Last Sunday’s Gospel…

The gospel and reading last Sunday were about prayer and how necessary it is to us. Prayer is talking and listening to God and we need times of silence to do that. And finding the quiet can be hard too. There are formal prayers to help us and we can also use our own words. Sometimes it is a quick comment too like talking to a friend. Whichever kind we use at any point, it is very important so find some time to be with our Heavenly Friends.

From the Principal...

Welcome back to Term 4. It’s always a busy but happy term with all the end of year things and finishing with the biggest deadline we have every year – Christmas! I hope you all enjoyed the break and managed to find a little time in the sun.

It is the month of the Rosary as Mrs David has told you in more detail in her part but I wanted to share a very heartwarming story. At break time on a Monday, we are praying the rosary with any of the students who want to come to the library. The best part is that one of the students had the idea! It didn’t come from the staff. So if your children come home talking about praying the rosary this month especially, you might like to let them teach you how to say it. If you don’t have rosary beads at home, don’t let that stop you. God gave us ten fingers!

We have welcomed many of our Kinder 2023 students and their families to the first sessions of our Kinder Transition through Play program. We start playing at different stations which encourages increased vocabulary and speaking in complete sentences. Then the students go into one room for a story while we talk to the parents for a few minutes to gradually get the students used to separating. It has worked well for this group so far so hopefully we’ll have happy faces starting ‘big’ school on the first day next year!

I am busily finalizing staffing for 2023. There are still a couple of things I am waiting for and then I’ll be able to let you know who we have on the staff team next year.

Following an extensive look at our data and the National School Improvement Tool, which is a research based method for whole school improvement, on the last day of last term, we have decided that Maths will be a big focus area for 2023, along with increased whole school planning of content areas in all subjects to provide more strategic delivery of content. Of course we will also be implementing the new K-2 Maths and English syllabus. I will keep you posted on our progress throughout the year.

I am looking forward to seeing you at assembly on Friday!