Assemblies

It has been so nice having so many parents come along to our assemblies the last two weeks. It really seems to lift the kids confidence and participation. It is so crazy that we have had so few opportunities to welcome parents into classrooms with all the Covid disruptions so our students and staff are loving having families come in.

Walk to School Day

Next Friday is Walk Safely to School Day. If families would like to join in or would like someone to walk with, we can meet at the Greater Ascot Lights at 8.00am and walk to school together. This is an initiative that is promoted by the Qld Government to increase the number of children riding or walking to school or at least walking or riding part of the way.

Prep 2023

Enrolment offers for Prep 2023 are emailed out on Tuesday 17 May for our first round. We are so pleased to have had the level of interest we have experienced this year for families wanting to come to our school. Thank you to all of you in our community who have spoken so highly of our school and encouraged families to enrol here. Unfortunately we can’t fit everyone but it is certainly good to see we are on the right track.

Under 8’s Day- ‘Play in Changing World’

We look forward to hosting all our Kindy students and our 2023 Prep students along with our own Prep - Year 2 students on Friday for Under 8’s day. Under 8’s Day also coincides with World Bee Day so we have lots of activities combining the two events.

Have a fabulous week. 

Cheers

Penny

Welcome to the end of Week 4! Our Year 4 Butterflies lead us beautifully in assembly today on the theme of Mother’s Day.  Their prayer called us to value and appreciate our mother’s and spoke about how they embody God’s love through how they nurture, care for and  love us.

Next week in Australia we celebrate ‘Laudato Si’ week.  This year is the 7th anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical letter calling ALL people to ‘Care for our Common Home’.  The letter helps Catholics to understand the connection that people have to the whole of creation and that caring for the Earth is a big way that we can live out our faith.  In the letter he states that, “All of us can cooperate as instruments of God for the care of creation, each according to his or her own culture, experience, involvements and talents”.  At St Benedict’s, Laudato Si formed the basis  of many of the wonderful environmental initiatives that we have undertaken, even before we opened the school as a wonderful and simple way of living out our Catholic faith.  We look forward to hearing about how classes have celebrated God’s call to care for our environment.  THIS LINK to TCE Connect is an article which gives you further information as well as a link to some resources you may like to look out.

Pax

Nick

Walk Safely to School Day - Friday 20th May

We will this year be walking from Greater Ascot to school.  We will meet at the vacant block near the lights at Greater Ascot @8am and walk along the pathway to school.

Friendships can be tough [Parenting Tip] 

Kids practise the skills they learn about how to navigate the world by practising with their friends.  This can often lead to tricky situations that our children will come to us for advice on.  This is something to be embraced and can offer a time to engage deeply with your child’s feelings.  Making them feel heard and understanding what is going on for them will help build a bonded relationship that will last a lifetime.  Some parenting hints along the way are never a bad thing though.  The Big Life Journal has some great tips that can help in this area.

P&F News

The Wine and Cheese Night was a fun and relaxed event that allowed mums to come together and laugh, share and enjoy each other's company.  Many thanks to Renee Neville and Tam McDonald for the weeks of work behind the scenes for the event and to the helpers on the day/night for set-up and pack-down.

A huge shout out to all the businesses that donated prizes to the raffle or items for the night, including: Earring Elves, Headbands by Kaytee Designs, Frankies Beans Coffee, Townsville Slice, Ruby and Jade, Genesis Fitness, Aloki Skin Care, Earrings by Jess, Tupperware by Sarah Monaghan, Norwex by Mel Barlow, Mowing by Scott Matthews, Fitness by Zoe, Kristine Matthews Personal Training, AB Collections, LIttle Details Photography, Anti Ageing with Nicole Shir, DreamScene, Forever Social Photo Booths

We have had some very happy Raffle Prize winners who are all sharing in over $2000 prize pool.

Good Afternoon,

The North Australian Festival of Arts is almost here again! Running from 10 June – 10 July, 2022 we have an amazing line-up up of kids shows scheduled with spaces filling up quickly for school and vacation care groups.

Attached is our children’s show schedule. Shows in pink are during term and will be offered at an extra discounted rate of $10pp. All other shows are run during school holidays and will be $12.50pp for group bookings of 10 or more. We have limited spaces for our larger groups – so please reach out and secure your spot now. All shows are for the recommended age group of 3 – 10 years.

If you would like any further information on the shows – please feel free to reach out via Nafa@townsville.qld.gov.au. For expressions of interest and more information on bookings, please fill out the following -   https://fs6.formsite.com/townsvillecc/jvprxb3c0v/index.html

Kind Regards,

ToniLee Luck

Head Partnerships & Hospitality

North Australia Festival of Arts

P  07) 44175055    M  0467677072   E  tonilee.luck@townsville.qld.gov.au

Level 2, 143 Walker Street. Townsville QLD 4810

PO Box 1268, Townsville QLD 4810

www.townsville.qld.gov.au