Dear St John's families,

Yesterday a small number of our students participated in the Belconnen Region Athletics Carnival at Bruce.

Congratulations to Olive, Abbey, Sophie, Charlotte, Harvey and Vincent. Thank you to their parents for supporting them to participate in such a fun day. I'm glad they had the opportunity to compete despite our own carnival being rained out.

Rostrum Finals 

Congratulations to Emily (6B) who competed in the Rostrum Semi Finals and won.

Emily is one of our school captains and a wonderful representative for our school. We're very proud of her achievements and wish her the very best in the ACT Rostrum Finals.

Playground Update

It's been a long time coming but we're about to see some big changes in our playground. After a successful tender process, we have signed off on the replacement of our two playground areas. Below are a few photos of what they will look like. I'll keep everyone up to date of the expected launch date as we get closer to that time.

Fathers Day Breakfast

We're very pleased to invite our families to a Fathers Day Breakfast from 7.30am on Wednesday 31 August. We have a Coffee Van coming and our wonderful Merchant's Feast partners will be providing fresh donuts. To help us ensure we have enough food we ask you to RSVP at the link below:

School Board and Community Council Review

The Catholic Education Commission established a Working Group to review various aspects of Archdiocesan School Board and Community Council models.
 
The Working Group has engaged in targeted consultation with internal stakeholders and has had some preliminary discussions with a narrow group of external stakeholders, including representatives from the Catholic School Parents Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn.
 
They are now now seeking to draw on the experiences, expertise and perspectives of parents and carers, school staff and members of school communities through a process of general consultation. An Issues Paper has been drafted outlining the key issues that the Working Group has identified to date and posing a number of discussion questions that the Working Group is seeking responses to.
 
The following link will outline further information from Mr Ross Fox, Director of Catholic Education.   https://cg.catholic.edu.au/school-board-and-community-council-review/foreword/ 

The closing date for submissions is 2 September 2022.

Learning Journeys

Today we're very pleased to share with you your child's Learning Journey. Learning Journeys are typically when parents could visit classrooms and their child would show them samples of their work, telling them about their achievements to date and goals for future learning.

To be COVID safe we've opted to provide families with an at-home Learning Journey. Teachers have prepared a set of slides containing examples of their child's learning at school. K - 2 teachers have distributed these through Seesaw. Years 3 to 6 students can access these through Google Classrooms. (Due to a technological hiccup Year 6 will share theirs on Monday).

Children have been asked to sit with their parents and carers and talk them through the slides, explaining what they have been doing in class.

Where possible, parents and carers have the opportunity to write a comment to their child, responding to their work and achievements. We encourage you to sit with your child as soon as possible and eshow them how proud you are of their learning.

Thank you for your wonderful partnership with us. It is a privilege and and pleasure to teach your children.

Matthew Garton