It's been another busy fortnight on the Primary Campus!

Last week we welcomed Shake & Stir theatre company to the MPR and they presented Roald Dahl's The Twits to the students.  It was wonderful to be able to bring live theatre to our school and to see how mesmerised the children were by the set, the costumes and the actors as they brought the characters to life.

Also last week, nine students from across Years 3 and 4 attended a reading competition in Warwick. Working within their teams, they answered many questions correctly and represented the school very positively.  Thanks to Mrs Clarke for organising our school's participation in this event and for accompanying the students, along with Mrs Blaxland.

The Granite Belt Chess competition took place last Friday with some of our students battling against students from Applethorpe State School.  It was a fierce competition but one in which our students came out on top.  Again, these students represented St Joseph's well. Thanks to Mr Fleming for his support of the chess program here.

The highly anticipated Book Fair took over the library last week and was well supported by all our families.  All sales count towards points that can be used by Mrs Stanford to supplement our library resources so we are very grateful to those people who made purchases.  Thanks to Mrs Stanford and Ms Gangemi for their work in organising the Book Fair. 

We are now into the second half of Term 4 and the weeks will begin to pass very quickly.  For the teachers, this time is being used to consolidate aspects of the curriculum and for students, assessments of learning are being completed in preparation for writing of the academic reports.  As part of this, your children may have told you that they recently sat a PAT Reading and PAT Maths test.  This is part of our ongoing commitment to monitor learning data and evaluate the effectiveness of our teaching and learning programs.  From the tests we were able to ascertain who achieved highly and what progress was made across 2024.  If you are interested in seeing this data, please approach your child's teacher.

Please note the following date claimers:

• Prep Practice Mornings: 13 Nov
• Primary Swimming Carnival: 13 Nov
• Colour Run: 22 Nov
• Yr 6 Lecturette Town Final: 25 Nov
• Yr 6 Lecturette District Final: 2 Dec
• Primary Dance Fever Showcase - 3 Dec (11.30am)
• Yr 6 Semper Una Celebration: 4 Dec
• Carols Under the Stars: 5 Dec

As always, if you have any concerns please speak with your child's teacher or with me at your earliest convenience.

With God's blessings

Sarah Yates
Assistant Principal Primary & Teaching & Learning