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Good afternoon, families,

The Season of Lent started on Wednesday with the celebration of Ash Wednesday.

Lent is a 40-day solemn Christian season of preparation for Easter, spanning from Ash Wednesday (Feb 18, 2026) to Holy Thursday (Apr 2, 2026), excluding Sundays. It focuses on reflection, prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, symbolising Jesus’ 40 days in the desert.

Pancake Tuesday

Thank you to all the mums who came to help with distributing the pancakes. It is something that all the students look forward to each year.

Father Michael’s visits

This week, Father Michael visited 6GL and preps. Next Tuesday, Father Michael will visit the Year 1 classes.

Assembly 4SN & 4 SW

This week, 4SN and 4SW presented their assembly to the whole school. It was lovely to see so many parents at the assembly.

Parents and Friends

We had our first P&F meeting this week. The P&F raised $42,000 last year.

We spent $21,000 on school signage, creating the flagpole garden, upgrading gardens and painting the Garden to Kitchen roof and the playground out the front of the year 6 area.

We have $24,000 left in the P&F account. I asked those parents attending for suggestions on what we could raise money for this year. Thank you for the suggestions, and I will take all ideas into consideration.

Swimming training and District swimming carnival

This week is the last week of swimming training. On Thursday, we will have a little breakfast before training finishes.

The District Swimming Carnival is on Fri 27 Feb at The Pines swimming pool.

2027 School tour

Our school tours for 2027 enrolments started this week.

23 families took the tour, and our Year 6 leadership team were fabulous at leading these tours. The next two tours are on Thurs 5 March at 11.35 am & Friday, 20 March at 2.30 pm

Prep Welcome Mass

Tomorrow, we have the Prep welcome mass in the school hall at 10.30 am. If you would like to stay for morning tea, please bring a plate that can be shared.

School Advisory Council (SAC)

The first meeting for the SAC this year is on Thursday, 26 February.

The members of the school council are:

Bill Taboulas (Chairperson)

Father Michael

Julian Lau

Jean Roux

Nicole Dobrohotoff

Linda Mc Donald-Jones

Thomson Wood

Tanya Stefanec

Polly Pedrazzini

Carmel Stutterd

If you have anything that you would like discussed at the SAC meeting, please email the office, and it will be passed on to Bill.

Enjoy your weekend

Carmel Stutterd

Class Spotlight - 4SN and 4SW

Every couple of weeks in the newsletter, we will shine the spotlight on a class/classes that have had their class assembly, providing a chance to celebrate all the wonderful things they are doing.