Month: October 2018

Dear NSW Rural Parents and Carers,

Please continue reading if you wish to book a seat for your son(s) to travel home to Rural NSW with TrainLink (Regional School Coach & Rail Services)
Bookings are now open for boarding students wishing to travel home to Rural NSW in Term Four.
To reserve a seat for End of Term 4 please submit your booking by Friday 2 November 2018.
We ask that you now complete your son’s booking form by the closing date. The college is required to comply with the cut-off date specified by TrainLink. We urge you to make your bookings for your son now through the College, even if you are not sure; bookings may be cancelled without administration fees if done so by the cancellation date. Bookings not made by the due date cannot be accepted by the College.
Please follow below steps to access the Country Boarders Travel Booking site.
1. Click on the link below to access the Joeys Travel Bookings for Country Boarders link (or copy and paste into your browser)
https://ilearn.joeys.org/homepage/16816/
If you are not already logged into ilearn, you will be taken to the entry splash screen to log onto the site
2. Enter Parent Joeys ID example 12345@joeys.org
3. Enter Password if you have forgotten your password click on Forgot user id/password at the bottom of the splash screen (see image below)
Once you have entered the site you should be on the MAIN Travel bookings page. If you still need to navigate to this page, please go to https://ilearn.joeys.org/homepage/16816/

4. Select Make a booking

Bookings close Friday 2 November 2018

Should you have any questions, please reply to travel@joeys.org

Thank you for your attention to this matter

Regards

Joeys Travel Team

On Wednesday, the year 7 boys participated in the Languages Incursion at the park. The Incursion involved boys from each of the languages subjects (French, Japanese, Mandarin and Latin) coming together to form groups and solve a variety of challenges accumulating points along the way.

The boys below are from the winning team.

Mr Junee’s Year 7 Religious Education class gluing a poppy in preparation for Remembrance Day. Each boy said a prayer as they placed a poppy on the cross.

Boarders cooling off in the pool after a big day

Jack turned 13 on Saturday

Rushton turned 13 on Sunday

Harry turned 13 on Wednesday

Happy birthday boys!!!!!

Just a reminder about the Music Concert this Friday night in the Music Centre. Only a small number of boys (21) are performing and they have been contacted in relation to this. Dinner will be provide for them and will be served at 5.45pm. The boys need to be in the Music Centre at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

Dear SJC parents and carers,

Welcome back to the final term of 2018 as we prepare for the celebration of Spring Fair, following Family Mass on Sunday 11 November. With a little over three weeks to go we are really ramping up the organisation and energy.

VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENTS
As we all know, our Fair would not be a success without our enormous contingent of amazing volunteers from all year groups. We thank you for your participation and appreciate your ongoing support. Please click on these links to volunteer your time and meet more of your fellow parents.

The Year 7 Parents each year, look after the White Elephant Stall. We are calling all parents to come along and assist for a few hours on Friday 9 November, Saturday 10 November or/and Sunday 11 November. It is a great way to make new friends and it is a lot of fun and a great way to raise funds for the College. If you are able to volunteer some time can you please indicate this on the ink below.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0e49aba72ea3f49-white

Being the final term and a short term at that, I thought it would be a good opportunity to promote the idea of taking a Year 7 Boarding Student home for the weekend or even a nice home cooked meal. Although the Day Students and Boarders mingle on a daily basis I think some time together away from the College is a good opportunity for boys from different backgrounds to come together and form tight bonds.

We have promoted this a bit with the boys throughout the year and it was pleasing to see a number of Day Students head home with some Boarders at the end of Term 3.

For this to take place, the parents of each boy would need to communicate the specifics of the leave and the parents of the Boarding Student would then need to put a leave through on Boardingware.

As discussed earlier in the week via email, Lunch Leaves will not be available for week 3. This will commence on Monday October 29 and will finish on Friday November 2 pending an improvement in the boys behaviour.

Regretfully I have made this decision based on recent events and correspondence from staff, parents and members of the wider community.

Free webinar for parents from The Black Dog Institute
Navigating Your Teen’s Mental Health
24 October 2018, 6.30pm-7.30pm

Delivered by a trained presenter with lived experience of mental illness, you will gain an insight into what it’s like to grow up as a young person with a mental illness.

You will learn:
• about anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder
• how to spot early warning signs in young people
• when and where to seek help
• how to support a young person you care about

For further information, please click on this link https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/navigating-your-teens-mental-health-webinar-mental-health-month-registration-49836651767

Wet weather is forecast for the weekend. Please remember to check the College website and the Joeys Twitter page for regular updates. I will send emails as soon as I can but the quickest source of information will be these sites.

With the weather warming up, the bbq’s are back on! Every Friday night the Year 7 boys will head over to the park to have a game of touch, a bit of cricket and a mice snag or two. Who doesn’t love a bbq in summer!

This is not just for the boarders in fact it would be great if plenty of Day Students could join us. The more the merrier. Please take this into account when looking at your sons departure times for the upcoming weeks.

This term there are three compulsory events:

1. Family Mass – Sunday November 11

2. Spring Fair – Sunday November 11

3. College Swimming Carnival – Wednesday November 14

Please mark these dates in your calendar.

Welcome to Term Four! As mentioned in the emails earlier this week, this will be a fast paced term. With only 7.5 and examinations to finish it will be Christmas before we know it.

The boys have been encouraged this week to really apply themselves in the classroom. While these upcoming examinations are not the be all and end all, it is important that the boys make a good go of the examination period and work to the best of their ability.

We will be focusing heavily on study techniques in evening study during our collaborative sessions in the library. This week the boys looked at Q&A’s as a revision tool.

Happy Birthday to the boys listed below over the school holidays. We hope you all had a wonderful birthday.