Dear Parents, Carers and the St Joseph’s Community,

Meet the Teacher

This week, invitations were sent to all parents to attend a virtual meet the teacher session with your child/rens classroom teacher. Whilst an online meeting is not the ideal situation, we felt this was a valuable opportunity for you to put a face to the name of the person your child spends many, many hours with each week. If you were unable to “attend” the session, please contact the classroom teacher and they will forward a recording of the session to you.

School Calendar

As we are now using Compass for all methods of communication, the school calendar is now also accessed through Compass. The calendar includes all relevant dates for the term and can be accessed by clicking on the Calendar icon on your Compass Home Page. Unfortunately, using the Compass App only allows you to view the calendar as a day view, which is far from ideal. Using a web browser rather than the app will allow you to see a monthly view of the calendar. We are in the process of linking this calendar to our webpage.

Parent-Teacher Interviews

During Week 5 (28 Feb – 3 March), we will be holding Parent / Teacher Interviews. Keeping in line with our current Covid safe measures, these interviews will take place via Teams. This is a formal opportunity for teachers to discuss how your child has settled into the new school year and for you to share any important information about your child with teachers. If you have already had a formal meeting with your child’s teacher, there is no need to attend an interview. A Compass alert will be sent next week to advise when bookings are open.

InitiaLit Parent Information Session

Next Tuesday 22 February at 4:30pm, we will be holding an online information session for parents of students in Foundation to Year 2 who would like to learn more about the synthetic phonics approach to Literacy used at St Joseph’s. A link to the session will be sent next via Compass next week. If you are unable to attend, you will be able to access a recording of the session.

Tuesday 22/2/2022

Do you notice anything interesting about the above date? We have decided to rename next Tuesday, Two-Riffic Twosday! We thought we would have some fun and invite the students to come to school dressed as something that comes in 2s or starts with Tu/To/Tou. Get your creative thinking hats on!

James Parkes Award

The James Parkes Award was established at St Joseph’s at the end of 2001. The award was set up by the parents of James Parkes as a thank you to the school community for the care and support James received from staff and students while at St Joseph’s. The award is open to students across all year levels and recognises exceptional school spirit, a positive attitude, initiative, determination, kindness and care for others. At the end of the year, teachers nominate and vote for the student they believe encompasses the above values. Throughout the year we will be talking to students about how they can display these values in the classroom, on the playground and in the wider community.  

School Fete

In 2021, our biggest fundraising opportunity, the biannual School Fete was unfortunately cancelled due to Covid. We are confident that we will be able to hold the Fete later this year and planning is already underway. Please see the below information from the P&F.

I hope you have an enjoyable end to the week.