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 2/4.  It’s great to see our students starting to get into the year, with specialist lessons starting this week, and routines starting to get more familiar with everyone.

St Benny’s Way of Peace

You may have noticed your child come home with a ‘Peace’ sticker and wondered...what is this all about?  

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.  

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Instrumental Program

We’ve had a record number of students sign up to participate in the Instrumental Music Program this year (38!).  Students have been attending guitar, keyboard or drum lessons with Mr Nic Mitchell or Mr David Roberts.  It’s been great to hear some of these lessons and I know many of our budding musicians have been very excited!  There’s some plans starting to try and have some of our students showcase what they have been learning later in the year!

Pax,

Nick