Informer - Term 3 Week 7

From Our Principal

Have a great week and hug your kids.

Regards
Jamie Emerick
Principal

Free Prep Vision Screening

Good vision is important for a child’s educational, physical and social development. Vision screening checks for common eye conditions that may impact your child’s ability to see and therefore impact their learning and development.

A Registered Nurse will be visiting St John's on 29 and 30 August 2023 to conduct vision screening for children in their Prep year. Your child does not need a Medicare card in order to participate in screening. If you wish to have your Prep child participate in this free vision screening program, please complete a consent form by 24 August.  Online or paper consent forms are available and will be distributed to you. Parents do not need to be present for screening., however if you would like to be, please contact the school to arrange this.

If your child’s vision is screened, you will be advised of the results in writing. If a vision concern is found, you will receive a phone call from the nurse to discuss referral to an eye health professional for further assessment. If a vision concern is identified and your child requires glasses, eligible health care card holders may be assisted with free basic glasses through the Spectacle Supply Scheme.

Participation in vision screening is not compulsory. 

If you have any questions, please contact the Primary School Nurse Health Readiness Program on 1800 687 372.

Book Week 2023

This week we celebrate Book Week.  There will be a number of school-based activities and competitions, but there will NOT be Book Week Dress Up this year.  

Library News ...

Book of the Year: Young Readers

Book of the Year: Early Childhood

Picture Book Of The Year

CBCA Award For New Illustrator

The winner of our latest rebus puzzle is Quinton is 5K. 

Safety in numbers is the correct answer!

Congratulations Quinton!

Congratulations Harley Stokes

Congratulations Harley on your very successful achievements at the Dwarf Games in Germany.

3 Gold Medals
12/u Basketball
12/u 100m Individual Medley
12/u 25m Butterfly

3 Silver Medals
12/u 25m Freestyle
12/u 25m Breast Stroke
16/u 4 x 25m Freestyle Relay

2 Bronze Medals
12/u Soccer (or football over here)
12/u 4 x 60m Relay

Eisteddfod Results

Congratulations to Elena and William Rich on their results at the recent Gladstone Eisteffod.

Elena: Highly Commended- 8 yrs Piano
William:  2nd - Guitar Fretted Instrument. 

Disco - Friday 25 August

St John's Way Awardees

Star Of The Sea Parish News

Social Justice Sunday - 27 August

2022-23 Social Justice Statement – Respect: Confronting Violence and Abuse

Sunday 27 August is Social Justice Sunday.

Throughout 2022 and 2023, the Catholic Church has focused on domestic violence and abuse, recognising the experiences of people in the home, workplace and at times the Church. Those who suffer such abuse are most frequently women and children while the perpetrators are most frequently men. But no matter who suffers such violence, and who perpetrates it, the damage to the lives of the victims and survivors of such abuse is real, destructive, and long-lasting.

Respect: Confronting Violence and Abuse points out that the roots of domestic and family violence “lie in the abuse of power to control and dominate others” and that “this stands in contrast to the relationships to which God calls us”.

Our relationships should be “marked by equality and reciprocity rather than domination and violence, respect and freedom rather than coercion and control”.

Please take the time to view the short video and read the Social Justice Statement. Feel free to join the community of Our Lady Star of the Sea for Sunday mass at 8am and 6pm.

Please take the time to view the short video and read the Social Justice Statement. Feel free to join the community of Our Lady Star of the Sea for Sunday mass at 8am and 6pm.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ywUe8vTK1m4wMKNG9cEdCTDcfEgSwuTN/view  

https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/2022/08/02/sjs2022-23/ 

Family Football Sausage Sizzle

Tuckshop Special

Volunteer Tuckshop Roster

In And Around OSHC

OSHC September Vacation Care Program

OSHC Easter Vacation Program

Music Tutor Update

Please be advised that we are doing all that we can to secure a Music Tutor for the Friday Private Lessons and our School Band.

We are actively advertising on a variety of platforms and have approached a number of private music teachers currently working in Gladstone. Unfortunately, we haven’t had any luck securing anyone for the position, but will continue actively searching.

Aussie Bread Tags for Wheelchairs

Here at St. John’s, we pride ourselves on being sustainable and recycling what we can to help God’s creation. Aussie Bread Tags for Wheelchairs is an Australian company that is collecting and sorting bread tags nation-wide. They are creating new products with recycled bread tags that include wheelchairs and reusable food bowls. As of May 2023, they have recycled over 10,000kg of Aussie bread tags (that’s over 10 tonnes of plastic waste)!

How can you help? Please collect any plastic bread clips from home and bring them into your classroom to put into your class’ collection container. There is also a collection container at the front office. Once a fortnight, Year 4 will collect the containers and empty them into our main bin. Once this is full, we will take it to the collection depot in town, where they will be sent away for recycling.

Thank you for helping us to be kinder to our world and for looking after God’s creation.

GRC - Welcome to Gladstone

Yaralla Cricket Club Sign On

BITS Cricket Club - Women & Girls Progam