St John the Baptist Ferntree Gully Newsletter

Dad’s the secret!! Our P & F team is busy preparing this year’s Father’s Day Stall for Tuesday 29th August.  Students are able to purchase tokens in preparation for the Father’s Day Stall. We thank the P & F team for their work behind the scenes in preparing some great gifts for our fathers.

We would like to celebrate the special men in our children’s lives.  On Thursday 31st August we invite our special men to join their child/ren for breakfast in our school hall.  Breakfast will be available from 8am and then classrooms will be open for you to join in for our morning prayer and activity.   

Please RSVP to the invitation sent via Operoo ASAP.

Exciting times ahead as our Year 3-6 students prepare to participate in the District Athletics Carnival at Knox Athletics Track, Bunjil Way, Knoxfield on Thursday 31st August. Families are requested to respond to the Operoo form to assist with confirmation of numbers on the day.

A number of additional practice sessions have been scheduled by Mr Mitchell.  Students wishing to attend these are most welcome. We ask that you confirm your attendance through Operoo.

We look forward to a fun day of athletics competition. We know that our students will represent themselves and SJB school in an exemplary manner.  Good luck everyone!!

MACSSIS surveys will be emailed home this week to 70 randomly selected families.  We ask that you look out for an email from ORIMA research which will contain the link to access the survey.  Your login details will be sent in a separate email from our school.

Our community’s opinions are critical to understanding how our school is performing – MACSSIS is a key data source so please take the time to complete the survey so that the thoughts and opinions of our whole school community can be used in guiding the ongoing work to improve our school.

If you would like more information, please contact the school.

Enrolments for Prep 2024 are now overdue. Any families still wishing to enrol for next year are encouraged to do so as soon as possible. 

Finalising Prep numbers is an important aspect of our forward planning.

Key enrolment dates for students in Year 5 in 2024 who will be commencing Year 7 in 2026 have been released.  Families are asked to place the following dates in their calendars.

• Monday 29th January 2024 - Applications open for students starting Year 7 in 2026

• Friday 16th August 2024 - Applications close

• Friday 18th October 2024 - Offers will be posted to prospective Year 7 students

• Friday 8th November 2024 - Final date for families to accept offers made by a school

Families are recommended to make at least two applications to colleges to ensure that a place can be found for all students.

This September our Year 3/4 students will attend an overnight camp at Camp Briars through Belgravia Outdoor Education. The camp will be held in the final week of the term with the students departing on Monday 11th September and returning on Tuesday 12th September.

We thank the following staff for their support and efforts in attending camp this year; Mrs Shari Correlje, Mr Wayne Daniell, Mrs Lisa Giuliano, Mrs Angela Cavarra and Mrs Tina Harper.

This is an exciting time for our students as they prepare for their first school camp.

To celebrate the end of another terrific term of learning and work we have scheduled Friday 15th September as Footy Day. The children will be able to wear their footy colours to school as part of the day of celebration. The students can come in their footy colours for the day and we look forward to a fun day of activities, as well as a special Footy Day lunch.  Further information will be shared in the near future.

Wishing everyone a fabulous week ahead.

Ursula DeCorrado

We are so excited for our cakestall on Saturday 2nd September.  Please return your baking forms asap to the office or email to parentsandfriends@sjferntreegully.catholic.edu.au.  

If you are able to help on the day or the day before, please use the Signup link below to book a slot.

Goods can be delivered to the Parish Hall Kitchen (behind the Office building) by 9am on Friday 1st September.

Sign Up Link

Our clever and talented children have been creating some masterpieces for our Art show, which has 2 showings Tuesday 5th September 6-7.30pm and Wednesday 6th from 2.30-4pm. We have dinner sorted for the Tuesday evening session. The P&F will be selling delicious large pizzas (8 slices) in partnership with Benny Boys in Ferntree Gully. $2 of each pizza sold will go directly to our school.  You can pre-purchase your dinner via the link in the attachment below, orders must be in by 4pm Friday 1st September. Pizzas and drinks can be collected from the 1/2 area in 2 time slots  Keep the night simple and enjoy the Art Show knowing your dinner is sorted.

At the Wednesday afternoon viewing we will be selling a Devonshire tea option that can be purchased on the day via cash or eftpos.

August

28th     School Assembly 1/2JM presenting

29th     Father's Day Stall

31st     District Athletics

31st    8.00am Father's Day Breakfast

September

1st    Year 5/6 Chamber Orchestra excursion

3rd    Father's Day

5th     Art Show - 6.00-7.30pm

6th     Art Show - 2.30-4.00pm

6th     School Advisory Council Meeting

11th    Assembly 1/2B

11th    Year 3/4 Camp - The Briars

12th    Year 3/4 Campers return

15th    R U OK? Prayer Service Prep at 9.00am

15th     Footy Day Celebration / Footy Lunch

15th     Term 3 concludes at 2.00pm

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.

Footy Lunch in the Canteen is on Friday September 15th.  Please note - this is instead of normal canteen.

Forms coming home tomorrow.  Please return them no later than Friday September 8th.

Ferntree Gully Falcons are looking for kids aged 5 and over who are wanting to play basketball. Come along to our registration day this Saturday the 19th of August 2023 at Knox Basketball Stadium, 7 Park Crescent Boronia between 8am and 1pm, or register via the link below:For general enquiries, contact us via email at secretary@ftgfalcons.com.au

Click this link for further information - https://www.playhq.com/basketball-victoria/register/388af7