At this week's School Assembly, all students were informed that in 2020 white socks will be permitted with their jogger style sports shoes with the sports uniform. There has been a shift back to white, along with other non-fluro coloured joggers now available in stores. Students will therefore no longer be permitted to wear black socks to school. Please support your students to meet this requirement by ensuring they have a few pairs of plain white socks ready to start the new school year.

If you are planning to purchase new sports shoes for the new year, a reminder that only non-fluro coloured jogger style shoes are permitted to be worn with the sports uniform and regular hard black leather lace up shoes are to be worn with the regular school uniform. Vans, Converse and other canvas shoes are not permitted at St Joseph's.

As many of our students have grown, girls have been asked to check the length of their skirts before returning to school next year and to amend the length accordingly, so that the skirt is worn to the knee.

We thank you for your ongoing support of our expectation that all students take pride in wearing their school uniform correctly every day to bring credit to themselves and our School.

I would also like to take this opportunity to wish all our students and their families a very happy and blessed Christmas and a relaxing, safe and peace-filled holiday!

Mrs Bell