Joey's News - Week 1 - Term 3

From the Principal

Dear Parents, Carers and Families,

Hopefully by now all families have taken the opportunity to sit down and discuss their child’s End of Semester Report. These reports are a critical phase in the education of your children and the ultimate goal of them reaching their potential.

We can quite often frame a child’s report as a good or bad report and then once that is momentarily reflected upon, put it away in a drawer. We need to change this approach to one where we are using the report as a tool to support ongoing learning and growth by drilling down into the detail and in partnership with your child answer a number of questions:

• What did you do well and how did it happen?
• What are you finding challenging and can we find out why?
• What do we (child and parent) want to focus on this semester and let’s set a SMART goal to achieve it

The setting of Learning Goals should be one of the key outcomes for all student reports, they assist in develop learning (study) habitats that will support them in all learning throughout life. I encourage all families to have the “deeper” conversation with their child over their Semester One report. My tip is to do it over a milkshake or ice cream, so it is not seen as a chore but rather an important event that they want to attend and always start with celebrating the successes and milestones.

With Christ, we live, love and learn

James Roberts 

Principal

What’s happening next week:

Second Hand Uniform Shop

The JCC will be opening the second hand uniform shop on the following dates:

• Tuesday 22 July (8:00am - 8:45am)
• Friday 8 August (8:00am - 8:45am)
• Monday 18 August (8:00am - 8:45am)
• Friday 5 September (3:00pm - 3:30pm after the Father's Day Assembly)
• Tuesday 16 September (8:00am - 8:45am)

NAPLAN Results

For parents of Year 3 and 5 students, the 2025 NAPLAN Individual Student Reports will be sent home next week via Australia Post. To support parents and carers' understanding, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has produced this brochure.

2026 OSHC Re-enrolments and New Enrolments

2026 Instrumental Music Program

The school is commencing the recruitment and selection process for the 2026 Instrumental Music Program. The Instrumental Music Program is a wonderful opportunity for your child to learn a musical instrument through the school and to participate in the school ensembles, including the Concert Band and String Ensemble. As the program is popular and places are limited to the teaching time allocated to the school, entry into the program is done via a selection process. Limited places are available on the following instruments:

Over the coming weeks, students in Year 2 (for places in the String Program) and in Year 3 (for places in the Woodwind, Brass and Percussion Program) and any other interested students, will undergo some in class testing to determine their suitability to learn an instrument. The school also looks at ensemble balance along with other selection criteria, including classroom music results, academic progress, effort, behaviour, ability to work independently and reliability to determine the students best able to succeed in the program. A selection of students will be shortlisted for physical testing on available instruments. At this point, parents of students selected for testing will be informed via a letter sent home. Permission and extra information will be sought from parents before students are tested for physical suitability on the available instruments

For any further information, please contact Mr Chandler – w/wind, brass, percussion - (mchandler@cns.catholic.edu.au), Ms Marnane – strings - (cmarnane@cns.catholic.edu.au), Ms Tobin - piano (ntobindonn@cns.catholic.edu.au) or Ms Connors – guitar (tconnors1@cns.catholic.edu.au).

Sporting and Educational Opportunities