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TRIVIA NIGHT next friday
2 AUGUST - 7PM
Enjoy a fun night out at the SJV Trivia Night.
Tomorrow is the last day to book your tickets for the Trivia Night.
If you are looking for a fun night where you will meet old friends and new parents, creating new networks whilst sharing a drink and a laugh. This will be the event for youuuu.!!!
. Dress up like an Olympian, the Eifel Tower, a balance beam or a croissant, let your imagination go wild. There will be prizes for best dressed individual and the best dressed group.
What's coming up and when:
| Every Monday | Sports Day |
| Every Friday | Sports Day |
| Wednesday 24th July |
Confirmation 2024 Registrations Close
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| Friday 26th July |
CE Naidoc Mass -
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| Tuesday 30th July |
Confirmation Reflection Evening
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| Thursday 1st August |
Uniform Free Day for the Fete
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| Friday 2nd August |
Parent Trivia Night from 7pm dress anything Olympic SJV_Trivia_Night_2024_PDF.pdf
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| Sunday 4th August |
Feast of St John Vianney
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| Monday 5th August |
SJV Feast Day Celebrations
School Community Council Meeting - 6:00pm |
| Tuesday 6th August |
Confirmation Reflection Evening - 5:30pm St John Vianneys Catholic Church
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| Wednesday 7th August |
Incursion Performance by Sean Choolburra
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| Thursday 15th August |
Assumption Mass - School Hall 12:15pm-1:15pm
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| Wednesday 21st August |
Concert Matinee 10am
Concert Night 6:00pm Concert_ticket_note.pdf |
| Thursday 22nd August |
South Weston Regional Track & Field Carnival - Woden Park
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| Wednesday 28th August |
Sacrament of Confirmation with Father Richard Thompason 6:00pm St John Vianneys Catholic Church.
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| Thursday 29th August |
Book Week Parade 9am
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Uniform free day next week
A friendly heads-up, next Thursday 1 August (Term 3, Week 2) is SJV's uniform free day to celebrate the upcoming fete.
We're asking for a chocolate block or lolly donation (e.g. Kit Kat, 200g Cadbury Dairy Milk, packets of lollies) to stock the fete stalls! These treats will be a huge hit – for a cheeky hack, grab them while they’re on special at the supermarket! Uniform_free_day_SJV.pdf
Sponsorship and volunteers
We’re on the hunt for helping hands or businesses to support the SJV fete. If you can lend a few hours or you know a business that might want to get involved, reach out to sjvfete@gmail.com to join the dream team!
Sponsors receive great benefits and exposure in return for their support, including promotional signs, MC mentions on fete day, features in our newsletter and on our fete flyer.
Donations
Thank you to everyone who dropped items off on Sunday! Donations make our fete stalls amazing and we’re still in need of clean and good quality items including:
- Toys
- Books
- Second-hand items for the White Elephant stall
- Plants and seeds
- Supermarket paper or plastic bags
We’re so grateful for your generosity! Please note electrical goods can’t be accepted.
Drop off
Items can be dropped to SJV playroom (behind the Kindergarten room) anytime. There are labelled boxes for your donations so please help us out and pop items in the correct box.
Fete Coordinator
Dear SJV Families
Welcome to the beginning of Term 3. If you are a skier you are happy, if not, you are probably jumping on a plane and heading to Bali! In fact I believe that is exactly what some of our families are doing!
Lord:
In the midst of Winter, when the days are cold and wind can pierce remind us of the warmth of your love.
In the midst of Winter, when days are short, dawn comes late, and dusk arrives early remind us that in the darkness your light still shines.
And when in our lives we feel as if we are experiencing a season of winter, reach out to us with the power of your resurrection so that we may feel the warmth of your love and see your light that alone can take away the darkness of our soul.
- Cal Wick
School Pick Up and Drop Off
Just a reminder that if you are dropping off or picking children up from school, we have a specific drop off and pick up zone outside of our school hall. Please use this area as it keeps our students safe and eliminates congestion and frustration in our car park. Also, a reminder to those parents who are parking their car, to not park beside a curb that is painted red.
Community Garden and Musical Preparation - Thank you.
A big thank you to two of our families who recently went above and beyond. Thanks to the Adams family for completing an amazing job on building and painting a stage house for our Wizard of Oz musical (you can even see some witches legs underneath). Big thanks also goes to the Hering family who moved and repositioned several tons worth of sandstone blocks in our Community Garden, this job took several people an entire day!
All the volunteer work took considerable time and effort and we thank both families very much.
