St Joseph's Primary School, Red Cliffs in Red Cliffs, Victoria | Primary School

St Joseph's Primary School, Red Cliffs

Locality: Red Cliffs, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5024 1654

Address: 17 Fitzroy Ave, 3496 Red Cliffs, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.sjredcliffs.catholic.edu.au

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24.01.2022 Enrol now for 2021! With a pandemic preventing our regular group Open Day tours from going ahead, we’ve enlisted the help of some of our students in taking you on a virtual tour of our school instead. You can still book an individual tour with us and we would love to see you. To do that, simply phone ... 50 241 654 between 8:30am and 4:30pm weekdays, and we’ll organise a time to meet with you. Until then, sit back, relax and enjoy the virtual tour!

21.01.2022 Good afternoon everyone! Our newsletter has been sent via text and email today. In it you will find a very detailed explanation of our arrangements for the foreseeable future, as we move back into Remote Learning after yesterday’s announcement by the Premier. We are aiming to keep our processes as similar as possible to Lockdown 1.0, but there are some minor changes so please have a thorough read. Here is the link, if you need it: https://sjpsredcliffs.schoolzineplus.com/sc...hoolnews?nid=27 In summary, the most important things for you to know that will affect the next few days are: Tuesday, 4th August is a Pupil Free Day. No Remote Learning or onsite supervision will occur. Wednesday 5th August is a Pupil Free Day. No Remote Learning will occur, and onsite supervision is only available for children of essential workers. Learning Packs will be able to be picked up from school on this day between 2pm and 4pm. Current COVID restrictions apply upon pickup of these packs. Thursday 6th August, Remote Learning begins again for all students. Friday 7th August is a Pupil Free Day. This was a previously organised day for staff to work on School Review preparation, and it will still go ahead as planned. For further information and to find answers to the hundreds of questions that we are sure you have, please read the newsletter. We thank you for the overwhelming support shown in this period. Lockdown 2.0 took us all a little by surprise, so we are grateful to have such a supportive community. Please remember across this time of challenge that, in the future, today’s children will look back on how their homes and schools felt during the Coronavirus outbreak. They are watching and learning from us on how to respond in times of great uncertainty. Let us guide them by showing resilience, understanding, kindness, compassion and calm. We are here if you need anything, and will keep you as up to date as possible as new information arises. Stay safe, stay well and take care of each other. We look forward to seeing you all soon, via Google Meet!

19.01.2022 The sun was shining and the spirits were high for today’s modified Athletics Carnival. All students gave their best and supported their teammates with gusto, resulting in a day of pure fun, frivolity and friendly competition! A big round of St Joseph’s applause goes to Mrs Tiller for reimagining the day, when restrictions said we couldn’t run things as normal. I tell you what, with a community like this one, we wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. ... #stjosephsstrong See more

19.01.2022 On Friday, our school community gathered outside to celebrate NAIDOC Week. Led by our students, we acknowledged the traditional owners who have walked and cared for this land for thousands of years, and their descendants who maintain these spiritual connections and traditions. Across the week, our students read stories and participated in activities that celebrated, with pride, Australia's First People - the oldest continuous culture on earth - and during our prayer servi...ce we shared our desire to be a just and respectful community that seeks out peace and understanding. As written by John -13:34 " I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another."

19.01.2022 On 11 November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent after four years of continuous warfare. Today, on a patch of earth far from those battlefields, we gathered not only to remember the incredible sacrifices of the brave men and women who fought for the freedoms we experience today, but to pray for peace in our diverse global community. Let us all remember, today and always, to ‘Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.’ Colossians 3:15

18.01.2022 With limited physical access to schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we figured we’d expand our virtual access and add an extra platform through which to share with you, our valued community. If you’re on Instagram, pop on over now and follow us! You’ll find us at: stjosephs_redcliffs

18.01.2022 We made it! We’d like to extend our sincerest thanks and our most enthusiastic praise to you, our school families and community, for surviving and thriving with us across another period of Remote Learning. We couldn’t imagine a better community to partner with us during this, the strangest of times. Please rest and rejuvenate across this holiday period. You’ve certainly earned it! ... We cannot WAIT to see the kids in person next term. It’ll be a glorious, cheery Tuesday!

