Around The Primary

Dear Parents

While it has certainly been a very challenging time for us all, it is wonderful having the students back at school, keen to learn and appreciative of being in the classroom and school environment.

I ask that you continue to support our staff as they will be putting emphasis on a mindset of persistence, having-a-go, working hard, cooperating and collaborating within their classrooms. As the students are readjusting to the school environment and navigating their way through friendships we will be reinforcing the high expectation we have of treating others with care and respect.

While restrictions slowly begin to be lifted, it is also a time for ongoing vigilance. Your support in ensuring the guidelines below are followed would be greatly appreciated:

Parents/Guardians are NOT to go directly to classrooms;
Where possible, please make appointments outside of the school day;
If your child is unwell, please keep them at home;
For students who have essential appointments (e.g. doctor, dentist, OT etc), the College must be notified via primary.absentees@johnxxiii.edu.au

Most of the students are in correct school uniform and they look fantastic! We do expect all students to be dressed correctly each day and have neat and tidy hairstyles. Our uniform requirements can be found here:

Primary Uniform Code.pdf

Extended hours and appointments are now available from the Uniform Shop. Please follow this link http://www.johnxxiii.edu.au/view/for-parents/uniform-shop

With parents unable to enter the school site, we fully appreciate that this situation can feel strange and a little unsettling for families. On a positive note, our little PreKindy, Kindy and PrePrimary children have all proven themselves to be absolute heroes, facing any fears, showing great resilience and walking confidently from the car park to their classroom! A top job everyone, especially to those Mums and Dads who were a little teary at the start too! We hope you enjoy the clip of our young students back to school with big smiles on their faces!

We all have much to feel grateful for and I believe we can now look forward with greater optimism to what we hope will be a calm, settled, healthy, productive and enjoyable term ahead.

Kind regards

Antoinette De Pinto

Head of Primary

Super Stars

Congratulations to all the students that received a certificate in their classrooms today.

PPB	Toby Allen	Sofia Chiaroni	Tiella Gibson	Tinashe Marerwa
PPG	Francesca Andruskiw	Harrison Chung	Sally Cooper	Kaelan Ong Seng
1B	Giselle D’Souza	Luella Fennessy	Zach Grainger	Kylah Rogers
1G	Blake Gauci	Anaja Jukic	Ryan Kelly	Annabelle Knox	Georgia Perera
2B	Lachlan Conway	Melody Paolucci	Benjamin Parker
2G	Paige Abel	Samantha da Silva	Timothy Hawkins	Troy Melbin
3B	Taylor Cloghan	Elliot Hurley	Niamh Jennings	Jacey Li	Robert Natale
3G	Madeleine Grainger	Jay Griffiths	Jack Hodge	Alila Iredale	Cailin McNamara
4B	Henry Bahen	Evelyn Jackson	Charles O’Toole	Olivia Rundus	Alessio Torre
4G	Amelie Connell	Bella Gauci	Wren McGlew	Lucas Paton	Isobel Ptolomey
5B	Myles Cabassi	Christopher Cooney	Sophie Litic	Alyssa Mignacca	Eliza Owen	Campbell Tonkin
5G	William Bahen	Janaya Douglas	Alessandra Garreffa	Callan Griffiths	Anashe Marerwa	Xavier Parker
6B	Devan Finn	Elizabeth Levey	Bridget Lilleyman	Joshua McGlew	Matthew Mignacca	Patrick Morrissey
6G	Aria MacMillan	James Miller	Izaac Paton	Ethan Raykos	Cate Thomasz

Appointments

For students who have essential appointments (e.g. doctor, dentist, OT etc.) the College must be notified by email. The following details are required to be sent to primary.absentees@johnxxiii.edu.au

Name and class of child/ren
Date and time of appointment
Time absent from school

Parents/Guardians will then need to collect their child/ren from Main Administration. Upon return, students must come to Main Administration prior to going back to class.

Dogs at School

We request that dogs are not brought to school. Despite the best behaviour of pets, there are children who are frightened of dogs or are allergic to dogs.

Thank you for your co-operation on this matter.