St John the Evangelist Catholic High School Nowra eNewsletter

ASSORTED NEWS

BAKE SALE

St John's Bake Sale was held on Wednesday 25 October. Baked goods were supplied by Year 11 House Captain's, Year 10 Youth Ministry Leaders and students who attended the Darwin Immersion Trip.
$647 was raised from the bake sale for Catholic Mission to be used to fund initiatives for the Aboriginal Community in Darwin. Thank you to everyone who purchased some yummy goodies in support of this worthy cause.

YEAR 7 BOOK BAG ASSESSMENT TASK WINNERS

In Term 3 as part of their English Assessment's Year 7 students were given a task to present a Book Bag. They needed to make a new cover for their book, present 5 items in their bag that represented something from the book and finally perform a speech to the class.

There were many amazingly creative Book Bags handed in by the Year 7 classes.

The following students won prizes for their Book Bag presentation.

7H - Alicia Manuelin

7I - Rachel Martinez

7J – Luxe Shaw

7K - McKenzie Smith

7L- Diesel Romeo

7M - Remm McKenzie

7N - Taliesin Douglass

(Unfortunately we could not get all of the winners together due to them being away.)

YEAR 8 PDHPE - FUNCTIONAL FITNESS

Miss Lloyd and Mrs Gray's Year 8 PDHPE classes combined to undertake a super functional fitness this morning. Students were in groups and had to collect cards which correlated to specific circuit activities, trying to achieve as many as possible in a certain time. They finished the lesson with a group plank challenge, awesome work year 8!

Miss Lloyd & Mrs Gray

SJE AG FARM - NEW STEERS

We welcomed some of our SJE show steers to the ag farm this week.

A BIG THANK YOU to the Watts family of ‘Stratherick Farm’ who kindly donated the steers to the school. The students will look after and train the steers for the next 7 months in preparation for the Nowra, Berry and Milton show, and culminating in the 2024 Steer School Spectacular in May.

The students are really looking forward to this exciting opportunity!

AG FARM NEW EDITIONS

On Monday 22 October St John's Ag Farm welcomed the arrival of three new editions. Mother goat, Storm gave birth to three adorable new kids who the students have named Puddles, Rain and Hurricane.

Today during orientation our 2024 Year 7 students got the chance to meet our new editions including another 3 new arrival's that were only born this week.

ILLAWARRA SOUTH COAST DRAGON'S REPRESENTATIVE'S - ST JOHN'S STUDENTS

Congratulations to the following St John's students who have been selected to represent the Illawarra South Coast Dragons.