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We have reached the end of Semester one, and I'm sure you will agree, it has been a very busy and productive period. I look back on many successful events and activities, as well as being impressed by the learning progress made by our children. I hope that the term break provides some down time for the students and opportunity for some family time.
Student reports will be sent home on Friday. This year, we have used a new report generation product called ‘Accelerus’ which has allowed for greater efficiency in the preparation and printing of the report. Families will notice a slight change to the overall formatting of the report from last year, otherwise the information contained is consistent with past reporting templates. Once families have received and reflected upon their reports, they are invited, if they wish, to make time to meet with teachers in the early part of term 3 to discuss their child’s progress and to refine learning goals.
Last Thursday evening, I was privileged to be a part of our first Instrumental evening for 2019. With over 180 students currently learning an instrument, the logistics of hosting the event have become increasingly complex! I acknowledge and thank Steph Insanally, Michelle Page, Jen Frith and all of our excellent instrumental teachers for both their ongoing efforts with our children and for bringing the event to life. I also thank you, as Parents, for recognising the value of a music education and for investing in your child’s music tuition.
On Wednesday 3rd July, our first Semester JOEYS group will have their commissioning and graduation ceremony, in preparation for their commencement in school from Term 3. My thanks to Anne Whitters and Paula Thomson for their wonderful efforts in promoting early years education through JOEYS and Playgroup. We look forward to welcoming our Semester two JOEYS in Week 3 of Term 3. Please spread the word about our Playgroup and JOEYS program, as an excellent way to transition into our school community!
Have a great week everyone!
God bless,
Phil Schultz.
Hi all, I hope you are doing well and looking forward to spending some extra time with your children during the Term 2/3 holidays. This year I am heading back to Melrose again, a trip that I’ve done for the last 3 years. This time we’ll have our 6-month-old baby with us so that will be interesting to say the least. As I mentioned at about this time last year, this is a great time to reassess your child/ren’s academic goals for the second half of the year. Please feel free to let these goals be known to your child’s classroom teacher so we can plan together how we can make these goals a reality.
Over the past two Wednesdays our Year 5 and 6 students have been involved in our cluster's Enrichment program. Students either participated in electives here, or at St Therese or St Thomas. I managed to get around to all of the activities held here at Kingswood and was amazed to see so many children engaged, having fun and learning at the same time. It was interesting to see that many of the students from the three schools were going to the same high school. We are hoping that students will have a few more familiar faces when they make this important step in their educational journeys. A big thank you to Alannah Prestwich, Joshua Bratt, Serena Pike and Lisa Lambourne for creating such meaningful and relevant learning experiences. I heard positive words of feedback from the students from all three schools.
Last Friday we held our annual school Disco! It was so great to see more than 150 of our almost 230 students dancing, laughing, singing and creating meaningful memories with their friends. Thank you so much to the P&F for getting the event up and running and all of the parents who came and volunteered on the night. These things wouldn’t happen without the support of all of you.
I hope that you all have a great break and I look forward to seeing you all next term.
Take care,
Jamie
Year 6 Boys are invited to attend selection trials to represent the City South District at the SAPSASA State Soccer Carnival. Click below for details and registration form to be completed by 26th July.
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Don't forget - Monday 22nd July is a pupil free day. Book in now for St Joseph's Kingswood OSHC
In Term 3 we will be trialling a slightly different model from the existing fortnightly newsletter- moving to circulating it three times during the term. In addition we will send a weekly snapshot that captures what's on for the week ahead. We are trialling this in response to and recognition of the busy lifestyles our community leads, perhaps not allowing for parents to sit down and read a fortnightly newsletter in its entirety.
We understand that from time-to-time there are tech glitches (or children than clear notifications) whereby you might miss a notification that has been sent out. We encourage you to put SZapp on your home screen of your phone for ease of use but also to increase the likelihood of you seeing the notification marker on the app. Also, syncing the school calendar, found on SZapp with your phone calendar is a great way to make sure you don't miss key events.
Any queries or feedback regarding SZapp, please don't hesitate to liaise with Bianca Bedson directly.
Netball knockouts
Eleven of our year six girls went to a netball knockout competition on the 13th of June 2019
The girls went to compete in this fun round robin competition to represent our school, they spent the whole school day at Clapham Primary. Our St Josephs team played three games on the day and won all of them against St Raphael, Clapham Primary and Gillie Street Primary School. The first game was against Clapham Primary which we won 37/14, our second game was against St Raphael which we won again 42/15 and our last game was against Gillies Street which we won 29/12 all of the girls played really well and had a good day.
