Dear Families,

We hope all our Dads and special Father figures had a wonderful day yesterday. It was marvellous to see so many of you at our Father's Day breakfast on Friday morning. Thanks for Candice, Layal, Jess, Meghan for coordinating such a great breakfast and thank you to Sonnya, Fina, Chandika, Rowena, Vanessa, Marie-Claire, Clemi, Monika, Stef, Jen, Sarah, Luisa, Prue, Deanne, Felicity, Cecilia for all your help on the day. A huge thanks to Claire & Dean Doherty and Claire's Mum, Carmel for organising and running the Father's Day stall. The students loved selecting just the right gift for Dad. And lastly, thanks to all the Dads and father figures who shared the celebration with us.

Congratulations to our raffle prize winners:

1st Prize - Ivy Warfield

2nd Prize - Maria Collaco

3rd Prize - Jordan Peiris

4th Prize - Josh Sessler

5th Prize - Ayush De Silva

Thanks to Clemi for organising the raffle and to Stef Festa and Atlas Broker for donating the wonderful prizes.

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District Sports

Students from Years 3 - 6 participated in District sports today in events including running, hurdles, long jump, high jump, triple jump, discus and shot put. We are proud of all our students for participating so enthusiastically today and well done to those students who made it through to Division Sports.

Year 5 Camp

It's a big week ahead for our Year 5 students who are off to their first School Camp experience at Sovereign Hill on Wednesday to Friday. We wish all our campers a wonderful adventure and look forward to hearing all about it. I will be heading along to camp for the two nights as well. Josh Crowe will be leading the school during this time.

Marathon Club

This is the last week for marathon club this term.

MACSSIS Surveys

Our Year 4-6 students have already completed the MACSSIS surveys and we are encouraging parents to complete a survey to provide feedback on many aspects to our St James community. Your feedback helps shape the future of our school community. The survey takes about 20 minutes to complete. You will have received an email from Orica Research with a link and an individual pin.

To say thank you for your time, an additional link to a form will be shared along with the MACSSIS survey. Every family that completes the survey can submit a form that will be sent through shortly for their child/ren to receive a free lamington on the last day of term.

Parent Teacher Student Learning Conferences

These will be held on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th September. A reminder that there will be no formal classes on Friday 18th, the last day of term.

Booking details were sent out on Friday so please ensure you book your child/ren in as soon as possible.

Child Safe Standards

With the importance and commitment that we place on student safety as a school system, please take the time to read and familiarise yourself with the information in the

Child Safe Standard Six Parent/Carer Newsletter.

Upcoming P & F Events

On Thursday 17th, our last school day of Term 3, we're celebrating with a food day and footy colours dress-up day! Students are welcome to wear their favourite team's colours — footy shorts, a guernsey or top — or simply pair their school shorts or casual shorts with their team's colours.

Food Day - Thursday 17th September

• Please place orders for our footy special food day on CDF Pay

• Orders must close on this WEDNESDAY 9th September, unfortunately late orders cannot be accepted

• We’d love some more volunteers to help pack the lunch bags on the day please, don’t forget younger siblings are always welcome! https://volunteersignup.org/B9XQQ

Dad’s Night Out - Friday 16th October

Please book your place on CDF Pay, we’d love to see all the Dad’s there!! See flyer below for details.

St John’s Parish Fete- 21st November

Save the date! More information coming soon

Have a great week ahead,

Anita.

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