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StToJlive,oseph’s Schoolto learn, love in all thingsProudly learning on Ngadjuri landIMPORTANT DATESFrom the Principal.30th November 2018Week 7 Term 4Dear parents & friends of St Joseph’s School, Clare,As we approach the end of the year, we Transition3rd-6thSwimming Lessons celebrate many milestones, none more This week Clare High School is conductingRec-Lemon, Yr 1-SV,important than the Year 7 Graduation. The its transition into the Middle School. It is anYr 3, Yr 3/4, Yr 7school community gather at St Aloyisus exciting time for these students and we wishWed 5thAdvent Liturgy 8.50amSevenhill to Celebrate our Year 7 students’ them well as they move onto the next stage ofjourney through their primary school years. their schooling.Fri 7thSwimming CarnivalThis is one of the most important events ofMon 10th Advent Liturgy 8.50amtheir lives and the Graduates warmly extend YEAR 7 REFLECTION DAYTues 11th Advent Liturgy 8.50aman invitation for you to attend. The Masscommences at 6.30pm, however we ask that On Tuesday 27 November the Year 7 StudentsClass Partiesstudents arrive at 6.15pm and meet on the took part in a Reflection Day at Sevenhill. TheyWed 12th Assembly 9amlawns outside the church. The attendance began the day in St Aloysius Church, with Frfor the Reception students is optional as we Paul Fyfe sharing his knowledge of the richGraduation 6.30pmunderstand that they are getting tired towards history of the Sevenhill Parish. The students(Whole School Event)reflected on how the tireless work of ourthe end of the year.Thu 13thLast day of School yearIgnation fore-fathers, who established theCatholic community, not only at Sevenhill butJAN 2019MENTAL HEALTH FORUMright up into the centre of South Australia,Tues 29th School year commences This week John Grbin and I attended a localled to each of them having the privilege ofinitiative which is designed to improve undertaking a Catholic Education at St Joseph’sADVENT & CHRISTMASand support the Mental Health of not only School, Clare.our youth but everyone living in the MidSERVICES 2018North. We are going to look at best practice, The Reflection day provides the childrenSacrament ofresearch what is currently on offer and try and with the opportunity to reflect on how theReconciliation (Communal) collate/organise an approach which supports values they learn both at home and at schooleveryone.- reflecting on the life of Jesus and GospelTuesday 11 Decembervalues, will shape their decision making into7.30pm RivertonDISCOthe future.Wednesday 19 DecemberI’d like to congratulate our Year 7 leadership7.30pm Clareteam and in fact the whole Year 7 class for theway they organised and presented last Friday’sChristmas EveDisco. Their preparation and organisation wasMonday 24th Decemberamazing which resulted in about 200 students6.30pm Sevenhillhaving a fantastic night’s entertainment. Welldone!(Children’s/Family Mass)7.00pm MarrabelDECChristmas DayTuesday 25th DecemberTuesday 25 December9.00am Riverton9.30am ClareWednesday 26 December9.30am SaddleworthST JOSEPH’S SCHOOL29 Victoria Road, Clare S.A. 5453EMAIL: peters@stjoclar.catholic.edu.auWEBSITE: www.stjoclar.catholic.edu.auFAREWELLSOn Wednesday 12th December we celebrateour last assembly for the year. At this assemblywe will farewell any students and/or familieswho are leaving our school. Assembly willcommence at 9am - we look forward to seeingyou there.SURVEYThank you to those who have taken the time tocomplete the online Satisfaction Survey. Theresults have been overwhelmingly affirming;having said that, there have certainly beensome proactive suggestions that will definitelybe followed up. It’s not too late to take part;please find the survey by going to:https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HHKWLZYREPORTSAt the moment the staff are preparing theSemester Two reports for their students.These will summarise the student’s teachingand learning experiences during terms 3 &4. I am in a privileged position to be able toread all these reports. It is great to see thegrowth that many students and families willget to celebrate. I commend the time andeffort the teachers have put into presentingthese reports. The reports will be sent homeon Wednesday 12th December in a sealedenvelope.Phone: (08) 8842 3830 Fax: (08) 8842 3410 www.stjoclar.catholic.edu.au

from the principalCLASS STRUCTURETHOUGHTS & PRAYERSOver the last few weeks we have been investigating the classstructures for 2019 - this culminated in our staff spendinga significant amount of time working collaboratively toallocate students into classes. I look forward to sharing theclass structure and the rationale and process behind theplacements shortly.Please keep the Gray family in your prayers as Scott (Frog)recovers from a medical episode. He is conscious and in theRAH receiving the best possible care. Our thoughts are withAlana, Brady, Nick, Charlie and family as they support him onthe road to recovery.NEW ARRIVALMistakes are proof you are trying.THOUGHT OF THE WEEKCongratulations to Kate and Damian Hynes on the safearrival of their baby daughter, Alba Marie. Mum and bubare doing well.PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGECELEBRATION AND AWARDSOn Wednesday 5th December, all students who finished theChallenge for 2018 will receive their awards. They may wearcasual clothes and we will celebrate with iceblocks and freeplay at the end of the day.God bless,Peter ShearerTHANK YOUThe Canteen Committee would like to thank