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Dear parents and carers,
As we reflect om term 1, we are grateful for the positive start the children have made for the new school year and the positive directions St Joseph’s is taking. It’s been a busy term (they all are!) with lots of great learning, community connections and fun events. Thank you, parents and carers, for all your terrific support, encouragement and involvement at school; it makes all the difference to the children and the staff.
MPS Visit
The Yr 2/3/4 children enjoyed their visit to MPS and the residents thoroughly enjoyed the poetry recitation prepared by Mrs King. Well done children for entertaining the residents! We always enjoy our visits to MPS and look forward to continuing this program in term 2.
Brumbies Rugby Gala Day
Thank you, Mrs Washbrook, for coordinating St Jospeh’s participation in this event. Our players enjoyed coming together with the children from St Mary’s West Wyalong for a day of fun and competition.
Thank you, parents, for your support and well done to the players!
Preschool Collaboration
It has been a pleasure to have the Star class from the Preschool with us at St Joseph’s throughout Term 1 and the classes have enjoyed time to collaborate through activities such as sports and games, buddy reading and art and craft. On Tuesday, the preschoolers visited the K/1 class and worked together to create Poppies to recognise ANZAC Day. All the children worked very cooperatively, and we were most impressed by the preschoolers scissor skills!
Henry Lawson High School Visit
We were delighted to welcome the Student Leadership Team and teachers Courtney Lieblich and Sarah Osmand from Henry Lawson High School last week. The students and teachers addressed Year 5 and 6 giving them an overview of life at the high school and answering questions from the children.
The Cross Country helpers from HLHS joined us for assembly on Friday. They did a great job on the day and came back for the ribbon presentation ceremony. We were pleased to have the opportunity to thank the HLHS students most sincerely for their contributions to making the day such a success!
ANZAC Day
ANZAC Day falls within the school holidays on Thursday 25th April. We hope to see as many families as possible join us for the events, and especially for the March Past and Main Service. Please see details below:
ANZAC Day Dawn Service:
Thursday 25th April 2024,
Time: 0545Hrs (5:45 am)
Location: Grenfell Memorial Park
ANZAC Day March Pass:
Time: 1030Hrs (10:30 am)
Form up location: Western end of Main St Grenfell
ANZAC Day Main Service:
Time: 1100Hrs (11:00 am)
Location: Grenfell Memorial Park
Given the recent change in the weather, the students are asked to wear their full school Winter uniform.
Uniform
Winter uniform is worn from the commencement of term 2 and items can be purchased from the office or obtained from the clothing pool.
Interested in Dance
We are delighted to be exploring the possibility of offering Dance in Grenfell here at St Joseph's as an after-school activity. Please see the flyer below with details of a ‘trial’ event to gauge interest. We hope to be able to offer this experience to St Joseph's children and children from the wider community.
Another School Holiday Opportunity – Curious and Creative Kids
There is no reason to be bored this coming school holidays! Please see the flyer below for another great holiday opportunity…
Mother’s Day
In Conclusion…
Rugby Gala Day
On Tuesday, St Joseph's participated in the Rugby Union Gala Day, held in Grenfell. Our students joined with St. Mary's War Memorial School in West Wyalong and had a great day of competition. We had 8 students participate which meant we were able to enter a combined 3/4 team and 5/6 team. During the day players competed in game and complete rounds of skills. Students should be very proud of their efforts as there were many tries set up and scored. Both teams were selected for the next round of games which will be held in Wagga next term. We are sad to advise, if your student participated on Tuesday in Grenfell, we will not be participating in the next round as it occurs on the same day as the Western Region Cross Country, which we will be attending.
A special thanks to the Brumbies for organising the day, to the Grenfell Panthers for hosting and running the canteen, to parents and students for taking the time to participate and finally to West Wyalong for asking us to join and supplying the jerseys. Awesome Effort everyone.
Cross Country Reminder
Please be aware that many of our students have been selected to compete in Batlow for the Western Region Cross Country on May 2nd - Tuesday Week 1 Term 2. There have only been a few confirmed attendances and we need to know before the end of term, this Friday.
If you know your child will/will not be attending, please log into Compass and let us know either way. A reminder was emailed out this week.
See you there with your running shoes on.
This week the 5/6 class has been learning about World War 1 and we have completed some interesting activities as a class. We have baked Anzac biscuits and shared them with the whole school, researched fascinating facts about World War 1 and how soldiers survived, we made poppies in art, and worked together to complete a timeline of when the war started and why. We watched a great movie about Stubby the famous war dog, which we are happy to report survived the war.
Over the week we have learnt so many new facts about WW1 and why Anzac Day is important to us.
By Saskia McLelland
During Term 2, each child will be learning to recite a poem which they will share on Recitation Day. This day is one of the important ways that the local schools participate in the Henry Lawson Festival. Students may choose to recite in either the Open section or the Henry Lawson section of the Recitation Day but all poems must be Australian.
It would be helpful if all students could provide a copy of their poem to their classroom teachers by the end of Week 1 of next term. Teachers do have books with Australian poems in them if the students need some guidance. Kindergarten students will be given a poem by their teachers but feel free to choose a different poem if you wish.
Some popular choices for Australian poets for children include Libby Hathorn, Duncan Ball, Steven Herrick, Elizabeth Honey and Banjo Paterson to name just a few. Here is a website that you might also find useful.
https://australianchildrenspoetry.com.au/
Happy hunting!
