Next week there are various celebrations taking place as St Joseph’s celebrates NAIDOC Week. The theme for this year is For Our Elders. Monday – Smoking Ceremony 8:45am. Mass in the Church with Father Dariusz 9am. Tuesday – 9:00-10:30am Kindy, Prep and Year 1 and Year 5 assisting with NAIDOC Week Activities on the Basketball Court. All […]
2024 Prep Enrolments Due
2024 seems a long way away, but for the school we are already putting processes in place for next year’s Prep class, including identifying how many applicants we have and finalising our Prep cut-off numbers. If you are wanting to have two smaller Prep classes, we will need to have over 30 students enrolled so […]
Athletics Carnival
Our athletics carnival is coming around quickly. It will be held at the Andoom Oval on Thursday 22nd June and will start early. ALL children will need to be at the Oval by 8am ready for events starting at 8:15am. P-2 will be bused back to the school approximately around 12:30pm after relays, ready for a […]
Reconciliation Week
Our School community is committed to providing a culturally safe environment where all children belong and an experience respect, justice, equity, and dignity. At our Reconciliation Liturgy today, we gathered to unite our hearts with First Nations communities as we recognised and reflected on the wrongs that have been done in the past and take […]
Come and Try Prep Days Coming Up
There are many things to celebrate that have taken place this year and more recently, this term. There have been many wonderful events which have brought new and old faces together including ANZAC Day, Mother’s Day and Under 8’s. There have also been a number of sporting events that have taken place, Cross Country, the […]
Celebrating our Mums
On Thursday morning, we celebrated God’s treasured gifts to us; our mums, grandmothers, aunties and special women in our lives that care for us and love us. They do so much for us. They help us, protect us, teach us new things, take us places and love us. Our special morning of fun, food and laughter celebrated […]
St Joseph’s Feast Day
Today we celebrated the Feast Day of St Joseph the Worker with a special whole school Mass. Every Year on the Feast of St Joseph we present the Spirit of St Joseph Awards. These Awards symbolise the gospel values which we live out here at St Joseph’s. We are a young school but over the […]
ANZAC Day
Thank you to those who were able to join us for our ANZAC liturgy on Monday. It was a special occasion, led beautifully by our Year 3 and 4 students. We were joined by our special guests, Major Theo Hadgis and Corporal Aiden of the Bravo Company 51st Battalion Far North Qld Regiment. Corporal Adian who […]
Holy Week
This week St Jospeh’s acknowledge the most important week in the Church. Holy Week. As we journeyed with Christ, we reflected on events which lead to his destination, the cross. Palm Sunday- This is the first day of Holy Week and on Wednesday Year 2 reminded us about the triumphant entry Jesus made into Jerusalem. People […]
Harmony Week
One of my favourite things about Australia is that we are a multicultural nation — from the oldest continuous culture of our First Australians to the cultures of our newest arrivals from around the world. Our cultural diversity is one of our greatest strengths and is at the heart of who we are. It makes […]
