Dear Parents and Carers,

Today our students had the opportunity to purchase gifts for the special men in their lives at our annual P&F Father’s Day Stall. We are grateful for the efforts of all those who worked hard and assisted to bring this annual event to fruition.

Father’s Day can be a useful time for all men to reflect on what it means to be a father or to have a fatherly influence on children. Social commentators often remark that the art of fatherhood has been lost in the modern era. The media continues to present fathers as the less capable and less responsible half of the parenting team. Childcare often becomes the domain of mothers, and fathers have often been reduced to ‘income-providers.’

Christian fathers can never accept any reduction in the importance of their role. Guided by their faith, they should wish to take their vocation as a father seriously. Fatherhood is a gift from God, and with this great gift comes great responsibility. Yet, although being a responsible father requires hard work, there are great rewards to be gained.

The following reflection, captures the many and varied men who may carry the title of father, all of whom we celebrate and give thanks for this coming Sunday.

Today, your child will be bringing home an envelope that contains important information for logging into the COMPASS system and receiving important updates from the school.

This COMPASS system will be replacing the SkoolBag notifications and SkoolBag will no longer be available to parents from the end of Term 3.

Today, parents will receive information about downloading the COMPASS App onto their device so that they are able to receive up-to-date information about school events and important information.
Please take the time to use this log in information to set up the COMPASS App.

We will be holding important parent workshops in the Tiered Learning Space, facilitated by Catholic Education Office Staff next week on Tuesday 3^rd September. One will be held for parents who drop off their children at 8:30am and again at 9:15am after assembly and the other at the end of the day at 2:30pm.

We will also have another workshop on Thursday 5^th September at 2:30pm. It would be great to put these dates into your calendar. These workshops will greatly assist parents in effectively accessing and using the Compass App.

Mrs Jane Webb
Acting Principal

New Principal, St John the Evangelist Catholic Parish Primary School, Campbelltown.

PARENT & COMMUNITY Consultation Survey

Dear Parents & Community Members of St John the Evangelist Catholic Parish Primary School, Campbelltown.

The process of recruiting a replacement for Principal Mrs Christina Murray is being carried out.  This position has been advertised, and interviews are planned in the near future to fill this vacancy. 

As part of the practice for this appointment, it is customary for the Catholic Education Office to conduct a process of consultation with members of the school community.  This consultation process will give members of the community an opportunity to highlight the positive aspects of the school they would like to see maintained, to identify areas they would like to see the school focus on improving in the future, and to provide some of the attributes they would like to see in the person being selected to lead their school on its continuing journey.

We invite all parents & community members to complete this short survey by Wednesday 4 September 2019.   If you wish to fill in this survey on paper, please see the school administrative staff for a copy.  This is your opportunity to be involved in the appointment of the person who will lead your school in the coming years.

LINK - Parent Community Consultation SJE Primary Campbelltown

Warm regards

Carolyn Hadley
Head of Human Resource Services
Catholic Education Office
Diocese of Wollongong

Sacramental Program – Confirmation

Confirmation preparation continues. The workshops continue for this week and next.

Two important upcoming dates are:

Reconciliation Date: Saturday 14 September 2019 at 10.30 to 11.30 am
Rehearsal Date:        Thursday 19 September 2019 (6pm – Rehearsal for 11.00am Mass & 7pm – Rehearsal for 2pm Mass)

As a school community, please pray for these young people as they prepare to receive this special Sacrament. 

Grade Mass

Years 1 and 6 will be celebrating a grade mass on Wednesday 4 September at 9.30 am.  Please come and join us in this Eucharistic Celebration.

Upcoming Whole School Mass – Creation Mass

We are having a whole school Mass to celebrate the wonder of Creation.  It is on our last day of term – Friday 27 September at 12 midday.  We hope you can join us to celebrate our Eucharist to give thanks to God for the beauty of the earth.   

RE Newsletter for Parents

The latest Religious Education Newsletter for Parents is attached to this week’s bulletin. 

Enjoy your week.

Mrs Kathryn Hampton

Religious Education Coordinator

ICAS Assessments Schedule Term 3 2019
St John the Evangelist Campbelltown

Stage 2 = Yrs 3 & 4

Stage 3 = Yrs 5 & 6

Wollongong Diocese Coding Club Finals

On the 12^th of August the Wollongong diocese held the mBot Coding Club finals. St. John’s, despite only having our robots for 3 terms were successful in qualifying for the final and were superbly represented by James Palpal-Latoc, Bea Sualibios and Nicholas Adams.

All three students engaged in problem solving and coding challenges that required them to program a bot to escape a maze and to use their bot to push an opposing bot out of a sumo ring. We congratulate our students on their success in finishing second in the diocese for the A-mazing Race challenge!

Mr. Borg & Mr. Sly

A reminder the school canteen is open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday and has a variety of food & drinks for purchase. Lunch orders are to be placed through Flexi Schools.

Due to health and safety regulations, we are unable to make or heat up any food for students that has been brought in from home. Please ensure packed lunches can be eaten straight from their lunch box. If their lunch requires a spoon/fork, please pack these each day.

Remember Waste Free Wednesday every week.

Our school banking day is: Wednesday