Identity and Mission

Mission Week

Next week the College Community will celebrate Mission Week. Mission Week is featured to remind us that we are part of something bigger. In a world that is divided, we will focus on a world in need of love, healing and peace. Each day during Mission Week, in our classrooms, year groups and as a whole community we will come together to pray for peace in our world.  It is a timely reminder that peace happens not just on a global scale but as importantly in our own circle of influence.  

Throughout the week, we encourage students to wear the colours of the UN (white and blue) as a visual statement for our call for peace throughout our world. Limited amounts of ribbon will be available on Monday. 

Mission Week also represents a time for us to go beyond ourselves and look to others who may be in need.  The following activities are planned:

We look forward to coming together as a Catholic community next week with the aim to pray for peace and support worthwhile causes in our local community. 

Vinnies Christmas in a Box Appeal - The Joy of Christmas is giving 

Families in our College have the opportunity, once again this year, to contribute to someone else’s Christmas by ‘packing a shoebox’ for someone struggling in our local Tasmanian community.  Please help to bring joy to a child this Christmas.  The Vinnies Christmas Box Appeal is to provide a young person between the ages of 2 -14, a shoebox filled with new small toys, books, personal hygiene items, and school supplies as a means of reaching out to children. These gifts of love are distributed by St Vincent de Paul Society to children affected by poverty or natural disaster within our Tasmanian community. These gifts are given without condition and without regard to the race, creed, gender, religion, or ethnicity of the beneficiaries.

If you would like to contribute to this cause, please respond to the email sent on October 29 and the College will provide your child with one of the shoeboxes to take home to decorate and fill. An information sheet which suggests some appropriate gifts will accompany your box.  We are encouraging all families to please be mindful of the amount of single-use or disposable plastic being put into the boxes and its severe environmental consequences. This is a wonderful time to be mindful of the way we manage our impact on creation while helping those in need. 

More information on the impact of plastic in our world can be found at https://www.unep.org/interactive/beat-plastic-pollution/

All boxes must be returned to the College by the end of November, to allow St Vincent de Paul to deliver them in time for Christmas.