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Harmony Day Wednesday 24th March
Come along and be involved in Harmony Day, Wednesday 24th March 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm. All performers welcomed, dress for the occasion, bring a plate for the Shared Meal. Further detail and contacts in the current newsletter. (10 March, 2010)

Homework Club
Our school is trialing a Homework Club for children in years 4-7. The trial will initially run for the last 3 Tuesdays of March (the 16th, 23rd and 30th) from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. You are welcome to bring your children and hang out for a coffee/chat with other families. Again, full details in the current newsletter.

February 24, 2010: Mary MacKillop to be made a saint
Last Friday evening Pope Benedict announced that Mary MacKillop will formally be made a saint on October 17th at a ceremony in Rome. She will be our first official Australian saint. She was a woman of great faith and vision for the education of the poor and disadvantaged. We look forward to hearing more of the celebrations that will take place to mark Mary’s canonisation as the year progresses.

February 13, 2010: Thanks to our Working Bee Helpers!
Several staff members, parents and students joined forces for the first Working Bee for the year. On a very warm summer’s day, we decided to focus on the Creative Play Space located outside the new library/staff room block. If you visit the school, make sure you check out our handiwork! Thank you to all who gave up their time on the weekend for a wonderful effort to beautify our fantastic school.

February 4, 2010: Welcome to Mr Chris Brown – Principal 2010
The St Paul's community would like to extend a warm welcome to Mr Chris Brown who has taken up the role of Principal at our school in 2010. Chris is an experienced principal with Brisbane Catholic Education – having been a Principal at St Agnes, Mt Gravatt, St Mary’s, Ipswich and St Columba’s, Wilston. Chris has also had some recent school leadership experience in London.

November 23, 2009: St Paul’s School Choir on ABC Radio and Parliament House
We had a wonderful experience on Monday with our school choir, led by Mr Ash Cawse. First of all, we were interviewed on ABC radio – you can listen by using the website below. The children sang beautifully. We then went to the Queensland Parliamentary Annexe in the city where the children sang Christmas Carols to launch The Speaker’s Christmas Tree Appeal and then light up the large Christmas Tree outside Parliament House. Yesterday, in Parliament, our school and the children were thanked by The Speaker, Mr John Mickel. The children were dressed beautifully and sang like Angels!! It was a great experience, made more special with our parents and families who were able to attend as well and those who couldn’t, wishing us well and there to greet us on our return. Thank you.

» Click here to listen to the blog on ABC radio

November 16, 2009: St. Francis dance up a storm
On Monday the 16th of November, 2009 eight Senior boys from St. Francis College came to perform for our school. They were invited by Ms Radcliffe to Dance after she saw them perform at St. Francis College Arts festival. Mr. Slattery and Mr. Hopona brought the boys over and they performed in front of the whole School. After they performed, 15 St Paul’s primary school students who had been selected by their teachers got to take part in a special dance workshop with the St. Francis college seniors. They got to show off some of their own dance skills and learned some new choreography from the older boys.

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October 30, 2009: Celebrating World Teacher's Day
Blinks and Macca – the Master chefs of Woody - prepared and served a lovely breakfast for their staff to celebrate World Teacher's Day. Our temporary staff room was decorated with balloons, streamers and lots of colour. Some relaxing café style music played in the background while fresh percolated coffee, fresh fruit platters, English breakfast muffins with organic honey, fresh croissants, and raison toast was served to the dedicated teacher's at our school.

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October 28, 2009: O What a Night! The Alijahs
We celebrated our Indigenous Education program with parents, grandparents, carers, community members and of course the children in a special event – The Alijahs. This event was named in honour of Alijah N in 6/7RB who wrote, narrated and directed a short film called, “Our Land, Our Story”. Alijah worked well with class mates and other students, teachers and staff from Ngutana Lui Indigenous Education Centre to produce this great piece of important story telling. Alijah was particularly recognised by film maker, Rolf De Heer whose film, The Ten Canoes was used an inspiration for this project.

