"Be compassionate as your Father is compassionate.  Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourselves; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned yourselves; grant pardon and you will be pardoned.  Give and there will be gifts for you; a full measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be poured into your lap; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back." (Luke 6: 34).

Dear friends,

The above verse, taken from last weekend 's Gospel  reflected for me the importance of forgiving and giving.   In our school community, I see this generosity every day, in our staff, our families, our students, and especially our volunteers. This was once again evident at our swimming carnival last Friday.  What a wonderful event for our school.  We focused again in ensuring we had all students from Kinder to Year 6 involved in water events throughout the day.  We also introduced a 25 metre  event to help develop our children's skills in swimming events and once again to give students opportunity to participate.   Thank you again to Mr Feerick, all staff involved and parents for their time helping to make this such a great day for our children.

Whilst on the topic of generously giving of your time, we have been unable to open the tuckshop this year as yet, because we have not had volunteers.  If you are able to please give some time to this, it would be much appreciated.  We also have a Movie Night coming up on Friday, which is an annual event also organised by Jennifer Graham and the P and F, that our children and families love to attend.  Please ensure you have indicated your families' attendance at this, as we need to organise catering ASAP.  At our P and F meeting last week, we also noted in the school calendar many other P and F events throughout 2019.  Please look at our calendar on our school App and website  for these special events.

Thank you for your patience with the change in drop off and pick up arrangements because of  the concreting and instillation of new seats and bubblers at the school.  We will also be having more lighting installed around the car park, courtyard , ELC area, and the bike cage area. Surveillance cameras will  be installed in a few areas too. 

Tomorrow we will be again presenting a Literacy Information session a 9:15am in the Kinder White classroom, particularly aimed for Kinder parents and those in other grades wanting a refresh about how to help support reading and literacy development at home.  Next Monday we also have our first class assembly with 2 Green at 2:20pm, followed by a presentation from the Commonwealth Bank.

With every best wish for a holy and peace-filled week ahead with your beautiful families,

Philippa