TTFM (Tell Them From Me) School Survey - 5th August
Soon a survey will be sent out to all our families regarding our school and how it caters for your child(ren). The survey is aimed to enable schools within the Diocese to measure and understand the factors that are known to have a direct and profound impact on well-being and student learning within your school. More information will follow soon via Compass.
School Musical - Tickets now available
The tickets to see our Wizard of Oz school musical are now available. This is the first live show we have put on since 2018, when the current Year Six students were in Kindergarten. This show is not to be missed, so I would advise to start booking tickets now. A Compass message and hard copy information was sent out yesterday and people have already started booking their seats.
https://www.trybooking.com/CTVLM
Trivia Night - Friday 2nd August
This should be a fantastic night with teams currently being formed to fight for the title of quiz master. If you have not booked a ticket, reach out to some friends and start to form a table, if you can only find five or so people, let us know and we will try and put you in contact with another five to form a whole table.
School Uniform
Please remember to ensure that your child is dressed in full school uniform. This includes the correct shoes. If your child is wearing black runners, these should be all black as opposed to half black, white, green, orange etc. Your help with this would be much appreciated. If you have any problems accessing the correct uniform, please contact the school for assistance.
NAPLAN
NAPLAN hard copy results will be sent home tomorrow via student's bags. These results are a snapshot of your child's performance at that time they took the test. When the results are put together with our remaining suite of school assessments, they add valuable information that teachers draw from when planning activities and supports for our students.
Peter Rodda
Principal
Celebrating NAIDOC Week at SJV
What is NAIDOC Week?
NAIDOC Week is celebrated across Australia in July each year to recognise the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This week is a time to embrace the diverse and vibrant cultures of Indigenous Australians, and it serves as an opportunity for everyone to come together and learn more about the First Nations people.
The students will focus on this year’s theme: “Keep The Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud!”
SJV will be celebrating NAIDOC Week with an afternoon of sporting activities, led by our Yr 6 students, A selected number of students will also attend our system Mass with Mrs Kain and Mr Rodda on Friday morning.
St John Vianney's Concert Extravaganza for 2024 - The Wizard of OZ!
SJV have traditionally had a concert on even years. Our last 'live' performance was held pre-COVID in 2018, when our current Yr 6's were in Kindergarten. This should be an very exciting community event.
Information about how to purchase tickets went home in hard copy and electronically yesterday. The main details can be found below.
Our School Concert will be held on Wednesday 21st August with 2 performances:
Matinee Performance – 10.00am
Night Performance – 6.00pm
This year the children will perform “The Wizard of OZ”, story by Frank Baum and adapted for the school stage by Mary Dietz-Mullamphy. It will be held in the school hall and all children are involved.
Tickets for both performances (allocated seating) will be sold through Trybooking.com. We will be limiting sales to Six (6) tickets per family (children at SJV will not require a seat). This is to allow all families a chance to purchase tickets. The limit on tickets will be lifted one week prior.
To purchase tickets: · Log onto: https://www.trybooking.com/CTVLM 
- Select and pay for required tickets.
- You will be sent an email of purchased tickets
- Keep your email or printed tickets
Staff Professional Development
On Monday, while families were enjoying an extra day with their children, staff were focused on diving deeper in to the eight big ideas that are the foundations of Catalyst. Understanding and reflecting on these ideas will support teachers to refine their practice and continuously make instructional decisions informed by the evidence and based on the Science of Learning and Science of Reading.
Th 8 Big Ideas are:
I thank all staff for their engagement and willingness to keep learning and for the extra hours during their stand down time away from their own families to prepare for Term 3 learning.
HATS ON - BEING SUN SMART
In line with our SunSmart policy, children will need to wear their hats again from August which is at the end of next week. Please spend time locating their school hat ready for playtime from next Thursday.
Mrs D’s ‘Thought of the Week….’
Nina De Rosa
Assistant Principal
RE News with Emma Donaghue
Thank You
Thank you for your generous donations of warm clothes and hygiene essentials on Winter Woollies Day. I know our students enjoyed personally giving their donations to the Night Patrol van, making the day all more meaningful. These contributions are directly helping those in need in the Weston Creek and wider Canberra area. The spirit of compassion and kindness shown by our community is truly inspiring. Your generosity is making a real difference in the lives of many, providing warmth and essential items to those who need them most. Thank you for embodying the spirit of giving and caring for our community.
St John Vianney Feast Day Celebrations 2024
We will be celebrating St. John Vianney's Feast Day on Monday, 5th August 2024. The day will begin with a Parish Mass at 9:30 am, followed by in-school activities starting at 12 pm. Parents are welcome to attend the Parish Mass. This special occasion honours our patron saint, and we look forward to a day filled with community spirit and celebration.
