Dear Families,

Welcome to Week 3! Another term well on the way and lots happening on the school
calendar!

This week, we have Parent Teacher Interviews – if you are yet to make your appointment, please jump on to PAM and book a slot with your child’s teacher. If you don’t have access to PAM, call the office or pop in and we will help you. It’s really important that parents attend now that mid-year reports have gone home, this is the opportunity for us to inform you further about your child’s progress and answer any questions you might have.

Of course, we are always available for parents to chat to. Teachers are always happy to make a time to chat to parents should other things arise during the year.

Next week, we have the Book Fair at school and Mr Clarke is running yet another dad’s night. Please RSVP so we know how many people to expect. Previous dad’s nights have been a great success and lots of fun. Mr Clarke does an amazing job organising these hands-on activities for kids to enjoy with their dads or other important male figures in the lives of our children. So please come along if you are free and have the time.

Last week, we celebrated our Beginning of Term “Kindness” Mass. Thank you to our parents, families and friends who came along. It was a wonderful celebration to start off the term and I think Father James enjoyed the whole congregation singing Happy Birthday to him also.

During the mass, we watched this reflection. I will share the link here for families to watch if they have the time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlLchBxn0pw

As a Catholic School, the principles of Catholic Social Teaching are always present in our learning, especially during Religious Education lessons. Catholic Social Teaching is basically our call as Catholics to look after each other and our beautiful world always striving to make it a better place for the future. I know that all our teachers are working towards responding to this call in their classrooms with the children this term.

Finally, I know we have lots of soccer fans in our school community. It’s so wonderful having the women’s World Cup being played here in Australia at the moment. There is a fantastic Matilda’s documentary on Disney + for those lucky enough to have access to this streaming platform. Such wonderful role models for our children and great examples of working hard to achieve their goals. If you don’t have access to that, tune in to a game or two and get behind this amazing team. Go Matildas!!

Have a wonderful week ahead,

Sally