Welcome to St Joseph's Parish School, Atherton

St Joseph’s Parish School, catering for boys and girls from Prep to Year 7, is an integral part of the Cairns Diocese and the Atherton Catholic Parish. Located approximately one hour’s drive from Cairns, Atherton sits within the heart of the naturally beautiful and agriculturally rich Atherton Tablelands. Despite its many changes over the years, St Joseph’s Parish School has remained committed to providing its students with a well-balanced and relevant education and curriculum.

This website is designed to provide a practical and informative view of our school but by no means replaces personal contact. Please browse at your leisure but also feel free to contact us at any time.

Please click here for a message from our Principal, Mrs Trish Nash.

Latest News & Events

What a busy two weeks we have coming up. This week it is all action stations for the Deb Ball. This is a major fundraiser for the P&F. Any help you can give with setting up on Thursday night or Saturday, or clearing up on Saturday night at midnight would be gratefully appreciated. We had several people who were unable to attend the Ball, who turned up at midnight last year to help clean up. They were certainly much appreciated.

Next week our Year 3, 5 and 7 students will sit the NAPLAN tests. I ask your support in emphasising to your children that this is a point-in-time test. Even though there is much interest in these results in the media, it is important to remember that it is not as valuable as all the other assessment they do throughout the year. Even with the new Australian Curriculum, it is extremely difficult to produce a test that is fair to all students throughout Australia as the curriculum is not so prescriptive that they tell teachers what to teach each week. Therefore there may be some information on the tests that our students may not cover until later in the year. As I keep telling our students, we can only ask them to try their best.

This coming Friday afternoon, we will be holding a Mothers' Day afternoon tea. Many thanks to Rhiana and Rebecca for organising these morning and afternoon teas each term. It is certainly a way for our parents to get to know others in our school community. These two ladies, with the support of Sonya and Doreen are also organising a Biggest Morning Tea fundraiser on Monday 21st May. It would be wonderful to see as many of you there as possible at these two events.

I also look forward to seeing some of you next Friday, 18th at the Walk Safely to School day. This was a wonderful event last year and it is shaping up to be another successful event.

CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
The weather was kind to competitors this year at Butcher's Creek Interschool Cross Country competition which was held on Friday 27th April. The annual event saw St Joseph's runners do well and place in most age divisions so a big congratulations to all runners for their training and commitment leading up to the Cross Country.

 

SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION
Twenty-two Candidates from St Joseph's School and the wider parish received the Sacrament of Confirmation last Friday evening at 6pm. These children will also receive the Eucharist for the first time on Sunday 17th June. Bishop James Foley was unable to be present to confirm these candidates however, Father Newman was delegated to impart the sacrament. This was a very special time for the children as they continue their journey to become fully initiated into the Catholic Church. Congratulations to those students. 

 

AUSTRALIA'S BIGGEST MORNING TEA
St Joseph's Parish School is hosting this year's Biggest Morning Tea on Monday, 21st May 2012 from 9:15am - 11:00am. Please come along and enjoy a cup of tea/coffee and some delicious morning tea for $2 to help raise much needed funds for cancer research. There will be several raffles with lovely prizes on offer, along with some beautiful roses on sale for $1ea . All donations will be going directly to the Cancer Council Australia. For further enquiries, please contact Rebecca Hosking, Ph: 0414 457 596.
Reminder ~ Please don't forget to RSVP to Sonya or Doreen by Wednesday 16th May, 2012 if you are able to bring a plate to share on the day.

 

P&F UPDATE:
Please visit the P&F Page for a list of the 2012 P&F Executive.

P&F DATE CLAIMERS:    2012 Deb Ball will be held on 12 May and the Spring Fair (Fete) will be held on 20 October.  The P&F appreciates your support.

Thanks to the P&F for approving the purchase of NEW Outdoor seats for the pathway to the new library – coming soon… and Red Carpet for the Deb Ball

Let us know your thoughts – come to the next meeting or email us on pandf@stjoeys.qld.edu.au

 

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