Catholic Identity
Project Compassion
This Lent, we are called to Unite Against Poverty through Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion. By taking home a Project Compassion donation box, you’ll be answering the Gospels’ call to care for our global family and walk alongside the most vulnerable. Your generous support this Lenten Season will enable Caritas Australia to provide life-changing support to communities facing poverty, food insecurity, lack of education, and water shortages, while building resilience against future challenges. Together, through faith and action, we can bring hope and opportunity to those most in need.
Please give generously to Caritas Australia this Lenten season and help vulnerable people around the world. Project Compassion 2025 reminds us that the good we do today will extend and impact the lives of generations to come. Together, we can help vulnerable communities face their challenges today and build a better tomorrow.
You can donate through Project Compassion donation boxes, which have been sent home with each family this week.
Donations will be accepted until the end of term 1.
Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday
This week we came together as a school community to celebrate Shrove Tuesday. The students enjoyed a tasty treat and learned about what this special day means before the Lenten season begins.
On Wednesday, we celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass as we marked the beginning of Lent. Having a cross marked by ash on our foreheads, represents mortality and penance, and symbolises we belong to Christ, who died on the cross.
Mercy Awards
Today we celebrated the ‘Compassion’ Mercy Award recipients during assembly. Congratulations to the students who demonstrated this quality.
Our next Mercy Award will be focusing on the quality of ‘Respect’.
Respectful actions can include: listening to other people’s ideas, using our manners, accepting others for who they are, and being kind and understanding. This award will be presented at our next assembly on Friday April 4th at 9.00 am.
Caritas: The BIG Water Walk
Our act of solidarity this year for Project Compassion will be “The BIG Water Walk”. Grades F-4 will be walking with buckets of water around the school oval and Grade 5 and 6 will be walking to Thompson’s Beach to collect water to carry back to school.
This act of solidarity is to ‘walk in the shoes’ of people, living in such places as Africa, Asia and the Pacific, who need to walk long distances to collect clean, safe water every day. Our support in collecting donations through Project Compassion will help raise funds as well as assist in creating lasting change to empower people to lift themselves out of poverty.
The BIG Water Walk will be on Friday April 4th (last day of Term 1).
Grades 5 and 6 will leave for Thompson’s Beach at 1:30 and return by 2:30.
Grades F-4 will begin their walk around the school oval at 2:15 until approximately 2:50.
Students are required to bring their own plastic bucket from home, labelled with their name.
Some water will be poured into the bucket for the students to carry as they walk.
At the end of the walk, the remaining water left in the buckets will be poured in large House Colour tubs. The House Colour with the most water carried will be awarded house points.
Did you know...
Currently, 292 million people spend more than 30 minutes walking to collect water. Show your compassion for those living in poverty this Lent and help provide clean, safe water to communities in need.
Easter assembly on last day of term:
During our assembly on the last day of the term, each class will be presenting a short performance about the events of Holy Week. This assembly is on Friday 4th April at 9.00 am. Please note the change of date.