St Joseph's Kingswood
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33 Cambridge Terrace
Kingswood SA 5062
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FROM THE PRINCIPAL

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Dear Families and Friends,

Happy Mary MacKillop Feast Day (for yesterday!!).

Over the past few weeks, I have had opportunity to be immersed in all things Mary MacKillop. It has provided inspiration for the work and dedication to St Joseph’s School. Last week I attended a day at Mary MacKillop Precinct in Kensington with many leaders from schools affiliated and established by the Sisters of St Joseph, I came away with a reminder of why we exist as a school, the legacy we carry and the work we continue each day.

At our school Mass on Thursday, we celebrated the gift of Mary MacKillop, and took time to reflect on her story. Our school Motto ‘In all things, Charity’, helps us guide our students to be amazing citizens where kindness is key. 

Aspiring for Excellence!

STEM MAD Challenge

STEM MAD (Making a Difference) is a prestigious celebration of student learning, recognising initiatives that address real-world problems through STEM education and highlight the unique character of Catholic schools across Australia.

As part of our Stretch offering, we formed 3 STEM MAD teams who met weekly to use innovation and design to solve a real-world problem using science, technology, engineering and maths.  The students were so fortunate to be led by Nic Schultz who challenged the students to think beyond. We were very excited to hear that 2 of our teams were selected to show case their designs at University of SA to represent Adelaide Catholic Diocese. They were very competitive, but unfortunately didn’t quite get show case at the National event. 

Sporting Excellence

We had 48 students compete at the SA Catholic Schools Cross Country event. Each race generally has over 100 students run. Congratulations to all our competitors and especially to the following students who excellent in their age group races: Olivia Daunt 1st, Asha Medlow 4th,  and Ruben Bello 8th place. 

I enjoyed attending and cheering on our SAPSASA Basketball teams earlier this week- it was an exhilarating event to watch! Congratulations to our 5/6 Boys team who won their small schools’ group and then went on to win the final game against the opposing group by 1 point!!!! They will move to the next round later in October.  The 5/6 girls were also competitive, wining their final play off to come 3rd. 

With Gratitude

As a parent I, and suspect all, who attended Madhavi Nawana Parker’s presentation on Resilience and Wellbeing, left feeling grateful for the advice, and reassured that we are not alone.

One piece of research MNP shared that makes so much sense for children in primary schools and helped to understand why parenting can be so challenging: ‘From around 8 years of age, personality, temperament, genetics, environment, developmental factors and experiences, are really starting to shine through and boundaries start getting pushed that bit further.’

At home and at school our treasures like to push the boundaries, and this is all part of the process in developing resilience. It is how we respond that makes all the difference. Perhaps a 90 second pause could help.

Thank you to the P&F and particularly Kimberley for applying through the Catholic Schools Parents SA for a Parents in Education grant from SA government. We are all grateful for having such a wonderful evening and support with Madhavi.

In all things, Charity,

Jodie Higgins

Principal