Hello to Families and all in the St Joseph's School Community,

We hope all the mothers, grandmothers, and significant women in our students’ lives had a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday. These special moments remind us how important your love, care, and support are in helping our children grow and thrive. It was a joy to welcome so many of you to our Mother’s Day morning tea last Friday- and so special to have four generations of the Wright Family present with us!  The event was a heartfelt celebration of the vital role you play in both your children’s lives and in our school community. Thank you for sharing your time with us and for all that you do each day. Your presence makes a lasting difference—thank you for being such a special part of our school family.

Last week, students also participated in a Regional Arts Program called Country & Belonging. These days were funded by Charlton Arts and Charlton Neighbourhood House and the Charlton Lions Club provided a sausage sizzle each day for lunch! St Joseph’s is very grateful to these community groups for supporting our learning and growing. The days were very informative, enabling the students to learn more about the history, art and culture of our First Nations People. The Grade 3-6 students even made their art come to life with some super overhead drone shots.

To finish off a very busy and exciting week, our students took part in both the Cross Country and Winter Sports events (see details below). A huge thank you to all our families for your incredible support and for staying on top of everything happening—it certainly was a full week, and you did an amazing job!  I’d also like to take a moment to acknowledge and commend our students. Their excellent behaviour, positive attitude, and willingness to participate and cooperate throughout the week were outstanding. They truly demonstrated our St Joseph’s values of safety, responsibility, and respect in all they did. We couldn’t be prouder of how they represented our school.

Mrs Olive spent two days in Werribee last week at the annual SIMON Conference. SIMON is our operating platform and also controls PAM. I’m sure she will have learnt many new things and be eager to try them out on her return. Mrs Olive has worked hard to keep modernising the way we operate, making sure digitalised options are more readily available and streamlining processes. As a school community we are very grateful for Mrs Olive’s on-going dedication and enthusiasm for St Joe’s – thank you!

I am spending today and tomorrow at this term’s Diocesan Leadership Gathering in Horsham. In my absence, please contact the School Office for administration matters and Miss Brown for any other matters.

In faith & learning,
Have a great week,
Mary