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Thank you to the students and parents for all your support during this year. It has been an immense year with significant highs and lows. As we close our school year, I would like to thank our wonderful staff for all their hard work with your children.
To the staff who are leaving -
Mr Ellul Ms Adams Ms White Ms Leate Mr Kyriacou Mrs Larkin
Thank you sincerely for your service to this community and I wish you well in your future endeavours.
Thank you to our senior SRC students for a wonderful Christmas Day celebration on Wednesday. It was a very ‘jingly time’ and lots of fun for the day!
To the students who received awards at Friday’s assemblies - Congratulations on being recognised for your efforts and may you set goals for 2020 that challenge you.
Wishing all families the Peace and Blessings of the Christmas Season. May you rest, relax and recover. Remember, it is in giving that you receive. Come back in 2020 refreshed and ready for another academic year.
Merry Christmas and Best Wishes!
Ms Amanda Wilson
Principal
SCHOOL UNIFORM 2020 UPDATE
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
Assistant Principal
Following the release of HSC / ATAR results on Tuesday 17th December, all Year 12 students are invited to attend a celebration morning tea at 11 am.
2020 Pathways Program
On Tuesday 9th December communication was emailed to Year 9 Parents notifying of their child's application to the 2020 Pathways Program. Successful applicants will now study their elected Year 11 subject in place of their previously selected 2 x Year 10 electives. If you any enquiries regarding the program please email Miss Sarah Janson, Curriculum Coordinator.
Parent-Teacher Interviews
A reminder that bookings for Parent-Teacher Interviews will close at 5 pm on Saturday 14th December.
Parent-Teacher Interviews will be held in the Gym on Monday 16th December. All student reports have now been placed in the Parent Portal for access.
YEAR 7 PDHPE AQUATICS DAY
Year 7 students, as part of their PDHPE course on " Summer Survival " participated in an aquatics day where they developed a range of knowledge and skills to keep themselves and others safe in an Aquatic environment. Skills included, safe entry and exits, floating, skulling, moving and swimming in the water, underwater and rescue skills.
Students had a fun filled day with their friends learning about how to stay safe.
ILLFORD SCHOOL'S PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION
Students entered the Year 11-12 Photo Category. Congratulations to the following students who both received Merit Certificates.
Monique Ward for the print "Deep Fence"
Molly Sumner forthe print "Wave It".
St Joseph's won First Place for "Best School for the Term, Silver Halide Category" award and also won 2nd place in the "Best School of the Year 2019" Silver Hailde Category. Well done St Joseph's!
CHRISTMAS GIVING APPEAL
Each year students from St Joseph's give generously for our Christmas Giving Appeal, raising funds and donating goods for a worthwhile cause. These items are then donated to local families through the St Vincent de Paul Albion Park appeal. A huge thank you to all students and staff involved.
WOW! Tayissa Buchanan of year 8 is currently competing in Perth representing NSW All Schools at Nationals. Tayissa is a National champion, gold medallist u14 800m with 6 sec pb, outstanding!
Congrats Tayissa!
Watch Tayissa's amazing run here https://youtu.be/NNyI_-DYrTU
Please find link below which will take you to the article on the Catholic Education Office website promoting our new TAS block and facilities. It is a fantastic read advertising our school and the wonderful facilities we offer.
BUS TIMETABLE CHANGES
Please see attached a letter of notification about an adjustment to school bus route S190.
This bus will no longer travel through Nth. Macquarie Road, where the bus would travel through a causeway that was subjected to flooding.
Instead, the bus will travel down Escarpment Drive to Tongarra Road.
This change will come into effect Tuesday, 28th January 2020
Please find attached flyer and letter from premier Illawarra regading these changes.
SCHOOL FEES
FINANCIAL ROLLOVER 18th DECEMBER
The Catholic Education Office has strict guidelines, so it is suggested that all overdue payments are required now to avoid further action. Next weeks is the School’s Financial Rollover. Thank you to all the families that make such an effort to ensure that their fees are up to date.
School fees are essential for the financial viability of Catholic schools. Upon enrolment of your child you have given an undertaking to meet payment of school fees as they fall due. School principals have the responsibility of ensuring school fees are collected.
Please find attached school fee information for 2020. Thank you.
UNIFORM SHOP IMPORTANT DATES
The last day the Uniform Shop is open for 2019
| Monday 16 December 2019 | 9am - 2pm special hours |
(students finished school and parent teacher interviews this day)
Back to school 2020 trading hours
| Tuesday 28 January 2020 | 9am - 2pm special hours (no students) |
| Wednesday 29 January 2020 | 11am - 4pm special hours (no students) |
| Thursday 30 January 2020 |
Normal hours 8.30am - 1.30pm (Year 7 students started) |
UNIFORM SHOP BOOKINGS
New Uniform Shop phone number is: 0413 441 892
Hours: Monday 12pm - 4pm and Thursday 8:30am - 1:30pm
MAKE A DIFFERENCE THIS SUMMER AND VOLUNTEER WITH VINNIES!
The Christmas period is an extremely busy time for our Vinnies shops as the donations increase and many of our regular volunteers are on holidays. As a way to counter this we are encouraging local school students to give back to the community and help out our shops. This is an excellent way for students to boost their resume, gain new skills and give back.
If you’re over 16, Vinnies would love to have you as a summer volunteer! It’s a great way to gain work experience, boost your resume and give back to your local community. Full training is provided, so you can gain skills in customer service, cash handling & sorting processes.
For more information simply drop into your local Vinnies shop, renee.cooper@vinnies.org.au or text ‘Summer Volunteer’ to 0477 345 712 ’
Thank you for your support of Vinnies and if you or your students have any questions at all please don’t hesitate to contact Renee on renee.cooper@vinnies.org.au.
CAROLS IN THE CARPARK
