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Dear Parents and Carers,
Welcome to Week 8! I hope you enjoyed your long weekend, it was nice to see the sun!
Welcome
Welcome Ruben and your family into our SJKB school community and our Year 1M classroom. Thank you to all our friendly and welcoming students for taking care of Ruben and helping him settle in so well.
Enrolments
Our 2023 Kindergarten enrolment forms are currently being returned to our office. Thank you for returning them so we can start organising our Year 5 buddies and our transition program. Our Meet Your Buddy day is scheduled for 9th August.
ASPIRE
Congratulations to both Grace B and Dominic V for their involvement in the ASPIRE 2022 performance. Our Stage 3 children will be attending the Civic Theatre on Wednesday, 27th July to be part of the audience at 11:00 am. It's always a great show so if you would like to attend any performance, see below for ticket sales
COSI
Last week (Monday and Tuesday) our school underwent our External School Review. Thank you to the parents, students and staff who took the time to speak to our panel of visitors. The process of the school review started many months ago with compiling a report about various aspects of our school to be affirmed and also improved. Overall the feedback from our panel of Catholic School Office visitors were very positive and of course it is always good to have “fresh” eyes to identify areas for improvement. I would like to share with you some affirmations and some areas of improvement for SJKB:
External review affirms the following but are not limited to:
The growth and development of the school’s learning agenda since the last review.
The high level of parent satisfaction and the staff’s “collective commitment to the students.”
- The BYOD implementation.
- The enhancement of the physical school site and play areas that provide for the development of Successful Foundations.
- The implementation of research-based practices and initiatives across the school. e.g., Gradual Release of Responsibility model, Successful Foundations, Cultures of Thinking, Explicit Instruction.
- The role of the school leaders in communicating and providing professional learning in relation to effective teaching strategies throughout the school e.g., InitiaLit, VCOP, Number Talks, Learning Intentions, Success Criteria, Bump It Up Walls.
- Strategies are in place to collect assessment information K-6.
Areas for improvement include but are not limited to:
- The need for narrow and deep goal setting and priorities in the development of the 2023 SIP (School Improvement Plan).
- Analysis and Discussion of Data as the new Domain in the next cycle.
- Continuity of learning across Flexible Work Arrangements/Job Share.
- Moving from first order change to second order change. A shift from “what we're doing to how we work” is required.
- Engaging parent and carers, through education in the consistent approach to student behaviours, discipline, and the learning agenda.
- The volume of communication and priority and frequency i.e., COMPASS alerts together with detail and variety of platforms providing information.
Canberra Excursion
We cannot believe it has been one week already since our Year 5 & 6 children attended their Canberra excursion. A huge thank you to Mrs Woollett, Mr Chandler and Mr Hession for taking such good care of our wonderful group of children. The children were on their best behaviour and had a great time, hopefully learnt a lot and are ready for some follow up learning activities back at school. Here are some photos of our wonderful memories!
Canberra Rebate
A reminder that the cost of the Canberra excursion would have been $30 per student more, if it wasn't for the government rebate available. This was taken into account when calculating the total cost to families and is the reason why we didn't have to ask for more than the amount that was estimated at the beginning of the year.
As part of the rebate requirements, we advise the following:
Students from our school have recently undertaken, an education tour of the national capital. Students were given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy.
The Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion the Australian Government is contributing funding of $30.00 per student under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate program towards those costs. The rebate is paid directly to the school upon completion of the excursion.
Walking Country Experience
Children's University
On Thursday, 23rd June Mr Chandler has organised for the children involved in the Children’s University program 2022 to attend Newcastle University. I am sure they will have a wonderful day filled with many varied activities. The bus has been organised and all notes should be returned to Mr Chandler please. Mrs Porter will be accompanying the group also.
