St Benedict's Catholic School Shaw
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890 Dalrymple Road
Shaw QLD 4818
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Email: jswanson1@stbenedicts.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 07 4413 2400

APRE News

Welcome to the end of Week 6!

It’s been a big week this week.  On top of swimming lessons, we’ve also paused for Remembrance Day and celebrated NAIDOC week.  More about these below.  

We finished the week with Year 3/4 presenting assembly with a liturgy on Remembrance Day, where we paused to pray and reflect on the sacrifice made for us by both past and current men and women in the Defence Force.  It was wonderful to welcome Sergeant Daniel Trew, a parent from St Benedict’s, who presented a reflection from the point of view of a serving member.  These reflections are always delivered poignantly and received so well from our students.  On Remembrance Day itself, all classes gathered outside their classrooms to hear ‘the Ode’, ‘the Last Post’ and observe a minute silence (this was played over the school Public Address system). 

We also celebrated NAIDOC week this week, with the theme being; “Always was.  Always will be”.  All of our classes stopped to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture within their classes.  It was great to see some of the wonderful work students were doing, and how well they were engaging in these tasks.  I particularly enjoyed when I stopped to talk to one of the Prep children during their activity, they stopped and relived the dreamtime story of how the birds got their colours in wonderful detail!  

As you are no doubt aware, students will be attending our annual Swimming Carnival on Friday November 20.  A schedule of races will be sent out at the start of next week to enable families to arrange appropriate times to attend the event.  Also, the P&F will be doing a sausage sizzle for students at the event, with pre-order forms being sent out during the week.  

I think it’s fair to say that the countdown to the end of the year is now on!  I encourage us all to continue to support our students and each other, as it’s certainly been a busy year.  It is also exciting though that we still have so much to look forward to until the year is out!

Pax

Nick

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