Upcoming Dates

Head of School

Dear St John’s School Community,

Wow. How quickly we have reached the middle of Term 3! Where has the time gone? It’s been fantastic to see the students and teachers eagerly practising their items in order to prepare for our annual School Concert. As you can imagine, a lot of effort is put into class performances and students certainly enjoy the opportunity to showcase their talents!

Thank you to those parents and grandparents who have eased the traffic congestion during pick up and drop off times at School. It’s wonderful to see that parents and grandparents are staggering their times or have opted to park a little further away. Please be advised that there have been parking inspectors monitoring the situation. We ask that you cooperate with our School Staff who are on duty on Pakington and Aberdeen Streets should they point out to you that you may be causing congestion or a safety hazard. Student safety is paramount!

Robin Mann entertained the students on Monday afternoon, with everyone joining in to sing along to an array of familiar songs. It’s always great opportunity for the students to meet a songwriter face to face. It not only familiarises them with the person who creates songs which they sing at School, but it allows the students to identify another way that the Lord works through individuals and their talents!

Next week, students and teachers will be celebrating Book Week and Science Week. It will begin with S1 (Mr T’s class) presenting the play ‘Joseph and his Coat of many Colours’ to the Red Kinder Group on Tuesday morning. On Wednesday morning during Chapel, S2 will be presenting a film of them acting out “Joseph and his Coat of many Colours’ to the whole School, followed by both of the Senior classes singing the song of the same name, as well as the Prep students performing ‘The Rainbow Song’. On Thursday afternoon, all students will be involved in a whole School Science afternoon where they will complete a range of rotations with a Science focus. I would like to extend a big thank you to Mrs Lytzki, Mrs Looker, Mrs West, Mrs Foott, Mrs Gibbons and Miss Grieger for their wonderful contributions and preparation.

I remind you all that tomorrow and Friday are curriculum days where staff will be involved in professional development.

As of next week, Mrs Jeanette Pelchen will take over the role of ‘Acting Head of School’ until the end of Term 3 whilst I go back to teaching S1. I would like take this opportunity to thank Mrs West for all of her hard work and efforts whilst teaching my students.

Enjoy your four day weekend!

Yours in Christ

Steven Tkaczuk, Acting Head of School

Devotional Thought

Ephesians 5:1 - Be Imitators of Jesus Christ

What does it mean to imitate Jesus? It may be easy to imitate an animal when playing charades by doing actions like flapping like a bird, or hopping like a kangaroo. But when we imitate people it can be much more difficult. The apostle Paul encourages us that as Christians we should imitate Jesus as followers of Him. We must imitate Jesus by changing on the inside, not by changing our appearance on the outside. We are only able to do this by the Holy Spirit. The Bible says that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22). We are able to be like Jesus by loving God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, by loving others and showing the fruits of the spirit in what we say and do. What a joy it is to be part of God’s family!

Carrie Veith, M2 Teacher

Term 3 Week 5 12th August 2015

2015 AUG Thurs 13th

& Fri 14th Pupil Free Days – No School, Kindergarten to operate as normal.

18 – 20th Book Week Celebrations

Thurs 20th Science Activity Afternoon - Book Week

Fri 21st Years 5 & 6 Interschool Sports – away game

Wed 26th Open Library – donate a book day

Thurs 27th Casual Clothes Day – Father’s Day Gift Item Donation

Fri 28th Years 5 & 6 Interschool Sports – Home game

SEP Fri 4th Father’s Day Stall

Thurs 17th School Concert 7.30pm

Fri 18th Term 3 Ends

OCT Mon 5th Term 4 Commences

Tues 13th –Thurs 15th

Years 3 & 4 Camp

Fri 16th Geelong Show Day – No School or Kindergarten

NOV Fri 20th Pupil Free Day – Report writing

DEC Wed 9th Term 4 Ends

Birthdays

Happy birthday to the following students who are celebrating their birthday in the coming week.

Sascha August 14th M2

Eleanor August 14th J3

Ava August 18th M2

Charlotte August 18th M2

Augustine August 19th M1

Imogen August 19th S2

Farewell

This week we farewell Lily (S1) and her family from St John’s School Community. We wish Lily and her family all the best as they move overseas.

Book Week

This year, we will be celebrating Book Week starting with our senior students presenting a drama performance of “Joseph and his coat of many colours” on Tuesday 18th August for our St John’s Kindergarten Red Group. Parents are invited to come along and watch.

The Library Captains will be presenting the Chapel Service on the 19th of August, continuing with a Science afternoon on the 20th of August and finishing with our Open Library Day.

This year’s Open Library Day will be held on Wednesday 26th August featuring this year’s Book Week theme “Books Light Up Our World”.