Catholic Schools Rep Sport
Catholic Schools NSW provide parents with a website full of information with sporting opportunities for our students in Catholic Schools. The website, csnsw.sport, is set up to allow parents to read when trials are happening, the venues and the pathways to represent Maitland-Newcastle in many varied sports from netball, football, golf to swimming etc. I will provide this information in the newsletter. However, to attend a trial for Winter and Summer sports, children need to be already playing in a representative side or be an outstanding/exceptional player. We are only allowed to send a limited number of children to each trial because as you can imagine the talent of rep players is exceptional and the convenor of the trial has limited time/resources to give all children who attend trials a fair go!
Good luck to our athletes who are attending the Lakes Regional carnival on Wednesday, 29th June at Glendale Athletics centre!
Lakes Region
Debating / Spelling / Maths / Public Speaking
Next term we will be holding Lakes Regional debating, Lakes Regional spelling/Maths and Lakes Public Speaking competitions here at Kilaben Bay. Children will be selected to be involved and further information will be shared with you closer to the date.
Leadership Congratulations - Year 4!
Congratulations to our award recipients last week. During this week (Week 7) our Year 6 student leaders were away in Canberra, I would like to thank and congratulate our Year 4 students who stepped into the roles of leadership to lead our award assembly. Well done and thank you.
Student Reports - Semester One
Your child’s Semester One report will be available on Compass Friday, 24th June and will be followed up with your opportunity to speak with the teachers in Week 10 during an interview. Please be sure to return the note with your preferred times for an interview. Your child’s report will be in a new format and teachers will indicate two strengths and one area for improvement in English, Maths and Religion. This area for improvement will be identified as a goal for your child's learning.
Further clarification can be sought during your interviews. Year 1 interviews will be in Term 3 as indicated by your letter.
P & F Fundraising
Thank you to all who are continually donating their recycled goods. We recycled 1600 cans and bottles last week and earned another $160 for the school. That’s $780 to date :-)
The P&F have picked up 5 new blue Vinnies wheelie bins - 4 x 240 litre ones and 1 x 120 litre one - to collect cans and bottles in going forward. There are 4 big bins at the courts with a garbage bin (for waste plastic, boxes etc) - these bins are locked together for security. There is also a small bin up next to the office door - this one is for the playground.
Therefore, the blue bins are just for empty cans and bottles - no rubbish, plastic bags or boxes please. Please be careful dropping glass bottles in, to avoid breakages.
Paint and Sip Night
Tickets are selling fast to our P&F Paint and Sip night (see invite below) – be quick to register as there is only room for 40 people and only a few tickets left! This fundraising/social event will also be put toward the cost of the resurfacing of the netball courts. You are all welcome and you will find the link to buy tickets on Compass under P & F Fundraiser tix.
Movie Night
Men's Breakfast
Pupil Free Day - End Term 2 - Start Term 3
Friday 1 July is a pupil free day. Our staff will be meeting with an education officer from Catholic Schools office to continue our professional development on differentiation in the area of writing.
The last day of Term 2 for students is Thursday 30 June.
Our next fortnightly newsletter is due in Week 10, however, this may be in the form of a shorter/modified format.
Our first day back in Term 3 is Monday, 18th July.
God bless,
Charlene Reid
Principal
PBL
This week’s PBL focus is ‘I am a good listener’. This contributes to our school rule of ‘Be an excellent Learner’. At SJKB we teach students the importance of being a good listener. We encourage all students to listen carefully to each other and their teachers so that all learning opportunities are maximised. Each week, your child is engaging in class activities and discussions to further understand and then implement these skills. This week we learned how Jesus’ friends would have listened to his stories and as a result, would have learned a lot of important messages. Some students show great initiative with the school PBL and are congratulated at awards assemblies.
Leading Learning Collaborative
As part of our school wide commitment to Leading, Learning Collaborative, our teachers have been embedded high impact teaching strategies in our class programs. One of these strategies is known as ‘Accountable Talk’ The term "Accountable Talk" in classrooms refers to talk that is meaningful, respectful, and mutually beneficial to both speaker and listener. Accountable Talk stimulates higher-order thinking - helping students to learn, reflect on their learning, and communicate their knowledge and understanding.
