Hi everyone,

We are now 2 weeks down and already the term is flying by.  I have been out of school this week attending the Queensland Catholic Indigenous Education Conference and Principal’s meetings with principals from around the diocese.

Monday Pupil Free Day

Looking forward to next week, Monday is a Pupil Free Day.  On this day our teachers will be working hard on our annual Reflective Practice day.  This will give all of our teachers an opportunity to look at their planning and classroom practices and reflect and continue to further develop their practices moving forward.  As in any profession, teaching is constantly evolving to suit the needs of our students and our teachers at St Benedict’s are committed to this. We are certainly very proud of the work that our teachers do and we are looking forward to new learnings on Monday. 

Before School

It has come to our attention that many students are being dropped off at school in the morning as early as 7:30am.  We understand the business of morning routines but would like to remind families that there is no supervision provided until 8:00am. Our Outside School Hours Care facility opens at 6:30am and it would be expected that if students are at school without parent supervision before 8:00 that these facilities would be being used.     

Day for Daniel

Next Friday, October 25 is the annual ‘Day for Daniel’ which aims to raise awareness for child safety.  ALL students are invited to wear red shirts to school on this day. There is no money required for this but all classes during the week will look at child safety lessons, many of which can be found on the Daniel Morcombe Foundation website if families wanted to hold discussions about this as well.  

World Teachers Day

Next Friday is also World Teachers Day.  We are very proud of the work that our teachers do at St Benedict’s and look forward to celebrating them next Friday.

Cheers,

Penny

Week 2 has quickly passed us by!  

We started off the week with Prep Koalas presenting their assembly on October - the Month of Mission and finished off their assembly with a song reminding us that we all possess wonderful talents!  I always look forward to Prep assemblies and seeing how far they have come presenting in front of the whole school. Our Mission Markets are being held today and our students this morning were all looking very excited to participate.  It’s proving to be a great way to celebrate and raise funds for a wonderful cause who help people all around the world. I plan to provide an update on just how much we raised in next week's newsletter.

Swimming 

Swimming lessons start in Week 5 for  ALL classes running between Monday and Thursday at the North Shore Pool.  This will be followed by our swimming carnival in Week 6 on Thursday 14th November, also at the North Shore Pool between 9:00am and 1:30pm.  All parents and friends are invited to attend this event. A rough order of events will be released for this in the coming weeks prior to the carnival.

Remembrance Day

I would like to invite our community to our Remembrance Day assembly, being led by our students from Defence families on Monday November 11 at 8:45am in the Hall.  

Have a great week and God bless,

Nick

Welcome to our newest members of Benny's Babes - Cai has twin sisters Sophie and Chloe and Bryce with his baby brother Luke