Dear St John the Apostle Families, 

This week at St John’s we had many wonderful opportunities to celebrate students in our school. 

On Monday, I had the absolute privilege of taking 17 students who have received 100 brag tags on an outing to the Florey Shops. Mrs Beth Fear and I walked the students to the Florey Shops where we had hot chocolate, muffins and cookies. The students then had a play on the playground and we walked back to school. Well done to these students for demonstrating our school expectations of respect for self, others and the environment. 

Giants Visit

On Monday, Year 3 and 4 had members of the Giants come and present the “Giants Harmony Program”. This program aims to share traditional knowledge to schools across the ACT. The program infuses Indigenous knowledge, culture, and traditional practice to help bring peace and understanding of our shared Australian history to a new generation of children. The students engaged beautifully in this opportunity. Thank you Mrs Tabitha May for organising this program.

Choir - Floriade Performance

On Thursday, students from the Choir performed at Floriade. They performed on Stage 88 at 10.45am for 20 minutes. They demonstrated their range of talents in both singing and dance. The performance was very well received from the crowd. Well done to our school Choir. A big thank you to Mrs Kate MacDonad for all of her hard work with the Choir.

ACT Athletics Championships

Congratulations to Isabelle Jeffs, Allira Richardson and Vincent Nott who attended the ACT Athletics Championships on Tuesday. It is a great achievement to represent the Belconnen Region. A shout out to Allira Richardson who came third in shot put. Well done!

A reminder that Monday 14th October is the first day of school for all students. This is not a pupil free day.

Have a wonderful weekend. 

Rebekah Brown

Principal (Acting)