Join Us – ‘One-stop’ Learning!
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
The Innisfail show! 🎆🎢
A huge thank you to our incredible teachers for all of the time, effort and creativity they put into setting up our show display. Your hard work created a beautiful showcase of our students’ learning and talents.
We are so proud of our students, who represented our school with confidence, pride Thank you also to our students and parents for showing our community what makes our school so special. 💙✨
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✨ Choose Your Character ✨
Every great adventure starts with choosing your character and ours are ready to take on the classroom! 📚✏️
Which character are you choosing? 👇🎮
#chooseyourcharacter #classroomcharacters #learningisanadventure #primaryschool
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Our sugar cane just keeps growing! 🌱💚😍
It’s been so exciting to watch how much our sugar cane has grown over the holidays!
We can’t wait to keep watching it thrive and discover what happens next in our growing journey! 🌿✨
#explore #growingsugarcane #SchoolCommunity #agriculture
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Power Hour would have to be the most favourite time of the week for our students. They get to choose from a variety of activities and get to work alongside students from different grades. We still get the cheer of ‘power hour’ from the students! Great work kids!
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