Stage 2 Sustainability Project
I am very excited to share with you a sustainability initiative that our stage 2 students are participating in. As you know, our school is surrounded by natural beauty and landscapes, which we are all very proud of. Inside our school grounds, we have some garden beds that need to be maintained and rediscovered as a place that students can engage with, learn from, interact with and care for.
With the support from Adrian Wheeler (Piper's dad, Year 1) we will be redeveloping the garden beds in between the year 1 classrooms and library.
Adrian has some fabulous ideas including clearing, composting, planting, fencing, and watering in order to make this space inviting, educational and purposeful. We have decided that stage 2 will be responsible for 'The Farm'. This will be a great leadership opportunity for them.
Adrian will continue to visit our school providing education to stage 2. Last week, stage 2 had their first lesson with Adrian, and we cleared the garden beds and prepared them ready for planting. We then decided on what we would like to plant in these garden beds and look forward to watching our plants grow! Stage 2 will water and weed the garden beds and learn how to use this fresh produce. Adrian will visit the school once a month and check in with the students and keep us on track!
I'm really excited for this and hope that it becomes a really special place for our school! I'm envisaging paths and scarecrows and sunflowers......
Courtney Porter
Assistant Principal
Men's Hiking Group
We had a great start to our monthly men’s hiking group with our first hike on taking place on the 4th June. We covered 15km and explored some of the magnificent wilderness between from Caves Beach and Catherine Hill Bay.
Our next hike will be on Saturday 2nd July and we will be hiking the Abbott’s Falls Track in the Watagans. We will meet at Olney Headquarters Campsite for a 1pm start. This will be about an 8km hike that is graded ‘hard,’ so make sure you have plenty of energy and adequate water for this one.
Your safety is our priority and so in order for us to ensure appropriate measures are taken, we require those who will be attending to register via the following link:
All men with an adventurous spirit are welcome to join us to explore the hiking trails in the beautiful wilderness this area provides. So come join us in a non-judgmental environment where you can be free to speak openly as a man, make new friends, get a bit of exercise and be re-energised by the peace, sounds and fresh air the bush provides, and grow as real men of character who can challenge and support each other.
“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”
(Proverbs 27:17).
Contact Callan 0412 957 832 or Christopher 0487 017 048 for more information.
Sacramental Process
God Bless,
Christopher Voigt
Parish Leader
Weekly Awards
Term 2, Week 7
Term 2, Week 8
Recently students in Years 1 and 2 have been involved in further developing their social skills through a program called: "What's the Buzz?"
What's the Buzz EARLY LEARNER's program is an evidenced based social skills program that immerses younger students in a variety of essential interpersonal skills, stimulated by the experiences of a character called Archie. In each lesson, the children help Archie solve the very same social dilemmas that occur in their everyday lives. As they do this, through activity, discussion, role-play, games, puzzles and quizzes, they learn how-to express feelings and become a more positive problem solver.
Social Skills
Below is some further information about how children develop their social skills and why they are important.
What are social skills?
Social skills are the skills we use everyday to interact and communicate with others. They include verbal and non-verbal communication, such as speech, gesture, facial expression and body language. A person has strong social skills if they have the knowledge of how to behave in social situations and understand both written and implied rules when communicating with others.
Why are social skills important?
Social skills are vital in enabling an individual to have and maintain positive interactions with others. Many of these skills are crucial in making and sustaining friendships. Social interactions do not always run smoothly and an individual needs to be able to implement appropriate strategies, such as conflict resolution when difficulties in interactions arise. It is also important for individuals to have ’empathy’ (i.e. being able to put yourself into someone else’s shoes and recognise their feelings) as it allows them to respond in an understanding and caring way to how others are feeling.
