SCHOOL LEADERS 2020

On Wednesday afternoon, each Sports House Team had the great pleasure of hearing from the nominated candidates from Year 5 for the positions of Year 6 Sports House Leaders for 2020. At St Joseph’s, we have a boy and girl leader for each Sports House for the year and experience the great pleasure of getting to know these students well and see them grow in their leadership. It was a delight to listen to and see the presentations this year, with much thought and effort placed into the task. All nominees should be proud of themselves even if they were not successful in being voted for the positions. We congratulate all candidates who showed courage to stand up in front of their House groups to deliver their speeches and know that we have wonderful leadership to take our school through 2020. 

We are pleased to be able to announce:

School Leaders:

Term 1 - Erin Little and Jhed Monckton

Term 2 - Savannah Beard and James Hiam

Term 3 - Grace Chuwen and Darcy McHugh

Term 4 - Sophie Pynaert and Jack Banks

Sports House Leaders:

Hastings - Sophie Bentley and Ansh Singh

Macquarie - Charlie Maher and Jesse Cooper

Mitchell - Airlia Matthews and Cruz Rebecchi

Oxley - Zoe Little and Lenox Pearce

PRIMARY STUDENTS TOILET BLOCK REFURBISHMENT

It is with much excitement and relief that I can announce the beginning of our toilet block refurbishment in the Christmas holidays. After much waiting and planning with the amazing support of the St Agnes' Parish staff, I can confirm we will be starting this project once school finishes. Depending on how the process goes, much of it will be completed before we return to school. We will have arrangements in place to manage any short term discomfort in not having these available in the first weeks of school. We know that this will be well worth it once they are completed.

IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR NEXT WEEK…

We have two very significant events next week to be prepared for.

• Class transitions for 2020 - on Friday 13th December at 12:00pm, all students will move to their new classrooms with their new teachers for a session.
• Bust the Dust - also on Friday 13th December at 2:10pm, our school will be supporting St John’s school in Trangie for a raindance. This phenomenon came out of a great video on social media of the school having fun trying to encourage much needed rain to fall! There will be much fun around this event and we encourage parents to join us and make this a real community event! See poster in a later article of this newsletter.

P&F

Thank you to all of our families who came along to support our P&F event with the movie night under the stars. What a lovely atmosphere it was and we appreciate those who could come along and celebrate the year. On behalf of the school, I would like to thank our P&F for each event and area of support from this year. While there may only be a small number of P&F members this year, they have worked hard to ensure there were great community events and fundraising opportunities. 

Please help us end the year on a high note by coming along if you can to the P&F social night and AGM at 6:00pm on Wednesday 11th December at Zebu. We would love to see some new faces and ideas to add to the great plans we have for 2020.

Tess Koning
Principal