Dear Community,

This warmer weather has been great! Because the weather is warming up, I think it is fair that students are permitted to wear summer or winter uniform next week (Week 10). A friendly reminder for students to wear their hats also. 

Now we just need the restrictions to ease, so that we are able to return to some normality with school events. On that note, we have just received information about the Year 10 Graduation requirements and we look forward to sharing more information with you in due course. 

I would like to congratulate Hayden McGrath and his family on his Baptism at Mass today. It takes courage at an older age to take the important step into the Catholic faith and I wish him all the best with his faith journey. I also congratulate Hayden's Year 8 peers for their reverent participation at Mass today. 

The School Community Council met this week. We discussed many things, including the upcoming Garden Viewing event and the arrangements surrounding that. A typical meeting agenda includes; Community Council finances, School Finances, Parish Priest report, Principal's report, marketing, enrolments and building maintenance. I thank the Community Council for their attendance and contributions to the meetings. 

This week, staff participated in a Twilight meeting on Faith Formation. Our REC Jacqui Collins led us through a number of activities with special note of the activity on suggestions around raising our Catholic Identity profile. It was also a privilege to attend Mass as a whole staff and hear our visiting Archbishop lead us in prayer.

Take care,

Grant Haigh