The Library will be open for parents and friends to visit and share the children’s displays and books created by each class. Refreshments will be available throughout the day. A small book shop is on offer for you to purchase a book and donate it to the Library. Purchases can be cash or credit card. Your donation will be recognised inside the book. Books for purchase will be available for viewing in the Library from Monday 24th August (before and after school).

If parents would also like a copy of any book for their child, they can order and pay on the day and the book will be delivered to the School for collection through the week. Library classes will still be operating on the day. Parents and friends are warmly invited to come in to the Library, view the children’s work and participate in Library sessions. Lynn Lytzki, Librarian

Kindergarten News

QUIP Planning Day All Kinder Staff will be attending the QUIP planning day on Tuesday 8th September. The Kinder will run as normal with relief staff. We thought we would give advance notice so if your child may be uncomfortable with new staff, you can organise alternative arrangements. Two of the relief staff have helped out last term when Sue was on leave, so they are familiar with our routines. Current staff will return for pickup to ensure things run smoothly. If you have any queries please speak to Rae.

Policy Review We are currently reviewing our policies. It is mandatory that the Kinder gives parents the opportunity to review the changes we make to these policies and to provide feedback. We have changed how these policies are available to review. We now have them available on the website. Please see Rae to gain the link and password if you are interested in providing feedback on the policies.

Vacancies 2016 The Kinder still has vacancies for 2016. If you know of any families that need a 4 Year Old Kinder program for 2016, please contact the School Office.

Upcoming Events AUGUST 14th Responsible Pet Program 18th Red Group Special Performance of Joseph and his coat of many colours (9.45am in the Hall) 19th Yellow Group Special Chapel Service organized by Library Captains in the Hall

20th Red Group Science Activity Afternoon: 2.05pm @

Kinder 21st Yellow Group Science Activity Morning

Raelene Roede, Kindergarten Team Leader

Library News

Library Awards:

J3: for fantastic focus and conversation about the illustrator Freya Blackwood with the shared picture stories “My Two Blankets”, “Run Away Hug” and “Go to Sleep Jessie”.

S1: for fantastic conversation about the past, present and future for our character Cartwheel in the shared picture story “My Two Blankets” by Irena Kobald and illustrated by Freya Blackwood.

Reminder:

Thursday 13th & Friday 14th

August are Pupil Free days -

there will be no students

required at School.

Kindergarten will operate as

normal.

Mr. Illingworth has finished the story “The BFG” in class and to celebrate, we have had a BFG party in Library. The class is pictured with the infamous “snozzcumber”. It apparently tastes terrible. To get a better idea, read the book!

Certificates of Appreciation go to:

Luca , Rachael , Noah and Benjamin.

Lynn Lytzki, Librarian

Level 2 Craft

Level 2 students have been participating in craft sessions each Friday afternoon. Each class completes craft related to our Humanities topic “Space and our solar system”. Here, J3 students show off the rockets that they made by covering a bottle with paper mache and then painting it. BLAST OFF!

Melinda Troeth, J3 Teacher

Student Wellbeing News

WELLBEING PASSPORTS Last week a wellbeing initiative was launched for all students. Everyone should have brought home a wellbeing passport with lots of activities to complete during August. The passports were put together by Mr Hedt and encourage the children to explore areas such as friendships, social awareness, feelings, self-management and support networks. Everyone student who enters the competition receives a novelty stress ball as well as going into a draw from some other great prizes. The challenge requires parent support at home, but will be lots of fun and a great opportunity to see your child learn and grow. The passports need to be completed and handed in before Friday August 28. Angela McLean, Wellbeing Coordinator

Parents Presentation: Understanding Anxiety Mental health clinician Sue Eddy will lead a presentation that will help parents understand and talk about anxiety with a young person. It will include a discussion and exploration of a case study and runs Wednesday, September 2, from 6pm to 7.30pm at Geelong Performing Arts Centre. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased on the day, or pre-booked (additional $5) with the GPAC Box Office 5225 1200 www.gpac.org.au

MS Readathon

The reading has started but there is still time to register. Head to https://register.msreadathon.org.au and get involved!

Keep an eye out for our newsletters (emailed to all participants) for great insights and inspiration, and remember to check out our website www.msreadathon.org.au for cool competitions and activities, answers to frequently asked questions (such as “How do I collect money for the MS Readathon?” and “I’ve registered. Now what?”), leaderboard and more.

Let’s all get reading for a reason! PS Need to get in touch? Give us a call on 1300 MS READ (or 1300 677 323). Speak soon! Bosko and MS Readathon Team

Lost Property

There are still missing items of clothes that are clearly marked with the student’s name. Two rugby tops clearly named Charlie and the other one Hamish. Also a raincoat clearly marked Felicity. Please double check that your child hasn’t inadvertently brought home an extra item of clothing, and that your child has the correctly named item of clothing. Please make sure all items of clothing are clearly marked with your child’s name.