» Click here to view article on Alijah in the Albert & Logan newspaper

October 28, 2009: Think Pink Day supporting Breast Cancer Awareness
Staff were invited to wear pink in support of raising awareness for the need for further research into discovering a cure for breast cancer sufferers. Staff enjoyed a shared ‘pink’ morning tea and managed to raise over $100 which will be donated to fund research for a cure to this disease that effects so many people in Australia.

October 09, 2009: Samoa Tsunami Relief: Free Dress Day
Thank you to all members of our community who donated so generously last Friday to our collection raising money for the Samoan community affected by the recent tsunami. Our small community raised $458.20 – all of which will be donated to the Catholic Missions who are playing a part in the rebuilding of the island community.

October 07, 2009: The Rebuild Begins..
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September 17, 2009: Principals visit to St Paul's
This week we welcomed over 50 Principals from Australia and New Zealand to visit our school. Our school has been selected as an example of how schools offer exemplary educational experiences. In particular we will be showing them how well our school develops community – that families and children have a strong sense of belonging within our school. With this comes a sense of safety, security, resilience, confidence, an ability to take risks, learn from mistakes and build capacity to be successful learners and contribute positively to community and society.

August 31, 2009: National Literacy and Numeracy Week (NLNW)
This is a special week that celebrates the achievements of Australian schools in improving literacy and numeracy outcomes. Now in its eleventh year, it is firmly established on the national education calendar as occurring in the week leading up to International Literacy Day on 8 September. The theme for NLNW this year is “Getting the Basics Right”. Our school was asked to share our professional learning journey in the teaching of literacy. Please access the following links to listen to how, we at St Paul’s, are attending to “Getting the Basics Right” to celebrate National Literacy and Numeracy Week.

» NLNW Website
» St Paul's - Introduction
» St Paul's - Learning Journey
» St Paul's - Sharing Ideas

August 26, 2009: Prep Enrolments 2010
We have now started our interviews for all of our Prep enrolments for next year. If your child was born between 1st July 2004 and 30th June 2005, they will be ready to start school in Prep next year. I invite you to make an appointment to meet with me as soon as possible by contacting our school office. If you have family, neighbours or friends who are interested in our school, please encourage them to do the same. The majority of our enrolments are a result of our school’s good reputation in the community for parents looking for a school community based on Catholic Christian values and ethos.

August 14, 2009: Ms McKenny wins Tom Fitzsimon Award for outstanding leadership
Congratulations to Ms McKenny who was awarded the Tom Fitzsimon Award by BCE Executive Director, David Hutton.

The Tom Fitzsimon award is presented to a leader who has shown commitment to professional learning in the areas of education and leadership. Well done and thank you to Ms McKenny - we are vey proud of your achievements!

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» Click here to view the story on the BCE website

August 14, 2009: School Choir wins GOLD at Music Festival
Under the direction of Mr Ash Cawse, and supported by Ms D and Mr Blinkhoff, our great choir achieved a GOLD Award at the Queensland Schools and Colleges Music Festival. This is the third year in a row that we have won the Gold. It was, as always, a great thrill and we are very proud of our students who have continued with the choir this year or have joined in 2009. Well done to all!

August 14, 2009: Ekka comes to St Paul's
Our ESL kids got to experience all the fun and excitement of life at the Ekka – showbags, treats, carnival games and lots and lots of fun!

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St Paul's Woodridge Building Program
We have a number of exciting building projects planned for our school.

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August 17, 2009: Ruben the Surfing Scientist to visit St Paul's
As part of National Science Week (August 15-23, 2009), we are delighted to inform you that Ruben will be coming to St. Paul’s to present his science show to the entire school body. The students are in for some exciting science tricks!!!

The school will be covering the cost of this event so students do not need to bring any money.

School Choir wins GOLD at Music Festival
Our choir recently performed in the 2009 Queensland Catholic Schools and Colleges Music Festival, held at St James Church, Coorparoo. Under the expert tutelage of Mr Ash Cause, the choir performed two songs: California Dreamin and Al Shlo Sha (a Jewish song about the world being sustained by truth, justice and peace). The choir were fantastic and for the 3rd year running received GOLD!!

