Dear St John the Apostle families,

Our lovely start to the year, of settled and calm classes, has continued for another week. We've been so pleased to see all of our students embracing their new classes, teachers and opportunities.

We have had a number of cases of COVID in Year 1 over the last week and ACT Health have been aware and monitoring the situation. I'm pleased to say that there have been no new cases in Year 1 for several days now and we hope that it has dissipated. Most other cases in other year levels appear to be isolated and originate from outside the school. Let's keep working together to keep us all as healthy and well as we can.

Parent Information for 2022

I hope you received the Parent Information Pack that was sent home for each student this week. We've taken the time to provide an Overview that can easily be placed on your fridge. Please also check the page with the family information we have on our system, make any necessary changes and return it to school so we can update our records for you.

Did you view your child's class video presentation? In each video the teachers wanted to provide the same presentation they would for an Information Night. If you haven't yet viewed it you can find it on our school website. Just grab a coffee, sit down and follow this link.

Parent-Teacher Interviews

Following our usual schedule for reporting on student progress, in a few weeks we will send home with each child a Term 1, Week 5 Interim Report. This report has a brief checklist of how your child has settled into school for the year. 

We usually accompany this with an opportunity for each parent, teacher and student to have a three-way conference where they discuss the student's learning goals for Semester 1. This is most effective in person but we can't do that this year. 

As an opportunity to meet your child's teacher and to discuss the Interim Report sent home in Week 5, we will also offer an optional online Parent-Teacher Interview for you in Week 6. When the Interim Report comes home we will provide a link you can use to book your Parent-Teacher Interview.

Community Council AGM

Thank you to all who attended our Community Council meeting on Wednesday evening. Our Chairperson, Katie Matthews, has included a report about the meeting later in this Newsletter.

I would like to thank Craig Neiberding who has just completed six years on the Community Council. Craig has always been an avid supporter of the school community. He has always been willing to acknolwedge the good work of staff, to help at many school events and to provide a parent perspective whenever advice has been sought from the Community Council around school direction and when making decisions. He also brought his welcome humour to each meeting. Thank you Craig for your service and support to our school.

RATs

As you would be aware, the requirement to use RATs twice a week with students has been extended four more weeks. Next week we will send home further RATs so that parents can continue to monitor their children's health.

I hope everyone enjoys the weekend as summer draws to a close. It has been an unusual summer and these warm days are welcome.