2018 Edition No 13 – Wednesday 22nd August

Dear Parents

Sacred heart of Jesus ever present in our lives, Hear our prayer for Rawah Alsamahi, Summer Begg and Lebron Mippy as they make final preparations to receive their first Holy Communion. Grant them, Lord, loving grace and help still their hearts with mindful prayer and worship as they receive at the table of our Lord the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. May the Holy Spirit shine a guiding light through the course of their lifetime always leading these blessed children on step closer to the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen

Therese Bandy

Principal

Faction Athletics Carnival A lunch order will be sent home today with the students for next week’s Athletics carnival. Please ensure this is returned, with the money, by Monday 27th August. A copy of the form is at the end of this newsletter

School Social Media Pages A reminder to parents and carers that the school has a private Facebook Group, and also a public page for updating the community on the good work going on at St Joseph’s. We have also started a Twitter page, so keep an eye out for our tweets. Our Social Media pages are a good way to keep up to date with what it going on in the school in-between newsletters so keep an eye on them for information, and don’t forget that with Facebook algorithms you will need to like some of our posts so they will appear in your news feed.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stjosephsschoolmoora/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/StJosephsSchoo5?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stjosephsschoolmoora/?hl=en

Upcoming Dates

August 2018 Wed Aug 22

Book Swap Fri Aug 24

Book Week Dress Up

Assembly Senior Room Sun Aug 26

Sacrament of First Communion

Fri Aug 31

School Faction Athletics Carnival

Kindy Father’s Day Liturgy

P&F Father’s Day Raffle

September 2018 Fri Sep 7

PP Grandparents Day Liturgy and Morning Tea

Fri Sep 14

Interschool Athletics Tue Sep 18

Walk Like A Pirate Day Friday Sep 21

Last day of school

October 2018

Mon Oct 8

Pupil Free Day Tue Oct 9

First day of Term 4 Sat Oct 27

World Teacher’s Day

St John the Baptist Parish Moora

Weekend Masses:

1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Saturday 6.30pm

4th Sunday 10.30am

Mass this weekend – Saturday 6.30pm

Weekday Masses: Wednesday - 5.30pm

Friday - 8am

Newsletter, Term 3 Week 6

Environment news Thank you to all of the families that have supported our Waste Free Wednesday initiative. We have seen more reusable lunch boxes, cutlery and utensils, bees wax wrapping paper and, most importantly, a reduction in waste that is going in the bin. Our next target will be juice boxes and chip packets. I would encourage you to keep supporting this initiative and include others days as waste free as well. Our classroom recycling bins are also being well utilised to encourage recycling of paper and cardboard products. Reports from the canteen are that some students are asking for plastic spoons on a regular basis. There will be a charge for these spoons at 50c. We encourage you to supply your children with cutlery from home. NAPLAN online 2019 In preparation for schools to participate in NAPLAN online in 2019, we need to conduct a School Readiness Test (SRT) with the current Year 3s and Year 5s in week 7 of this term. A note is going home today to all families of students in Year 3 and Year 5. This SRT is not for assessment purposes and no reports will be produced. Electives @ St Joseph’s Our electives continue to be engaging for our students, staff and members of our community and it has been great to witness some of the learning continue outside of elective time. Check our social media pages for photos and updates. Singing Club Mrs Pienaar and Miss Lennox have extended their singing practice to Friday mornings for involved students. Book Week 2018 – Find your Treasure! We are right in the middle of book week, which started with a QR code scavenger hunt around the entire school yesterday. Students from the lower junior grades joined the more senior classes to ultimately find the treasure – a comfortable reading spot!

The Family Night In! is on tonight from 5.00 – 6.00pm and we encourage you to come along, enjoy a book and a hot drink.

Students are encouraged to dress up as their favourite book character, and bring the associated book, on Friday 24th August to participate in a parade after morning assembly. Jae Dornan Assistant Principal

News from the McKillop House

McKillop House is a very busy place with different groups all working out of the same space. Patrina and Tina run Little Joeys, and we have our literacy and numeracy support programs taught by Mrs. Crombie and Mrs. McPherson.

MiniLit and MacqLit – Literacy Intervention

Both MiniLit (designed for years 1 and 2) and MacqLit (designed for year 3 and up) are the programs we use to support growth in all areas of Literacy. We have been learning many different sounds in both MiniLit and MacqLit this semester. Each week we practice our focus sound with readings as well as different strategies to help spell the sounds in words. If we come across unknown words we think of how many syllables are in the words, then we think about the sound we hear in each syllable. We then say the sounds as we write the words. We also learn that one sound can have different spellings.

Libby, Riley, Emily and Payton showing one sound can be spelt in different ways

We also like using letter tiles and sound boxes to transform words. Kristopher, Oliver, Declan and Heath are working hard using their letter tiles.

