Dear Parents and Carers,

In the Gospel of Luke 11:1-13, we hear the disciples asking Jesus how to pray. Prayer is about establishing a personal relationship with God, as with any relationship, prayer takes time and energy on our part. Developing a rich prayer life is an important step to building our relationship with God. Jesus taught his disciples how to pray using the words that we know as the Our Father. Through this prayer we ask God, to give us each day our daily bread, to forgive our sins and to also forgive those who have sinned against us. When we pray, we enter into a conversation with God, we open ourselves to asking God to come into our lives and be with us through all aspects of our lives. We also need to be open to God’s will. This means that things may not happen in the timeframe that we envisage. When we make a request for something, we are asking God to work through us to enable this to occur. For example, when we pray for peace, we are asking God to help us to be makers of peace to those around us.

Having taught his disciples a simple, daily prayer, Jesus goes on to reassure them that God answers prayers. First he tells a parable about a persistent neighbour who asks a friend for bread at midnight. The friend is already in bed and has no desire to disturb his family by opening the door. But because the neighbour is persistent, the sleeping man gets up and gives him all that he needs.

If a neighbour is willing to help us if we are persistent enough, how could God not respond to our requests?

Jesus leaves his disciples with three verbs, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. We need to continue to build our relationship with God through daily prayer life so that we can continue to ask, seek and have the door of faith opened to us.

Wishing you a great week ahead.

Mrs Jane Webb
Acting Principal

ICAS Testing

A note regarding ICAS testing for 2019 is attached for your infomation.

Please be advised the closing date on the original note sent home with students has changed, the closing date is now 7th August 2019. We also wish to advise the fee per test is $15.95 not $14 as originally advised.

COMPASS 

The school switched over to a new computer system this term and we thank you for your patience while we experience a few 'teething problems'.

The attached document explains a little bit more about the system. Some parents/carers may have already received these notifications.

CONGRATULATIONS IS EXTENDED TO OUR TERM THREE CLASS CAPTAINS WHO RECEIVED THEIR BADGES AT TODAY’S MORNING ASSEMBLY –

This week, we warmly welcome back Mr Scott Borg to St John’s. Scott has recently had a period of leave to welcome the safe arrival of his first son, Luca. We extend congratulations to Scott and his wife Katrina at this time of great joy.

We also wamly welcome back Mrs Vicki Stolzenhein, to the position of Canteen Manager for two days (Tuesday and Thursday) each week. Mrs Stolzenhein has been the Canteen Manager for many years and she returns following a period of personal leave to support her family circumstances. Mrs Stolzenhein is a very valued and much loved member of our school community. She fulfils a unique role within our school, that involves a multitude of tasks, including many that are unseen by the wider community. Mrs Nicole Tate will also continue in the role as Canteen Manager this term to support Mrs Stolzenhein’s return to St John’s.

Much gratitude is extended to all our families and their special visitors who were able to join us in making last Friday such a special day in our school calendar. I know how important these special people are in the lives of our students and it was 

wonderful to see how much the students and grandparents enjoyed this special day.

Thank you to Fr Feleki, our staff and students, who under the leadership of Mr Astill helped us to celebrate the special blessing of having grandparents and gr

eat people in our lives.

Thank you also to our wonderful P&F who are assisted with the hospitality and contributed greatly to building community spirit for the day.

Remember Waste Free Wednesday every week.

Our school banking day is: Wednesday

Clothing Pool is open this week on Friday morning 8.30-9am