Welcome back everyone. I hope everyone was able to enjoy some valuable family time together over the holiday period. For many people these holidays were a time of great upheaval and stress. We pray that things will improve and 2020 will bring many blessings to those who have suffered in any way.

 Our Opening School Mass will be held on Friday 7^th February at 12 noon in St Patrick’s Church. During this Mass our 2020 School Leaders and SRC Representatives will be inducted and presented with their badges. A special presentation will be made to our new Kindergarten children by their Buddies. An invitation is extended to all our St Patrick’s families to celebrate with us on Friday. The theme of our Mass is ‘Let Your Light Shine.’

Thank you to all those children who undertook altar serving duties over the holiday period and to their families who assisted their children to be able to come to Mass. Your efforts were very much appreciated.

A new Altar Serving Roster will be sent home this week which will take us up to Term Two. Thank you for your continued support of this special ministry.

 Reflection

 What will this year bring?

We do not know;

It will bring its usual times of work and play,

Experiences of success and failure,

All the things that are part of school life.

It is a new beginning;

The planting of a seed that will grow for a year,

The seed of fruit that will blossom in times to come.

It is new hope;

Hope for good work, for successful results,

For friendships, for fun, for learning.

In this coming year, may there be learning, prayer and fun.

May there be hard work, faith and friendship.

May no one in this school be lonely;

May no one be left out in class;

May no one suffer through the others here.

As we begin this year in hope, in prayer and in friendship,

May the Lord begin it with us, be with us during it,

And successfully bring it to its conclusion.

Kate  Howe

REC