17.01.2022 Grade 4/5 Leadership Day Last Friday our Grade 4 and 5 students had the chance to explore some important questions about leadership, such as -what makes a good leader? What are the character traits of a good leader and how we can develop ourselves to be leaders in school, and in our community? Students participated in a range of activities to deepen their understanding of the qualities that make a good leader, and looked at ways we can live out Jesus' leadership style, as ser...vant leaders, who put others first. We were fortunate to have Fr Matt join us as part of this experience. Tomorrow, our Senior Students will be sharing their speeches with our school community, who will then be voting for the School and House Captains for 2021. A big congratulations to all the students standing for these positions, for preparing their speeches and being brave in delivering them to the community. As we learned at our leadership day 'Being a leader is about people, not position or power.' We look forward to hearing the voices of our future leaders tomorrow! As a Catholic school we look to Jesus as a role model of how good leaders take care of and serve those around them who are in need, as mentioned in Luke 22:27, 'For I am among you as one who serves.'

16.01.2022 What a day! Today we ran our annual Cross Country event with a bit of a twist. Points were awarded for each team not based on a runner’s place in the race, but on whether or not they improved on their practise runs by running further over a set time. This new way of doing things was inspired by our Play is the Way learning over the semester, where we have been encouraged to: 1. Pursue our personal best, no matter who we work with, and... 2. Be brave: Participate to Progress According to many of the kids we spoke to, it was the best Cross Country ever! Each race was separated by a whole lot of dancing and singing, and we are so proud of everyone for their encouraging words and the emphasis they placed on not being THE best, but being YOUR best. At the end of the day we did still present age champions and a winning house which, for the first year in quite a few, went to Jacaranda! Congratulations to all involved in today. We can’t wait to share it with parents once again in 2021! #playistheway #participatetoprogress #brave #personalbest

16.01.2022 We’re open for enrolments! With a pandemic preventing our regular group Open Day tours from going ahead, we’ve enlisted the help of some of our students in taking you on a virtual tour of our school instead. You can still book an individual tour with us and we would love to see you. To do that, simply phone ... 50 241 654 between 8:30am and 4:30pm weekdays (from next Monday), or email [email protected] and we’ll organise a time to meet with you. Until then, sit back, relax and enjoy the virtual tour!

13.01.2022 We’re baaaaaaaaaack! Our buildings finally feel like school again, and our hearts are so full. What a day we’ve had!

11.01.2022 Link to virtual tour: https://youtu.be/3D-nnezgigQ

11.01.2022 Our Annual Mass for the Needy collection has been steadily growing thanks to the spirit of giving within our school community. The appeal for non perishable food items received a further boost today from a very generous $200 donation received by Fr Pat. Remember that the appeal finishes this Friday June 19 and we still welcome any donations for us to pass into St Vincent De Paul to distribute to those in need.

11.01.2022 On a cold winter’s day in the middle of a pandemic, who better to welcome you to school than Little Miss Sunshine? Little MR Sunshine, it seems!

10.01.2022 The countdown is ON and we cannot WAIT to finally see the faces of our students back in the classroom instead of over a screen! Don’t forget that we’ve dubbed our very first day back ‘Cheery Tuesday’ and are asking the kids to dress in as many bright and bold colours as they can, to match the festive feeling that comes with a return to face to face learning! See you soon, St Joseph’s. We’re off to find outfits to knock their socks off.

10.01.2022 The SA borders are open for relocation which, as our school families know, means we farewell our treasured Miss Willems at the end of 2020. That means we need to replace her, and finding someone with as much passion, compassion and joy for teaching will be tough! If you know an educator who fits the bill and is eager to join a dynamic workplace family like ours, feel free to share!

08.01.2022 Notice the 'we' in this? Remember how we survived and thrived in Remote Learning Take One? We have no doubt that, together, we can do it all again. It might not be the easiest thing in the world, but it's amazing what community can do for the sake of the children, isn't it? Tomorrow you will receive a detailed plan for Remote Learning Take Two but in the meantime, please know that we are making all of our decisions based on the best interests of our students and families a...nd we are here to support you every single step of the way. Until then, we are off to choose some funky masks for the kids to enjoy tomorrow! We can't wait to see yours at drop-off, too! #inthistogether

08.01.2022 No one would've known we were learning remotely yesterday, as our school celebrated our second 'Do it for Dolly Day', raising awareness of bullying and committing to kindness. Though it was undoubtedly a different celebration this year, our Senior SRC reps started our day with a message to our school community, and our class websites and Seesaw upload feeds became seas of brilliant blue, regardless of our locations! Do yourself a favour and click play. You'll see some brilli...ant posters, outfits and videos of our kindness ambassadors (that's the kids) discussing bullying and getting into the spirit of the day. Well done, St Joseph's Community! #speakevenifyourvoiceshakes

