Dear families

On Tuesday we celebrated the Church feast day of St Joseph, our school's patron saint.  We gathered in our church and prayed together.

Prayer to St Joseph

Teach us to listen and not be afraid to trust as you did in God’s promise. 

Teach us to love courageously with a heart that is free and just. 

Teach us to protect one another and all that belongs to God. 

Teach us to dream a world where all are neighbours, a vision illuminated by God’s light. 

Teach us to keep the Word of God close to our hearts, and to proclaim it in word and action.

Teach us to be gentle with our power and strong in our tenderness. 

Teach us to be for all persons a living lesson of goodness and truth-a blessing for all generations to come.

*The Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet

Reconciliation

Last week six students received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time on Thursday night.  It was a meaningful celebration.  We congratulate Lachie, Billy, Evie, Isabella, Reuben and Lola.  Thank you Taryn and Fr Bernard for organising and conducting this prayer service.

Teaching Masses

This year we are focusing on learning more about the Mass.  Fr Bernard is a great teacher and is running a series of teaching masses to help us understand the Mass more.  Each class will have a teaching Mass and we warmly invite you to come when your child's Mass is on.  The Gr 4/5 Teaching Mass is Thursday May 2nd.  We hope you can come.

Easter Dramatization

Each year we tell the Easter Story (the events of the last week in Jesus' life) in the church.  Once again this year our Gr 5&6 students will share this important story with us.  We hope that you and your family might be able to join us in the church on Thursday March 28th at midday.  After the prayer service, we will come back to the Mary MacKillop Room to draw our Easter Raffle.

School Athletics Carnival

We would like to congratulate Blue team on winning the 2024 Athletics Carnival with 527 points, Green team came second on 487 points, Red team came third on 436 and Gold team scored 385 points.

Our Age Champions are:

Foundation:  Levi Collins, Eva Finken and Marlee Whittaker

Gr 1: Parker Askew and Poppy Hicks-Lowjen

Gr 2:  Nathan Baldassa and Sophie Pedemont

9 year olds:  Evie Deppeler and Levi Knight

10 year olds:  Aleyah Horton-Maynard and Conrad Edwards

11 year olds:  Maycee Shankar and Joshua Plozza

12 year olds:  Tahlia Pedemont and John Gramlick 

District Athletics Carnival

On Monday our school athletic team represented us at the District Athletics Carnival in Warragul.  Thank you Taryn for organising the team and thank you Will, Jess & Stacey for supervising on the day.  It was a great day.  Special congratulations to Olivia, who came first in shot put and discus; Josh, who came second in long jump; Tahlia, who came first in hurdles and second in high jump and Conrad, who came second in long jump and received a third place.

May God continue to guide us in our learning.

Trish Mulqueen