St John the Baptist Ferntree Gully Newsletter

Thank you once again for your support of remote learning. As you are all aware our Premier has extended our lockdown period until midnight Tuesday 27th July. Whilst this brings challenges for us all it is absolutely essential that we follow the guidelines of this lockdown for the greatest good of our broader community. I have been reflecting on what I miss most about not all being together. I always come back to the children. They really are the reason for getting up each day. I love my job. I get so much joy and energy from the fun and laughter they bring. So as we navigate through this next stage of our lockdown I hope you get to see the joy of your children and enjoy the time you have with them. We will be eagerly waiting for their return on Wednesday 28th July.

I will update you in next week's newsletter with all the latest restrictions once these come to hand. Just a reminder that currently for any parents attending onsite you need to wear a face mask and if you enter any buildings you need to check in by our Victorian Government mandated QR code. 

Dear Parents,

As the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games are fast approaching, we would like to invite students to participate in a whole school Olympics Display. Students would 'Have a go' at demonstrating or recreating an Olympic event at home in a safe environment. For example if you have a sand pit you might like to demonstrate the Long Jump event or go to your local park or running track and demonstrate running the 100m event. If you would like to participate you will need to take a photo of your child demonstrating this event and bring a copy into school and give it to your classroom teacher or alternatively email the photo to your class teacher. We will then add the photos to our display board near the Year 3/4 classrooms. It would be wonderful to see as many students participating in and demonstrating any Olympic event.

Last year when we had our footy/sport day during our very long lockdown, we had a few sports people send us videos of support and encouragement asking us to keep fit, active and healthy during that time. One of those people was Brooke Stratton who started her athletics career at the Knox Athletics Club. Brooke has qualified and is competing at the Tokyo Olympic Games in the Long Jump Event, as part of the Track and Field. We are very proud of Brooke being a girl from Knox competing at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2021, what an amazing achievement. We pray that she stays safe and well while she is in Tokyo and competes really well in Long Jump. Good Luck Brooke!

Thank you everyone, enjoy the Olympic Games.

Mrs Ryan

The Get Active Kids Voucher Program helps eligible families get their kids involved in organised sport and recreation activities by reimbursing the cost of membership and registration fees, uniforms and equipment. Eligible children may be able to receive up to $200 each.

You may be eligible if you meet the following criteria:-

1.    A family has a child between 4-18 years, and

2.    Who is engaged in sporting activities such as swimming, footy, etc.  (list of activities is available on the website), and

3.    They have a family/child health care or pension card.

4.    Applications must be in by July 30th

Visit KIDs Voucher Program to learn more.  Also visit www.getactive.vic.gov.au to get some great ideas of how to stay active during winter and how to get inspired with workouts, challenges and games plus lots of interesting articles.

Thanks to the Croning family for alerting us to this initiative!

CONGRATULATIONS to 3/4 SK for winning a free dress day and pizza party! We’ll advise the date once we know when we’ll be back in the classroom!

Don’t forget to bring any $ collected offline to the office (in an envelope with students name and class) once we are back/out of lockdown.

 AND DON’T FORGET – today is the last day to order your prizes!!!!!