Last weekend’s Gospel and readings revolved around the central theme of love, and there is nothing more important! Jesus asks us to love others the way he has loved and continues to love us. We are invited to enter into the love of Jesus and his Father, and to give it expression in our own lives. Genuine love is an unselfish gift. It can easily be expressed with a few words by saying I love you, however, I believe that love expresses itself in actions more so than words. We must never underestimate the impact of acts of kindness and service on others. Acts of love and sacrifice can make a huge difference to a person, a difference that we may well never know about. This in itself is perfect, as acts of kindness are not completed to receive accolades for. I encourage you to reach out to others in need of your love. When you do, your children come to know firsthand what it means to love one another as Jesus has loved us.

This week, our Year 3 and Year 5 students sat the National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). NAPLAN tests the types of skills that are essential for every child to progress through school and life. The tests cover skills in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and numeracy. I commend our students for the manner in which they tackled each assessment. Everyone paced themselves, used their time wisely and tried their hardest. Well done Years 3 and 5.  Thank you to Mrs Preddey for facilitating all the tests for the students.

I trust that all of our Mums and significant females had a wonderful Mother’s Day last Sunday. I’d like to thank the team of ladies who took time out of their busy schedules to organise and run the Mother’s Day stall last Thursday: Gabbi Armstrong, Kristie Swann, Ashley Fuller, Geraldine Arnold, Helen Kettlewell, Lidia Georges, Danielle Spence, Julia Holbrook, Leonie Cutroni, Sarah Young and Heidi Searle-Aalto. Our students definitely enjoyed having the opportunity to purchase something special to take home. Thank you.

Year 1 Excursion

The Year 1 students visited Symbio Wildlife Park today and from all accounts have had a wonderful time on their first school excursion.  There will be some tired students tonight - and teachers!  Thank you Mrs Archbold, Ms Young, Mrs Gould and Mrs van den Haak for accompanying the children.

I wish you a wonderful week ahead.

Mrs Jo Robinson
Acting Principal

CatholicCare

To celebrate National Families Week CatholicCare is running a five-part webinar series to celebrate family and make the most out of family life. Each webinar will have a different focus. 

Family Resilience

Understand what a resilient person and family looks like, and how you can build resilience within yourself and your family.

Family Values

Understand what values are and why they are important. By identifying our family values we can better understand and connect.

Family Connection

With our lives so busy we can struggle to keep connections within our family, learn why connection is important and how to sustain or build family connections

Family Self-Care

Learn why self-care is so important and how looking after ourselves, has a flow-on effect on the whole family.

Family Mindfulness

Learn what mindfulness is and the benefits it provides, not just for ourselves, but also the benefit it has on our family.

See the link here to register: https://dowcatholic.zoom.us/webinar/register/6016202622065/WN_GZrZMh1VQJaNNlkTsRaBOA