The Maq Lit group has been having lots of fun playing bingo and sound chatterboxes to spell words. We really have to think.

Extending Mathematical Understandings – Numeracy Intervention EMU is a Numeracy intervention program designed for children in Year 1 and Year 2. We run 30 minute sessions, 4 times a week. Our EMU groups consist of 3 students. We cover the areas of counting, place value, addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. We want our students to be able to give reasons when they solve a problem. We ask lots of questions, such as;

Prove it? How do you know that? Is there a faster way?

These type of questions allow the students to verbalise and share their thinking which consolidates the concepts being learnt. We want our EMUs to have a really good understanding of quantity. We also teach our EMU students a range of strategies such as:- friends of ten, counting on, doubles, near doubles, bridging to ten and so on. Tyrraell, Payton, Libby and Seraphim working out what a 1000 looks like. They discovered 1000 pop sticks is also 100 bundles of 10 sticks or it could be 10 bundles of 100 sticks.

How many donuts can you see without counting in 1s? How did you work it out? I see 4 rows of 4. I know 4 x 4 = 16 OR I know double 4 is 8 and double 8 is 16. Ask your child to work out how many donuts they are? Remember… a mathematician can have more than one way to solve a problem! Oh yeah… and a mathematician can always change his answer

P&F News

Community News

VACSWIM 2018/2019 Enrol your children now in VacSwim swimming lessons during the October and December/January school holidays. With swimming pools and beaches a part of the Western Australian lifestyle, ensuring your children can swim competently and safely is a must for all families.

Your children can join in the fun of learning to swim in lessons conducted at pools and open water venues across the State. VacSwim is for all children - from beginners through to advanced survival, rescue and resuscitation.

Your children can learn to swim for just: $7.00 per child for a five day short program $13.00 per child for all other programs. It's even cheaper if you have three or more children: $18.00 a family for a five day short program $35.00 a family for all other programs. To find out more about VacSwim and to enrol online please visit education.wa.edu.au/swimming

This Friday 24th August Taking orders for Daffodil Day Orders will be at the school Friday 24th for collection. Anyone wanting to order will need their order and payment to the

school by Thursday 23rd . $10 A bunch of (10) Thank You.

P&F Seeking Donations for Father’s Day Raffle The P & F Father’s Day Raffle is always a highlight of the P&F calendar and tickets will be going home tomorrow. We are looking for all kinds of gift donations that any Dad or relative would like (it doesn’t matter how small or large!) to be handed into the school office before Thursday 30th August. The raffle will be drawn on Friday 31st August.

Uniform Shop The uniform shop will be open this Friday, 24th August from 8.30am-9am. As usual, items can be purchased with cash only. The shop will be open fortnightly, the same week that the newsletter is issued.

Netball program for those girls & boys, Yr 1 to Yr 3

Registration Day is on

Thursday Sept 6th at 3.30pm

at the Moora Netball Courts.

Program starts Thurs 13th Sept

Cost is $56.00 or Kidsport Voucher for 8-10 weeks program + pack

Julia Greay – Mob: 0427 531 480

Central Midlands

Netball Association

JUNIORS NETBALL COMPETITION

Competition starts Thurs 6th Sept.

Years 4 - 7 (12yrs)

Girls & Boys

Team nominations to Julia Greay by 31st Aug.

Cost $20.00pp

Julia Greay – Mob: 0427 531 480

HAPPY HOLIDAY CLUB 2018

WHEN: MONDAY Oct 1 to FRIDAY Oct 5, 9am to 12 noon WHERE: Moora Seventh-day Adventist Church Hall Beasley St, Moora (opposite Primary School)

WHAT: Stories, Songs, Bible Lessons, Crafts, Skits WHO: All primary school aged children HOW MUCH: Just Turn Up and have fun QUESTIONS: Phone 96511881 Bernard and Julia Chapman

Central Midlands SHS student council presents

A fundraiser for the Buy-a-Bale charity supporting

drought affected farmers in QLD and NSW.

Screening by permission: Amalgamated Movies

Friday 31st August CMSHS Gymnasium Doors open 5:45pm Show starts 6:15pm

Entry: $5.00 – all ages

Includes movie, drink and

popcorn.

BYO own blankets,

cushions, beanbags or

camp chairs.

Athletics Carnival

Lunch Orders

Please tick your selection and return to the canteen in an envelope with the

money enclosed by

by Monday morning, August 27

Name: ______________________________________________

Faction: __________________________________________

Amount enclosed: ____________________________

Snack Attack (2 snack pies, sauce, Choc milk) $5.20

2 Snack Pies and Sauce $2.70

Large Pie and Sauce $3.60

Ham & Cheese toastie $3.00

Chicken and Salad Wrap $3.50

DRINKS

Small Choc Milk $2.50

100% fruit juice $2.50

Water $1.20

Thank you.