A recent school assembly epitomised the breadth of talent within our student body, when a variety of awards were given out for school activities….
Earlier this year, John Colet School participated in the Australia My Country competition run annually by the Forestville RSL Sub Branch. This year the theme was “Coming Home” and 350 primary school children entered from 21 local schools across 3 categories and 2 age groups. John Colet School entrants did very well in the Australia My Country competition run annually by the Forestville RSL, winning 4 of the 20 prizes. Composition (Years 3 & 4) Second Place – Finlay S Composition (Years 3 & 4) Third Place – Jasmine E Art (Years 3 & 4) Second Place – Vedanshi M Art (Years 5 & 6) Fourth Place – Annica P The prizes were presented recently by Jonathan O’Dea MP at Forestville RSL Club.
Our Shakespeare Club who were
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Things to do at our Open Day, Sun 26 May, 10am – 2pm
10am – 11am – See our students perform Shakespeare, recitations and singing on stage
11am – See The Vegetable Plot perform at Top House, free.
11am – See a Fencing demonstration by students on the main stage.
Buy brunch from our French Cafe and coffee from Black Ops Coffee. Lemonade stall by our friends at Ralston street shops.
Choose your favourite cake in our Cake Baking and Decorating Competition on the upstairs verandah. Bid in the silent auction to take a great cake home.
Buy cakes and slices at our P&F cake stall.
Buy a sausage sandwich at our vegetarian BBQ, up near Top House
Buy books at our Book Fair in the Library.
Tour as many classrooms as you can!
Play games of skill and daring with 6th class at their games stalls. Bring lots of gold coins to pay them!!
Get a free photobooth picture taken with your friends (or your Mum and Dad!)
Visit our art room, see wonderful
Student performances program at Open Day
Presenting the Shakespeare playbill for Upper 1st and 2nd classes
Wed 26th June, Morning 9.15 am
2nd Class, 2B
Macbeth
Wed 26th June, Morning 9.50 am
2nd Class, 2C
Taming of the Shrew
Wed 26th June, Evening 5.30pm
Upper First
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thu 27th June, Morning 9.30am
Upper First
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thu 27th June, Evening 5.30pm
2nd Class, 2B
Macbeth
Thu 28th June, Evening 6.10 pm
2nd Class, 2C
Taming of the Shrew
Please arrive 10 minutes before the starting time to be seated.
Thai style vegetable curry, another of Chef's recipes!
Paste
1 tub May poi yellow curry paste
100mls sweet chili sauce
1 bunch Thai basil
1 bunch Vietnamese mint
1 bunch coriander
8 cloves garlic
1 bulb of ginger (peeled)
2-4 long red chillies (depending on hot you would like it)
(The paste will last up to 3 months in a sealed container in the fridge please note if the use by date on the paste is a shorter time this will affect the length of time you can keep the paste)
Curry for family of 4
1-2 diced brown onions
2 grated cloves of garlic
400g diced butternut squash
1-2 small tins of chick peas
100g green beans, broccoli or snow peas for colour)
300ml Coconut milk (recommend the Kara UHT)
2-4 TBS curry paste above (or more if you like a hotter curry)
2 TBS Veg oil
50ml soy sauce
(Always taste the curry paste before adding to food as a lot can affect the heat of the paste like the chillies, garlic and Asian
3rd class explore Aboriginal culture
On Wednesday, 3rd Grade went to Kuring-Gai National Park to get some fantastic facts about Aboriginal Culture. By Kristof
A short time after we arrived and started our walk, the first thing I saw was a fox trapping sign. I was sad because foxes are my favourite animals. By Mikayla
At the National Park we walked through a wet bush track that looked like a desert. Laurie was guiding us then we watched him make some ochre. Since we had ochre, we painted ourselves. Meanwhile, other people were making red or brown coloured ochre. By Aaron
We learned about cold fire and hot fire. Our guide Laurie was making ochre (which is a kind of paint that was made of stone). Then he gave some ochre to our teacher. She painted everybody on the cheeks, arms and legs. By Jeffrey
Laurie showed us how to spit ochre on walls and warned us not to
Our report on the Northern Beaches Chess Tournament
On the 18th March, the John Colet Senior Chess Team competed at their first tournament of the year. The tournament was the Northern Beaches Chess Tournament which was held at Mona Vale Public School. We had a very successful day and for many students it was their first chess tournament. Here are our results: John Colet F – Connor, Sofia and Winston – 1st Place in the Junior DivisionJohn Colet C – Katia, Ella and Jasmine – 1st Place in the Girls’ DivisionJohn Colet A – Leo, Siddhartha and Marlon – 3rd place overall Congratulations to everybody involved.
'Fighting' and 'funny' skills for our drama club
Two specialist acting coaches will be giving workshops with our Shakespeare Drama Club in the last two weeks of term, assisting our drama teacher Zoe Emanuel.Chris Tomkinson from Sport for Jove (he heads up the Education Department and is also an actor for their touring Shakespeare troupe) will help refine fight skills and choreograph the street fighting scene for our Romeo and Juliet drama group.Nick O’Regan, who works as a writer, actor and puppeteer specializing in masked performance and physical comedy, will lead a Commedia d’ell Arte workshop to help with Physical Movement for Comedy for our Midsummer Night’s Dream drama club group. Our drama club students will be performing in the Northern Beaches Eisteddfod and the Sydney Eisteddfod in May and June this year.Miss Emanuel is also organising other drama incursions for the wider school community. Watch this space!
What do I love about teaching?
Just some thoughts from some John Colet teachers…
“I love teaching because I have the ability to shape young minds. I love the enthusiasm that children bring to their learning.”
“Not one day is the same, every day is full of surprises, unknowns and inspirational learning moments. ( lightbulb moments.)”
“The innocent mind brings me back to reality at times, remembering their age and experiences and everything that is before them.”
“The students become a part of your life, as we take on the journey together.”
“It is the most rewarding job to be able to shape, educate and build up a rapport with these beautiful children.”
“Watching children light up when they connect with their learning is one of the best parts of teaching. When a child has that moment it’s as though a new door opens and their understanding of the world expands a little more. I find this one of the most satisfying
Attention! Kindy places for 2021 intake filling fast!
Places in our two Lower First (Kindergarten) classes in 2021 are filling fast. If you are considering John Colet School for your child in this intake year, please get in touch without delay to secure your child’s enrolment. Headmaster Julian Wilcock will shortly begin interviews with parents for this year group.
Our next Information Event is on Thursday 28th March at 7pm. This is a great opportunity to come along and hear a short presentation on the School, ask questions and meet Mr Wilcock, teachers and student representatives.
Where places are available in older year groups, John Colet is happy to accept mid-year enrolments now.
Call our Registrar Belinda James on 9451 8395 to discuss your child’s education.
Pictured below: Lower First students playing with their 6th class buddies as they do each Friday afternoon as part of an established Peer Support program within the School.