From the Principal
Dear Parents, Carers and Students,
Staffing updates
Our School Principal, Ms Wilson is currently on some well earned long service leave. While I am filling in as Acting Principal, Mr Cameron Dribbus is Acting Assistant Principal and Mrs Brittany Sharkey is Acting Leader of Student Wellbeing. Ms Wilson will be returning in Week 9 of this term.
Feast Day of St. Mary of the Cross Mackillop
As a Josephite community, on Monday 8th August we celebrated St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop's Feast day. Her extraordinary life was the focus of our prayer at this week's full school assembly. We reflected on the Josephite values of humility, respect and compassion which we encourage St Joseph's students to demonstrate in all aspects of school life. Students were reminded of the importance of inclusion and tolerance of each others' differences to enable all members of our school community, including school visitors, to feel welcome and a sense of belonging.
We also acknowledged the efforts of a number of Years 7-12 students for their positive behaviours for learning. The following students were presented with an Events Cinemas voucher.
Year 7:
Emily Hollingsworth, Emily Edwards, Keilan Vilarinho, Tahla Tanevski, Rhys Braley, Amber Cooper, Oliver Gana.
Year 8:
Elizabeth Bryla, Katelyn Blissett, William Stoneham, Ryan Cergovski, Rithika Sutheesh, Emily Meiers, Kelsey May.
Year 9:
Lachlan Whitfield, Ethan Meehan, Tasha Melgarejo, Byron Haggart, Heath Gillis, Keeley Tynan, Olivia Alaban.
Year 10:
Ryan Cazlet-Smith, Aidan Curnow, Daniel Armstrong, Brayden Chapman, Cody Finch-Marshall, Miah Williams, Chloe Bloomfield.
Year 11:
Abigail McPhan, Bailey Miller, Alexia Petrovski, Sarah Eastham, Daniella Avtarovski, Josh Memmo, Tara Massey.
We thank Events Cinemas at Shelharbour for donating these vouchers.
Principal's Silver Awards
Congratulations to the following students who were presented Principal's Silver Awards at the previous week's School Assembly on Monday 1st August:
Emma Judd, Sean O'Donnell, Zahlia Sinclair, Robert Kynes, Steffani Solitro, Rhianna Hogben, Tyler Noone, Chanicqua Cachia, Maya Hurst, Lewis Mercieca, Luke Kolts, Emily Csellich, Leah Arthur, Hunter Graham, Bailey Gamble, Jackson Parreira, Munesu Marevanhema, Lucas Markulic, Joseph Bussoletti, Joel Borthwick, Amelia Berry, Jack Tomasi, Amalia Fernandes, Emily Andrews, Emily Hollingsworth, Keilan Vilarinho, Curtis Sharman, Ethan Thompson, Abbey Yau, Rebecca Falconer, Katelyn Blissett, Piper Smith, Jake Thompson, Timothy Bennett, Thomas Welland, Lily Smalley, Tasman Rippon, Lauren Swire, Matthew Huynh, Lachlan Hoggard, Bowen Mundt, Andrew Soutter, Carly Haggart, Heath Gillis, Toby Hokin, Sarah Wyber, Ethan Aleckson.
These students have received 32 respect for self, others, learning and/or the environment stamps.
Year 10 2023 Pathways
On Tuesday evening, our Curriculum Coordinator, Mr Moran conducted a meeting via Zoom with over twenty Year 9 students and their parents to provide details of the Pathways Courses that current Year 9 students may express interest in studying while they are in Year 10 in 2023. This is a valuable opportunity which we are offering to enable students who have demonstrated the necessary organisation and study skills to do so, to complete one HSC Course by the end of Year 11. This provides more study time for students to learn and prepare for their HSC by studying less Courses in Year 12. Further information can be obtained on the School Website.
The School Musical - Cinderella
We are looking forward to meeting many parents, students, staff and visitors at the upcoming presentation of the School Musical, Cinderella which will be held at St Joseph's Catholic High School in the School Hall next week. It is not too late to book and purchase your tickets for the performances on Wednesday 17 August, Friday 19 August and Saturday 20 August at: www.trybooking.com/CBEBP
Thank you to Mrs Burns and our wonderful Creative and Performing Arts Faculty, as well as to the cast and crew, and their parents and carers who have been giving so generously of their time for the many afternoon and weekend rehearsals for the school musical, which I am sure will be another fine show highlighting the many talented Creative Arts students we have in our school.