Our school assemblies are a wonderful opportunity for our whole school community to come together and celebrate what is important at St Benedict’s. Over the past three assemblies, the school has reflected on the P, E and A of the ‘way of peace’. Today Year 5 Turtles spoke to the A in Peace, Accountability.

The Way of Peace

At St Benedict’s, we are employing a ‘way of being’ which enables us to be the best members of our community that we can.  This way of being is a ‘Way of Peace’ - Peace being an acronym for Persistent, Empathetic, Accountable, Care for Community, Engaged

This has been taken, not simply because we like the idea of being peaceful, but because PEACE formed the basis of the teachings of St Benedict.  The Benedictine motto is quite simply the word ‘PAX’ - which in latin means peace.

The idea behind this ‘Way of Peace’ is to give a language around how we speak to students around behaviour (positive and negative) in ensuring we are being Persistence, Empathetic, Accountable, Care for Community and Engaged.  It would be expected that EVERY class discusses PEACE and what this looks like for them in their context in the classroom, playground and other areas of the school.

International Women’s Day

At today’s assembly Year 5 Turtles also reflected on International Women’s Day and the women in their lives that have made a huge impact. The students spoke of the love and support they receive from their mothers, grandmothers and other female family members.

Today let us all reflect on the incredible impact that women have on our lives, mothers, grandmothers, teachers, staff and members of our community.

Additional Student Free Day

Townsville Catholic Education Office has approved an additional professional development day in 2024.  The date will be Friday 26th April, 2024 and will be a pupil free day. This day follows on from the ANZAC day public holiday on Thursday 25th April.

The reason for granting this additional professional development day is to provide the time and opportunity for all teachers to prepare for the implementation of V9.0 of the Australian Curriculum at the commencement of 2025. This planning day will focus on supporting teachers to have a deep understanding of the changes to content and assessment from the current Australian Curriculum to the newly revised curriculum. 

There is much planning already occurring in all schools to ensure all teachers are well placed to provide rich learning experiences for their students.

Interschool Swimming Carnival Team

Congratulations to all members of our St Benedict’s Interschool Swimming Team. Mrs Rowe presented the team at our school assembly today. We are all very proud of their efforts and for the incredible way they represented the school.

The team took home the trophy for ‘Most Improved School’. Well done everyone.