Principal's Message

It is with a sadden heart that I let the SJV community know of the passing of Kerry Guthrie. Kerry was employed by SJV for over 10 years. Kerry would start his day early cleaning the school, ensuring the bins were emptied, completing maintenance and would often have breakfast cooking by 8.30am.

Kerry will always be fondly remembered by our community as a 'True Blue', hard working, caring and friendly person. Our prayers and sympathy to his family. May he rest peacefully in the loving hands of God.

Kerry Patrick Guthrie

With Nina De Rosa

23rd September - 29th September is...

International Week of Happiness at Work

The general opinion about work is this: no one wants to do it. However, have you ever heard of a week-long holiday that encourages happiness at work? International Week of Happiness at Work is all about bringing happiness back into the workplace. If work is part of our daily lives, then one of the best ways to live a happier life is through being happy at work. Whether you work in a big corporation or at a small company, you can find happiness. I'm hoping that all employees have found some happiness in their workplaces this week that can be found throughout their careers.

With the holiday's fast arriving we assume with certainty that every teacher is a little happier this week. Of course this downtime is an opportunity to revive ourselves and rediscover the happiness, in the impact we make in young people's lives.

Wishing all our families a great Term 3 holiday. Travel safely and enjoy quality family time together. A perfect opportunity to sell some raffle tickets to extended family and friends.

Mrs D’s ‘Thought of the Week….’

"Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week – and they work more in their free time, too." - Gretchen Rubin

A big congratulations to the following students:

Please note - Merit Awards will be handed out on Friday 18th October (Week 1 Term 4) morning assembly.

KA	Charlize McCann
1/2 B	Ailah Buenaventura
1/2 JB	Oliver Doyle
3/4 CA	Bronwyn Anderson
3/4 P	Estelle Walsh
5/6 J	Farrah Sayer
5/6 P	Adele Scholtens
The Arts	Will Scholtens

This weeks focus for our SJV students is

Try new games and activities

and invite others to play

For further information on our SWPB program visit our

Positive Behaviour webpage.

Thank you

We acknowledge Jade McGrath and her girls for being the best "chook babysitters" to Snickers and Smarties in the school holidays

Community Champion Nomination Form

Please use this form or email office.sjv@cg.catholic.edu.au to nominate a Community Champion, someone you want to acknowledge from our community who help make our school a great place.

Nominated Community Champion/s *

Let us know why you have nominated this/these Community Champion/s *

Your Name *

Your Email *

Catholic Schools Netball Carnival

We have three teams entered into the CSNC this year. Thanks to Stephanie Myers, Emma Kennedy, Emma Stackpoole and Sonia Dutkiewicz for volunteering their time to coach, manage or umpire a team. We are still looking for an umpire for the 4/5 team and coach, manager and umpire for the 2/3 team. Please email me if you are able to help with these jobs.

Karen Stilling and Leah Malpas karen.stilling@cg.catholic.edu.au

Donations of Woolworths Seed Kits

If you would like to donate any Woolworths Discovery Garden seed kits to our keen Eager Environments please place them in the the box set up in the front office. We look forward to watching these seeds grow in our garden.

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It has been a fast paced few weeks with many excursions organised and this week was no different. Stingrays and Turtles enjoyed a walk to Cooleman Court earlier this week where they tried a variety of sushi rolls for lunch. This was an extension of our fruit shop and was instigated by our students who were discussing amongst themselves if they had tasted sushi or not. Most of the children were happy to try eating sushi and many discovered that they actually enjoyed the flavour and texture.

ELC Holiday Care Bookings Due – The ELC Holiday Care Program will run during the October school holidays. The program will run from from 8am to 5:30pm from Monday 30 September to Friday 11 October (minus the public holiday on Monday 7^th). All Holiday bookings fees must be paid in full before the program commences to secure your place.

Tea Towels – All orders have now been sent home. We did order a few extras so if you would like to purchase one please contact the ELC office.

Lids 4 Kids – Thank you to the many families that have contributed to our collection of plastic milk bottle lids and bread tags. Envision Hands have been overwhelmed with donations and have asked us to stop collecting at this stage so they can focus on Stage 2 - processing the tops and tags.

Second hand uniforms – We placed a small selection of second hand uniforms out in the front foyer for those families who need a spare to last them one more term.

Key Dates for the following weeks

Friday 27th September	Last Day of Term 3
Monday 14th October	Term 4 Resumes
Tuesday 15th October	Come and Try Day
Friday 18th October	School Photos
Friday 24th October	Kinder Orientation Day
Friday 25th October	Boorowa Netball and Touch Carnival

WARAMUNCHIES Canteen is open Wednesday & Friday. Orders can be made online via Qkr! A copy of the Menu and Qkr! instructions can be found on the Canteen Waramuchies Webpage.

NEXT WEEKS CANTEEN ROSTER

Wednesday 16th October

Karen Wilder

Friday 18th October

Penny Bufalo
Megan Lovett
Nadia O'Halloran
Karli World 9-10

Please remember to bring your WWVP card with you.

Canteen Volunteers Needed

The canteen is in desperate need of some volunteers, in particular on Wednesday's for this term. We also need volunteers for Term 4.

If you can only spare a couple of hours, that would be fantastic. If you have little ones, they are very welcome to come along.

Please contact the front office or fill in the canteen volunteer form to let us know you are able to help and when.