Dear Parents and Carers,

I expected that today I would be sharing with you the success of our Grandparent’s and Harmony Day. It was disappointing for grandparents who had travelled a long distance to be here, that it had to be postponed. It was a very wet start to the week but tomorrow is going to be sunny and a perfect day to finally celebrate.

Pupil Free Day

You may have noticed, when viewing the school calendar, that there are two pupil free days scheduled this year. They are the first day of Term 2 and Term 3, Monday 19 April and Monday 12 July. This means that staff attend but students do not. These days have been allocated by the Catholic Education Directorate to allow staff to engage in professional learning corresponding to our system wide initiative of Catalyst that will be rolled out over the next 3 years.

Catalyst empowers teachers with evidence-based professional learning in High Impact Teaching Practice, K-2 Literacy, quality curriculum resources and in-classroom coaching. It is a framework for united understanding of and practice in teaching ‘what matters most’ and ‘what works best’ based on soundly researched evidence. There will be no teachers here at school on those days, as we will be joining the teachers of Holy Spirit School Nicholls and St Michael’s Kaleen for a day facilitated by Lorraine Hammond. The office will be open on both of those Mondays.

TEAMKIDS will be running a holiday program for the day for those families that wish to use Out of School Hours Care for those day.

Second Hand Uniforms

Thank you to those parents who have volunteered to help out with the Second Hand Clothing Shop. We have many donations that have been washed and are ready to be hung and labelled with their size. If you have an hour or two to spare, please let Naomi in the front office know. We are going to make online order forms available so you can send in your requests for second hand uniform items, and the volunteers will select the best that is available and get it to you.

Working Bee on Sunday

Thank you very much to the families who have already signed up to help out at our annual Working Bee this coming Sunday.  At present we have 10 families who have said that they can help but I know that there are many more who want to come (we usually have about 30).  It is definitely not too late! Please click on the link below to register your help or fill in the sheet further in the newsletter. I have listed below who we have already and I apologise if you have put your name forward and it hasn’t reached us.   We currently have a list of 23 jobs that need to be done so the more hands we have, the more we can achieve.

Yours in partnership 

Ursula Jamieson
Principal