Informer - Term 3 Week 1

From Our Principal...

Dear Families

July was named in honour of Julius Caesar, the Roman soldier, politician and eventually emperor. Quintilis, which was his birth month, was renamed July by the Roman senate. Quintilis means “fifth month” in Latin, which represents where this month originally fell in the Roman calendar. The original Roman calendar had 10 months.

July also sees the beginning of the new semester. After a break, it is a chance to regroup and take stock of our direction at the middle point of the course.

Report cards will have given a point in time picture, but these can never fully discuss a student’s successes or areas of challenge. Parent/teacher interviews commence next week, please make the most of this opportunity to gather information about your child's journey. It gives you some powerful language to use, as plans for semester two are put in place.

I am a firm believer that our children are very aware and quick to pick up on what we as parents value. If Mum and Dad are involved and interested, then I need to put effort in. If Mum and Dad are not so interested, I don't need to worry too much.

As a parent, I will tell you that it is a very powerful conversation when we sit down with our kids and talk to them as active participants in their learning. As adults, we can scaffold that to the appropriate age, but unless our kids have 'buy in’, school and learning is just a process that happens to them, not one they are actively involved in.

All the best to our Netball and Rugby League teams as they compete in the Challenge Cup this week in Yeppoon.

Have a great week and hug your kids.

Jamie Emerick
Principal

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Catholic Education Week 25 – 31 July 2021

Week 3 is Catholic Education Week.  We celebrate, across the state, belonging to the Catholic Education family of schools.

We will celebrate in this week in a number of ways.

Lunch on the Lawn – Thursday 10.45 am on  July 29 2021

Bring a homemade or bought lunch to share with your children in picnic style on the oval.

Please note, that in keeping with COVID guidelines, families will not be able to join with other families, but rather sit only as a family group.

Families will also need to check in using our QR code on entry to the school.  A number of entry points will have this code displayed to check in with. 

We thank you, in advance, for your cooperation with these requests.

Random Acts of Kindness 

We are all called to do Random Acts of Kindness during this week, and hopefully this will roll over into daily practices.

Grandparents Day

On 13 August, we will celebrate Grandparents Day as we do every year.  Please invite Grandparents to come along and join in our celebrations.  They will sit in on our class assembly for that day, be taken on a tour of the school by their grandchildren and finally end with morning tea provided by the school.

We look forward to celebrating this day, to thank our grandparents for the key roles they play in the lives of their families.

Uniform Shop

Due to the new Government regulations, all visitors to our Uniform Shop will now need to use the QR Code (Check In Qld App) to scan in as part of the Conditions of Entry. We thank you for your understanding and look forward to seeing you soon.

Uniform Shop Hours:

TUESDAY and THURSDAY Mornings

 8am to 9am

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Parent Teacher Interviews

Semester Two Parent Teacher Interviews

Week 2 - Monday 19 July – Friday 23 July sees our Semester Two, Parent Teacher Interviews for our Prep to Year 6 families.  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 semester

Interview times are OPEN for parents to book between Wednesday 14 July (9.00am) and CLOSE on Friday16 July (4.00pm).

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

Please remind your children that they must wait outside the classroom in which the Parent Teacher Interview is taking place. No children are to be playing on playgrounds, on the oval or around buildings. This is for the safety of all of our students.

Extra-Curricular Activities

After-school activities to continue throughout Term 3:

Tuesday - Fitness before school
Wednesday - Chess and Cooking Club after school
Thursday - Robotics after school

PORT TO PARK FUN RUN

Don't forget to Register now for the Port to Park Fun Run! (formerly know as Botanic to Bridge)

Our school’s favourite fun run is back for 2021 and with a new name and course!

Gladstone Ports Corporation’s (GPC) new-look Port to Park FunD Run will no doubt be a wonderful family-orientated community event and we’d love as many of our students and families to participate on Sunday 15 August.

This year, two new courses will wind through GPC's beautiful waterfront parklands of East Shores, Marina Parklands and Spinnaker Park.

The courses have new names too, recognising the language of our Traditional Owners of the land - the Bailai and Gooreng Gooreng nations.  The 9-kilometre Koongo Dash (meaning place of water) starts at 7am for our early risers, while the 3-kilometre Yallarm Family Run (meaning place of shells) will be perfect for those limbering up a little later at 8.30am.

​If you register before Monday 19 July using the code P2PEARLY you can receive a 10% discount.

So get your runners ready and start limbering up!

You can register here at www.gpcl.com.au/port-to-park 

Port to Park is proudly supported by a number of local corporations including Santos GLNG, Smit Lamnalco, Gladstone Regional Council and Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre.

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Tuckshop Specials

Our Tuckshop is now offering gluten free bread and wrap options.
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Tuckshop Menu

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GISMA Music Workshop

Dear Parents and Gardians, 

The Gladstone Independent School Music Association is proud to announce we will be returning this year with our annual workshop.

The 23rd Annual GISMA Music Workshop will be from 26th-30th July 2021. Details regarding registrations are to follow.

What happens at the GISMA Music Workshop?
The workshops provide an opportunity for all students who play to mix with students from other schools and work with experienced tutors and conductors. The students receive intensive music tuition from local and visiting tutors, coming together to work with our visiting conductor.

Who can attend?
Students  who learn woodwind, brass or percussion instruments are eligible to register. Students can be from our school’s music programs or learn privately.  Unfortunately strings are not part of the GISMA bubble due to no previous programs involving strings, though it is being considered as an option to expand our net in future years.

Why are the GISMA Music Workshops important?
Music has been proven to be extremely beneficial to those who take up an instrument. Workshopping with students provides them with a unique performing experience where intensive focus on playing can:

• Accelerate the students’ progress on their instrument
• Instill confidence in the students’ playing ability and self-worth
• Motivate and affirm the reason they play music
• Long lasting positive effects are seen every year by Instrumental Music teachers, and most importantly the students have fun learning and playing music

Kind Regards,

Chelsea Elvery  

GISMA Secretary

GISMA Concert

The Gladstone Independent Schools Music Association would like to extend an invitation to you and your families to attend our workshop concert.  The concert is a culmination of the hard work our students have put in during the week at their workshop under the baton of Nathan Cahill - our guest conductor from Bundaberg.

The concert will be held Friday 30th July 2021 at 7pm, Marian Centre Chanel College, 11 Paterson Street.

The cost of the concert is by gold coin donation.  Raffle tickets will be available for purchase on the night of the event.

We would like to thank the following for their support to date leading up to our workshop:

- Regional Arts Development Fund

- Gladstone Physio & Fitness

- Physioshop (Boyne Island)

Kind Regards,

Leanne Christensen | President

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Lourdes Hill College, Brisbane - Reunion

LOURDES HILL COLLEGE, BRISBANE - REUNION – All students who attended Lourdes hill College, Brisbane in:  

1966 – Year 8, 1967 – Year 9, 1968 – Year 10, 1969 – Year 11 and 1970 – Year 12, are invited to attend the Reunion of the 1966-1970 Cohort on Saturday 16 October at Lourdes Hill College.  

For enquiries, please contact:  

Maree Foley (Stanton) maree_foley@hotmail.com ,  events@lhc.qld.edu.au or phone Mary at LHC on 3399 0411. 

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