Sports Awards

Years 5 & 6 Interschool Sport

Next Friday 21st August our Years 5 & 6 students will continue Interschool Sport for Term 3.

The games will be held at Nazareth Catholic Primary School, Griffiths Street, Grovedale.

In the event of wet weather please contact the School to clarify if alternative arrangements have been made.

Basketball News

St John’s Bobcats Basketball Team. Saturday 15th August - 10.40am Saturday 22th August - 9.50am Saturday 29th August - 9.50am Leeanne

Parents & Friends News

Casual Clothes Day – Thursday August 27th On Thursday August 27th there will be a Casual Clothes Day for the students. We are seeking donations on that day for the Father’s Day stall which will be held on Friday 4th September.

Cadbury Chocolate Drive. Please return outstanding chocolate money to the School Office. We have 5 boxes left to sell. If anybody is able to assist by selling more boxes, please see Office staff to collect another box. We will keep selling them until they are all gone. We aim to raise over $4000 with the chocolates. YUM YUM! Woolworths Earn and Learn Stickers Thank you to everyone who is collecting stickers for the Earn And

Learn program. Keep collecting if you can. This program runs through until the 8th of September.

Sally, Parents & Friends President

Netball News

SEEKING EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: Hello to all those keen Netballers out there,

We'd like to open up an Expression of Interest to any students (Years 3&4 in 2016) of St Johns, who might like to play netball for the upcoming Summer season.

The "Summer Season" commences at the beginning of Term 4 2015 (first week back) and runs through until the end of Term 1 2016. The preference is to commit to a weekly game for the entire season.

As some of our current Lollipops are now progressing to the Years 5&6 competition which will see them in a new team, we particularly need some new players to support the Years 3&4 team (this is for students who will be in Years 3 or 4 in 2016).

The 2016 Years 5&6 (currently the 2015 Lollipops) team will continue playing on a Wednesday afternoon throughout the Summer Season. All of this does depend on available Coaches and Parent Helpers.

For the Years 3&4 interest, please make contact with (mother of Leah) on For the Years 5&6 interest please make contact (after school hours) with Alicia (mother of Savannah) on or Rachel (mother of Lucille) on

Kind Regards, Rachel

Entertainment Books

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported our fundraiser and bought an Entertainment book this year. So far we have sold 113 books and digital memberships and raised an amazing $1,243 towards valuable school resources. Books are still for sale for another few weeks so it’s not too late to still get a copy for yourself or a friend. You can order them online at www.entbook.com.au/1164e46 or contact me at christine@5iveonline.com or 0438 551 771.

Thank you, Christine Duncan.

A big thank you to Christine for organising this fundraiser for our School. We really appreciate the time and effort you have put in to this venture again this year.

Playgroup News

Playgroup is on every Monday and we look forward to catching up with you all! Come and join us, get out of this freezing cold weather and join in some craft, free play, stories and songs. Come along from 9am – 10am in St John’s

School Hall. Coffee & tea, fruit & play. All Welcome. For more information contact Callie.

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Hudson For showing great attention during sports lessons.

Tahra For her excellent effort every sports lesson.

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Harrison For being an excellent consistent student and showing great skills each week.

Adaeze For always trying her best and showing enjoyment every sports lesson.

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Darcy For being a keen and happy student during every sports lesson.

Ruby For always being an attentive and eager student, and for her improving skills.

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Oliver For his enjoyment every lesson and showing great skill level.

Geelong Lutheran College

It was my pleasure to speak to our Primary School students during this week about “surprises.” There are good surprises and some not so good surprises. As much as we can try to control our circumstances, there are some things that are beyond us. However, knowing that God has knowledge over all things, that God cares for us and helps us (Mt. 10:29-30) is a great reassurance - we don’t have to be a “victim” of our circumstances.

Congratulations to our Middle and Senior School students who competed against other schools from the Western Christian Schools Sporting Association. Although the final scores from yesterday are not yet collated, the anecdotal reports speak volumes about our students’ participation and sportsmanship. Well done to our students, and thank you to Mr Baker for his organisation of this day.

On campus, it was similarly busy with Year 6 students from St John’s joining our Year 6 students for a day of transitioning into Middle Schooling. I was particularly impressed with the way students from each school worked together with the positive, working atmosphere in the classes. Thank you to Mrs Quirk and our Middle School teachers for their involvement in these activities.

As a reminder, no classes are scheduled for Thursday and Friday this week while our teachers are involved in staff development days. This time will also give a chance for those students suffering from the winter colds and sniffles to rest and be ready for next week. Looking ahead to our calendar, our last Open Morning for the year will be held on Friday, August 28 (9:30am to 12:00 Noon). This morning provides prospective parents and students with an excellent opportunity to see the College in action. Please share this date with families you know who may be interested in what GLC has to offer for their children.