Well done to Mr Cause, Ms D and the choir students who have worked so hard to achieve this amazing result. They should be very proud of their effort.

August 7, 2009: School Choir - LIVE - on ABC Radio 612AM
Click here to listen our LIVE performance!

Our school choir performed – LIVE – on ABC Radio 612 for their Friday morning segment at approximately 7.40am. Our choir, with Mr Cawse, rehearsed well in preparation for this and the upcoming Queensland Catholic Schools and Colleges Festival on the following Friday. BREAKFAST (bacon and eggs!) was provided for the whole school after the performance.

July 26-August 1, 2009: Celebrating Catholic Education Week
This week we celebrate Catholic Education Week and in 2009, this marks 150 years of Catholic schooling in the State of Queensland. You can access the web link below to find “On History’s Page” which is an online snapshot of all of our Catholic Schools. Our school, St Paul’s, can be found by clicking on the 1960 link: http://www.qcec.qld.catholic.edu.au/ timeline/

We will be taking 16 of our Year 6 and 7 leaders to the Brisbane Convention Centre for a special celebration. 3000 students and their teachers will gather with the Archbishops of Brisbane and Dublin and bishops from around Australia to celebrate the sesquicentenary (150 years) of the Archdiocese. This event promises to be a great celebration of the people and events which are part of our rich story.

July 15, 2009: Sports Carnival
Thank you to all parents, carers and community members who attended and supported our great Sports day last week.

The cake stall, sausage sizzle and “tug of war” were a great success. Our best athletes will be competing at the District Carnival, Wednesday and Thursday this week.

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National NAIDOC Award - Congratulations Uncle Reg Knox
We are delighted to hear and congratulate Uncle Reg Knox on receiving a 2009 NAIDOC week award – Aboriginal Elder of the Year. This is in recognition of Uncle Reg’s wonderful and lifelong community work – especially in promoting and enhancing educational and vocational opportunities for young people from indigenous backgrounds. Uncle Reg and his daughter, Missy, spent time in many schools throughout Queensland promoting pride and respect in our indigenous cultures and our Australian identity. Our mural painting on our tuckshop was part of one these experiences. Missy’s daughter, Georgia, is now a student here in Prep C. We congratulate Uncle Reg and celebrate with his family, this wonderful and much deserved recognition.

We will be welcoming elders Uncle Reg and Uncle Gene who will be visiting our Senior Primary classes this Friday morning.

June 26, 2009: Welcome to our new website!
Welcome to the new St Paul's Woodridge school website. We hope you find it a useful resource for news and information about our school. We are posting new content all the time, so ensure you check back regularly.

Please contact the school office for assistance if you are unable to find the information you are looking for.

June 24, 2009: Congratulations
HB is a Year 7 student who has been successful in her application to participate in the Runcorn State High School Gifted and Talented Artists program. The teachers there were not only impressed with Harmandeep’s talents but also her very courteous and engaging manner. We are very pleased and proud of this great achievement.

Our instrumental music students entertained a small but delighted audience last Friday afternoon. We especially congratulate Michael Miranty (violin), Michael Naufahu (guitar), and Jak Davis (guitar) for special awards received.

Our little band of musicians is on the increase. If you would like to know more about the DDJ program, please contact our school office or visit the DDJ Productions website.

June 3, 2009: Football News
Well done to all our footballers who had their last game for the season against Slacks Creek. Unfortunately we could not manage a win but what a wonderful performance. As was evident all season long our players tackled fiercely and showed terrific skills with the ball. I would like to thank all the players who made the season another wonderful success. Thankyou also to Mr Blinkhoff and Mr Rigby for assisting me with coaching . I also appreciate and thank all the parents who supported and transported our players throughout the season. Without the efforts of all the people mentioned above Rugby league at St Paul's would not be possible.