What are the building blocks necessary to develop social skills?
• Attention and concentration: Sustained effort, doing activities without distraction and being able to hold that effort long enough to get the task done.
• Receptive (understanding) language: Comprehension of language.
• Expressive (using) language: The use of language through speech, sign or alternative forms of communication to communicate wants, needs, thoughts and ideas.
• Play skills: Voluntary engagement in self motivated activities that are normally associated with pleasure and enjoyment where the activities may be, but are not necessarily, goal oriented.
• Pre-language skills: The ways in which we communicate without using words and include things such as gestures, facial expressions, imitation, joint attention and eye-contact.
• Self regulation: The ability to obtain, maintain and change one’s emotion, behaviour, attention and activity level appropriate for a task or situation in a socially acceptable manner.
• Executive functioning: Higher order reasoning and thinking skills.
• Planning and sequencing: The sequential multi-step task or activity performance to achieve a well-defined result.
How can you tell if my child has problems with social skills?
If a child has difficulties with social skills they might:
• Use fleeting eye contact, does not consistently use eye contact or stares at you fixedly.
• Not be able to take turns when talking to their communication partner.
• Struggle with using appropriate body language (e.g. stands too close/far to another person).
• Fail to use polite forms of communication (e.g. saying: please, thank-you, hello and good-bye).
• Be unable to start and end conversations appropriately.
• Interrupt others frequently.
• Be unable to maintain a topic of conversation and provides irrelevant comments during a conversation.
• Talk ‘at you’ in a conversation as opposed to engaging in a two way conversation ‘with’ you.
• Not ask appropriate questions.
• Repeat information in conversation and tend to talk about topics of their own interest (e.g. trains, a favourite TV show/person).
• Show little or no interest in what the other person has to say.
• Fail to understand jokes and language, such as sarcasm, idioms and non-literal information (e.g. ‘This place is a pig sty!’).
• Interpret what you say in a very literal way (e.g. when you say “Can you open the door?” the child “yes” without moving to actually open the door).
• Talk with unusual speed, stress, rhythm, intonation, pitch and/or tone of voice.
• Be unable to understand different tones of voice or read facial cues.
• Fail to ask for clarification if they are confused or if the situation is unclear to them.
• Struggle to respond appropriately when asked to change their actions.
• Tend to disclose (excessively) personal information to unfamiliar people or strangers.
• Appear unaware of others and fail to read other people’s feelings based on their verbal and non-verbal cues.
• Be unable to respond to teasing, anger, failure and disappointment appropriately.
• Be unable to adjust or modify their language appropriately according to the communication situation.
• Lack empathy (i.e. is not able to imagine what it is like to be somebody else or in their situation).
• Lack imagination.
• Appear self-centred.
• Fail to understand the consequences of their actions.
What other problems can occur when a child has social skill difficulties?
When a child has social skill difficulties, they might also have difficulties with:
• Behaviour: The child’s actions, usually in relation to their environment (e.g. a child may engage in behaviour, such as refusing to go to social events including birthday parties or engage in inappropriate behaviour, such as tugging on a peer’s hair or yelling at someone to get their attention).
• Sensory processing: The child may have trouble attending or focusing and have difficulty interpreting information they receive from the environment.
• Completing academic work (e.g. the child may misinterpret verbal or written instructions for tasks and/or struggle with imaginative writing).
• Receptive (understanding) language: Comprehension of language.
• Expressive (using) language: The use of language through speech, sign or alternative forms of communication to communicate wants, needs, thoughts and ideas.
• Articulation: Clarity of speech sounds and spoken language.
• Fluency: The smoothness or flow with which sounds, syllables, words and phrases are produced when talking.
• Voice: The sound that we hear when someone talks which is unique to each person.
• Self regulation: The ability to obtain, maintain and change one’s emotion, behaviour, attention and activity level appropriate for a task or situation in a socially acceptable manner.
