Dear Parents and Carers,

What another beautiful week of warm weather and sunshine that we have enjoyed! The students have been making use of our beautiful, large playground and enjoying each other’s company. 

St Joseph’s Feast Day Celebration

St Joseph’s Feast Day was last Saturday, and we celebrated with a beautiful Liturgy prepared by Mrs King. Students placed symbols of Joseph they had made on a traditional, three-tiered St Joseph's Table. It was very impressive! Thank you to the parents and families that were able to join us, it was lovely to have you celebrating with us again.

 Staff Professional Learning

On Monday, Mrs King, Mr Martens and Mrs McFarlane went to St Mary’s Young to participate in professional learning related to High Impact Teaching. They were fortunate to observe our coach from Cog Learn, Sharyn Angel in action as she modelled what best practise Daily Review looks like. Staff had the opportunity to network with teachers at Young who are also on the same professional learning journey, which allowed for rich conversations and collaboration. The teachers from Young will come to Grenfell for Day 3 next term.

Interim Reports & Interviews

Term 1 Interim Reports will be sent home with students on Friday. This report provides an opportunity for parents see how their child has started the new school year and any areas for development.

 Parents will be invited to attend an interview with their child’s teacher on Monday 28th March, with timeslots from 3:30pm-5:30pm. Information on how to book a time will be sent via Compass tomorrow, so please ensure you read the instructions and book a timeslot over the weekend. If the provided times do not suit please contact your child’s teacher directly to book an alternative:

leslie.king@cg.catholic.edu.au

lachlan.martens@cg.catholic.edu.au

danielle.schneider@cg.catholic.edu.au

loyola.best@cg.catholic.edu.au

If you have difficulties making the booking on Compass please contact the Office: office.stjosephsgrenfell@cg.catholic.edu.au

Swimming lessons

Today will be the final swimming lesson. Thank you to Grenfell Aquatic Centre and Leann, Susan and helpers for providing high quality lessons to our students. They have enjoyed their time with you and look forward to them next year.

Volunteers

Now that restrictions have eased and we are allowed to have visitors on-site again, we are hoping to get volunteers in to help get some projects and ideas up and running. If you can offer your time from 8:45am to around 10:15am in the morning please let us know! Or if you have a special skill you would like to share e.g. cooking that would be great too! Let me know and we can have you come in at a different time.

You need to provide proof of vaccination and also have your Volunteer Working With Children Check (WWCC) to help.

 Either call the Office or email me at melissa.hotham@cg.catholic.edu.au - letting me know your availability - (the days you are free and if you can do the whole time between 8:45am and 10:15am or a shorter time). Depending on the response we may have a roster so that you come in every few weeks or it may be weekly. We are hoping to start next term!

 Have a lovely weekend.

 Kind thoughts,

Melissa Hotham

​Principal