Dear St John the Apostle community,

Today was a day of celebration.

This morning we began with a Hot Cross Bun Community Breakfast. Thank you to our wonderful Community Council for providing this opportunity for families. One of the focuses for the work of the Community Council this year is to bring families together more often on site and help them to reconnect again. If any other families are happy to support the Community Council in tcreating community events then please contact me directly and I will pass on your contact details to the relevant Community Council member.

Our breakfast was followed with the presentation of our End of Term Awards. Each term we present three types of awards to two people in each class. You can see the names of the recipients of the awards further along in this Newsletter. The categories for the awards are:

• Academic Achievement: students who have achieved high results in specific areas of their learning.
• Consistent Effort: students who have continuously applied themselves to their school work every day.
• Discipleship: students who have displayed the expectations of 'respect self, respect others, respect the environment' each day.

It was a pleasure to present these awards to our students.

Next Thursday we will hold our Brag Tag Celebration. Each term we hold a small celebration for students who have collected 20 brag tag stickers during the term. Students are provided with a small sticker for their Brag Tag when they display specific examples of positive behaviour. Once they have collected twenty of them they submit them to the Front Office, have their photos placed on the Brag Tag Wall of Fame and receive an invitation to the end of term Brag Tag Celebration.

I'm looking forward to celebrating this with the students.

Staffing Update

Religious Education Coordinator, Mrs Stephanie Stewart, will be on leave next week and for the first five weeks of next term. We are in the process of appointing an Acting REC during this time and this will be announced next week. The Acting REC will support students, families and Parish during the preparation for the Sacraments. We wish Mrs Stewart well and look forward to her return in the middle of Term 2.

Enrolment Period

Early next term is the Enrolment Period for 2024. During this time we hold our Information Evening and School Tours for those interested in enrolling their child in our school. The details for these events are on the school website.

If you know any families interested in enrolling their child at St John the Apostle please refer them to our website for how to enrol. If you have a child who is due to start in Kindergarten in 2024 we will accept enrolments from the beginning of Term 2.

As we near the end of the term it is lovely to finish on such a positive note with community gatherings and award presentations. We look forward to another positive week next week.

Matthew Garton

Principal