Dear Parents and Carers

Attached this week is another great article about resilience and the skill of reframing situations. Sometimes this is not an easy skill but it is an important one to develop.  I hope you enjoy the article.

Have a great week

Tim

Christmas Appeal 

As the school year draws to a close, we are all starting to think of Christmas.  Sadly, for some, it is not the joyful celebration that we have come to know. This year, we are once again inviting our school community to help us live our faith in action as we support the St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal by donating goods to those who may otherwise go without and help us give the best present ever to those in need.  Items can be brought into classrooms from Monday 18th November. We will be presenting our hampers to SVDP at our Christmas/Giving Mass on Wednesday 4th December.

When donating please consider "what would my family want on Christmas?" 

Sunday’s Gospel

Luke 21:5-19 - Jesus predicts the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and warns his followers that persecution will come before the end time

Children, while innocently naïve about most world events, are also profoundly sensitive to the concerns felt by adults. We can help children interpret adult concerns by sharing information about current events in appropriate ways. We can also put these concerns in the light of God's kingdom and the assurance of God's care for us.

Discuss with your children one or more current events or a situation in your family which shows difficulties that may challenge our trust in a God who cares for us. Then read together the Gospel, Luke 21:5-19. Notice how Jesus said that even when his disciples are persecuted, God would be with them.

Together with your children, talk about ways in which God might bring good out of the difficult events you discussed. Talk together about some actions you might take as a family to make better the situations you discussed. Conclude by praying for the needs of the people involved in the events you named. In prayer, place each of these difficult situations into God's hands.

Have a great week

Take care and God Bless

Amanda

Our Christmas Concert will be held on Thursday 28th November at 6pm in the Hall. We hope you can join us.

If you have volunteered in our classrooms this year we would like to thank you by inviting you to a special thank you morning tea. Please let your classroom teacher know if you are able to come along. 

The last day of Tuckshop will be Friday the 29th November.

There'll only be ice-blocks for sale the following Wednesday and Thursday.

If anyone has 2nd hand uniforms they'd like to donate to the school please drop them either into the tuckshop or office.

Thank You

Arlene Curley

Tuckshop Convenor

Sport@Joey’s 2019

Just when we thought that we couldn’t possibly repeat the feats of 2017/2018, our students have outperformed themselves again in 2019. The year got off to an incredible start with our A School Swimming Carnival. We managed to repeat our most outstanding result in A schools, winning the Overall Aggregate trophy and the Average Trophy (based on student numbers). Our enthusiastic and well trained team were victorious over St. Joseph’s Mundingburra (2nd), Holy Spirit (3rd) and Townsville Grammar (4th). These results were quite extraordinary given the size of our school.

Toby Kennedy was selected in the NQ Swimming team and participated in the Qld Championships in Brisbane.

We excelled at the Interschool Cross Country carnival, with each competitor giving it their all on the long Bicentennial Park Course. We had six top ten finishes from our strong Putney team: Charli Russell (2nd), Quinn Pascoe (4th), Sophie Hannay (5th), Milla Hannay (7th), Nicholas Barr (7th) and Estella Smith (8th). These students represented us at the NQ Trials, with Nicholas Barr progressing to represent NQ.

In Athletics, our team managed to collect all four trophies on offer, the Aggregate, Boys, Girls and Average Trophies. Joey’s held off The Cathedral School (2nd) and Wulguru State School (3rd). The President of the Townsville School Sport Committee gave a compliment to Joey’s when stating, “Congratulations to Joey's The Strand for their clean sweep of the shields. They were dominant on the track as well as in the field. Must be something in the sea air for them to do so well at both swimming and athletics!” A highlight of our 2019 athletic program was the announcement of Jy Gasa as the captain of the North Queensland Track & Field team.

Our netballers enjoyed the NQ Netball Cup, participating in the largest Townsville Primary Netball carnival ever held. The TCEO Festival of Sport event for Year 6 students was another huge success. Our students played Futsal, Netball and Oztag all day long against other schools in our diocese.

Again this year, we had Tennis Townsville join us for Tennis clinics for Years 3 and 4. This initiative was made possible by funding from the Federal Government Sporting Schools Grant program. Basketball Townsville joined us also in the highly popular Rookies Basketball program, held after school in Term 4. T20 Blast Cricket and Townsville Golf conducted clinics at Joey’s, offering a great variety of skills.

Joey’s proudly participated in the annual Challenge Games held at the ‘Red Track’. This carnival enables all children with a disability to have fun and participate in as many or as few events as they want. Organizers gave out over 12,000 ribbons this year and to see students with ribbons pinned all over themselves was a real buzz.

We welcomed NQ Cowboy and Joey’s dad Josh Maguire as our Adopt A School Cowboy in 2019. Josh has done a magnificent job in advocating the ‘Eat Well, Play Well, Stay Well’ message. A highlight of the year was the reintroduction of the Walla Challenge. Students in Years 4-6 were assigned mixed teams and played a round robin event that culminated in the World Cup final. New Zealand triumphed over England in a tight final in front of the school. Our outside broadcast team had a podcast with a live stream of the game.

We had an unprecedented number of students represent NQ in various school sports.

 2019 NQ School Sport Honour Board

Cricket: Thomas Wilkinson

Rugby Union: Nicholas Barr, Anthony Roveglia, Toby Kennedy, Orlando Lochowicz

Touch Football: Erica Round, Kiera Wallace

Hockey: Hamish Barry

Football: Quinn Pascoe

AFL: Thomas Geeves

Swimming: Toby Kennedy

Track & Field: Jy Gasa, Charli Russell

Cross Country: Nicholas Barr

It has been an unforgettable year for Sport@Joey’s. We can now take a rest and prepare for another big year ahead.

School Carnivals 2019

Congratulations to all houses on their determination and spirit shown at our house carnivals. Faulkner had a strong year, winning the aggregate trophy at all carnivals. We can’t wait to see what happens in 2020.