Always Reaching for New Heights

Always Reaching for New Heights

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Welcome to St John’s School, Silkwood – a co-educational primary school in the Diocese of Cairns. As a small Catholic school, St John’s offers a faith and values based education which focuses on the well-being of each individual child. This focus is achieved through explicit teaching of social emotional learning in a caring and supportive environment. Our school values its community-oriented approach to student wellbeing and family life.

Our Values

Principal's Message

A very warm welcome to the St John’s, Silkwood community! St John’s prides itself on the culture and traditions built over the years at the school. The school’s proud history began in 1948 when the school was by founded by Parish Priest Fr Alfred Natali and the Missionary Franciscan Sisters. We are a very welcoming community that believes that working together to achieve a common goal brings success for all. Our staff, students and parents remain focused on our sense of being a ‘learning community’ and are proud of their great achievements over the years.

Latest News

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👀 Have you spotted our new signs around the school yet? ✨

Our students are on a mission to make sure everyone has noticed our new values signage! 💛 From respect and compassion to living out our school values every day, these signs are a little reminder of what makes our school community so special.

Have YOU spotted them? 👇🏽🏫

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Ms deBuck had her birthday over the holidays, so today we celebrated with her. Happy Birthday!! 🤩🎉🥳#silkwoodstjohns ...

Raffle tickets will be available by the end of this week. See our School families to get your tickets. Cent sale tickets will be available for pre-purchase from next week at the School office. ...

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Happy birthday to our Mrs Deb Daly! We are so thankful for everything you do for us in the community and in our school. We wish you a blessed day! 🤗💗 ...

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