• Executive functioning: Higher order reasoning and thinking skills.
What can be done to improve social skills?
• Play with your child to help develop joint attention, turn-taking, shared interests, cooperation and appropriate play with toys.
• Emotions: Help the child to understand and display their own emotions and to recognise these emotions in other people.
• Empathy: Help the child to understand and recognise how other people are feeling in particular situations.
• Social stories: These are stories which are used to teach children specific social skills that they may find difficult to understand or are confusing. The goal of the story is to increase the child’s understanding by describing in detail a specific situation and suggesting an appropriate social response.
• Social skill groups: These are groups run with the express purpose of mastering social interaction with others.
What activities can help improve social skills?
• Visuals: Make up a poster of rules to remember when starting a conversation (e.g. using a friendly voice, making eye contact, using appropriate greetings, such as ‘hello’).
• Role play: Practise playground/party scenarios where the child does not know anybody. Model and create a list of different things you can say:
To join others who are playing (e.g. “Can I play too?”).
To introduce yourself (e.g. “Hi my name is ….”).
To politely negotiate with peers (e.g. “I don’t want that one. Can I have the blue car please?”).
• Sing songs, such as ‘If you’re happy and you know it’ to help teach a child about different emotions.
• Masks: Make masks together to help improve eye contact.
• Turn taking: Play turn taking games (e.g. board games) to encourage a child to say whose turn it is in the game (e.g. “My turn”, “Your turn”).
• Games: Play board games with the child. Make sure the child is not always the ‘winner’ so that they learn about ‘losing’ in a game and are able to cope better when this happens with their peers.
• Bean bag conversation: Throw a bean bag around a circle and each child takes a turn to contribute to the conversation. Think of different ways to contribute to the conversation (e.g. ask a question, comment on what has been said, add something related to the topic).
• Watch and comment: Role play different situations and comment about appropriate and inappropriate attempts of communication (e.g. standing too close or too far from another person, not using appropriate eye contact, interrupting a conversation).
Monica Shanahan
Learning Support Teacher and Gifted Education Mentor
A reminder
Thank you to all the parents and friends who attended the Catholic Schools Week liturgy earlier this term, and joined us in our classrooms to see all the amazing work students are doing at school. Catholic Schools week is a great time to celebrate our school and the wonderful work our teachers do in making our school such a welcoming and enjoyable place for students to learn.
Catholic Schools Week also coincided with Reconciliation week. On National Sorry Day, together with Mr Hession and our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, we created a beautiful and respectful morning liturgy under the Cola in the form of a yarning circle. Surrounded by our natural outdoor environment and the noise of the native birds, we sat in circles facing our sacred space in the centre, it was a nice way to acknowledge National Sorry Day, Reconciliation Week and the traditional custodians of the land, the Awabakal people.
As our local St Vincent De Paul is currently in abeyance, the food donations this year were given to our local CatholicCare Community Kitchen in Toronto. The Community Kitchen is run by many of our St Joseph’s Church parishioners and just opened its doors last week. They are very grateful for the donation and will ensure the food is given to local people in need. For further information about CatholicCare:
https://torontoparish.org/community-kitchen-is-open-again/
I must also give a big congratulations to our school Mini Vinnies conference, who did a great job presenting the liturgy and running the cake stall!
As St Vincent De Paul’s Winter Appeal continues, St Joseph’s is also currently running a class competition, where classes K-6 are collecting 5c donations that will also be donated to their Winter Appeal. If you have any 5c pieces laying around at home that you are wanting to get rid of, please give them to your children to donate at school.
The class with the most 5c pieces will share in a bucket of ice blocks from the canteen!
Diary Dates:
• 28/06 – NAIDOC Week Liturgy
Have a wonderful week,
Taylor James
Acting RE Co-ordinator
During Library lessons students in stage 2 are enjoying exploring Scratch. This amazing coding website allows students to create animations. Our students use creative skills to choose or design a background and characters. They then program the movement, looks and sounds of their animation using coding blocks; problem solving along the way.