We are looking forward to playing in the next round in the knockout competition against Thiele Primary School and Eden Hills Primary on Thursday the 26th of July.
Maddie Revell - School Sports Leader
Enrichment - Sphero/Coding
On Wednesday the 19th of June term 2 week 8 Mr. Bratt ran a Sphero program with the some students from St. Josephs Kingswood, St. Thomas Goodwood and St. Therese Colonel Light Gardens.
Spheros are little robotic ball that are controlled by our iPads and we have to code them to where we want them to go. After we learnt how to do that we did a tricky course that was set up with masking tape on the floor.
We were able to do this activity here at St. Josephs Kingswood 33 Cambridge terrace, located up in our Multipurpose Room. We wanted to do Sphero so we can learn how to code, and make new friends.
Because there were so many of us doing it we all got to choose a colour for our Sphero so we knew whoes was who's.
I really enjoyed doing Sphero with Mr Bratt because it was a great opportunity to make new friends with other schools and also getting to know how to code. It was loads of fun trying to complete the course and then playing Sphero soccer at the end which was so much fun but a little bit tricky.
Alannah Harriss - School Ambassador
Enrichment - Junior Masterchef
On Wednesday the 19th of June, Term two, week eight all the cluster groups including St Thomas, St Therese and students from St Joseph's, gathered in the hall at our school for the Junior Masterchef as part of enrichment. Mrs Lambourne our great teacher runs this with help from the year six leaders and our student teacher Miss Barr.
In this class we made sausage rolls and for a little snack, a fruit salad. To make this we got put into five groups with five other students from the other schools. I thought that this was a great opportunity to be leaders and work with different people. We did this because we want to be friends and get involved with other schools, also to learn new things which is fun and easy to do through enrichment.
We made these amazing and delicious sausage rolls with some puff pastry, beef, chicken and pork sausages, fruit chutney, poppy seeds and help from Mrs Lambourne and Mrs Barr. When we finished the sausage rolls, we made a healthy, delicious fruit salad. To do this we used different types of fruit like oranges, apples which were red and green and bananas we also used yoghurt and muesli to put on top which made a delicious and healthy snack.
After all we all had lots of fun and can’t wait to do it again!
Alicia Milde - School Spirit Team Leader
Year 5/6 Soccer Knockout Match Report
On the 20th of June the St Josephs 5/6 soccer knockout team made history vs Ascot Park Primary school at Mitcham Girls High School by becoming the first team to ever make it through the first round. Our team walked from school to the pitch with Mr De to warm before the match.
Both team played a really close and competitive match which ended in a 3 all draw. This meant we went to extra time to try and get a winner. We didn’t have a result so in the end the game went to a very exciting penalty shoot out which we won 3-1.
At the end everyone had a great time and was very happy that we won.
Thomas Green - House Leader, McCormack
Friday 5th July is the last day of school and students are invited to wear casual clothes and bring a gold coin to donate to Kid's Help Line. The SRC will be collecting the coins from each class during the day.
In addition to casual clothes day, Francesca Fiocchini is running a cupcake stall to raise funds for Little Hero's Foundation-
DISCO!
WOW! What a night. Thank you to everyone who bought their child a ticket so they could carve up the dance floor, join the games and make some awesome memories. A very big thank you also to all the parent volunteers who helped during each of the sessions. Without the organisation and attention to detail of Mandy Hyams, the night would not have been such a success. Thank you Mandy for all of your efforts! Last but definitely not least, thank you to Matt Holden and Brentnalls SA as well as Pete Harris and Morgans Exchange Place for your donations towards the night, and the P&F target to raise funds for the new nature play area.
QUIZ NIGHT!
The kids had their fun, now it's only fair that the adults get a chance to do the same. Dust off your Trivial Pursuit, get together a group of friends and come along to our QUIZ NIGHT on Saturday 24th August. We've checked, there's no Crows or Port games, Hugh Jackman isn't in town and the Royal Adelaide Show hasn't started yet. The long range forecast for the night even looks promising! Click this link to book your tickets, refer to the poster below for any queries or contact Sally Stansborough if you're still in doubt.
If you own or work for (or know of) a company that would like to donate a voucher or cash, please let us know! Everyone that donates will get a mention and have their logo displayed on the night, as well as recognition in the school newsletter and on our St Joseph's Kingwood Facebook page. Any queries, please contact Bianca Bedson.
