Hi everyone,

Thank you for all your participation in the various school events we have had this term. As always, school life is very busy but we are ever so grateful for the wonderful community we have here at St Benedict’s.  We are always so excited about how our school is growing and evolving and this term we have had much to be thankful for. We have all particularly loved the finalisation of our Early Years Precinct and seeing the commencement of our Stage 2 Building Project. We will be ever so relieved when the demountable for OSHC finally shows up- fingers crossed, it won’t be too far away.

Report Cards

Congratulations to our teachers for producing another round of report cards to communicate student progress this semester. It can be a daunting task gathering the information collected over the course of a semester and making a professional judgement about student achievement levels. We have mostly been quite proud of how our students have applied themselves and shown us what they can do and what they have learnt and we look forward to seeing how they progress next semester. If you have any questions about your child’s progress, please contact your class teacher.

School Uniforms

With this week’s newsletter, you will see attached a link to our Uniform Guidelines. Please review this and work towards having the school uniform correctly worn by the beginning of next term. School jumpers  and school shoes are the items that need the most improvement. Please also use the holidays to check bags for additional hats,or jumpers that may have been picked up accidentally. The holidays are also a good time to check all school items to see if name tags need to be refreshed as we are seeing a lot of smudged labels and still some items without labels at all.

NAIDOC Celebrations

Thank you to those families who were able to come along to our NAIDOC celebrations this morning. We are blessed in our country to have such a rich and diverse history with very dynamic cultures. Today’s celebration is just a token example of the ways we want to embrace Indigenous culture across our school community. Thanks to our Indigenous Staff Committee for planning today’s event.

P & F Meeting

Please note that P&F meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 7.00pm in our Staffroom. We will be having a meeting on the first Tuesday back though as the second Tuesday of the month falls on the holidays. This next meeting will be about planning for our Term 3 disco and discussing ideas for Parent Information sessions. All parents are welcome to come along.

Term 3 Events

Next term we look forward to our Benny’s Feast Day celebrations were we will have a whole school mass in the morning, activities in the middle session and Benny’ Got Talent in the afternoon. Families are invited for the whole day. We also have 13 students participating in the Townsville Catholic Education Mulkadee Youth Arts Festival in Week 2 and lots of fun in Week 3 for Catholic Education Week.

I hope everyone gets to enjoy some rest over the break (at least a break from school if you don’t get one for yourself) and we look forward to seeing everyone in the new term eager to be back at school again.

Have a fabulous week. 

Cheers 

Penny