St Joseph’s has a wonderful collection of books that we encourage all students to borrow. They are currently enjoying our displays for Star Wars, Graphic novels, Mothers/Grandmothers Day, Anzac Day and Premier’s Reading Challenge books.
All students need a School Library which are available for $14 for anyone who needs one. Please pay on Qkr! and the bag will be delivered to your child.
PLEASE NOTE current class borrowing days are:
Monday: Year 1, 3 Maroon, 3/4 Blue and 5/6 Classes
Tuesday: Kinder, 2 Blue and 4 Maroon
We encourage all students to borrow from our library, as we have an amazing collection of fabulous books.
Premier's Reading challenge
The Premier’s Reading Challenge, also known as PRC is well underway.
CONGRATULATIONS to the 40 STUDENTS WHO HAVE COMPLETED THE CHALLENGE!!
The PRC is an initiative by the NSW Government that encourages a love of reading in students from Kinder to Year 9. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read widely and enjoy reading. Students are each given an individual username and password to log onto the PRC website. There they can add the PRC books they have read to their reading record. Students who complete the challenge will have their names displayed in the library and the newsletter. At the end of the year they will receive a certificate to show their achievement. At St Joey’s we like to celebrate with a Pizza Party in term four.
The PRC Website can be found here:
The challenge continues until 19th August. If your child has entered the PRC in previous years their username and password will be the same. If you would like your child to participate in this wonderful event please let me know and I can send their login details home.
This fortnight during Library lessons, students have read the following PRC books:
Kinder: Ten Scared Fish by Ros Moriarty and Balarinji
Years 1 & 2: Family Tree by Josh Pyke & Ronojoy Ghosh
Congratulations to the following students who have finished the PRC:
Kinder: Ollie S and Beau G
Year 1: Phoebe S, Emma R
Year 3: Bohdi S and Matilda D
Year 4: Grace S
Sora
St Joseph’s has a subscription to SORA. Sora is an eBook and audio book Library. As part of the Australian Catholic Education Network (ACEN) member collection, your child can access eBooks and audio books through the Maitland Newcastle Diocese.All you need to do is to download the SORA app or go to the website and sign in through the ACEN membership, then you and your child can enjoy some terrific books on your devices at home.
One of the great features of SORA is the inclusion of a Premier Reading Challenge book section. Graphic novels, Fiction and Non-Fiction books are also available.
Log in and explore today
Bookclub
At St Joseph’s we participate in Scholastic Book Club. This provides families with an easy way to encourage your children to read. Twice each term students will bring home a catalogue of affordable and fun books that you may purchase. All money spent through Book Club benefits the school, as a percentage of money raised is given back to the school as reward points for the Library to purchase fantastic resources. The latest Book club catalogue has been sent home and
Book club orders are due in no later than
Tuesday 21st June
Happy reading,
Leah Hannan
leah.hannan@mn.catholic.edu.au
EALD (English as Another Language or Dialect)
Unity in Diversity Festival - 25th June 2022 Newcastle
You are cordially invited to attend the annual Newcastle Unity in Diversity Festival. This is the festival’s 7th year and it is expected to be another wonderful year sharing cultures, delicious food stalls, talented performance artists and free family friendly activities. Please feel free to share.
Newcastle Unity in Diversity Festival
Saturday 25th June
11am – 4pm
Newcastle Foreshore Tramsheds
Dionne Mitchell
EAL/D Teacher
Special food day Wed 29 June!
This special food day will be a Soft Taco meal deal - and it's the last day of term for students!
The taco consists of a soft taco base (all gluten free), Tracey's special mild spiced mexican minced beef recipe with cheese,
lettuce (subject to availability) and optional salsa (with fruit and drink). Yum!
