Principal's Page

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to Week 4. I hope you have settle back into the routine of  school. Most of the new Kindergarten students are school pros now and it is a joy to see them walk confidently into school each morning. The new students also seem to be well settled.

Theme for 2024 

The Catholic Education Bathurst Diocese has announced that the theme for 2024 will be ongoing from 2023. This theme is Experience the Spirit of Community.  The spirit of community refers to the community's interconnectedness and collective responsibility. The Catherine McAuley family has stayed this year with this theme in mind and established a Parent Engagement Group. We hope this with grow our spirit of community with many more community events with the school at the centre. 

Parent Engagement Group Meeting

Tuesday 27th February at 6pm in Kenna Hall.

At our parent engagement committee meeting yesterday evening, an executive team were elected and grade representatives for each grade were chosen. They are listed below.

Executive Team: 

Joint Presidents - Katie Eades and Prue Tynan Davidson

Treasurer - Dan Roth

Secretary - Nicole Campbell

Class Representatives:

Kindergarten: Samantha Burns, Alana Cantrill, Brooke Hinks

Year 1: Emma Devitt-Hiller, Emily Martin

Year 2: Clare Belfield, Natalie McClymont

Year 3, Kellie Douglas, Lucy Zumann

Year 4: Kylie Watkins, Emma Devitt-Hiller, Rebecca Lewis

Year 5: Jane Dellow, Megan Fox, Kristie

Year 6: Lyndall Hilder, Kylie Watkins, Carrie Cox

Looking forward to working with you all. 

Our first open Parent Group Meeting will be held on Tuesday 27th February at 6pm in Kenna Hall. Please join us. If you have anything you would like raised at this meeting, please contact your representatives and please come along to the meeting.

Meet the Teacher and Welcome BBQ

Thank you to all those families who were able to make it to Meet-the-Teacher and the Welcome BBQ. It was good to see you all and the teachers appreciated the time to put faces to names. A lovely community event to start the year.

Chess at McAuley

At lunchtime on Wednesdays we have a Chess Club run by Mrs Ann Brown. Mrs Brown alternates chess club fortnightly for infants and primary classes. Later in the year, there will be a two day Chess competition. The first day Monday, 17th June, will be held here at Catherine McAuley, in Kenna Hall. The second day, Wednesday 19th June will be held at Orange Christian School. I know last year we were very successful in this competition and the students had fun meeting and competing against students from other schools.

Student Representative Council (SRC)

Last week we announced the student representatives for each class, Years 3-6. These students will represent their classes at the SRC meetings. The infants classes have in class councillors who have particular responsibilities within the classroom. Please see the list below:

Have a lovely week!

Jo Flynn