08.01.2022 Daffodil Day Last Friday our teachers, students and families, joined us in commemorating Daffodil Day 2020. It is wonderful that we can still be creative and find ways to maintain some of our annual events despite the restrictions we face due to COVID 19. We hope the learning around the impact of Cancer and the Daffodil Day creations the students created brighten your homes and ignite hope for a future where there is a cure for cancers of all kinds. Thank you to everyone for brightening up our screens and classrooms by wearing yellow.

07.01.2022 A bit of front-of-school inspiration to welcome the kiddos.

07.01.2022 This week marks a very different Catholic Education Week than we are accustomed to celebrating! This year, we are asked to reflect on the theme of Listen to what the Spirit is saying and, in this time and place, it's certainly a goodie! Today, we asked our students to reflect on the words of a Catholic Education Week prayer by finding or drawing images to reflect the ways we aim to listen to what the Spirit is saying in our daily lives. We all agreed in our morning Meets thi...s morning that we can't wait to Listen to what the Spirit is saying when we are all back together...which isn't too far away! The countdown is on, St Joseph's. Happy Catholic Education Week! See more

06.01.2022 This Father's Day, despite the isolation we are all enduring because of the COVID 19 restrictions, may all of the fathers, step fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and special men who provide care and protection to our students, feel the love and care your children have for you. As a school community we would like to wish you all a very happy Father's Day, 2020. https://youtu.be/sZrlQgwRky4

06.01.2022 Grade 6 Retreat Day On Friday, our nine special Grade Six students stopped and reflected on their time at St Joseph's Primary School. The trip down memory lane reminded us just how much a part of the school community they have become over the past seven years. Students completed a beautiful Reconciliation session with Father Matthew and celebrated with a grand lunch in the library. However, we were not letting them get away that quickly. The afternoon session saw students scrambling to hunt down clues and solve puzzles in the Escape Room Challenge. We are all so very proud of all that these students have achieved and can't wait to continue the fun in the last couple of weeks left in their Primary School journey.

04.01.2022 Today we tested out our new normal in the office which, we must admit, was a little odd to begin with. From Monday, when we aren’t in the classroom teaching the kids, this is what our little learners will see. We’ve spent a lot of time today going through what they’ll see Monday morning, and we’d find it really helpful if you could reinforce this for them. Seeing you wear yours on Monday morning when you drop them off will help too!... We’ve sent a social story about adults wearing masks home to our junior students via Seesaw, and we will try our very best to make the transition to adult mask-wearing as seamless as possible. We thank you for your support in this, the most unusual of times. Stay safe. Stay masked. Stay home. #inthistogether

02.01.2022 Small school. Big hearts. Thank you to all families who donated goods to today’s Mass for the Needy collection, contributing goods for local distribution by the St Vincent de Paul society. ... ‘Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth’. 1 John 3:17

02.01.2022 We celebrate 100 years of Mass being celebrated in Red Cliffs this winter. Thank you to the Red Cliffs Historical Society and Red Cliffs Centenary 2021 for sharing this story.

01.01.2022 Though Mother’s Day may have looked and felt a little different this year, not being able to visit extended family in person, or purchasing gifts from our school Mother’s Day stall, the students did produce some amazing cards and gifts for the special person in their life at home. We would like to celebrate all the mothers, grandmothers, aunts and special people in our students lives who contribute and give so much to their lives. We thank everyone who shared photos and videos to help us make this movie to celebrate the love and care these people give to our students in so many ways. Happy Mother and Special Person’s Day 2020.

01.01.2022 2020 Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day Today we were certainly missing a very essential ingredient, without our Grandparents and Special Friends onsite, but we did manage to celebrate the very important and significant place these people hold in their grandchildren's lives under current COVID 19 restrictions. After a short Prayer Service with the theme: Strong Roots produce beautiful leaves, where we prayed for our grandparents and special friends, the children then w...ent on to work in their family groups to produce beautiful artworks in honour of these special people in their lives. We hope and pray that these artworks, poetry and letters will bring joy to the older members of our families, as we continue to forge our way through these challenging and uncertain times. Please take the time to see the love in the faces of the children as they reflect on their relationship with their grandparents, and the special words they share in the video below.