Term 4 Week 8

Acting Principal - Anne Forwell

Semester 2 Reports and Parent Teacher Meetings

Your child’s Semester 2 Reports are now ready to view. These can be accessed via the parent portal at http://parent.lism.catholic.edu.au  Please contact the school office if you have any questions or require support. If you wish to discuss your child’s report with your child’s teachers please contact them directly via email. We encourage you to take up this opportunity as when families and schools work together we achieve far greater outcomes for students. The meetings will need to be via phone as we are still operating under Level 3 restrictions and unfortunately cannot have parents come into the school.  For further information please see the note emailed home to all families last Monday.

Building Grant

It is very exciting that we have received a grant for just under $400,000. This was recently presented to our school by Kevin Hogan MP. We look forward to the improvements this will make for our students as we start building works in 2022. 

 Year 6 Graduation

Our Year 6 graduation dinner will be held at the Golf Club on Thursday 2 December. Information has been sent home to our year 6 families. We look forward to celebrating the end of primary school with the class of 2021.  

Awards Ceremony

Our end of year awards ceremony will be held on the morning of Tuesday 7 December from 9.30 am. If your child is receiving an award you will be contacted shortly by your child's teacher. One family member per award winner will be able to attend. Unfortunately, we cannot have other audience members due to COVID guidelines. 

Last Day of School 

The last day of the school year for all students in 2021 is Wednesday December 15. 

Information regarding the staggered start for 2022 and the first day of school will be communicated in the near future.

School Captains 2022

Congratulations to James Awbery and Noah Brockwell who were voted in as our 2022 school captains. Well done boys and we look forward to your leadership next year. A special thank you to all the year 5 students who nominated this year and presented their speeches to the school community. 

Christmas Dress Up

We are looking forward to a Christmas dress up day. Please see the flyer below. 

God's blessings on all of our families.

Anne Forwell

Acting Principal 

Thank you Year 5

Acting Assistant Principal & Leader of Catechesis-Joe Stewart

St Joseph's Chess Tournament - Let the Games Begin.

Last week, 24 students competed in the annual chess tourament for the coveted title of Chess Champion St Joseph's South Grafton 2021. The competition and standard of play was of an incredibly high standard and all players should be extremely proud of themselves. The finals were such an exciting and tense event. I was most impressed with the manner in which the students congratulated each other after their matches, deconstructed the game, how checkmate was achieved and also the way they praised their opponent on such a great contest. 

Our Chess Champion for 2021 is Kyra Barrett. The Runner up is Nicholas Beard. Congratulations Kyra and Nicholas. You certainly put on a great show demonstaing high levels of skill and very thoughful game plans. 

K-2 Instructional Leader - Carole Reinhard

It was wonderful to have our Junior Joey students join us for the first of their three orientation sessions. It will be exciting to work with these students as they have a look at our school and get used to the school routines. Last week they were able to experience a Walker Learning Investigation session, a reading session, a maths activity as well as a cross craft activity. We hope they had a lovely time at school.

In Kindergarten students are learning to write a persuasive text which means they are learning how to convince someone of their point of view. In maths they are learning how to break apart a group of counters into two separate groups.

Stage 1 are also learning to persuade someone to their point of view in Literacy. In maths they have been working on investigating time last week and the area of a shape this week. If you would like to have a phone interview with your child's teacher, please contact the school to arrange a time that is convenient.

Sport Coordinator - Emma Davis

School Swimming Carnival 2022

The school swimming carnival in 2022 will follow the same format that was introduced this year. Students who wish to compete to represent the school at the Clarence Zone Swimming carnival will be invited to participate in the school swimming trials on Wednesday 9 February at the South Grafton Pool. The whole school swimming carnival will be held on Tuesday 22 February at Grafton Olympic Pool, where all students will be able to participate in a variety of events.

A note will be sent home with students at the commencement of the school year to collect nominations for the school swimming trials. Students will need to nominate prior to the event, nominations will not be excepted on the day. 

Age champion points will be collected at both the swimming trials and swimming carnival, to determine the age champions.

If you require any further information please contact  emma.davis@lism.catholic.edu.au 

Library/Book Club Coordinator - Anna Smidt

Premiers Reading Challenge

All participants who completed the Premier's Reading Challenge proudly received their commemorative certificates this week.  A huge round of applause for a job well done!