Sacraments 2024
Registrations for Confirmation for 2024 are open and we encourage families who would like their child to receive this Sacrament this year to register as soon as possible via the Parish Qkr! account. All questions and other general enquiries about the Sacramental program are best directed to the Parish Office via email: SacramentalOLA@cg.org.au
Eligibility for each Sacrament is as follows:
Reconciliation - open to students who have been baptised Catholic and who are in Year 3 or above.
First Eucharist - open to baptised Catholic students who have made their Reconciliation and are in Year 4 or above.
Confirmation - open to baptised Catholic students who have received their First Eucharist and who are in Year 6 or above.
Confirmation
Tuesday 23rd July: Reflection Hour, 5:30pm, St John Vianney’s Church
Wednesday 24th July: Confirmation registrations close
Tuesday 30th July: Reflection Hour, 5:30pm, St John Vianney’s Church
Tuesday 6th August: Reflection Hour, 5:30pm, St John Vianney’s Church
Saturday 24th August/Sunday 25th August: Gathering Masses
Tuesday 27th August: Reflection Hour/Preparation Hour, 5:30pm, St John Vianney’s Church
Wednesday 28th August: Sacrament of Confirmation, 6pm, St John Vianney’s Church, (celebrated by Father Richard Thompson)
Please note - Merit Awards will be handed out at NEXT Friday's morning assembly.
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KA |
Jaleyah ODonkor |
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1 B |
Rossana Jasi |
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2 J |
Heidi Spackman |
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3 |
Skye Walker |
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4 |
Geoffrey So |
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5/6 J |
Rangjung Khuenchap |
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5/6 P |
Paige Ford |
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The Arts |
Olivia Thorpe |
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Library |
Oskar Rushall |
Term 2 Week 9 Merit Awards
Grayson Bozsoky, Mele Lapota, Shaun Shih, Evelyn Dixon, Elsie Spackman,
Farrah Van Duren, Elio Buenaventura, Mercy Isisheri, all of Year 6 students and Harper Topp.
Happy Birthday Amyra, Quinn and Izzy
As part of the Resilience Program, we have been learning about gratitude. Please help grow our Gratitude Tree in the ELC foyer. Take a moment to think about what you are grateful for, write it on a leaf and add it to our tree.
July Holidays
Our 48 week children had a fabulous time in the school holidays. The first week we had a Bunnings incursion where they helped to revamp our cubby house, a Reptiles Inc incursion, celebrated Christmas in July and Winter Wonderland, we also had activities focused on NAIDOC week.
The second week we had a fire truck incursion, explored some of our favourite stories creating story bags, we recreated the story Stone Soup, had a movie and pyjama day, and finished with a disco.
Thank you to our dedicated educators that create and provide amazing experiences each day.
Canberra Theatre Excursion – Grug
The Lobsters and Turtles will enjoy a fun bus trip to the Canberra Theatre to see Grug tomorrow. Please ensure you have returned the permission note to the class teacher.
Mura Gadi Gang
Next week we commence the Mura Gadi program. Mura Gadi is an Indigenous term meaning ‘pathways of learning’. Every Monday and Friday the classes go offsite to explore different areas in Weston Creek and learn on and from the land. Each location has a learning focus and each session begins with an acknowledgement of country. Please ensure the children are dressed for the weather on these days, gumboots come in very handy.
ELC Staffing
We have been very fortunate to welcome two new educators to the ELC. Neda Behdarvand and Roshan Simkhada will be joining the Stingray team as Kajsa Aquilina and Sarah Stapleton are on maternity leave.
Portfolios
We hope you have had a wonderful time looking through your child’s portfolio. Please remember to return it to the ELC so we can continue to add to it in semester 2.
2025 ELC enrolment acceptance due now
Letters of offer have now been sent and acceptances are due this Friday 26 July. If you have not received any correspondence from us, please check your spam/junk folder or contact the ELC office.
Karen Leighton - St Jude's Early Learning Centre
Phone: 0262875520
Email: karen.leighton@cg.catholic.edu.au
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
Friday26th July
Karen
Wednesday 31st July
Emily
Friday 2nd August
Tessa/Alex
Term_3_2024_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
A new WINTER Canteen Menu is available here and on our website. Term 2 & 3 Winter Menu Term 2 and 3
Term 1 & 4 The Summer Tuckshop Menu kicks in.
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
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ThinkUKnow.pdf see QKR to RSVP
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