Dear Parents

May this week bring you abundant opportunities to flourish and succeed. As we step through the month of October, may you find the courage and strength to overcome any challenges that come your way. May God guide and protect you. Amen

Class Structure 2024

I have now finalised the survey that asked our community "what you thought was best for class structures in 2024."

After analysis of the survey, I have concluded that a K-4 model using a straight class structure and a multi-age 5/6 will best suit our community moving forward.

The survey had 46 respondents from 89 families and 20+ staff. The respondent rate was very good (30% is considered a good response rate, 50% is considered excellent) and as such was able to give me a clear indication of our community’s ideas and wishes on the topic.

The majority of respondents indicated that they would like, either straight classes K-6 or K-4. Looking at the written reasons, which ranged from social-emotional to academic, I believe the best fit for our community was the K-4 straight class and multi-age 5/6 structure.

I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the survey helping me make a clear informed decision.

Swimming Lessons

As agreed by community, Swimming Lessons have been scheduled for the last week in December.  The school has secured a price of $13 per lesson and will pay for the transport for all students through our excursion budget.  The total price for one student is $52, $95 for two students, $135 for three students and $170 for four students.  The idea of this pricing is to keep things affordable for families.  If this is financially difficult for your family please contact the school. Please note, this is not an opt in or opt out activity, it is a sport expectation.

Fete

The Fete is extremely close, and we will need all hands-on deck to bring it home. The SCC has listened to your responses from their Survey and are planning how to support the learning of all students at SJV through some very effective purchases.

For this to happen we still need volunteers for some stalls and parents to help sell raffle tickets. It would also be helpful for our families who have raffle tickets to sell the remainder and begin to return sold books and possibly collect a new one.

Raffle Tickets - FAMILY INCENTIVES - Repeat Notice
● The family who returns the most sold tickets will receive a $50 My Sweet Lady  gift voucher (one of our amazing parents at our school, Ash, makes seriously delicious cakes and has donated this prize).

● Weekly draw to win 1 x canteen voucher for fully sold books returned in that week (from weeks 1-7 in Term 4) Drawn each Friday at the morning school assembly.

● The family who sells each winning ticket will receive a $50.00 cash prize.

● As part of our Final prize to families for returning sold ticket books, we have a double pass to give away to attend Dr Seuss's the Cat in the Hat Live on Stage at Canberra Theatre during the summer school holidays. Drawn Friday 1st December.

There are many chances for you to win prizes just for selling the raffle tickets. If you would like more books, please come into the Front Office and Jet can organise them for you

Parent Class Contacts

We are now collecting names from parents who would like to be a class contact for their child’s class in 2024. The role of the contact is to welcome families with the help of the school, organise 2-3 student or parent events for the year (eg. a mums/dads night out, some fun play on our playground one afternoon or a swim at Mt Stromlo Leisure Centre). Thank you for those parents who have already contacted us and expressed an interest in this role.

Families Leaving SJV

It is that time of year that some families receive postings, leave the state for new work or win lotto, this can mean that they need to leave the SJV family. If you fall into any of these categories and will be leaving our school at the end of this year, please email the Front Office. It is a government requirement that we record this and register the new school of your child(ren).

God Bless

Peter Rodda

Principal

2023 SJV Fete  - Best Day Ever!

We are 10 DAYS away from this year’s Fete, being held on Saturday 4th November, 10am-2pm. Make sure you tell your family, friends and neighbours to come along and enjoy a great day.

QKR Pre-Fete Sales - Ride Wristbands and Portraits

You only have SIX DAYS to pre-purchase a ride wristband  - get in quick, last orders are next Wednesday 1st November to get the discounted rate of $25.  After that there’ll only be sales on fete day at the full price of $30. 

You can pre-purchase for your friends/cousins/nieces/nephews/neighbours so don't forget to add them to your order.

The ride wristband gives unlimited turns on the rock climbing wall, giant slide, TWO jumping castles and lasertag - more fun than you can poke a stick at!

Don't forget to pre-purchase your child’s portrait which will be available for sale at the school fete. Pre-pay on QKR for $4 and take home on fete day. 