Book Club Issue 8

The last Book Club for the year is now open for orders and there are some excellent books available. If you wish to order through the school please send your order forms in by Thursday 2nd December. Below is the link to the Book Club website if you would like to order online.

https://www.scholastic.com.au/book-club/book-club-parents/

Student Borrowing

The library will be closed for student borrowing from Monday 29 November for the remainder of the year, however, the library will still be open for browsing, for class visits and at lunch time. Please return any overdue books to the library as soon as possible.

Gumbaynggirr Language - Liz Hegedus

Giinagay Ngujawiny -Hello You Mob,

This week Stage 1 revisited how to pronounce the numbers 1 to 10 in Gumbaynggirr language.  It is really hard to learn a new language and to change from what we know to learning a different way of pronouncing a word or number.

Well done Stage 1.

1. Garlugun           
2. Bularri            
3. Guga
4. Daan                                             
5. Marla 
6. Jugu                   
7. Duwa 
8. Janya                 
9. Wagaa    
10. Ngaal                  
    

Darrundang Ngiinda -Thankyou

Miss Liz Hegedus

IEW  Indigenous Educational Worker 

School Notes

School Banking update from Commonwealth Bank

For 90 years, our School Banking program has helped children learn about money, reinforced the importance of regular savings and provided structure for parents to support their children to save.

Though the program continues to have strong support from schools, parents and teachers, recent decisions by some state and territory governments because of a review by the corporate regulator mean we are unable to continue providing programs in schools, and we have had to make a difficult decision to close our School Banking program for all government and non-government schools across the country.

Our School Banking program was established in 1931 at a time when having a bank account was not commonplace, and since then we have helped more than 15 million Australians take their first financial steps. This would not have been possible without the wonderful support we have received from schools like yours, including all the parents and volunteers, and for this we are deeply grateful. Thank you.

Even though this is a sad time, School Banking has taught so many young Australians, past and present, the value of money and we believe this should be celebrated. We have created a place for you to share your stories, fondest memories and lessons learnt through the program. To share your story and access our financial education resources, please visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking 

Even though the CommBank School Banking program will not be returning to your school after this year, you can continue to make deposits into your child’s Youthsaver account through online transfers or at any CommBank branch. If you need further information please phone 132 221 or visit your local CommBank branch.

MUSIC TUITION

Maree Hickson tutors in guitar, piano, voice and drama. If your child would like tuition please call Maree on 0421656019 or email maree.hickson@hotmail.com

School Events & Dates

TERM 4

WEEK 9 

Wednesday 1 December - 9.00am - 12.00pm Kindergarten Orientation Session 3

WEEK 10

Thursday 9 December - Jacaranda Thursday Public Holiday (Pupil Free Day)

Friday 10 December - Christmas Mufti Dress up day

WEEK 11

Wednesday 15 December - Last Day of Term 4 for students

Thursday 16 December - Staff Development Day (Pupil Free) 

Merit Awards

Congratulations to the following students who received a Merit Award. 

WEEK 7

Stage 1

Max Fraser for improved focus on set tasks.  

Ethan Smith for confidently modelling the jump strategy to the class.

Maverick Buchanan for using expression when reading 'The Three Little Pigs' during guided groups.

Ruby Gray for being an active participant in class discussions about the jump strategy.

Stage 2

Edison McDermott for engaging in literacy and numeracy activities.

Hamish Dentler for engaging in literacy and numeracy activities.

Lara Forwell for making great strides towards loving our four legged class mates.

Koby Hayes for always showing kindness and making Jesus real in our classroom.

Noah Kyle-Robinson for being courageous and sharing his journey with the class.

Alexander Van der Vlist for sustained on task behaviour during all class activities.

Rahni Hummelstad for consistently putting in 100% effort.

WEEK 8

Kindergarten

Finn lihou for sharing his knowledge of the different combinations of notes and coins to make $10.00

Rubin French for his excellent use of reading strategies to sound out unknown words.

Stage 1

Billy Campbell for his outstanding improvement in reading.

Braxton Metcalfe for his fantastic improvement in reading.

Mitchell McCann for being a wonderful 'sound expert' during reflection.

Kamren Singh for locking his eyes in and practising his handwriting.

Stage 2

Pippa Fennessy for actively engaging in all areas of learning.

Sheba Bowman for creating interesting stories during stamina writing.

Aidan Knox for consistently achieving high results in maths and showing problem solving skills.

Eva Davies for creating quality imaginative texts during daily stamina writing.

Kruze Colby for positive application to all tasks.

Uniform Shop

The uniform shop is located in  the  BrewHouse Village.                                           

Opening hours: 

Monday - Thursday 10.00am to 4.30pm 

Friday by appointment only

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