1st December, Week 8, Term 4

From Our Principal - Mr Brendan Moloney

Dear Families, 

The people of Israel waited for generations for the promised Messiah to arrive. Their poetry, their songs and stories, and their religious worship focused on an awaited savior, whom God had promised, over and over, would come to them to set them free from captivity, and to lead them to the fulfillment of all that God had chosen for them.

Israel longed for a Messiah, and John the Baptist, who came before Jesus, promised that the Messiah was coming, and could be found in Jesus Christ, God’s Son, the “Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.”

Advent is a season in the Church’s life intended to renew the experience of waiting, and longing, for the Messiah. Though Christ has already come into the world, the Church invites us to renew our desire for the Lord more deeply into our lives, and to renew our desire for Christ’s triumphant second coming into the world.

Advent is the time in which we prepare for Christmas, the memorial of Jesus Christ being born into the world. Preparations are practical, like decorating a tree or stringing lights, but they’re also intended to be spiritual.

2023 Planning

We continue to plan for 2023 and I am excited to announce that staffing will remain the same for 2023. Teachers will remain on the classes they have been on for 2022. This is wonderful news and enables our fantastic team to continue the outstanding work they do each and every day, this results in a wonderfully consistent learning environment for all our students that supports them to continue to achieve in all areas of school life.

If you do know of someone who is considering enroling please encourage them to come and see us, even if they are not sure and just want to have look, they are most welcome to explore our wonderful school.

Stage 3 Camp

Stage 3 have been having a brilliant time on their Brisbane camp. We are expecting some very tired travellers to return this evening. A highlight of their journey will be there visit to Sea World today. We look forward to hearing of their exciting adventures!

We also again acknowledge that the cost of this experience has been heavily supported by donations from near and far. We thank all those who donated to our school for their generosity.

Restoration Works

Restoration works continue, although we have a slight delay as we wait for the workers who will be redoing the toilet floors. Once this is done all the fittings will be ready to reinstall and the student toilets will be up and running as normal. Our canteen restoration is now also booked in for mid-December, the floors and all the cabinetry is being replaced, all the whitegoods have already been purchased and are ready to go in.

We have also made progress on some of the outdoor work that needs to be completed. We now have four new garden beds and the sensory/yarning circle space is also starting to take shape. It is starting to look fantastic!

St Vincent dePaul Christmas Hampers

We have a number of items that have been donated to our Christmas Hamper already, thank you to those who have been able to support us with our hampers. If you have items to date for the hampers, please drop them in to us before the end of next week.

Christmas Events

Please take note of the dates for our Christmas Picnic (Thursday 8th). This event will start at the Church before we come to the school for our picnic, P&F Raffle and class presentations. 

P&F Meeting

It was great to have a good turnout for our P&F meeting this week as they plan for our end of year events. If you are able to help with preparing for the raffle for example, please talk to one of our P&F members, they would love your help.

Reports

Reports will be available to view on Compass on Monday 12th December.

Parish Centenary Celebrations

Next year will see our Parish celebrate its centenary. The date for the celebration has been set for the 12 February. Please keep this date in your diary as we would love as many to be able to join us for this special celebration as possible. We will also be looking for helpers to support with morning tea. More details will be provided early next year.

God Bless,

Brendan Moloney

Student Awards Week 7

Kinder - Jacob Rose, excellent use of addition and subtraction strategies in mathematics.

Stage 1- Kaitlyn Eastwood, her persistent effort during Mathematics.

Stage 1 -  Casey Magee, completing EMU and showing progress in mathematics.

Stage 1- Ryder Wilson, completing Emu and showing fantastic progress in mathematics.

Stage 2-Maxx Mercer. showing enthusiasm in writing tasks.

Stage 2-Zain Mabood, listening and trying his very best at intensive swimming all week.

Stage 3-Charlie Hill, assisting and helping the Junior Joeys in a caring, considerate and positive manner.

Stage 3-Zachery Hankin, his enthusiastic and entertaining Villain presentation.

Principals Award- Maddison Eastwood Outstanding Reading Growth

Intensive Swimming Week

Stage 3 Camp

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Happy Birthday to the following who have celebrated their birthday since our last newsletter 

Mr O'Brien, Chloe Carbery

Canteen News

We have had word that the new canteen cabinetry will be installed in Week 10. 

This will mean that the last Canteen for 2022 will be Wednesday 7th December.

We are still in search of canteen volunteers for 2023, please let the school office know if you are able to help out.

P&F News

P&F will be holding a Christmas Raffle, raffle tickets will be sold on the night of our Christmas Celebrations, Thursday 8th December.

Soft drinks will also be available to purchase on the night.