Barry Krueger, Head of School

Extend After School Care News

We regret to advise that we have received insufficient bookings for the Pupil Free Day service on 13 & 14 August to run at St John's Lutheran School. As a result, please note that there will be no Outside School Hours Care and Pupil Free Day services running on these days.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any queries please contact our Customer Service team on 1300 36

Monday 10th August – Friday 14th August, 2015 Progressing well into the term, almost up to week 6. I hope you have great weather, good company and delicious food on your extended weekend Traci P.S. Hey parents the children have been practising there moves for their performances for the SJLPS concert. Looks like it will be a great family experience. HOLIDAY PROGRAM BOOKINGS ARE OPEN AT A SCHOOL NEAR YOU! Book by Friday 4 September to avoid a late fee.

Our holiday program bookings are open and there’s a local one near you. All Extend’s holiday programs are open to primary school aged boys and girls. We have heaps of fun activities planned these school holidays and can’t wait for you to attend! Create a windsock by combining science, technology, engineering, art and maths. Channel your inner architect as you design, construct and build a magnificent 3D tower. And create an amazing airplane piggy bank complete with wings and a propeller. Participate in all this and more at Extend’s Spring Holiday Program. To check out what’s on and where your local program is, visit our website at extend.com.au and book via the Parent Portal. Recap Last week the children created Chinese fans which enhanced and developed their awareness of Chinese culture while having fun. The children were able to cook and experience with Chinese style fried rice and vegetarian dumplings and got the opportunity to try a different variety of food. We completed a group mural of the Extend mascot “Gilbert”. Which is on display on Extends Facebook page and in the multi-purpose room at SJLS. These activities helped to develop the children’s confidence as a group, enhanced their cooking skills, improve their fine/gross motors skills and allowed then to experiment with a number of art and craft styles and materials. AN AWESOME EFFORT WAS DISPLAYED BY ALL ASC STUDENTS IN THE CREATION OF THE WALL MURAL. THANKYOU FOR YOUR INCLUSION IN THIS AMAZING PROJECT. WELL DONE Our Extend Superstars is all ASC students for showing leadership skills, group collaboration/teamwork, patience in turn taking, and completing and absolutely amazing wall mural. Term 3 Week 6 activities

Monday: Ink drawings

Tuesday: Indian inspired cooking

Wednesday: Child initiated activities

Thursday: cultural dancing, drawing and stories

Friday: Movie day - Bollywood

We’re currently updating our databases. Could you please check that your online details are correct and up to date? If parents need to update contact details or any other personal information, please call head office and also inform myself between 2.30pm and 6pm. Watch this space throughout the term for regular updates from our Extend team! PARENT PORTAL: extend.com.au

Church Information

St John’s Lutheran Church, 165 Yarra Street, Geelong. Sunday worship 9am*. Sunday school runs every week during school term. Office: 5221 5121. St Paul’s Lutheran Church, 307 Torquay Rd, Grovedale. Sunday worship 9.30am*. Office: 5241 5141. Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, 60 Ballarat Rd, North Geelong. Rev Lester Priebbenow. Office: 5278 2443. Sunday worship at 9.30 am with Holy Communion on 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Mollers Lane, Leopold. Worship, 11am every Sunday.

*Please note that St John’s, Holy Trinity and St Paul’s churches are in the process of calling new pastors. A combination of pastors, retired pastors and lay readers are leading these services.

Clothing Donation Request

My name is Rachel and I am the mother of Lucille who is currently in Year 4 at St John’s. I am part of the Gateways Support Services Respite Team, where we assist children and adults with various forms of disabilities and their families.

I would like to focus this special request to our St Johns families as we are in need of some clothing assistance, for a young female client of Gateways Support Services. This particular client is aged 10, but is quite tall and is developing into a young lady. The client would welcome donations of clothing suitable for now being winter and heading into the season of spring. Preferably Size 14 (children’s / girls sizing). If you do have any suitable & clean second hand girls’ clothing, could you place into a clean shopping bag and either hand to the School Office over the next week (till 20th August), where I can collect from, otherwise if it’s easier, please feel welcome to drop into Gateways Support Services located at 10 – 12 Albert Street, Geelong West (opposite the old Geelong West Town Hall).

Thanking you in advance.

Rachel

Community Notices

The following are flyers that we currently have on Our School Noticeboard for upcoming events in the area:

Surf Coast Century Kids Run 5pm Friday 18th September

Vicspirit Girls Cricket Try progam Saturday 22nd August

Geelong Regional Parenting Programs

GSODA Reunion Gala Performance

Kelly Sports Program Term 3

St Peters Cricket Club Registration Day

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