Sorry, no other canteen orders available on Wed 29 June, but children can bring coins to purchase snack items.
Terms 2 and 3 = Warm Milo! Please look out for it when ordering your child's lunch on Qkr! Please tell them they will receive a ticket in their bag and can use the ticket to collect their drink from the Canteen. The same applies to frozen treats.
- Ensure that each child's name is selected before choosing the order for that specific child. Then return to the beginning and select the next child to place the next order so that no more than one order is noted per child. Unfortunately at yesterday's carnival, multiple orders were placed against one child's name, so other children received theirs late as all orders were delivered to the sibling whose name was on the order.
- Please check each of your child/ren's registrations to align their 2022 class with their name.
- Please supervise the order being made on Qkr as errors have occurred when allowing children to use the app unsupervised, thank you!
Volunteer Roster
Every helper is so appreciated and we extend our thanks to our wonderful regulars, together with the new volunteers who are just starting out. As with any volunteer position at school you must be registered. A special invitation is extended to grandparents or aunts and uncles who would like to help out in the canteen. Even if you can only make it one day per term, we would love to have you!
If you are able to offer help, please send an email to admin@kilabenbay.catholic.edu.au and Margaret Livingstone or Susie Doran will help with your volunteer registration.
See below for the Roster - If you are unable to make it on your rostered day, please either text Tracey or call the school office:
Week 1
Wed 27.4.2022 - Ebonny Blakey
Thur 28.4.2022 - Maryanne Cartwright, Lyn Moseley
Fri 29.4.2022 - Emily Sault, Laura Rowan
Week 2
Wed 4.5.2022 - Andrew Edwards
Thur 5.5.2022 - Michelle Cherniayeff, Jenni Dudgeon
Fri 6.5.2022 - Jenna Lorriman, Hannah Stark
Week 3
Wed 11.5.2022 - Nicole Davison, Sheree Williams
Thur 12.5.2022 - Tania Bower, Elise Fitzpatrick, Julie Kempnich
Fri 13.5.2022 - Sarah Morris, Cherul Henriques
Week 4
Wed 18.5.2022 - Ruth Blyton
Thur 19.5.2022 - Yasmin Every-Burns, Jade Davison
Fri 20.5.2022 - Alesha Quinn, Helen Edwards
Week 5
Wed 25.5.2022 - Ebonny Blakey
Thur 26.5.2022 - Maryanne Cartwright, Lyn Moseley
Fri 27.5.2022 - Emily Sault, Laura Rowan
Week 6
Wed 1.6.2022 - Andrew Edwards
Thur 2.6.2022 - Michelle Cherniayeff, Jenni Dudgeon
Fri 3.6.2022 - Jenna Lorriman, Hannah Stark
Week 7
Wed 8.6.2022 - Nicole Davison, Sheree Williams
Thur 9.6.2022 - Tania Bower, Elise Fitzpatrick, Julie Kempnich
Fri 10.6.2022 - Sarah Morris, Cherul Henriques
Week 8
Wed 15.6.2022 - Ruth Blyton
Thur 16.6.2022 - Yasmin Every-Burns, Jade Davison
Fri 17.6.2022 - Alesha Quinn, Helen Edwards
Week 9
Wed 22.6.2022 - Ebonny Blakey
Thur 23.6.2022 - Maryanne Cartwright, Lyn Moseley
Fri 24.6.2022 - Emily Sault, Laura Rowan
Week 10
Wed 29.6.2022 - Andrew Edwards
Thur 30.6.2022 - Michelle Cherniayeff, Jenni Dudgeon
Fri 1.7.2022 - Jacqueline Hanson, Jenny O'Reilly
Over the Counter Sales / Recess Qkr ordering
Some healthy snack items are available for pre-order and payment on Qkr for Recess.
Here is a picture of the popular and healthy Crunchie Munchie pack. It includes a delicious mix of fruit and veg, a tasty cheese stick and rice crackers all for just $2.