all thevolunteers who have helped with canteen this year.We couldn’t do it without you!SWIMMING CARNIVAL YRS 1-7, 7TH DECEMBERPlease find a letter accompanying this newsletter regardingthe carnival and also note that programs and your children’sevents will be available on the school website from Tuesday4th December.First Class Effort!Once again this year we have been able to celebrate thesuccess and acknowledge the tremendous effort of manyof our students who participated in the annual round ofacademic competitions and assessments for 2018.During the course of the year, 70 students from Year 3 to 7participated in a total of 200 individual assessments. Thesecovered Digital Technologies (computing), Science, Writing,Spelling, English and Mathematics. The competitions wereadministered by the University of NSW as well as theAustralian Mathematics Trust.22 students achieved a Distinction Award or higher and 6students achieved multiple Distinctions. 1 student scored 2High Distinctions which placed them in the top 1-3% of theiryear level across Australia.For 11 of our Year 3 students, it was the first time that theyhad participated in these assessments.Congratulations to all the students who took part; a greateffort!CONGRATULATIONSLast Thursday night, Clare High School held their Year 12Graduation. I wish to congratulate the following students ontheir Subject Excellence Awards:Biology - Brigitte SmithSociety & Culture - Brigitte SmithDesign - Jess AucoteEnglish - Bree NieldEnglish Literature - Grace Hart-LamontResearch Project - Bree NieldCONGRATULATIONSCongratulations to Peter Shearer who was awarded aLife Membership this week of the Society for the Provisionof Education in Rural Australia (SPERA), whilst attendingthis year’s conference.Peter has been a member of SPERA for many years andhas lobbied extensively within the Catholic Educationsector for greater recognition of and support for schoolsin rural and remote areas. He sits on many committeeswithin Catholic Education SA to ensure that a rural voiceis heard.Emeritus Professor John Halsey from Flinders University,whose special interest is rural and remote education anda person Peter looks up to and greatly respects, was alsoawarded Life Membership of SPERA alongside Peter.Well done, Mr Shearer. Our school community isincredibly proud of this achievement and know howmuch it means to you.

STUDENT REPORTSSAPSASASAPSASA GIRLS CRICKETIn Week six I went down to Adelaide for girls SAPSASA cricket. I represented the North Eastern country team.We were fortunate enough to have Gus Wenzel as our coach. We played 5 out of seven games, as two ofthe matches were cancelled due to rainy weather. Issy Bryksy and myself were co-captains; it was a greatopportunity and I really enjoyed meeting lots of new friends. All the girls improved a lot. We played two 20/20games a day. Overall, our team came joint second, and it was a great enjoyable week.By Matilda MaitlandSAPSASA BOYS CRICKETIn Week 6 thirteen students from the Mid North region participatedin the SAPSASA cricket state carnival. 6 students that were selectedwere from St Joseph’s. They were: Oscar Pearce, Cameron Scott,Connor Duke, Lachie Tregilgas, Archie Jones and Callum Pike. Allplayed very well and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.The first game was played on Monday at Brighton oval. It was veryhot and we decided to bat. We ended up with 155 and beat theNorthern Areas team.On Tuesday we were rained out while at the same ground as ascheduled SA vs ACT Sheffield Shield match. We spoke to manyfirst class cricketers such as Jay Lenton. Later we went to someindoor cricket nets for team practice.On Wednesday we played three overs and then decided thatit was too wet to play cricket against the Onkaparinga Northteam. We organised an indoor cricket game against them. It wasa whole new form of cricket and we enjoyed it a lot. We thenorganised a team bowling trip at Marion. Then we went to theBeach House. Even though it was cold we enjoyed it.On Thursday we played against Playford and we lost by a lotof runs. We batted first and were bowled out for 145 and theychased down the runs quite convincingly.By Lachie Tregilgas, Connor Duke, Cameron Scottand Oscar Pearce.SAPSASA TENNISIn Week 6, 14 students from the Mid North were selected to represent our region in the 2018 SAPSASA tenniscarnival down at Seacliff. We were fortunate enough to have 9 out of the 14 students represent St Joseph’s.William Hawker, James Stockman, Harry Masterman, Emily Nordhausen-Bradley, Taylah Schell, Aimee Treloar,Jack Weckert, Gemma Schultz and Cooper Paulett all represented St Joes during the week.We were lucky enough to play in division 2 competing against 9 other teams. Belinda Dare was our teammanager/coach for the week. We were supposed to play 16 sets, 8 doubles and 8 singles however, theweather was not on our side and turned the whole week upside down. Despite the weather, we still played10 sets, 5 doubles and 5 singles. There were some strong competitors however we had some great wins.Overall, we finished 3rd in our division and it came down to the last 2 teams we played and unfortunately wecouldn’t quite get the win to come joint 1st.It was a fabulous week and we all bonded as a team! We went to Bounce as a team excursion and to theWatermark Buffet for dinner afterwards, where we stuffed our faces with food and put chips in each otherssoft drinks. It was a great week!!Thanks to parents, umpires and coaches.By Taylah Schell, Jack Weckert and Aimee Treloar