St Joseph's Catholic School, Mundingburra

𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🎌

Yesterday, our students proudly represented our school at the Japanese Speech Competition held at St Clare’s Catholic School. Students prepared and memorised a speech in Japanese, demonstrating their language skills and confidence.

Our students conducted themselves beautifully and represented our school with the utmost respect and excellent manners. We are incredibly proud of their efforts!

Congratulations to Franklin who placed first in the Year 4 category and Emily who placed third in the Year 5 category 🏆👏

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞! 📖

Our school came alive with a 'Symphony of Stories' at this morning’s Book Week Parade! Both students and staff put fantastic effort into their costumes, showing off plenty of clever and creative ideas across the school. A big thank you to Mrs Harrington and Ms Weinheimer for organizing and running the event, and to all the families who joined us! ✨

Monday 24 August
🏫No Assembly

Tuesday 25 August
📖Book Week Parade (9.00am)
🎵Choir (2.30 - 3.30pm)
💻Final Tech Club (3.00 - 4.00pm)

Wednesday 26 August
📢Japanese Speech Competition
🍞Breakfast Bar (8.00 - 8.15am)
🌏Earth Warriors - Library (Morning Tea)
🌿Earth Warriors - Joseph's Garden (Lunch)
📢FNAC Meeting (4.30pm)

Thursday 27 August
🙏Christian Meditation - Library (8.00 - 8.10am)

Friday 28 August
📗Last Day of the Premier's Reading Challenge
⚽Interschool Sport (Year 6)

𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬!📚

This week, our Year 4 students kicked off our Semester 2 Open Classrooms. They loved welcoming their families into their classroom to showcase everything they've been working on this term✨

🗓️Our Open Classroom schedule is on Compass, so mark your calendars!

𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐞!🐝✨

A huge congratulations to our students who took to the stage and bravely tackled increasingly challenging words in front of an audience, alongside talented spellers from the other Townsville Catholic primary schools.

We were so proud to see our students show courage and fantastic sportsmanship throughout the competition. Every student gave it their all and should be incredibly proud of their efforts! A very special congratulations to Franklin, who took out 1st place in the Year 4 competition! 🏆

Well done to all of our Spelling Bee superstars, you represented St Josephs' with pride! 💚

Monday 17 August
🏫Assembly (2.00pm)

Tuesday 18 August
📢Prep Vision Screening
💡Opti-MINDS (Lunch)
🎵Choir (2.30 - 3.30pm)
💻Tech Club (3.00 - 4.00pm)

Wednesday 19 August
📢Prep Vision Screening
🏫Year 4 Open Classroom (8.00 - 8.30am)
🍞Breakfast Bar (8.00 - 8.15am)
🌏Earth Warriors - Library (Morning Tea)
🌿Earth Warriors - Joseph's Garden (Lunch)

Thursday 20 August
🙏Christian Meditation - Library (8.00 - 8.10am)
💡Opti-MINDS (Lunch)

Friday 21 August
⚽ Interschool Sport (Year 6)

St Mary of the Cross MacKillop Feast Day Mass & Activities ✝️

Last Friday, we celebrated the Feast Day of St Mary MacKillop. The day began with a special liturgy led by Father Joshy.

Congratulations to our Mary MacKillop Award recipients: Remy, Mia, Lucy, Stevie, Harriet, Lola, Matilda G, Matilda S, William, Ariana, Addison, Maisie, Astrid and Liliana!

These students were recognised for being deeply compassionate, reaching out to others and fostering resilience.

Later in the afternoon, students enjoyed a range of activities, including arts and crafts, games and puzzles, a scavenger hunt, prayer puppets and making Mary MacKillop biscuits, just to name a few.

It was a wonderful day celebrating the life and legacy of St Mary MacKillop and the values she continues to inspire in our school community✨

𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 🎉

A big congratulations to Florence, Amani, Madalin and Astrid who were selected to represent Far North Queensland at the upcoming National School Futsal Championships in Brisbane later this year. This is a fantastic opportunity for our students to continue their futsal journey in a high-performance representative environment, while proudly representing their school and our region! ⚽🌟

𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥 🎥

Last week, St Joseph's hosted a movie screening with a difference. Students and community members from around Townsville came together to watch the documentary, Future Council. The documentary follows eight children on the ultimate school excursion – a road trip across Europe where they meet powerful leaders and explore solutions to some of our biggest environmental challenges.

Our Yr 5 & 6 Earth Warriors have been working on a project with the North Queensland Conservation Council based around this documentary. It was wonderful to see our students join with students from other schools in Townsville to view the documentary and sign a letter (formed from student responses collected at several workshops with different schools/student groups) which will be sent off to decision makers and hopefully lead to a Youth Conservation Forum.

Even though our Year 3 & 4 students couldn't be at the event, they were active contributors to the project through our Earth Warrior group, where they shared ideas on the issues that affect them, made speech bubbles for the photobooth and made sure our school was rubbish free for the event.

Thank you to Luna and Crystal from North Queensland Conservation Council (NQCC) (tag) for reaching out and getting us involved in this wonderful opportunity for our students to engage with ecological action in the wider community. A big shout out to our Earth Warriors who attended and their parents for bringing them along!