ST JOHN'S NEWSLETTER INSPIRING
STUDENTS FOR LIFE
TERM 2 WEEK 6

In his presentation, Dr Carr-Gregg encouraged those present to share the following practical advice with our parents/carers:  

Give children far more time playing with other children.

Look for more ways to embed children in stable real-world communities.

Don’t give a smartphone as the first phone.

Don’t give a smartphone until secondary school.

Delay the opening of accounts on nearly all social media platforms until the beginning of secondary school at least.  

The last one is rather topical with the current national discussions around the use of social media by young people and the increasing age restrictions. Earlier this month, the Federal Government announced a $6.5m commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children's exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially social media.

As parents managing our children’s use of technology and their access of the internet can be a challenge and potentially, not very popular with them. But Dr Carr-Gregg stated that we, as the adults and parents/carers, need to be the prefrontal cortex, while they are developing theirs. Below are some quality safeguards for parents:

Below are some quality safeguards for parents:      

Bark

For use on Mobile Phones

Parental controls reimagined

Advanced content monitoring for all your kid’s devices    

Cold Turkey

For use with PC’s

Your future self will thank you.

Block websites, games and applications to boost your productivity and reclaim your free time.

Click the image below to get Cold Turkey    

Self Control

For use with Macs

Just set a period of time to block for, add sites to your blocklist, and click "Start." Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites—even if you restart your computer or delete the application.  

https://selfcontrolapp.com/

I am extremely grateful that we have a strong team that continually invest in the positive wellbeing of our students here at St John’s. I am also extremely grateful that we are a Christian school and gain our strength from the good news of Jesus’ word.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Positive Mental Health

Earlier this week, I connected into a webinar with Dr Michael Carr- Gregg with the support of Lutheran Principals Australia and SchoolTV. Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's highest profile psychologists, author of 14 books, broadcaster and a specialist in corporate mental health, families, parenting, children, adolescents and the use of technology for mental health. Dr Carr-Gregg provided some recent data on the national health of our young people, the implications for educational communities and the media’s influence on the wellbeing of individuals.  "The wellbeing of today's youth has never been more challenging."

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

Yours in Christian service,


Brad Moss
Principal

1 Corinthians 15

15 Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to remember the Good News I told you. You received that Good News message, and you continue to base your life on it.  

KIDS CHURCH - FRIDAY JUNE 14

We will be continuing our series on ‘What Christians Believe’ by looking at how God works. Did you know that all throughout the bible, God doesn’t choose the best or brightest or most qualified for his work. Instead, he chooses ordinary people like you and me!

Join us for a free sausage sizzle at 6pm, followed by the service.  

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KINDERGARTEN

BOUNCE BACK

During our Bounce Back sessions, we LOVE listening and singing along to the ‘Bounce Back- A song about resilience’ song. We have been watching stories and having circle time discussions about having courage. This week, we watched the story ‘Misery Moo’ and had a circle time about how we can look on the bright side of situations, rather than the miserable side.

SIMULTANEOUS STORYTIME

For Simultaneous Storytime, the Kinders loved reading the story book ‘Bowerbird Blues’ throughout the whole week. They were amazed by the beautiful illustrations painted by the author and the vocabulary we could pull out of it. Then, we watched a video about Bowerbirds and how they collect blue objects and sticks to make a nest. The Kinder’s searched around the classroom for blue objects and created their own Bowerbird nest which was very detailed and took a lot of patience. They loved it!

YEAR 2

BOUNCE BACK

This term students have been learning that we all feel nervous or frightened at times and that we need courage to face our fears. Last week students enjoyed the story 'Spaghetti in a Hot Dog' written by Maria Dismondy. After reading this story we discussed what it means to be brave. Many kids think it means being strong and doing heroic acts. But sometimes, it means having the courage to be yourself. Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun is a great story about a young girl who learns to embrace her differences while facing a boy named Ralph who does not make this easy.  

COMMUNITY GARDEN

Last Tuesday the 28th of May we went to the Jindera Community Garden behind the Pioneer Park. We met Eileen and Lorraine who shared with us how the garden began. They then showed us around and the students enjoyed picking some of the produce. We look forward to our next visit where we can become involved and contribute to this great community initiative.

MATHS SHAPES

Last week in mathematics students enjoyed exploring 2D shapes. They have been recognising, describing and representing shapes including quadrilaterals and other common polygons.  

MERIT AWARDS

A reminder - uniforms

please label all items

WINTER IS HERE!!!

It's jumper, jacket, scarf, beanie and glove time so please, please, please make sure EVERYTHING that comes to school is clearly labelled.

If your child brings home an item of uniform (including a hat) that isn't theirs, please contact the office, or let their teacher know so we can make sure it gets back to the rightful owner.