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The theme chosen by the CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) for Book Week 2025 is Book an Adventure.

‘2025 is also a milestone year for us as we celebrate 80 years of Children’s Book Week! For 8 decades, CBCA has been dedicated to inspiring young minds to journey through the countless worlds that books offer.’  https://cbca.org.au/childrens-book-week/

Here at St John’s we will celebrate Book Week with a variety of events.

• Mon. 18th Aug. Progressive Story commences – contributed to by classes from across the school & students will experience a Treasure Hunt Book Week Performance
• Tues. 19th Aug.   Favourite Book Day for Seniors (3-6). Sharing and completing associated literacy activities.
• Wed. 20th Aug.   Favourite Book Day for Juniors. Sharing and completing associated literacy activities.
• Thurs. 21st Aug. Book Week Dress Up Day and Parade in the hall from 9.10am-10.10am Followed by selected Book Week Activities from the CBCA website
• Frid. 22nd Aug.  Multi-age Story Time & PJ Day

So please get those costumes ready for our Book Week Dress Up Day & Parade.

Even though we had gimpses of sunshine, the cold wind challenged our supportive spectators who came along, thanks for your endurance.

The children showed great resilience and eager healthy competition through some varied events; for the seniors, shotput, discus, high jump, long jump, triple jump, hurdles & sprints. The juniors enjoyed running, gumboot throwing and various other challenging events.

Thanks go to our sports co-ordinator, Miss Jess Gridley for her efforts in planning and running the day.

Those senior students who qualified will now represent our school at the interschool level.

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day falls on Monday 4 August and is a time to come together and celebrate the incredible strengths, stories, and cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

This year’s National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day theme is Little Footsteps, Big Future.

This theme honours the journeys our children take as they grow – each step guided by culture, community and connection to Country.

We are invited to join in recognising the importance of nurturing children’s voices and dreams, and in doing so, support a future where every child walks strong in their identity and is empowered to shape their own path.

Indigineous culture is regularly discussed and shared in our classrooms.

Thursday 3rd July students finish Term 2 at the usual time of 3.10pm. 

The School Disco will then commence at 4pm and run until 6pm. See the flier for details.

So get your glitter on and bring along all your dance moves for a noisy and fun end of Term.

Enjoy the break and we’ll see you all in a couple weeks ready for Term 3.

Remember, students commence on Tuesday 22nd July as Monday 21st is a Staff PD day.

Today, 24th June, we celebrated the Patron Saint of our school, St John the Baptist.

John the Baptist was a contemporary of Christ who was known for evangelization and his baptising of Jesus Christ in the river Jordan, spending time in the desert in reflection and for boldly speaking out about the lifestyles of the time. This evangelisation eventually led to an order by King Herod for his death by beheading.

Fortunately in our stance to follow in the footsteps of St John the Baptist, we don’t have to face that same fate!

Today, our celebrations of St John the Baptist commenced with a whole school Liturgy in the Church. Later, a sausage sizzle lunch was provided which was followed by multi-aged activities in the classrooms for which parents were invited to join thier children.

Our School Logo features a hand tipping water from a shell representing Baptism.  The three white lillies are symbolic of purity, innocence, and new beginnings all of which also correspond with the sacrament of Baptism. The latin wording is translated as ‘Prepare the way of the Lord’ for which St John the Baptist was reknowned.