Principal's News

 Dear Families,

Bluearth/Family Sports night

Thank you to everyone who came along to the Family Sports night last Thursday. Depsite the warm evening it was great to see so many students, parents and past students enjoy the games with Jimmy.

Division Sports

Congratulations to all students who participated in the Division Swimming Sports in Wangaratta last week, you should all be very proud of your achievements. Congratulations to Chole Harvey- Breddan who will now compete at the State Swimming Competition.

NAPLAN

NAPLAN begins this week for the children in Year 3 and Year 5 at St John's.  The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)  is a series of tests focused on basic skills that are administered to all students in Australia in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 and provides a snapshot of a student's current reading, writing, language and numeracy skills.  Results will be distributed to schools earlier this year so teachers are able to use the data straight away. NAPLAN is one form of assessment that we use at St John's as part of our assessment plan.

Our timetable is as follows:-

• Weds 13th March - Writing Yr 3 & Yr 5 @ 9am
• Thursday 14th March - Reading  Yr 3 & Yr 5,  @ 9am. Language Conventions Yr 3
• Friday 15th March-  Numeracy Yr 3 & Yr 5, Language Conventions Yr 5 @ 9am
• Catch up sessions are scheduled for Monday 18th March

School Advisory Council 

Tonight is our first School Advisory Council meeting at school at 6pm in the school's Boardroom and we welcome Jason Limbrick (Izzy Yr 3 and Gracie F) to our council. Tonight Paul Bissinella (GV Deanery Principal Consultant) will address the Council on their role.

Assembly this Friday

This Friday we will be hosting a full school assembly in the Mercy Centre beginning at 2:45pm, where Mrs Timplerley's Yr 3 /4 class will be presenting the prayer.  Staff would appreciate that during the assembly toddlers need to remain with their parents to avoid causing a distraction. 

Easter Egg Raffle 

Today we sent home Easter Egg raffle tickets. 

We warmly welcome donations of Easter Eggs for the raffle.

Easter Egg Raffle will be drawn on Tuesday 26th March after the Easter Bonnet Parade at 9am.

We please ask that all tickets and donations be returned to the office by Friday 22nd March. 

Harmony Day

Next Thursday 21st March, we will be celebrating Harmony Day wherewe will celebrate all the different cultures that are a part of Australia. Students are welcome to wear clothes that represent their ancestors, the colours of Australia or orange which is the colour of respect.

Easter Bonnet Parade

The Annual Easter Bonnet Parade will take place on Tuesday 26th March at 9am in the Mercy Centre. Students are welcome to make an Easter Bonnet to wear to the parade. Parents are welcome to attend. At the end of the Parade we will draw the Easter Egg raffle.

Stations of the Cross

Each year our Year 6 leaders lead the school in a liturgy based on the Stations of the Cross to conclude Term 1 and lead us into Easter. This is one of the highlights of the year for our school leaders. This year it will be held in the Mercy Centre on Thursday 28th March (the last day of school) at 1.15pm . You are welcome to join us.

End of Term 1

A reminder to parents that Term 1 concludes on Thursday 28th March at 2:15pm. This is earlier finish than a usual school day.

Start of the school day

Over the past couple of weeks, we have had a number of students arrive at school before student supervision begins at 8:30am. Before this time teachers are in meetings and busy getting classes ready for the day and are unable to supervise students.

 If you need to drop your child off at school before this time, please book them into TheirCare which operates before school care until 8:30 each morning. Thank you for your support with this.

Second hand uniforms

 We would appreciate any donations of uniforms that you no longer need, to establish a uniform shop. Please drop donations at the front office. 

Have a great week,

Libby Hamilton