Dear Parents and Carers

COVID-19 Update

Thank you to all of our families for continuing to follow health advice by administering their allocated RATs and committing to our additional measures such as the Walk Through, which has been a great success.

Our teachers are following COVID safe practices at all times and are to be commended on their commitment to keeping our community safe.

The ACT Cabinet will meet today to make decisions regarding the use of RATs beyond next week.

Grounds Renewal Project

Hopefully, in the past week, you have had the chance to drive by the school or pick up and drop off the kids and have seen our grounds starting to change. 

During our staff professional learning week, it was noted by staff that the grounds of our school needed to reflect the feel of our community. These are sentiments that have also been shared by parents. In light of this and the fact that our school is 60 years old, we are now engaging in a Grounds Renewal Project to achieve our goal of having the school environment reflect the feel of our community. This will include our School and Parish Working Bee on Saturday 2 April. 

We would love to hear your ideas for how the grounds can be renewed. You may have experience in landscaping, be or know an artist that can bring life to blank walls or just have a great idea that we can consider. If you are one of these people please give me a call so we can have a great conversation!

School Blessing and Leadership Badges

Due to current restrictions in schools, we will be unable to have a Whole School Opening Mass or a Centred in Faith gathering to hand out our leadership badges. As an alternative, we have invited Fr. Emil to visit us on Friday morning when the students line up to give the school a blessing and bless the leadership badges. Fr. Emil will then hand out the leadership badges in individual packaging to our Year 6 students. The 5/6 teachers will be sharing this moment with our families.

School Calendar

To streamline our communication practices we have developed a calendar that is now available on the school website and Compass. The calendar contains events throughout the year and will be updated as necessary.

Birthday Present for Students - Uniform Free Day

We know that celebrating your birthday at school can be an exciting day and would like to make it even more special. From tomorrow any child who is celebrating their birthday will have a uniform free day!  This means that everyone in the school will know it is their birthday and be able to wish them a happy day. If your child has a birthday on the weekend or in the holidays, they can choose the next school day to have their uniform free. Children who have already had a birthday in 2022 can choose a day in the next week to have their uniform free day. 

We see this as a small initiative to increase the wellbeing of the students in our school community.

Luke Donnelly
Principal