Please also include a packed lunch for this all day session.

There will be a Telehealth end of year celebration with cupcakes on this day!

Camp Coolum

What an enthusiastic response to camp! At this stage we have 30 students attending, five staff and many keen parents. Please ensure all forms and money are in by Monday 15 November (No school on Friday 12 November). I commend the P & F for their financial support of student needs. The funds our P & F has provided, together with the school's camp budget, has made it affordable, enabling all students to be able to attend our educational Camp with their peers. So students, how are you going with your $20 worth of chores?

Learning Super Powers 4 & 5: Resilience and Self-Motivation

Students are consolidating their understanding of the learning super powers and are practising them each day. P-2 have set challenging goals for learning and I have experienced the Year 2 students checking their learning against the steps needed for success.

Remembrance Day

RSL president, Mr Brian Woodham, spoke to the students, staff and parents in attendance at assembly about Remembrance Day. He shared lots of fascinating information and stories about World War 1 & 11, including the reasons behind them and the consequences of these wars. Well done to our school leaders Kandice and Pippa for their confident vote of thanks and learnings.

Graduation and Awards Night (24 November at 5.30 pm)

All families are warmly invited to St. Joseph's to share in this special night as we farewell our much loved year sixes, Pippa McDonald, Kandice Nystrom, Tyzah Phillips and Braydon Clark. Together we will give thanks for the unique gifts that these students have shared with our school community. Graduation will be followed by the Awards night.

Yarning Circle

Please join us to open the Yarning Circle on Friday 26 November at 2pm. Come, celebrate and learn about Indigenous culture, experience Barrungam language. Share the sacred Yarning Circle space with its beautiful story poles, created with Peter Mulcahy, the rocks donated by the Logan and Nitske families, touch and smell the indigenous plants donated by Bunnings in Dalby, and learn about their uses. Join in our art and craft activities and afternoon tea.

Report Cards

Students and teachers are working on assessment ready for report cards to be issued on Friday 26 November.

May your week be one where you can find joy in the simple things of life, like the beauty of a flower, the aroma of a coffee or the feel of freshly washed sheets.

Mary Porter
Principal

'Let us show love in our acts.' Mary MacKillop 1890

Remembrance Day Visit From Mr & Mrs Woodham

From the APRE

Mission

Our mission is to reach out to others with love.

$217.00 will be sent to the Missions to help the needy in Thailand.

Your small change will make a big change in their lives.

Mary

Both classes are learning about Mary. Year 3-6 students have started their artworks or icons of Mary. I can't wait to see their masterpieces!

Mrs Smith and Year 3-6 invite you to join them at school for a Liturgy of the Word about Mary, Jesus' mother, on 18 November at 8.45 am.

We will Remember!

All members of the community are invited to a Remembrance Day Service at the Tara Hall at 10.30 on the 11th of November.

From the Parish

St Mary Of The Angels - Tara
Mass Times

Tara: Saturday: 6pm

Moonie: Sunday: 9:30am
on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd Sunday of the Month

Meandarra: Sunday: 7:30am
on the 2nd & 4th Sunday of the Month

Glenmorgan: Sunday: 9am
on the 4th Sunday of the Month

Parish Priest: Fr Jack MacGinley
Presbytery: 4665 3401 (Tara)

From the Administration Officer

SCHOOL FEES

I encourage all families to carefully plan their budget so that outstanding fees are paid by 19th November at the latest. Continuing to make regular fee payments over the Christmas school holidays will certainly help keep your budget on track.

2022 Term fees will increase by $5 per term, bringing the annual school fee total from $800 to $820. Please note this is the first fee increase in five years.

HOW TO PAY YOUR SCHOOL FEES:

*Cash

*Direct Deposit:
Bank: ADF
Name: St Joseph’s School
BSB: 064-786
ACC: 100025583
Reference: Your Name.

*Centrelink Centrepay Deduction Payments can be made fortnightly or monthly. The School’s CRN: 555075545A

Not Sure how it’s done? Ask at the office for Assistance.

Thank you to those making regular payments and/or have their account up to date. Could I please ask everyone to check how their account is travelling. If it doesn’t seem to be reducing as quickly as you would like, I recommend increasing or begin making regular fortnightly payments via cash, direct deposit or Centrepay deductions to help manage the fees more comfortably.

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Bus Notification Reminder: Please notify the school if your child's bus travel arrangements change by 2:30pm each afternoon.

If your child is being picked up instead of catching the bus home or is required to catch the bus instead of being picked up then the school needs to know before 2:30pm. Our staff have a duty of care to ensure your children get home safely, in accordance to the arrangements you have advised.

ABSENCES: Please notify the school whenever your child is absent.

