Here we are just settling into the new year and already we are having to think about and plan for our enrolment campaign for Prep students in 2020. We are already accepting enrolment applications with interviews to occur at the beginning of next term. We will also have an Open day for new families (or current) to come for a visit and a guided tour with our senior students. There will be a couple of other options for school tours throughout this process as well. These are all listed on our school calendar and we’ll be sure to make them known over the next few weeks. Please note that siblings of current students and students from our Kindy will have prioritised enrolment but you are still required to submit an enrolment application.

This weekend our School Board members will join with school board members from across our diocese where we will all participate in a formation experience that will support our future planning. These formation experiences are a valuable opportunity to understand the importance of the discernment process boards use to approach big picture goals.

On Monday we have our Beginning of Year Liturgy and we’d love to have as many parents participate as possible. Fr Dave will be joining us and we’ll be launching our School Values that have been decided upon after a lengthy process with our School Board.

Next week our students will all enjoy a performance from Nexus Arts and our younger students will also enjoy a presentation from Bravehearts.

Looking forward to a fabulous week ahead.

Cheers

Penny

This week marked our first assembly for the year.  I huge thanks to 5 / 6 Turtles on presenting, recognising all of our unique gifts, and that God accepts us, no matter our strengths or weaknesses.  It was wonderful as well to see many parents attend our first assembly and I would like to extend an invitation to all family and friends to attend assembly each week on Monday at 8:45am in the hall.  Please see the timetable below to see when your child might be presenting.

Beginning Year Liturgy

All families are invited to our Beginning Year Liturgy being held this coming Monday, 25/2 at 9:00am in ‘The Hall’.  Fr Dave will be here to pray with us as we celebrate the year ahead and launch our new school values.

Sacramental Program

Our Parish Sacramental Program began this week at school, with the first ever meeting taking place at St Benedict’s.  This is special as our school is very new to the Parish, and already we are creating a wonderful partnership with what is a very active parish.  Of the 120 students making their sacraments, we have 7 students participating in the program from St Benedict’s; Macy, Zahra, Ruby, Ebony, Peyton, Imogen and Steven.  A very big thank you must also be extended to Mrs Ros Baumann who is leading this group of students and their parents/carers as they prepare for these sacraments.

Have a great week and God bless,

Nick