Around The Primary

Dear Families

A very excited group of Year 5 students headed off to the Cahoots Adventure Camp on Monday morning. This camp is an important part of the students’ school educational journey and a wonderful opportunity for students to foster friendships and make life-long memories.  Special thanks to Mrs Purcell for coordinating this camp and to Ms Allen, Miss Hooper, Miss Murray, Mrs Fontaine, Miss Eisenmann, Mrs Gilmour, Mrs Taylor, Mr Williams, Mrs Alach, Ms Joyce and Ms Kidd for attending the camp and providing such an amazing experience for our students. Our dedicated staff always go the extra mile to ensure these events are a great success.

My thanks are extended to parents and caregivers for taking the time to send a message of thanks to staff and for providing such positive feedback.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for providing the Year 5 students with such a wonderful camping experience at Cahoots earlier this week.  It sounds like they were all taken care of so well by the amazing JTC teachers and Cahoots staff and I know my child had such a fantastic time.

We absolutely loved receiving all the photographs of great memories being made by all the students.   Thanks to all the staff involved in making the camp such a positive experience.

Our son thoroughly enjoyed his time on camp, and we are grateful that he had the opportunity to experience it with such dedicated staff and great friends!

A special highlight of the week has been today’s Assembly prepared by the Year 3 students. They did an amazing job of reminding us about the importance of spelling and spelling rules! We appreciate Mrs Haydon, Mrs Thomas, and Miss Micale's creative approach in making spelling an enjoyable and engaging experience for our students!

As we move through the final week of Lent towards Holy Week, all families are welcome to join us for our Easter Reflection on Thursday 10 April.

Year 5 White will lead the Easter Reflection at 9:00am in the Chapel for all Gold classes.

Year 5 Blue will lead the Easter Reflection at 11:00am in the Chapel for all Blue classes. 

We hope this special prayer time will help our school community to focus on the importance of Easter.

Antoinette De Pinto

Head of Primary 

From little things, big things grow!

Super Stars

Well done to all the students who received a certificate at today’s Assembly:

Dates to Remember

Please check the College Website to note all the important Primary school events for your family calendar. http://www.johnxxiii.edu.au/view/for-parents/calendars.  By subscribing to the College calendar, you are automatically alerted when details of an existing event are changed. 

Health Centre

The Health Centre provides a valuable support to students when they are unwell or injured. When a student presents to the Health Centre, our experienced College Nurses, Jo Cook and Judy Buckley, in assessing their fitness to stay at school may decide that the student is too unwell to return to the classroom.  In this case, parents will be called to collect their child. It is important that parents keep their contact details up to date with the College, including an alternative contact, so that in the event of a student being too unwell to remain at school, they or the alternative contact can be easily contactable. For the comfort of an unwell student and the safety of others, particularly in the case of an infectious illness, parent or alternative contacts are requested to collect the student within an hour of being contacted. 

Please email nancy.petsos@johnxxiii.edu.au in Primary Reception to check or update your contact details. 

Medical.centre@johnxxiii.edu.au 

Sports Update

Cross-Country 

The numbers at training have been incredible!  It would be great to keep this going for the last week of term - Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 7:30am outside the Gym.  Next term we will start to practice the Cross-Country Course so that runners can work out their race strategies in preparation for the Years 3 to 6 Interhouse Cross-Country Carnival which will be held on Friday, 16 May.  All ages are still very welcome to join.  Please note, students in Years 2 and under are to be accompanied by an adult.

Term 2 Extra Curricular Sport

If you have any queries about anything sport-related, please don’t hesitate to contact me via email: steve.williams@johnxxiii.edu.au  

Steve Williams

Primary Sport Coordinator 

Music Update

Please see below for rehearsal times for ensembles for Week 10 -

Palm Sunday – Wanju Voices at St Joseph’s Church, Subiaco

At the special request of Monsignor Kevin Long, Wanju Voice have been invited to sing at the 9:00am Mass at St Joseph’s Church, Subiaco on Palm Sunday, 13 April. We look forward to many families joining us for this special occasion.

Catholic Performing Arts Festival 

Entries are now open for the 2025 Catholic Performing Arts Festival! Students learning through the College can enter via their tutors, while students learning from external tutors can lodge their entries through the Music Office.  The online form available via SEQTA documents. Please note, scans/copies of sheet music are required. 

Entries into the Catholic Performing Arts Festival close on Thursday, 8 May.

If you have any queries regarding Primary Music, please contact me via email: catherine.haydon@johnxxiii.edu.au

Catherine Haydon

Primary Music Teacher

Men of John XXIII Breakfast Event 

From Playground to Prom - Wednesday 7 May

All are invited to attend the next Men of John XXIII Fathering Project event on Wednesday, 7 May at the University Club of Western Australia. Facilitated by Glenn Mitchell, there will be a guest panel discussion to explore the changes and challenges of fatherhood, from early childhood to adolescence. Tickets can be purchased here.