Last Sunday’s Gospel…

Jesus was in the temple and pointed out to His disciples the very great sacrifice made by a widow who put two small coins in the collection. It makes us ask ourselves how attached we are to earthly treasures and how well do we use our own resources to help others who are less fortunate than we are. 

From the Principal...

Firstly, a very big thank you to you all! The picking up of your children at both gates is going well and you have adjusted very well to the further changes at the front entrance with the traffic officers looking after that entry and exit due to the presbytery demolition. I appreciate your patience and understanding. The latest on the demolition is that all asbestos removal should be completed by today and then the rest of the demolition will continue with, weather permitting, completion in the middle of next week. Then the front car park will be back to normal.

A number of parents have let me know about separating their child from another for various reasons and all these have been accommodated. Thank you for being prompt with that. Classes will be finalized this Friday so if you have forgotten, please send me your request in writing by this Friday. After that, it will be too late to change classes because all has to be entered into the central system for class roll over.

Teachers are preparing to write reports. We have received the report for this semester which is a modified version due to remote learning and of course complying with NESA requirements. It is a semester report so will cover the remote learning period as well as the face to face weeks we have had since. Families have all been in very different circumstances during the remote learning time and participation by students during that time has been very varied, at times through necessity. You will see some detail for Religion, English and Mathematics across all reports. In addition, in the general comment, teachers will be able to individualise the reports to a greater degree and acknowledge the tremendous effort many of the students went to (as did you!), during both the remote learning period, and the onsite learning.

We have the final P&F Meeting for the year on Friday. Please join us if you can. We have seen some new faces this year and it is always very helpful to have multiple points of view on various topics.

God Bless,

Michelle Rolfe

Principal