Last week was an exciting time at St John the Baptist as we introduced our Year 6 Leaders to our school community. The children were presented with their Year 6 badge, their leadership badge and their Year 6 bomber jacket. Our Year 6s have had a great start to the school year and have been excellent examples to all the younger students in our school particularly their Prep buddies. They look fantastic in their bomber jackets!
Our Year 5/6 children and their teachers will be heading to Camp Rumbug in Foster from tomorrow Wednesday 10th February - Friday 12th February. We wish all our campers a happy and safe camp experience. Thankyou to Sue Cahill, Tracey Ryan, Shari Correlje, Emily Johnston, Sue Davey & Ange Cavarra who will be taking time away from their own families to attend the camp. I am lucky enough to be heading up to camp on Wednesday and staying overnight. I’ll return to school Thursday afternoon. It’s a great opportunity to share a wonderful experience with the children and get to know them in a different context.
Our school open day will take place on Wednesday 10th March from 9.00am-5.00pm. A hard copy note has come home today inviting parents to help out on the day with school tours. Please invite any friends, family or neighbours who have a child eligible to start school in 2022 to come along and see our wonderful school in action.
We already have children enrolled for Prep 2022. If you have a child who is eligible to start Prep in 2022 please make contact with the school office to complete an enrolment form. As an existing family with siblings in the school you are our first priority for enrolment. It is important that we know our incoming Prep siblings so we know how many places we can offer to new families. Offers for placements for Prep for 2022 will go out by the end of Term 1, 2021.
Our annual St John the Baptist sports day will be held on Friday 19th February at Knox Athletics Track. All children in the school will participate in events to earn points for their house. We hope that you will be able to help out on the day either as a parent helper or as part of the cheering crowd in the stands. Seeing our Preps run their first race ever is an event not to be missed! The children will be taken by bus to and from this event.
Attendance Guidelines for Victorian Schools now state: ‘schools must advise parents/guardians of unexplained absences on the same day, as soon as practicable.’ As a result of these guidelines I would like to remind parents that if your child is absent from school you need to advise us of their absence either via a phone call to the school office or via our skoolbag app. We will place a phone call to any families where we have an unexplained absence for their child.
All dates for our school year are on our google calendar. The calendar can be found on our school website www.sjferntreegully.catholic.edu.au under the current parents/calendar tab. Any changes to these calendar dates will be advertised via the school newsletter.
Book Club forms have been sent home with your child. Please note all orders must be placed online (no cash accepted). Orders close February 19th. Please see more information below.
Wear green for St Patricks Day. Gold Coin donation – ALL proceeds given to charity. The charitable donation initiative started in Term 4 2019 with ‘Five for the Fires’. As a school community we managed to raise a whopping $850 for the Red Cross Fire appeal. In 2021 we will work with the grade 6 leaders to determine where the money will be donated each term.
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ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Reflecting on the PAST
Embracing the PRESENT
Growing towards the FUTURE
Living in the SPIRIT
Responding to GOD in all.