Colour Run

Please save the date for this year's Colour Run which will be held on Friday 13th December, 2024 from 1.00pm - 2:45pm (Week 9, Term 4). The Colour Run is a great opportunity to support the school by raising money for:

• Catholic Missions - depending on how much money we fundraise, we will donate at least $500 to Catholic Missions. 
• Interactive TVs - the rest of the money will go towards installation of new Interactive TVs across the school (in every classroom).  

Relations, friends, neighbours or businesses are all great sources of sponsorship!  Proceeds of past fundraising events have seen major improvements to our school (eg. new school playgrounds, air conditioning, readers, Maths resources etc.) and all of these have been of direct benefit to the students at St John’s.

Prizes

We are offering three prizes for the following:

• The student who raises the most money will receive a Nintendo Switch.
• For every $10 that each child raises, they will get a ticket in a draw to win another Nintendo Switch.
• The class that raises the most money will get an ice cream at the end of the Colour Run. 

When children are requesting their sponsorships, we are not asking them to wander around the streets unsupervised or to talk to strangers, but they should ask family members, relatives, friends, friendly neighbours etc.

Sponsorship Card

Use the attached card to record donations. Spare cards are available from the Front Office. 

Donations can be:

• sent as cash to the office each week. All money should be returned in a plastic zip lock bag, clearly labelled with your child’s name and class. 
• sent as a Qkr payment. Individual sponsorships can be made via Qkr. Families can also collect cash and make the equivalent payment via Qkr. The total amount must match the record on the sponsorship card. You can find the Qkr payment under the Community Council tab. 

We would like the money to be returned before the Colour Run as this allows us to tally final amounts and to present prizes on Monday of Week 10.  It also enables us to promote the Colour Run more successfully as the sponsorship tally rises each day. 

The Community Council would also like to provide the students with a free special lunch. This will happen prior to the Colour Run, from about 12pm. If you can volunteer with cooking a BBQ, organising the special lunch or helping with the Colour Run, please email Rebekah Brown (rebekah.brown@cg.catholic.edu.au).

Thank you for your support in our fundraising efforts. 

Closer to the event, I will send out information about what to bring on the day and the timetable of the Colour Run. However, if you want to start preparing, students will need white clothes. Last year I wore a shower cap to ensure my hair didn't get coloured (this could be improtant for students with light coloured hair). 

Christmas Picnic and Gelato Orders

We will be holding a Christmas Picnic on Thursday 5th December from 5.30pm. At this picnic, each year level will do a performance and we will farewell Mr Matthew Garton as a community. More details of student performances, costumes and timings will be available at the beginning of the week. 

As it is a picnic, we will be asking families to bring their dinner or a snack. The Community Council has organised the opportunity to pre-purchase tubs of gelato (155ml) for the picnic. Community Council will also pay more than half of the cost of each gelato tub. If you would like to order gelato for the picnic, you can do this on Qkr for $2.50 per tub under the Community Council tab. Please make sure you enter your child’s name with the order. Please be aware that pre-orders will close once we have reached our ordering limits. 

The options are: 

• Chocolate (Gluten, Egg and Nut Free)

• Strawberry Cream (Gluten, Egg and Nut Free)

• Vanilla Bean (Gluten, Egg and Nut Free)

• Mango (Dairy, Gluten, Egg, Nut Free)

Awards

Congratulations to the students who received Spelling Mastery and Brag Tag Awards today. 

Rebekah Brown

Assistant Principal and Inclusion Coordinator