Around The Primary

Dear Parents

Here we all are at the end of another wonderful, action-packed, productive, interesting, exciting, rewarding year, with so much to celebrate.  It’s time now for turning our attention to the birth of Jesus – the greatest gift of all time. A big thank you to our Pre Primary children for preparing these precious pictures to remind us about the first Christmas.

On behalf of the staff, I would like to sincerely thank all John XXIII families for the genuine support you have shown throughout the year.

Special thanks to all the wonderful staff for nurturing, encouraging, supporting and motivating the children to achieve their personal best.

Congratulations to all the students for coming to school with big smiles on their faces each morning and sharing their love of learning.

Enjoy the holidays with your delightful children!

Kind Regards

Antoinette De Pinto

Head of Primary

May God bless you all in the exciting years ahead!

Staff Scholarship

The Staff Scholarship offers to staff members the opportunity of investigating an issue of educational importance to them or to acquire skills which can be applied within the College. Next year Ms O’Connor will attend the Building Learning Communities Education Conference in Boston. This Conference will provide her with the opportunity to investigate the best innovative and learning resources for our students. Congratulations Ms O’Connor.

ICT Leading Lights Migration

The College’s ICT Leading Lights Migration will occur from 5pm Thursday 7 December to 8am Monday 11 December. This will involve moving to the Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) Office 365 tenancy.

• All College ICT Services, apart from the College phone system and website, will not be available during the migration window. We advise parents to avoid emailing the College and to instead phone with any urgent matters.

• Parent SEQTA logins and passwords will be preserved. If you are unable to access SEQTA or are having any issues, please contact our ICT Team at ithelpdesk@johnxxiii.edu.au

The migration to LEADing Lights is a significant step forward for the College and will take time and much energy to complete. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding during this time.

Semester Two Reports

Reports will be ready to be released on Monday 11 December from 10am. As you know, the College uses SEQTA as a learning platform and parents can interact with this product via a website known as Engage. When parents log in to this website you will be able to view your children’s academic reports which are generated as PDF files.

To access Engage please use the following link as the URL in your internet browser.

https://parent.johnxxiii.edu.au

Once again, if you have any difficulties accessing your child’s report, please send any enquiries to ithelpdesk@johnxxiii.edu.au

During the holidays please take the time to sit with your children and discuss their reports, highlighting the areas of personal achievement and strengths while recognising opportunities for further growth.

Ready, Set… Dance

Congratulations to Joel Margaria (6B) for his winning entry ‘Ocean Filter Gates’ in the 2017 Colour Your Classroom Writing Competition.

Ocean Filter Gates

In this world, I think it would be great if we had filters for the ocean that filtered all the rubbish. They would be stationed around the world and be used daily. The way it works is in the ocean they are placed strategically for winter, summer, spring and autumn currents so that the water and rubbish flows to towards the ocean gate. It also has suction current as well. Just in case an animal gets sucked in it has a heat sensor that if it detects a heat signature it will stop the suction for enough time that the animal would be able to get away. Now you're probably thinking, how are you going to run these massive power sapping gates all year? Well above the gate, buoys will float rafts that are packed with the most efficient and powerful solar panels in the world. Because light reflects off water, they would get double the energy. At the bottom of the gate, the walls will have a sand filter that filters all the rubbish out of the sand to make it pure. Every month massive operations would be undertaken to take the rubbish to recycling centres or if not the tip, though only as last resort. The wall also would be placed near reefs so they can spread the corals spores and create more reefs which house fish, which stabilises the natural food chain and helps restore the old ocean that we once had. The walls are very tall and wide, as they rise from the sea floor to 5 meters below the surface so that migrating animals can pass. Also, there is one hole in the wall at the very bottom that deep sea fish can pass through.

Dates for Weeks 1 – 2 2018

Wednesday 31 January                PP-Yr 6 begin Term 1

                                                                Kindy Transition begins

Thursday 1 February                      Yr 4-6 Swimming Lessons begin

Friday 2 February                             Pre Kindy begins

Monday 5 February                         Wanju Voices Auditions (3:15-4:30pm)

Friday 9 February                             Yr 4-6 Swimming Trials