Welcome back to 2024!  It’s wonderful to see so many new and familiar faces around the place.  Taking away the weather, it’s been a smooth start to the year for most of our students as they are becoming more aware of the routines around the year.  

Way of Peace

You may have seen your child come home with a ‘PEACE Sticker’ already this year.  Here at St Benedict’s we employ a ‘Way of Peace’ - this is a way of being which enables us to be the best members of our community that we can.  PEACE is an acronym for Persistent, Empathetic, Accountable, Caring for Community and Engaged.  If you see your child come home with a Peace sticker, I’d encourage you to ask what they got it for and hopefully they’ll be able to share, as it’s certainly worth celebrating!  

Parish

You may be aware that our school is a part of the Ministerial Region of the Good Shepherd (parish), which is overseen by two priests, Fr Joesph and Fr Joe (who is new to our Parish this year).  We do many things to support the parish, and also have fortnightly visits from our priests to do special prayers for masses with selected classes.

Each year, the Parish runs a Sacramental Program for students to prepare for the sacraments of Reconciliation, Confirmation and First Holy Communion.  It was wonderful to see a large number of students from St Benedict’s signing up for the sacramental program this year, and we wish them all the best for the next step in their faith journey.  

DATE CLAIMER

Our assemblies this year will remain on a Friday at 8:45am in the Hall.  These will begin in Week 5, Friday 23rd Feb.  Our Beginning Year Liturgy will be taking place on Friday 16th Feb at 9:00am in the Hall - our entire school community are invited to attend this event.  I would particularly like to extend a welcome to our parents of Year 6 children, as we will be recognising them as leaders in front of the school for 2024.

Assembly Timetable - Term 1

Pax,

Nick