If you would like your child to have a recess snack, please place a comment in the "note to staff" section when selecting your item.
Thank you
Margaret Livingstone and Tracey Ryan-Ward
Pre-School Playgroup at St Joseph's - St Anne's Playgroup
St Anne's Playgroup is back!! See the downloadable flyer for more information. If you or anyone you know has children 0-5 years - all are welcome!
St Nicholas OOSH - Information
Here at St Nicholas OOSH we provide a variety of activities for the children that attend OOSH including arts and crafts, construction, role play, a variety of sports activities and plenty of opportunities for your child to relax and chill out after a busy day of learning. We are still taking enrolments for 2022 and our Easter Vacation Care program will be available very soon. If you wish to enrol your child please contact the service either via email kilabenbay@stnicholasoosh.org.au or phone 0437 664 070. Alternatively you can head to the St Nicholas OOSH website https://stnicholasoosh.org.au/kilaben-bay and click on the enrol button which will take you straight to our online enrolment form.
We are also currently accepting the Service NSW Before and After School Care Vouchers. These vouchers can be applied for online via the Service NSW website and give families $500 per child toward the out of pocket costs of sending your child to Before and After School Care. If you have any questions regarding the vouchers please contact Kristy, Centre Coodinator, via email or phone.
St Nicholas OOSH Kilaben Bay Opening Hours
Before School Care: 6:30am – 9:00am Breakfast provided
After School Care: 2:45pm – 6:30pm Afternoon Tea provided
Vacation Care/Pupil Free Days: 6:30am – 6:30pm Breakfast and Afternoon Tea provided.
Pricing for 2022
Before School Care
Casual $24.00
Permanent $19.00
After School Care
Casual $30.00
Permanent $25.00
Vacation Care
Day Camp $60.00
Incursion $70.00
Excursion $80.00
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Kristy and the St Nicholas OOSH Team.
KRISTY MARNEY
NOMINATED SUPERVISOR - OOSH | ST NICHOLAS OOSH
P 0437 664 070
| PO Box 775 Newcastle NSW 2300
Email Kristy.Marney@stnicholasoosh.org.au Visit us online www.stnicholasoosh.org.au
Hi everyone,
Thanks to some awesome parent volunteers our PLUS is undergoing a clean out and re-arrangement. Stay tuned for more information in coming weeks.
If you need an item, please send a text to Chris, details below. If you'd like to donate, please hand your bag of clothes to staff at the car drop off in the mornings or send to school with your child to drop to Margaret or Susie in the office.
I just wanted to remind everyone that there are two suppliers for our school uniforms, particularly as the children are in their winter uniforms now:
> Verdun Hiles have stocked St Joseph's uniforms since the school's beginning.
> They carry a full range of stock except girls' shorts (they haven’t got the girls shorts in yet as they are awaiting a sample). The majority of their items are Australian made, resulting in a top quality finish. Also a good option when Lowes are out of stock.
> Call in and check it out. They also stock the same colour but thicker winter stock of girls pants than the Lowes brand. So if you want to support local, you have the choice.
> See Val at Verdun Hiles
> 88 The Boulevarde Toronto
> Ph 02 49591258
Also Lowes Glendale stock a full range. Some sizes go out of stock from time to time but we wanted to let you know that you may be able to get it at Verdun Hiles instead.
Lowes, Stockland Glendale
387 Lake Road
Phone 02 4956 8570
If you're looking for anything, please try us first as sometimes we’ve had items with the price tags still attached. Text Chris - 0413 362 801 and PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR CHILD'S NAME AND CLASS in the message.
Thank you!
THE PLUS TEAM
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We have a number of students who have life threatening anaphylactic allergic reactions to all nuts and eggs. We would like to encourage families NOT to send these food items to school with their children or to ask their children to tell their teacher if they have brought them, so that they can be eaten away from affected children. We also encourage children NOT to share food at school.