Could I please ask those families who received an Unexplained Absences Explanation Request Form and have not returned them or notified the office to do so asap. These forms will now be sent out on a fortnightly basis and are to be returned by the Friday of that week please.

We understand that there are valid reasons for your child not to attend school e.g. They are sick. Please be aware that the following examples are not acceptable reasons for keeping them home from school.

If your child:

Doesn't feel like coming to school
Thinks it's too wet, cold, hot or the work is too hard or too easy
Stays home when another sibling is sick or a family member has an appointment or is going shopping out of town
Had a disagreement with their best friend
Got into trouble or thinks they might get into trouble at school
Is embarrassed about something that happened the day before
Has an activity or subject on that day they don't like

Wellbeing

Have fun with the daily activities on our Happiness Calendar. See how many you can achieve. We will also be focusing on a different Key to Happiness (below) each fortnight.

Our Fifth Key to Happiness is - Trying Out.

Learning affects our wellbeing in lots of positive ways. It exposes us to new ideas and helps us stay curious and engaged. It also gives us a sense of accomplishment and helps boost our self-confidence and resilience. There are many ways to learn new things - not just through formal qualifications. We can share a skill with friends, join a club, learn to sing, play a new sport and so much more.

From the Learning Environment

TeleHealth

Next year, we will be able to provide Speech Language Pathology sessions for our students through the University of Queensland for the sixth year.

This service is provided through the QGC Health-e-Regions initiative and has become an integral part of our speech language support here at St Joseph’s.

Students participate in a series of 12 one on one sessions with a 4^th year speech pathologist student from the University and are engaged in online activities to spark their imaginations and talents.

All parents and interested persons are invited to join us for afternoon tea to celebrate our successes in this program and our sixth year of participation. This milestone wouldn’t be possible without the support and involvement from our students, their families, the wonderful staff and students of the University of Queensland and of course the sensational financial support from Shell QGC. This afternoon celebration will be held at our school on the afternoon of Tuesday the 23 November from 1:15 to 2:15.

Please join us on the day to CELEBRATE.

St. Joseph's Awards

Bronze Award Recipients

Tiannah Playford

Silver Award Recipients

Braydon Clark

Students Of The Week

Jorge Waring, Milly Lobley

Student Safety

THE 2021 STUDENT PROTECTION CONTACTS: Sue Whelan Mary Porter Susan Rodd (Counsellor)

STUDENT SAFETY INFORMATION

EVERY CHILD HAS THE RIGHT TO FEEL SAFE

Term Dates

2021

*Term 3 2021 – Tue 13 Jul - Fri 17 Sep

*Term 4 2021 – Wed 6 Oct - Thurs 2 Dec

2022

*Term 1 2022 – Tue 25 Jan - Fri 1 Apr

*Term 2 2022 – Wed 20 Apr - Fri 24 Jun

*Term 3 2022 – Tue 12 Jul - Fri 16 Sep

*Term 4 2022 – Tue 4 Oct - Thurs 1 Dec

P & F News

Raffle tickets have gone out to our families, staff and community for our Multi-draw fundraiser. We are having brilliant support from our local businesses, generously donating vouchers & items as prizes to help us raise money for the school. Please return all money and tickets before 23 November to the office. The raffle will be drawn at our Graduation & Awards Night on 24 November. Please see Sue in the Office when more tickets are needed.

Tuckshop

There will be a special Remembrance Day Sausage Sizzle menu for Morning Tea only tomorrow followed with the usual lunch menu.

ROSTER

Term 4

Wk 6 - 11 Nov: Monica Moran & Sara Shields

Wk 7 - 18 Nov: Craig Riddiford & Annie Stapleton

Wk 8 - 25 Nov: Monica Moran & Dan Cole

Wk 9 - 2 Dec: Sara Shields, Craig Riddiford & Anne Furniss- Christmas Tuck Shop Menu

If you are unable to attend on your rostered tuckshop day please contact another person on the roster to arrange a swap of days.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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The Awards recognise the role models, talented sportspeople, creative artists, amazing volunteers and community groups in our community. There would be many examples within your school community of people achieving great things and we encourage you to nominate them.

Award Categories:

Citizen of the Year
Young Citizen of the Year
Local Community Organisation Achievement Award
Local Creative Arts Award
Local Sports Award
Local Volunteer of the Year

Thank you for your support to help acknowledge our wonderful community and its people.

Nominations can be made online through this link: https://www.wdrc.qld.gov.au/living-here/our-communities/public-holidays/australiadayawards2022/. Nominations close Sunday 31 October 2021.

St Joseph's, Tara - Term 4 Week 6 2021 Newsletter