If you are having trouble accessing QKR on your phone you can log into your account via their website: https://qkr-store.qkrschool.com/store/#/home 

Flyers

Some fete flyers will be coming home with your child this week for you to please put in letterboxes in your local area when you go for a walk. This is a great way to advertise our fete in the local area - we want as many people as possible to know about the Best Day Ever at the SJV Fete!

You could also pass on to work colleagues, friends, neighbours. If you need more please grab some from the front office or email Jet to ask for more to be sent home with your child. 

Football Australia Clinics

For all the football (soccer) mad kids out there, we will have two Football Australia coaches running football skills clinics at the fete from 11am-12:30pm.

Volunteers

Thank you to everyone who has already signed up to help this year. We will be sending out an info email next week to keep an eye out for that. If you’re unsure of your volunteer timeslot send us an email and we’ll let you know.

If you've not put your hand up, there is still time to volunteer! Email sjvfete@gmail.com to let us know that you can help out.

White Elephant, Toys, Books

You can still drop off items for the Toys, Books and White Elephant stalls between 8:30am-3:30pm on school days, please leave your items outside the rooms for our volunteers to sort.

Mega Cash Raffle

We’ve already had 41 books returned for our Mega cash raffle! That is such an awesome effort with still 5 weeks until the draw date. 

Know someone with a birthday coming up? With first prize of $1000 and second prize $500 a few raffle tickets would make a great gift! 

Congratulations to the Bourke family who won the first week’s canteen prize draw. 

FAMILY INCENTIVES

• The family who returns the most sold tickets will receive a $50 My Sweet Lady gift voucher (one of the amazing parents at our school, Ash, makes seriously delicious cakes and has donated this prize)  My Sweet Lady
• Weekly draw to win 1 x canteen voucher for fully sold books returned in that week (from weeks 1-7 in Term 4)
• The family who sells each winning ticket will receive a $50.00 cash prize.
• Each book sold will go into a draw to win 2 tickets to see The Cat in the Hat at the Canberra Theatre next year. 
  

So, sell as many tickets as possible to increase your chance of winning these awesome prizes..

We are still looking for someone to coordinate selling tickets outside Cooleman Court, as well as people to assist in selling raffle tickets on the weekends (assistants can help one weekend or several).

Coordinating involves collecting raffle tickets, Ipad and square reader from the Front Office, determining days and times for the selling of raffle tickets, informing the Fete Committee of intended selling days/times to allow for communication to the school community who can volunteer to assist with selling raffle tickets at Cooleman Court.

If you think this sounds like something you could do and would like to volunteer to coordinate the selling of tickets outside Cooleman Court please email sjvfete@gmail.com. 

Platinum Sponsor:

Many thanks to our 2023 Fete Sponsors:

We are always looking for sponsors to donate cash, gift vouchers, products or services for our fete. If you own or know of a business that could help please email sjvfete@gmail.com.

Annette Doszpot

Fete Coordinator

Happy Birthday Luke H

Mango Fundraiser – Orders Close Monday!

Once again the ELC are hosting the Mango Fundraiser.  Trays can be ordered on Qkr for $27 each.  Orders close on Monday 30 October.

Walkathon

Thank you to those parents who were able to join us for our walkathon. Please remember to return your sponsorship forms and money.

St Jude’s Feast Day / Grandparents Day / SJV Sideshow Ally

We look forward to celebrating St Jude’s Feast Day and Grandparents Day tomorrow, 27 October.  Mass is at 9am then grandparents are invited to our open classrooms at 10am.  At 11am we will then head off on or Excursion to SJV sideshow alley and pizza lunch.

On Monday 30 October, the Stingrays grandparents are invited into the classroom between 9am and 10am for grandparents day.

Kinder and ELC orientation

Orientation morning for St Jude’s 2024 Kinder and 2024 ELC will be on Wednesday 8 November and One Up Day is on Wednesday 13 December. St John Vianney’s 2024 Kinder Orientation will be on Wednesday 1 November. More information has been emailed.

SJV Fete

The SJV Fete will be on Saturday 4 November.  It is always a fun family day so be sure to come along. There will be jumping castles, laser tag, rock climbing, super slide, raffles, yummy food, a plant stall and much more.  ELC families can pre-purchase ride wrist bands for $25 (a $5 discount). 

