St John the Baptist Ferntree Gully Newsletter

If you have a child ready for Prep 2025, we encourage you to please put in an enrolment form as soon as you are able. This will help us with organisation purposes. To access an enrolment form:

• Drop into the school office to collect one

• Email office@sjferntreegully.catholic.edu.au and ask for a form to be sent home

• Visit the enrolment section of our school website and download a form

Thank you to our amazing Parents and Friends team for all of their work and organisation of Saturday's Mother’s Day Bunnings Cake Stall. 

The Parents and Friends Committee once again did an outstanding job in preparing this year’s Mother’s Day Cake Stall at Bunnings Scoresby.  This is a great community event that is much enjoyed by the local community. The donations of so many demonstrated not only community spirit but a wonderful array of cooking expertise. We thank our great team of volunteers who shared the role of looking after the stall throughout the day on Saturday 11th May.

We are so very fortunate to have such a beautiful sense of community at SJB. Thank you to everyone who contributed to making this event such a huge success.

Families who were unable to attend the online Qustodio meeting and would like to access the recording of the session are able to through the link below. 

Link - https://shorturl.at/emuy3

Last Wednesday evening we warmly welcomed our Prep families to join us for this year’s Information Evening. We thank  Laura, Melissa, Shari and Renee for preparing and presenting a most informative evening and our Prep families for attending the evening.  It was wonderful to see so many families in attendance.

We look forward to welcoming families into our Prep classrooms as parent helpers.

We were overwhelmed by the response that we received to help us with some jobs prior to our next working bee.  Therefore, we have cancelled this Saturday's Working Bee.

We are so fortunate to have a parent community that is so generous in sharing their time.

Thank you to Christopher Buttery and Claire Lewis who will be spreading the mulch tomorrow.

Thank you to Glen Reed who will be patching some damaged plaster.

Thank you to Lionel Croning who will install the number signs for all our classrooms.

Thank you to Matt Cann for moving our basketball and netball rings so that our children now have half courts to play on.

We have had a terrific response to our Working Bee dates and can confirm that we will be holding our next working bee on:

FRIDAY 14th June from 2:00 - 4:30pm

We will keep Saturday 22nd June as a tentative date for a second Working Bee but do hope that with the number of people that have indicated that they can attend the Friday working bee we may be able to complete all our jobs on this day.   

Each year Mater Christi and St Joseph's College invite SJB Year 4 students to Taster Days at their respective campus' to provide students with a Secondary School experience.  This year our Year 4 students travelled to Mater Christi / St Joseph's College on Thursday 2nd May.

Wishing everyone a fabulous week ahead.

Kelli Johnston

May

15th - School Advisory Council

17th - Assembly 3/4SJ presenting

19th - Pentecost Sunday

23rd - Knox Library visit - Biggest Morning Tea

24th - District Cross Country

27th - Reconciliation Week begins

27th - National Sorry Day Prayer Service at 9am - Year 5/6 

30th - Year 3/4 Level Mass

June

3rd - Parents & Friends Meeting

6th - St Joseph's Lighthouse Expo evening

7th - School Closure Day

7th - Feast of the Sacred Heart

10th - King's Birthday School Closure

14th - Assembly Year 5/6D

14th - Working Bee - 2.00-4.30pm

21st - Reports emailed to families

25th - Parent/Teacher/Student Interviews

26th - Parent/Teacher/Student Interviews

28th - St John the Baptist Feast Day celebrations

28th - Term 2 concludes @ 2.00pm

Any donations of clean, official SJB uniform (without holes, stains or tears) can be left at the office at your convenience. Thank you to the many families who have supported the 2nd Hand Uniform shop so far this year with donations and purchases.

Janice S

Canteen orders can be placed via http://www.flexischools.com.au

Orders must be placed no later than 7.30am on the Wednesday or Friday.