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Informer Term 3 - Week 2

From Our Principal...

Dear Families,

Amy Morin is an American psychotherapist and university lecturer. Morin also provides support for many by being, what she calls a mental strength trainer. She says that you need mental strength to be successful. This is because mental strength conquers self-doubt, keeps you motivated, and helps you face your fears.

This week, the 43^rd full series of the State of Origin rugby league series goes down to a deciding match for the 22^nd time.

There is a quote from Phil Gould who is the most successful coach for the New South Wales team. He would regularly tell anyone who wanted to listen that Origin doesn’t begin until the last ten minutes of the game.

The message he is getting at, is that there are plenty of players with talent and ability, what makes winners at that level, are the players that are able to harness the power of their mind to convince a body that is physically exhausted to keep pushing and compete when it would be all too easy to give in and rest. Mental toughness and self-discipline are the hallmarks of champions regardless of the field they are in.

As you would hear me say consistently, our kids do not learn these skills when they leave school. The English scholar and bishop, Brooke Foss Westcott, was famous for saying :

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

Origin does not make the player, it is just the stage where they can reveal the mental strength that they have honed since their early years.

My greatest weakness as a parent was that I wanted to put my fix it hat on and solve all my kids problems. It took me a long time to realise that there is a big difference in solving the problem for them and being there to support them as they work through the problems of life.

I can’t be there to fight every battle for them, but if they can hold on to the sayings and knowledge that I always tried to give them as they apply it to the problems of life, they will go a long way to solving them. It is very much the analogy of am I teaching them to fish or just giving them a fish?

How do we all stop and take the time to teach our kids to fish?

Have a great week and hug your kids.

Go Queensland!

Regards,
Jamie Emerick
Principal.

Welcome Back - Mrs Graham and Ms Cook!

Last week, we welcomed back Mrs Jakki Graham (Assistant Principal - Administration) and Ms Michelle Cook (Indigenous Education Liaison Officer). We are so pleased to have you return to our St John's Family!

Parents & Friends Assoc. Meeting: TODAY

Our next Parents & Friends Association meeting is on
TODAY
in the staff room at 5:30pm.

All Welcome!

Parent Teacher Interviews Year 1 - 6 this week. Bookings have now closed.

Semester Two Parent Teachers Interviews

Week 4 (Monday 29 July – Friday 2 August)

In Week 4 (Monday 29 July – Friday 2 August) we will host our Semester Two, Parent Teacher Interviews for our Year 1 - Year 6 families.  Prep Interviews will occur later this term. Prep families will receive further information from their child’s teacher.

Parent Teacher Interviews are imperative to ensure strong home and school relationships as well as providing a wonderful opportunity to discuss the progress of your child, celebrate successes and set goals for the coming year.

Interview times OPEN for parents to book on Monday 22 July (Week 3) at 8.00am and will close on Thursday 25 July (Week 3) at 3.00pm. 

All Parent Teacher Interviews MUST be booked via Parent Lounge within this timeframe.  No bookings will be made from the office or via your child’s teacher.

Interview times can be reserved by accessing your Parent Lounge account via https://402sjg.rok.catholic.edu.au/parentlounge.

Student Expectations During Parent Teacher Interview Week For Duty of Care

Due to Public Liability and Duty of Care any students attending the Parent Teacher Interviews with their parent/s are to wait quietly and directly outside the classroom where their parents are, reading a book (or similar calm activity) quietly.
Students are under no circumstance to be playing on the oval or playgrounds, playing handball outside the classroom or moving around the school. This is for the safety of all our children at St John’s.

St John's Got Talent - Semi Finals

St John’s Got Talent – it is Semi-Finals Time!

After 78 performances over the last 3 weeks we are now at the semi-finals stage!

This week, over 3 days, we will see 24 semi-finalists performing, keeping our play breaks very entertaining!

The semi-finals timetable was communicated with students and teachers last week and we remind performers of the following:

All props, instruments, must etc must be supplied and organised on stage by performer/s or their helpers.
All music must be supplied and played by performer/s on their own device and lyrics must be appropriate.
Performances must not exceed 2 minutes and all performances must be safe

We continue to wish all of our performers the best of luck as they progress to the semi-finals.

*The Grand Final will be on Wednesday 21 Aug @ 8.40am.

Learn to Pray...

Catholic Education Week

Lunch On The Lawn

Book Club

Book Week Dress-Up

We are getting in early with a date claimer for our BOOK WEEK DRESS-UP. We are encouraging all students to come dressed as their favourite book character on FRIDAY 23 AUGUST. This year's theme is 'Reading is Magic" so this may give your child/ren and you some food for thought!!

Library News ...

Welcome back to Term 3!

This term we start with another “Book in a Bottle’ competition and preparing the room for Book Week from August 19 to 23, with Book Week Dress-Up on Friday 23^rd.

This year’s Book Week theme is “Reading is Magic’ so get your costume ‘creative juices’ flowing!

Here’s to a good book and a cup of tea!!

Mrs Skelhorn
Librarian

Challenge Cup

We are so proud of our Challenge Cup Teams who competed well in Yeppoon last week. Thank you to Mrs Hamilton and Mr Langdon for coaching.

Congratulations Harley!

Congratulations to Harley Stokes for placing second in the Queensland Cross Country Trials on the weekend. Top effort Harley! Well done!

Port to Park Fun Run - Raises Funds for Our School

Gladstone Ports Corporation’s (GPC) Port to Park Fun Run can help us raise important funds for our school community and we’d love as many of our students and families to participate on Sunday 18 August.

The event will run in GPC's beautiful parklands, highlighting all three areas - East Shores, The Gladstone Marina and Spinnaker Park.

This year there will be three races for participants to choose from including the 10 kilometre Koongo Dash, the new 5 kilometre Koommonka sprint and the 3 kilometre Yallarm Family Run. The race names recognise the language of the Traditional Owners of the land - the Bailai and Gooreng Gooreng, and Gurang nations, with Koongo meaning place of water and Yallarm meaning place of shells and Koommonka meaning Possum.

Students can register to participate in Port to Park as individuals or with their family for the 3km, 5km and/or 10km events and their registration fee will be directed back to our school. Make sure you nominate our school when registering!

So get your runners ready and start limbering up so we can raise some vital funds for our school.

You can register here at Port to Park.

Port to Park is proudly supported by a number of local corporations including Gladstone Industry Leadership Group, Squadron Energy, Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre and Gladstone Regional Council, Santos GLNG and SMIT Lamnalco.