Informer Term 2 Week 7
From Our Principal...
Dear Families
All schools that are managed under the guidance of Catholic Education- Diocese of Rockhampton, go through a five year cycle of quality assurance and accreditation. Some of this process is with the Non- State Schools Accreditation Board of Queensland, but a significant portion of it is driven internally as the academic evidence and research continues to show us that schools and educators who reflect on their performance continue to grow, and continue to be environments where student learning is the primary focus.
This year sees St John’s in the second year of our School Review and Improvement cycle. In the coming weeks all families, staff and students will be offered opportunity to participate in an online survey looking at the performance of St John’s as a school. Your feedback is valued and totally confidential. The surveys are conducted by an external provider and the school only sees the collated data that is gathered. Please take the opportunity to have your say.
This year is my fourth year as Principal at St John’s. As part of the employment contract of school leadership, we are required to undertake our own review. All staff, both teaching and support are currently being surveyed as well as key members of the P&F and School Board. Our regional supervisor and a peer principal will be at St John’s on Monday 21 June to validate the self-review that I will write as part of the process. Members of the P&F and School Board will be interviewed as part of this review. A cross section of staff, parents and students will be interviewed on the day. The review will look at commendations and recommendations across all aspects of my role as Principal.
This week sees us heading into winter and the traditional flu seasons. Please remember we are still in the COVID era and that the guidelines in relation to Covid 19 are still in place. I have attached the most current link.
https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19
Have a great week and hug your kids
St John's Cooking Club
We have had a huge response to our St John's Cooking Club. The first participants will be notified soon and more information will be given. Thank you for your patience and enthusiasm.
Drakes Fundraiser
Athletics
2021 Athletics Carnival Wrap-up
The Athletics Carnival is over for another year and it was wonderful to see great sportsmanship, team spirit and strong competition on Friday!
Records tumbled, voices cheered and hearts beat very fast throughout the day.
And to add to the great atmosphere, we were able to welcome back our parents to join us in the cheering and celebrations throughout the day.
The Athletics Carnival would not have run as smoothly as it did without the commitment of all the staff, volunteers, and friends who lent a hand on the day. And of course, to our students, who ran fast, cheered hard and put in 100% into every event – we thank you!
As always, the Athletics Carnival serves two purposes – an opportunity for our students to participate fully in a variety of athletics events and put their PE skills into practice as well as a selection for the Gladstone Athletics Trials.
Those students born in 2009, 2010 and 2011 who placed first or second in a championship event has been selected to represent St John’s for the Gladstone trials. Notes were sent home today and further information will be forwarded to selected students, once it is available to us. If you have any questions regarding Gladstone Athletics, please contact Mrs Graham.
Congratulations to our 2021 Age Champions – they all showed great all-round speed, strength and huge doses of effort!
The Age Champions for 2021 were:
2012
Kaylee Simpson and Elle-Jaye Attard
Colby Smith
2011
Tofunmi Kaka
Parker Bowman
2010
Laylah Rogers
Carter Young
2009
Brooke Davies
Logan Ellem
House Champion – Cummins
Spirit Award - Philps
In addition, congratulations to the mighty Cummins team for winning the overall total points and being named the 2021 Athletics House Champions.
The placing for the four houses were 1st Cummins, 2nd Wallace, 3rd Philps and 4th Jordan.
And finally a big shout-out to Philps House who were awarded the Spirit Award for their great cheering and enthusiasm throughout the day!
ESafety Tips for Parents
Uniform Shop
Our Uniform Shop will be closed on Thursday 3rd June. The Uniform Shop will be open for business again on Tuesday 8th June 2021. Sorry for any inconvenience and Thank you for your understanding.
Correct School Uniform
Some of our parents have had some questions recently around our school uniform requirement, so below is the correct information (and photos) for all St John’s families to be familiar with. Thank you to our models for your help!
Boys – Formal Uniform
- Short sleeved red and navy blue polo shirt with school emblem worn tucked in
- Navy blue shorts (purchased from the uniform shop or of similar style and material)
- St John’s broad-brimmed school hat
Girls – Formal Uniform
- Short sleeved red and navy blue polo shirt with school emblem worn tucked in
- Navy blue skorts (purchased from the uniform shop or of similar style – must be pleated front and back)
- St John’s broad-brimmed school hat
Girls and Boys – Sports Uniform
- Navy blue sports shorts with school emblem to be worn on HPE days, Friday Sport and school sporting carnivals
- Short sleeved red and navy blue polo shirt with school emblem
- St John’s broad-brimmed school hat
Girls and Boys – Shoes and Socks
- Plain white socks worn ABOVE the ankle
- Plain black leather or leather-like shoes (volleys, casual skate style shoes, high tops and the like are not considered as plain black school shoes)
St John's Uniform
Prep 2022
We strongly urge all our existing families who have younger siblings at home who are born between 1 July 2016 and 30 June 2017 to please visit our school website and click on the enrolment link and complete our online enrolment form.
It is imperative that our school receives all sibling enrolments as early in the year as possible. Should you have any technical issues completing the enrolment form online, please do not hesitate to contact our office.
St John's Way Awards
Tuckshop Menu
Tuckshop Specials
Volunteer Tuckshop Roster
Our Tuckshop is OPEN Four Days a Week
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday - BOTH Breaks
Please remember our online ordering closes at 8:10am sharp
This Week's Tuckshop Volunteer Roster is:
Tuesday 29 April - Year 1 Quolls
Wednesday 30 April - Year 5 Eagles
Thursday 1 May - Year 6 Bandicoots
Friday 2 May - Prep Turtles
Thank You!
OSHC News...
In and around OSHC with Izabella Kerr, Ellie Hall, Kyla Shelford-Finau and Jet Thomas.
OSHC kids at play
Our St John’s App Is Live!
We are very excited to announce that the St John’s is live and ready for parents to download to their devices.
Please follow the instructions step-by-step for downloading the St John’s App. The one-off St John’s set-up passcode is 8892.
Additionally, to download the St John’s App to your iPad, laptop or PC, please follow the following link - https://stjohnclinton.schoolzineplus.com/subscribe
Once you have downloaded the App you will see we now have a one-stop-shop for all information you need to stay informed at St John’s.
In the top banner you will see Home, Feed and Manage.
Home will take you to the tiles and Feed will take you to alerts/messages (as Dojo did).
The latest ‘feed’ will be displayed on the home screen above the tiles.
The ‘’tiles’’ we have used are as follows:
- Parent Lounge – takes you straight to the Parent Lounge sign-in page
- Latest Newsletter – each week the newsletter will be uploaded to this tile
- Website – takes you straight to our website
- Forms and Documents – in this tile the following documents have been uploaded – simply tap on the link:
Parent Handbook
School Uniform
Behaviour Management
Fees and Levies Schedule
ICT Code of Practice
Tuckshop Menu
- School Calendar – all key dates for the upcoming term (continually updated)
- Tuckshop – takes you straight to the online tuckshop log-in page
- OSHC – links to required forms
- School Contact – takes you straight to our phone contact
- Facebook - takes you straight to our Facebook page
- Seesaw – Our new ‘Dojo’’ – please note that this is still a work in progress
- Newsletter Archive – each weekly newsletter will be archived to this tile for referral where required
- Subscribe to Newsletter – please note that all existing families will be automatically uploaded to this new platform. This tile is for new families in the future
While we feel we have covered all bases, things can be overlooked so we look forward to your feedback or suggestions on information that would be a benefit to be included. As always your feedback is valued; please email Jakki Graham at Jakki_graham@rok.catholic.edu.au