UPDATE AS AT 23RD MARCHFirstly, I wish to thank St Joseph’s School community for your calmness and common-sense approach to the ongoing effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. Following on from our initial correspondence regarding our school’s action plan and response to the current situation, I can assure you all, that the school receives regular updates […]

You are invited to join us for our St Joseph’s Trivia Night, to be held on Saturday 28th March. Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Family and friends are welcome. Please note that is an adults only event (18+) – no children will be permitted to attend. Pre-purchase your tickets for $20 each. […]

Last week the school community all gathered together for the Ash Wednesday Liturgy.  The staff and students joined together in prayer and song before being marked with the ashes in a sign of the cross on their foreheads. Many of the classes have made lenten promises of things that they are going to give up […]

The implementation of Friendology across our school is well underway.  Students have been learning about the ‘rules’ of friendship with the following ‘4 Friendship Facts’ being central to this learning; No friendship (or relationship) is perfect. Every friendship is different. Trust and Respect are the 2 most important qualities of a friendship. Friendships change…and that’s […]

Coming up next week is Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. We will be having a liturgy in the Flexible Learning Area at 1:40pm for Ash Wednesday. We would love it if you could join us for this liturgy.  What is Shrove Tuesday? Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday, which is the first day […]

We are excited to be introducing the teaching of AUSLAN language to the whole school this year. The AUSLAN language is an Australian Curriculum Learning Area and aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable students to:  communicate in Auslan understand language, culture and learning and their relationship, and thereby develop an intercultural […]

Our last week for 2019 has many activities and events: Transition Day Monday 25th November is transition Day. This means our students will have the opportunity to meet their 2020 teacher in the classroom they will occupy in 2020. This is a lovely way to begin the relationship that will play such an important role […]

Last  Thursday St. Joseph’s celebrated its inaugural Twilight  Swimming Carnival  at the Town Pool. The children sat in their House Colours – Mission, Pine and Embley with their families and cheered for their class mates.   Years Prep to Year 2 participated in Noodle Breaststroke/ Kickboard Backstroke and Freestyle races and Year 3 to 6 participated in 25m and […]

Over the next 2 weeks we will have a number of events happening and would like to stress the importance of all of the celebrations that are going to occur – Starry Starry Night, Year 6 Graduation, End of term Fun Day, Principal’s Morning tea and our End of Year Mass. Details will be distributed […]

Our school has been hosting our 2020 prep students over the last three weeks for our annual Prep Transition Program. I particularly enjoy these days and the opportunity to start to get to know our future Prep students and their families. There is a lot of work that goes into the organisation of our Pre-Prep […]