This morning our recorder ensemble performed for the very first time at our Assembly and made us all so very proud to see how far they have come in such a short time. Congratulations to all these students for their commitment and persistence to practice becoming the best performers they can be. Congratulations to Mr Roberts who takes a lot of pride in working with these students and building a love of music for all our students. Of course, it is also with great thanks to our parents who have persevered through countless practices at home, encouraging your children to continue that have allowed these children to be doing so well.

Next week, Catholic Education marks 200 years of Education in Australia, quite a significant milestone. Mr Christie and I will be attending a Diocesan Mass at the Sacred Heart Cathedral with a couple of students to mark the occasion and as a school, we will be creating our own memorabilia showcase. You will receive a letter about this but basically we would love for you to contribute to a showcase that will display items, photos that represent our communities involvement with Catholic Education. You may have photos of when you were in school, or when grandparents were in a catholic school or you may have special items that represent your time or connection to catholic schools that you would like to share. Please look for details in the letter coming home today. It would be great for our students to experience how catholic education has evolved over time, especially when it is so new for so many of our students.

Next week, we also have some visitors from Purple Orange coming to our school to learn more about our inclusive practices. They are a community of school leaders (Principals, Deputy Principals and Business Managers) from South Australia who are embarking on their own inclusive practices journey. We had 18 school leaders from this group visit us in 2019 and this time, they are bringing 32 so they are splitting into two groups and visiting across two different days. We are thoroughly looking forward to this visit as we also get to learn a lot by the questions asked and the ideas they may already be considering.

Best wishes to our Cross Country team who will be off to the inter-school competition on Wednesday afternoon and to our Year 6 students who will enjoy a matinee performance of ‘Footloose’, the Ryan Catholic College musical on Wednesday and I hope to see lots of families at our school disco on Thursday night. Friday morning is also bound to be a wonderful highlight with our Under 8’s Day event. All students from our Kindy to Year 2 will join together for some outdoor learning fun. Parents are welcome to join us as well- 9.15am- 10.30am.

Don’t forget Prep 2022 acceptance are due back to the office by Tuesday please.

Have a fabulous weekend. See you all next week.

Cheers

Penny Collins