Thank you to our APRE, Nick Christie, our Defence Mentor Leza Triffett and the Year 1 Wallabies for leading us in a beautiful liturgy this morning for Remembrance Day. Special thanks also to Sari Beeton for delivering an address as the child of a member of the Defence Force. Your words were very meaningful to us all.

I would like to advise our community that we have almost finalised staffing for 2023 and we are in the process of confirming class lists. In 2023 we will lose Miss Cienna Jewell as she heads back to Brisbane with her new husband, Mrs Reitano as she leaves to have her baby, and Ms Massatto (temporarily) as she heads off on 6 months leave travelling the world and Mr Villi as he moves to Mt Isa to begin his teaching career. New teaching staff to St Benedict’s will include Amanda Prideaux, Kate Andrews, Toni Pilcher, Abbey Huckvale, Belinda Fern and Isabelle Dow. Returning to st benedicts’ will be Mrs Kandis Huston (Orr), Mrs Charley Favalli and Mrs Laura King. We will advise class allocations for these teachers in our school newsletter at the end of Week 8 before Step Up Day on Tuesday 29 November. 

Our current teachers are currently writing report cards for this semester so we can all move into the last three weeks of school where we still have swimming lessons for Years 3-6, our Swimming Carnival, Year 6 Rite of Passage, End of Year Mass and the much loved O’Holy Night.

Please have a lovely weekend and let’s all stay as calm as we can in the lead up til the end of the year.

Cheers

Penny