Dear St John the Apostle families,

Welcome back to school for Term 2. Welcome to our new families who have joined us. It's a great privilege to have the opportunity to support your child in their educational journey. Thank you.

This week has been my turn with dreaded COVID. Having escaped it since it all began, it hit my family with force over the last weekend of the holidays as each of us have come down with it like dominoes, a new family member every 24 hours until there is no one left. The one bonus is that no one has to be banished to isolate in bedrooms and we can all live together as usual, albeit sore, tired and achy.

I have been disappointed to not be at school for the beginning of term and yet so pleased that we have experienced such a positive start. Thank you to our staff who have worked during the holidays to ensure a smooth beginning to the term. I look forward to returning to school on Wednesday.

Thank you to the K-2 teachers and Mr Seaman for organising the Cross Country today. Our students were practising over the last few weeks of Term 1 and we're very fortunate to be be able to use the local and school grounds to complete it.

Thank you also to Mrs Stewart and Ms Macdonald for organising today's Easter Liturgy for the school. In our church tradition the Easter Season runs through until Pentecost Sunday, June 5 for 2022. It's the most important time of the year in our liturgical calendar and so today our Easter Liturgy was a reminder to students to continue to celebrate and share that Easter spirit each day.

After School Clubs

We welcome back some of our after school club partners this term who begin next week. These clubs are run by independent providers on the school grounds and supervised by their own staff. We assist students to transition to these clubs and parents pick them up directly from the clubs themselves.

The two providers returning are:

• ​Code Camp - Tuesdays 3.15pm to 4.30pm - Details can be found at our school booking page on the Code Camp website. Please also see the flyer attached.
• Young Engineers - Thursdays 3.15pm to 4.30pm - Details can be found at the school booking page on the Young Engineers website. Please also see the flyer attached.

Well done everyone on a successful first week back for school.

Matthew Garton