Principal's Corner
Dear St John the Apostle families,
Welcome back to Term 4.
Having been on leave for the second half of Term 3 I have returned refreshed and ready for Term 4. It's been lovely to see families and children in our community. I'd like to thank Rebekah Brown, Bree Dess, Rebecca Stevenson and Stephanie Stewart for their collaboration and leadership during my time on leave. It's always comforting to know that we have such capable and caring leaders in our school.
Director of Catholic Education
Last week Mr Ross Fox, Director of Catholic Education for our Archdiocese, announced his resignation, effective from the end of this year. Mr Fox has been instrumental in bringing about a change in the teaching & learning practices across all of our schools, aligning them to the Science of Learning and Science of Reading.
As a Principal I have always believed that when a leader finishes their role in a community they should leave it 'better' than they found it. This doesn't mean that anything was 'wrong', just that a leader should have added something very valuable to that community. Mr Fox has certainly done this in initiating the Catalyst professional learning program across our archdiocese. The achievement of all of our students and the knowledge and skills of our teacher are evidence of this. Thank you Mr Fox.
Term 4 Overviews and Sport Days
On our school website you can find a summary page of what your child will be learning about this term. Please follow the link to the Term Learning Overviews page to find out more. There is also a list of the sport uniform days for every class on that page.
Term Dates 2025
Please see the following letter from the Director regarding Term Dates for 2025. Our online school calendar has been updated to reflect this.
Religious Education Coordinator, Term 4
This term the role of Religious Education Coordinator will be shared between Mrs Stephanie Stewart and Mrs Rebecca Stevenson. Please contact either of them with any of your questions in relation to Religious Education matters.
School Calendar and Communication
We work really hard to keep our school calendar up to date and to communicate about coming events. In an age where we are inundated and have to manage the many little pieces of information we receive every day we try to make sure that we keep our communication simple and predictable.
Every Friday we make sure our newsletter contains essential information about what's happening in our school, especially any changes to the calendar.
The school calendar is carefully kept up to date on a daily basis.
The term overview in Week 1 gives you a summary of the teaching & learning for your child and their sport and library days.
We try to keep any school wide Compass alerts to 9.15am or 3.00pm each day, times when you are already thinking about school drop off or pick up, so you can anticipate our communication.
If you have any suggestion for improving our general school communication please do send these through to me for consideration: matthew.garton@cg.catholic.edu.au.
Happy Friday. I hope you and your families have restful weekend.
Matthew Garton
Principal