Save the Date – Friday 30 November at 9.15am
Volunteers help to make the world go round! Well they certainly do here St Joseph’s.
We invite you to come along to a thank you morning tea in the school library. So whether you volunteer at school, in the canteen, on excursions, at sports carnivals and gala days, with school banking, reading in classrooms or at home covering books or other tasks you are very welcome to join us.
For catering purposes, please RSVP via Google Form here
This Term 4 years 5 and 6 will be participating in a hockey gala day at North Narrabeen Reserve.
Please submit the Google Form permission (link below) no later than Friday 2 November 2018.
IMPORTANT: Please complete and submit individual Google forms for each child
WHEN: Wednesday 7th November – Years 5 & 6
WHERE: North Narrabeen Reserve
TIME: 9:30am – 2pm
UNIFORM: Students must wear their sports uniform
WHAT TO BRING: Morning tea and lunch is to be brought by the children from home and no glass bottles of any kind are allowed. Drinks may be brought in plastic containers. Sunscreen should be applied before leaving home and packed in bags.
MOUTHGUARDS: ALL STUDENTS MUST WEAR MOUTHGUARDS ON THE DAY.
VENTOLIN: Children that require ventolin are asked to keep their ventolin with them at all times throughout the gala day. Parents are asked to ensure their child’s name is clearly marked on the ventolin.
Transport NSW has advised that school student opal card applications for 2019 open from Monday, 15 October 2018.
Students progressing to year 3 do not need to re‑apply if they:
Students leaving St Joseph’s to attend high school / another school will need to re-apply / update their information.
Link to re-apply / update: https://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/updateDetails
Where a student meets the new distance eligibility, the system will automatically update their entitlement. .
Parents of students who have an entitlement approved under a medical condition which is due to expire will receive a notification from Transport NSW advising them to re-apply.
Applications need to be submitted before 31 December 2018 to ensure student entitlements are updated and their current entitlement/card is not cancelled. If their application is submitted after 31 December 2018, the system will automatically cancel a card and a new one will need to be issued.
Students in the Opal network applying for a SSTS entitlement for the first time will receive their card via Australia Post mail at their nominated postal address. Cards will be mailed out during December 2018 and January 2019.
Questions – please refer to the Transport NSW Opal Card website here.
We would like to extend a warm welcome to all new families joining our St Joseph’s community in 2019, and look forward to getting to know you and all our Kinder 2019 children.
In Term 4, we will begin our Kindergarten 2019 transition programme for you and your child/ren. This programme will run over three consecutive Wednesday mornings throughout November from approximately 9.15am to 10.45am.
The aim is for you and your child to become more familiar with our school, explore ways in which children learn and to meet other parents and key people within the school community. A letter with more details on transition will be sent in Term 4.
For new families, to start to get a “feel” for St Joseph’s, you can read our school newsletter which is published every Thursday and loaded onto our school website.
We also have the St Joseph’s Fun Fair coming up on Saturday 27 October in the school grounds, a great family fun day.
Don’t forget there is also the Lakes Parish Playgroup which runs in the Parish Hall (connected to our playground) every Monday morning from 9.15am to 10.45am. $2 entry, all welcome!
Watch this space – for updates and more information on the Fun Fair!
*** Facebook Fun Fair Page – share the page with all your friends ***
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