As always, if you are interested in volunteering for, or want more information about the School Community Council, please don't hesitate to contact Peter Rodda or the Community Council at  sjv.parent@gmail.com 

What's coming up and when:

Every Monday	Sports Day
Every Friday	Sports Day
Wednesday 13th - Mond 25th March	Naplan Assessment Window
Sunday 24th March	Palm Sunday
Wednesday 27th March	Special Assembly to award the Swimming Ribbons and the Swimming Shields to the students who placed in their events. 4:30pm - 5:00pm Secret Boys Business - Co-Educational Offerings at SJV - to be held in the School Library for Year 2 and Year 3 boys families to attend. Easter Treat from the Canteen - mini Hot Cross Bun with an Easter Egg order on QKR $1.50
Thursday 28th March	Today will also be our Friday assembly day. All Merit awards and birthday cards will be handed out today. Heartspace badges will also be handed to our students receiving their badge. The Assembly will be before our Holy Thursday Prayer Celebration. Prayer Celebration: Holy Thursday (led by Years 5 and 6) 9:15am - 9:45am Good Friday/Stations of the Cross - 2:40pm (led by Year 5 and 6) All families are welcome to attend the celebrations.
Friday 29th March	Good Friday Public Holiday
Saturday 30th March	Easter Saturday
Sunday 31st March	Easter Sunday
Monday 1st April	Easter Monday Public Holiday
Tuesday 2nd April	St Mary Mackillop Year 6 Visit  Easter Sunday Prayer celebration (led by Kindergarten) 2:40pm.  Families welcome to attend.
Wednesday 3rd April	Special Carnevale Italian Lunch - order via QKR from Monday 25th March $7 more details to follow....
Thursday 4th April	School Disco from 5:30pm payment via QKR.
Monday 8th April	Parish Feast Day - The Annunciation
Wednesday 10th April	First Euycharist 2024 Registrations Close
Friday 12th April	SJV Cross Country Carnival - held at SJV. Details to follow.

Everyone get your groove on at the SJV dance fever!!!

ELC NEWS

Happy Birthday Henry C and Sophie H

We had a great day at the St Jude’s athletics carnival today.  We enjoyed lots of games and activities and ended the day with a big race. Thank you to those parents who were able to come along to help.  Have you noticed our TV display screen is up and running in the ELC foyer with lots of happy ELC faces?

Fete Thank You!

A big thank you to everyone who contributed and helped to make the St Jude's fete great!  It was a wonderful community day and raised significant funds for our school.

St John Vianney’s Open Day

Enrolments are now open for 2025. SJV Open Day dates are Wednesday 1 May from 9:30am to 5pm and Saturday 4 May from 10am to 12noon. SJV welcomes all families to have a tour of the school every Wednesday in the month of May (10:30am to 5:00pm). The ELC will be open on Wednesday 8 May 9:15am to 11am and 3pm – 6pm. If you know of any local families with children approaching preschool/school age, encourage them to come along and have a look.

Mystery Reader

The children are very excited that the Mystery Reader program is now up and running. Parents, grandparents or other family members are invited to sign up on the timetables located on the classroom doors. Bring a favourite book from home to read to the class. The Mystery Reader time is set for 2:45pm but if you would prefer a different time please organise with the classroom teacher.

Lids4Kids

The ELC will be a collecting plastic lids from milk bottles and yoghurt pouches so please drop in your lids for recycling. You can either sort the lids into the collection netting or drop them off and the students will sort them.

The year again has started busy with many events already planned - Senior Camp, the school Swimming Carnival and Parent Information Night and Welcome BBQ, just to name a few.  These events are often easier and are more enjoyable with parent involvement. Therefore, we are searching for 2024 class contact for each class at SJV.  Thank you to Sonia Taflaga and Kylie Lloyd who have taken on the class parent contact role for Year 2 and Year 4 respectively.

Please consider undertaking this role either on your own or with another class parent. It does not require much time and it helps bring people together and build our SJV community.  Please fill in the form below and return to school if you are interested, or email your details to peter.rodda@cg.catholic.edu.au

Roles of a class contact may include all or some of the items listed below:

1. Collate and distribute a contact list of parents and students in their child’s class (if they chose to participate), this often helps with organising children’s parties, sporting teams and play dates. Eg – facebook and What’s app groups.
2. Organise class gatherings – this could be with or without children (this is a great way to socialise and usually occurs a couple of times a year but of course could be less or more)
3. If required help SJV focus groups find class organisers and\or participants for events and fundraisers.
4. Be a point of contact for any parent and families new to the school or class queries.

Thanks for taking the time to consider building our community.

Peter Rodda

Principal

I\we are happy to accept the role of class contact for < please select which class>

Name(s):_____________________________________________________________________________________________

Phone: ____________________________________________________________

Email(s): ___________________________________________________________

                ____________________________________________________________

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

Wednesday 27th March

Karen and Suresh

Friday 29th March

Public Holiday

Wednesday 3rd April

Special Italian Carnevale Lunch 

Lunch will be on QKR to order from Monday 25th March

Karli, Karen and Jen

Friday 5th April

Jen and Suresh

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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

With the garden producing so many Zuchinis, Mel has made a zuchini slice that can now be purchased as a lunch item from the canteen.   2 pieces of vegetarian zucchini slice for $4.50 - order via the QKR app.

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 

Term 1

Week 1 Notes