Our Mission is ‘to work in an environment of mutual respect for cultures and backgrounds and celebrating the Gospel principles in order to achieve quality education for all.’

‘You are the Light of the world, let Jesus shine through you to others.’

Matthew 5:14-16

Mission through Courage, Kindness and Reconciliation

During 2025 our educational focus will be to improve Literacy and Numeracy skills — staff, students and families working together so all our students achieve at least 12 months growth. Other goals for the year are:

Build a community that continues to learn

-Improve student achievement in English & Mathematics, through HITP coaching and explicit, evidence-based teaching.

 - Enhance student achievement in English & Mathematics by strengthening staff data literacy, focusing on analysing and applying data to inform and improve teaching and learning practices 

Build a community that is connected -Improve student attendance and strengthen family engagement to support learning and wellbeing.

A warm welcome to our families, for the 2025 school year, especially our Kinder families!

Summer time for teachers is filled with sunshine and smiles, and lots of getting ready for the year. We hope you all had the opportunity to spend time with friends and family doing fun things.

There have been a few changes to our staff roster for the start of the year – Ms Emily, Miss Corcoran and Ms Wheeler are taking extended leave this year. Congratulations to Ms Emily and family on the birth of Essy! Mrs Shaw has reduced her days. We are continuing our recruitment process for an additional class teacher, please put the word out through your networks if you know anyone! For first term Mrs Elwin and I will teach Year 2/3. Mrs Worland teaches Kinder/Year 1 and Mrs Fyfe teaches Years 4/5/6. Congratulations to Mrs Fyfe for completing her studies, with outstanding results. We are very proud of you! Mrs Golding continues in the REC role, supporting teachers with planning and programming across the curriculum. Our teachers continue to be supported by the most outstanding Classroom Support Assistants in the world! Another warm welcome is extended to our new parish priest, Fr Hilary. Fr Hilary has extended the invite to all families to join us for the Opening School Mass on Friday 21^st February. 

Our focus on attendance last year resulted in higher attendance rates across all year levels. Most students were invited to join in the reward day and a lucky 13 had an additional reward for being part of the 100s club! This focus will continue for 2025. The reward for students with an attendance rate of 85% and above for Term 1 will be a Griffith trip to the cinema and lunch. The 100s club will also continue. If attendance at school is a challenge for your child, or you, please contact the office to arrange a meeting to discuss this.

Start of year notes and permissions will be coming out in the next weeks, please keep an eye out for them and return as soon as possible.

It is wonderful to see our students straight back into routine. We have observed our School Rules in action, both in the classroom and on the playground. Kind voice, kind words, kind actions guide our decision making and interactions with others. Even the Kindy students are demonstrating these! Teachers and students are setting up for a huge term of learning, development and growth. This week has seen units of learning introduced, expectations set, goals developed and routines embedded. Our Direct Instruction Programs will kick off next week. To ensure teachers receive their allocated planning time, classes will combine as Infants and Primary on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon.

We hope to see as many families as possible this term for Mass, for Assemblies, for Family Meetings, for the Colour Run! Information and dates for events will be available closer to each date, please watch for these. If you would like to speak with a teacher, please contact the office to arrange a suitable time.

The Church celebrates a Jubilee Year in 2025, with the theme “Pilgrims of Hope.”  A Jubilee year is a time of pilgrimage, reconciliation, and prayer.

The Jubilee Prayer

Father in heaven, may the faith you have given us

in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled

in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope

for the coming of your Kingdom.

May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.

May those seeds transform from within both humanity and the whole cosmos

in the sure expectation of a new heaven and a new earth,

when, with the powers of Evil vanquished, your glory will shine eternally.

May the grace of the Jubilee reawaken in us, Pilgrims of Hope,

a yearning for the treasures of heaven.

May that same grace spread the joy and peace of our Redeemer throughout the earth. To you our God, eternally blessed, be glory and praise for ever.

Amen

Exciting news from the Library for 2025

This year Library days will be:

K/1/2 - Wednesday afternoon

3/4/5/6 - Tuesday afternoon

Please bring your library bag on these days.

This week all classes had their first Library lessons, exploring books and learning about routines for the library learning space. 

Mrs Golding will be teaching library lessons this year and is looking forward to having lots of fun exploring and reading many books with everyone. 

To start the school year, the K/1 and 4/5/6 students got together and completed a Buddy Drawing activity. A K/1 student was paired with a 4/5/6 student and the students had to draw each other. The room was quite loud during the activity, with lots of discussions and conversations about a range of things. There were many smiling faces throughout and the smiles, from ear to ear, in the photos we took at the end, demonstrate the students' enjoyment of the activity. 

We would like to Thank Fisho's Hotbake for supporting our School Community Council and helping to provide Canteen each Friday.