Dear Parents,

Welcome to Week 6 of Term 4. The term is moving along very quickly with many school activities to take place over the next four weeks.

Congratulations to our Year 5 students who have/will present their leadership speeches to the school community today and tomorrow with voting for the 2021 school captains to take place on Thursday. We know that all our Year 5 students will be very capable leaders in whatever capacity they take on next year. We have already witnessed their ability to be responsible and caring leaders, as they have embraced the Kindergarten Orientation sessions by taking such great care of their Kindergarten buddies for 2021.

We continue to plan for end of year events now that restrictions have started to ease slightly. We are very grateful that we are able to go ahead with normal school activities however we must still abide by regulations. Please remember that social distancing measures will be in place for all events and that if anyone is unwell , they must not attend the events.

Our Award Presentation Day will be held on Friday 11th December. We are looking at possible venues to host this occasion that can allow enough space for parents, students, staff and award presenters while keeping within the restriction guidelines. We will provide this information.

Year 6 Graduation Mass will also take place on Friday 11th December at 12pm in St Patrick’s Church. Numbers will be clarified shortly. Our Year 6 Graduation dinner can also now take place. This will be held on Monday 14th December at Lott’s Hotel. Only Year 6 students and their parents will be able to attend the outdoor event. More information to come out about both these events shortly.

Next week our students are very excited to be heading away in their school excursions. Year 6 head off to Jindabyne for three days, Years 3-5 to Canberra and Years K-2 to Wagga (Wednesday 2nd of December). Thank you to teachers for making these opportunities available to our students especially with such short organisational time.

Our new playground area, continues to take shape. The children are enjoying watching the machinery and activities of the workmen. We look forward to the final product. In addition to this, our Year 3/4 room and the library will be receiving new Reverse Cycle Air conditioners shortly, in response to the heating/cooling issues experienced in both of these rooms. Thank you to Catholic Education for installing these to ensure our students enjoy optimum learning conditions.

There was great excitement last week, when Mrs Howe unearthed the statue of our school patron saint, St Patrick. St Patrick has been returned to his rightful position on our school prayer table. We pray that St Patrick continues to watch over our school families and community and keep us all safe.

Best wishes for a wonderful week ahead.

Christine Baron