Term 4 Week 7 2022

Joeys Juniors

We had another successful Joeys Junior Session on Thursday! It was wonderful to welcome our 2023 Kindergarten students once again with their families. The children are settled and are already forming such beautiful friendships with their peers. Nerrine McGrath presented a great parent information session. Next week is the final week of the program and Mr Galvin will be presenting some information about our school and answering any questions you may have.

P&F Dinner

Last night, the P & F met for the end of year Christmas dinner, reflecting on the year’s successes. Thank you to our wonderful P&F for the support you give the students and school throughout the year. We had so many wonderful events, and implemented lots of new ideas. We are looking forward another wonderful year next year.

ALADDIN

This week we had the pleasure of being an audience in St Agnes Parish schools production of Aladdin Junior at Regional College. All students in years 3-6 were invited along to watch their first performance. The cast were students from years 5-8 from across the Port Macquarie parish schools. We enjoyed watching the theatrical special effects, sets, props, costumes and singing, dancing and acting. Our students certainly had a sense of appreciation for the student performers having just had our recent experience of our very own production. The Production is a joint venture between the St Agnes Parish schools Creative Arts nest and Got-Ya-Back Productions. There are still tickets available to the community. We look forward to hopefully partnering with the initiative on other projects in the new year.

New Uniform Announcement 

We are excited to announce that the new school uniform will be available to order from Term 2, 2023. The current uniform will continue to be used and phased out until the beginning of 2025 when all students will be expected to have transitioned to the new uniform. We entrust this 18 month transition period provides families with adequate planning time to implement the change.

Positive feedback for the new uniform concept was overwhelming and we would like to thank all families who completed the final feedback survey online and visited our uniform display.

We can also confirm the following additions to the uniform concept:

*Socks- Generic, all white socks, covering the ankles.

*Shoes- Must be all black and include black laces or velcro straps and black soles. EXCLUDING slip-on shoes and canvas shoes.

*Sports Uniform- The current sports uniform will continue with any changes to be considered in early 2023. Any coloured sports shoes will be accepted for sports days. (Pied Piper still have in stock larger sizes of the current sports uniform for those people who need it).

St Joseph's would like to welcome Mid Coast Uniform Solutions as our wholesale provider. We are still finalising the specifics on how our school will retail the new uniform but can confirm that this will happen 'in-house.' We would like to thank Helen from the Pied Piper for supplying our current uniform and for her support during this transition period.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the office.