What's coming up and when:

Every Monday	Sports Day
Every Friday	Sports Day
Friday 27th October	.  Grand Friends 's Day Celebration - Mass at 9:30am everyone welcome folled by Kite making and flying activity. pre-Ordered Pizza lunch from 11:30am including ELC .  SideShow Alley and ELC and year 5 Buddy
Wednesday 1st November	All Saints Day Mass from 9:30am - everyone welcome . 2024 Kinder Orientation from 9:30am - 11am
Thursday 2nd November	All Soul's Day
Friday 3rd November	Set up for Fete  all cakes and plants to be dropped off at school.
Saturday 4th November	10AM - 2PM SEE FETE & PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE PIECE IN THE NEWSLETTER FOR MORE INFORMATION
Wednesday 8th Nov	Remembrance Day Prayer Celebration 9:15am - 9:35am - School Hall
Thursday 23rd November	Gingerbread House Event. Save the date

Term 1

Week 1 Notes

2023 School Fees

_5_6_Camp_2023_Permission_Note.pdf

2023_Collection_Notice_for_Parents.pdf

Term 2 

Week 1 Notes

2023_Athletics_Compass_Note.pdf

Cross_Country_2023.docx_2_.pdf

Term_2_Week_1_Easter_and_Colour_Celebration.pdf

Week 2 Notes

Mother's Day Breakfast

Week 3 Notes

Week 4 Notes

Book Fair 2023

Week 5 Notes

South Weston Cross Country Carnival

Week 6 Notes

No Notes went home this week.

Week 7 Notes

What is the NCCD

Week 8 Notes

Italian Special Lunch

Week 9 Notes

For_Parents_Information_on_NAPLAN_reporting_changes.PDF

Week 10 Notes

Shout out to 5/6 Parents

Disco_Bingo_invite.pdf

Term 3 Week 1

Book Club Issue 5

compass_Information_Session.pdf

Week 2 Notes

2023_Census_Privacy_Collection_Notice_August_2023.pdf

SJV_Feast_Day_2nd_Sausage_order_Slip.pdf

Week 3 Notes

Compass_Info_session_Postponed.pdf

See Compass Events

for ELC Visits Term 3

CSIRO Discovery Excursion

Questacon Excursion

South Weston Athletics Carnival

Boorowa Touch and Netball Carnival

Week 4 Notes

No Notes home this week

Week 5 Notes

Invite_to_Community_Council_Meeting_Mond_4th_Sept.pdf

Parent Disco CANCELLED See Principal message in today's newsletter

Week 6 Notes

Father's Day Flyer

School Disco

Week 7 Notes

Finance_Transformation_Notice_of_Finance_System_Changes.pdf

Fete_Donations.pdf

Week 8 Notes

Finance Transformation School Fees and Billing System Changes.pdf

Week 9 Notes

Happy_Grandparent_s_Day.pdf

Wrist_band_pre_saleuniform_free.pdf

Week 10 Notes

Fete_2023_Raffle.pdf

Volunteers_1_.pdf

Term 4 Week 1 Notes

2023_Community_Tennis.pdf

Book Club Issue 7

Grand_Friends_special_Lunch_Menu.pdf

Term 4 Week 3 Notes

TIMSS.pdf

SJV Tuckshop is open Wednesday & Friday.  Orders can be made online via Qkr!  A copy of the Menu and Qkr! instructions can be found on the Tuckshop Webpage.

TUCKSHOP ROSTER

Friday 27th October 

Karen and Karli

Grandfriends Pizza Lunch 

Wednesday 1st November

Sarah H

Friday 3rd November 

Sonia and Jen

Term_4_2023_Canteen_Roster.pdf

Please remember to bring your WWVP- (Working with Vulnerable People) card with you.

You can apply for the card via Access Canberra:  https://www.accesscanberra.act.gov.au/s/article/working-with-vulnerable-people-wwvp-registration-tab-how-to-apply 

Term 1 & 4 The Summer Tuckshop Menu kicks in.

 2023 Summer Tuckshop Menu

Please contact the Front Office or Mel or simply fill in the Canteen Volunteer Note  to let us know you are able to help and when. 

Mel Harding

Canteen Manager

melanie.harding@cg.catholic.edu.au