Things to remember for 2022

It was our great pleasure to share the beautiful tradition of Mass to start the school year with our Parish Priest Fr Paul this morning. We are grateful for him always in our Parish, but in particular, when he leads us in Mass or prayer, he is able to make the message of Jesus clear to us in a way that makes sense. This morning he started his homily with a familiar context of our recent swimming carnival, with a start we instantly recognise (On your mark, get set, go!). Then he described other starts we recognise in everyday life. This moved into messages of the practical ways that we start a year and continue through with the way in which God would want us to, and with him supporting us throughout the year. We share this with you today as these are the things all of us as teachers, parents and community members we want our children to do as well. Remember:

• You are truly blessed by God and special in his sight.
• To love and care for one another always.
• There must always be love and trust at St Joseph’s and no bullying or fighting.
• To always try to understand how another person feels.
• To try to forgive another person if they don’t do the right thing to you.
• That God loves you and so do your teachers and parents; show that to them in return.
• To treasure your year at St Joseph’s; learn and join in as much as you can. 

May this year be an amazing year for every single student, parent, carer, family member, staff member and Parish community.

Congratulations Miss Barber 

We would like to acknowledge and congratulate Miss Lucy Barber, Year 3 teacher in 2022, for her recent Graduation Ceremony. Miss Barber completed her degree in teaching last year and was a regular casual teacher during Term 4. We are proud of her achievements and are grateful to have her on our staff.

Celebrating Our Faith

Student Representative Council (SRC), Sports Captains and Year 6 Leaders

Today we held our Mass for the Beginning of the School Year for 2022. It was a celebration of Eucharist, our school community and student leadership. We missed our parent community being part of our celebration, due to the COVID restriction currently in place. 

A special thank you to our Parish Priest, Father Paul Gooley who presided over our celebration.

Our SRC, Sports Captains and Year 6 students were inducted through a commitment to student leadership and badging ceremony at the end of our liturgy. 

The commitment pledge was recited by all Year 6 students. We as a school community are committed to developing leadership skills for every student. The student leadership skills we support and develop are life skills that every student needs to ensure they lead themselves in the right direction and learn to be a positive influence on others. 

Opportunities will arise throughout the year that will empower our students to develop skills with resilience, perseverance, confidence and emotional learning. 

We look forward to supporting all our SRC, Sports Captains and Year 6 Leaders throughout 2022.   

While we were unable to invite parents and carers to the Mass, we invited parents of our school leaders to take a photo opportunity afterwards in a COVID safe manner.

Learning Together

Learning Intentions and Success Criteria

The beginning of this year saw our students engage in developing their own learning intentions and success criteria focussing classroom behaviour.  Learning intentions and success criteria provide an opportunity for students to have voice in what the focus is and how they can show success.  They are co constructed, purposefully unpacked,  easily understood, referred to by the students, and visible in the classrooms.

Year 5 students and teachers unpacked their behavioural learning intention together and created what they expect for themselves and their teachers.  From here each student and teacher set a goal to work towards.

Over the course of the year students will engage in creating learning intentions and success criteria in a number of Key Learning Areas.